Litchfield enquirer., 1871-12-28
FACES ONTHE WALL.
BY HARRIET BREcHRR sroWR.

V WAO3 OJ ACooOA OA AACA KOOUEc08. AuEW where to find strawberries in the winter. In the same way less perfect people, bless- ed by the generous fairies of memory and imagination, may sit, as do now, in the midst Of falling leaves and whistling winds, and call back the green grasses and the Iaummer suns IFeg yonderIin the glen the darling of our house, the gold gleam in her brown hair, 8 chain of daisies in her hand, and in her eyes the toguisIl medita- tion pf q kitten, weary for an instant only of it's play, and thinking slyly 0f another spring. Thrown back. upon the velvet grass, she is not resting, only pausing from her bright glances Aprthe tips of her tiny fingers she is wide awake.
 But now the merry play is over, and our pet nestles yohder on the sofa-cuahiOn, tiredtat 1ast ins earnsat.a slowly the lids fall, and the lingering smile die out: but the flush in the cheek and hp aemains. like the glow after sunset. The gathered but ter-cups and daisies are loosely held by the fair little hand no shadows, even of dreain-land, disturb the sweet brow 'a per- feet peace. She is fast asleep. t sss r In other words, two chromos hang upon the wall, bewitching child -heads, in which every mother sees something of her own dear ones, never grown old, and never lost to her, however time or death may have dealt with them. FizA N ... Gtx31N |59 Nothing pleases more at first sieht or gives pleasure longer than poetical pie lures of children. .sThe little child" whom Jesus sets in the midst of every family is q joy that grows not old and fades not. Age cannot wither, custom cannot staiss ! It's infinite variety.2 l@sisssHhs seaT
 s For this reason q happy picture of a child brings, an enjoyment more lasting than any other, because 1t is a subject of which no one ever tires.ao sssisDs sfsa8 But these pictures, besides their con stant charm for grown folks, are such as children can understand and love. Our little ''Wide Awake" and "Fast Asleep" would give many pleasant hour of com panionable amusement and intercourse to the little people akin to them in age. The pictures that children's eyes rest on as
 they are dropping off to sleep, or as they awake in the morning, seem to them like living friends. All sorts of childiah dreams and fancies make of the pictured face a real companiong Not oul1 ih the parlOr or the sitting groom would they be an at- tractiTs and 'fitting smbelliAhment, but they are charming paiErfor the adOrn- I ment of nursery. .-.- Undoubtedly these two picfarss are
 portraits. There Is realistic faithfulness
 and truth abeutthem that forbitls the idea
 of their being fancy headsg They remind
 many parents of little ones either here or
 in heaven. Dickens says somewhere of
 his portraiture of little Nell that he has
 had letters from the farthest regiOns of
 earth speaking of children who resemble
 her---so dear, and so early takenl He
 who paints one child we'll, paints thou
 sands, and speaks to the tenderestfeelins
 of innumerable hearts. Vass
 Of course there is pleasure in possess l ing an original alpainting; but when the uues-
 tion lies between an original at five hun ] dred dollars and chromo which can l scarcely be distinguished from it at ten
 dollars particularly when one has not the ! five hundred to spare-the choice is not
 very difficult As to these two exquisite
 chromos, only critical examination can
 distinguish between the copies and the 1 originals, which sold for many hundreds. which is certainly more than can be said
 of the best copies of most pictures paint.
 ed by hand. ---.---. --.-------
 Blessings upon ehromo-lithography, by
 which the successful painting of master1
 can be reproduced indefnitelyg and cam enter thousands of homes with its educat- l ing, quickening, reforming influen0es z
 It is not alone into the dwellings of the l great and wealthy that we follow this pret- l ty pair with antieipations of delight. We see them in the cottages of the poor. in.
 the log cabin of the backwoodsman, hnieht-
 ening the tol of the hard-wife and mUNisr
 and receiving the almost adoring wonder of children who have never seen pictures before.
 God bless the darlings-send the little
 comforters fast and far! y
 -s N-5F& a@ F " se ase The charming pairof foilchromOa, .sWide Awake and ''Fast Asleep" of whose real beauty and attractiveness Mrs Stowe's | graceful sketch can give but an imperfect 1 idea-so pleasing arethey to all who love I art or children-h have alw6ys sold in the picture stores for $10, and the original publisher has never been able to supply
 the great demand for them even at that price. .. And yet, although thousauds of 1 them have been sold in America at that high rate, they are now within the reach 1 of all, for they are .ss se a5s..e @e GIVEN 4 WAY nseI
 to every subscriber to The Christian Union ! an unsectarian, literary, religions and do- mestic weekly newspaper, edited by Hen " Ward Beecher.
 The pair, by fortunate arrangement which one of the partners of this house was able to make in Paris during the late ! siege, with the proprietors of the pictures, I are furnished to MT. Beecher's publishers
 at rate entirely exceptional The sub- jects are Life Size.
 As to the Christian Union, the great success of that paper has been marvel ! in the history of journalism, and the schOl- arly and critical New York Nation calls it
 ''not only the ablest and best, but also the most popular of American religious peri | odicals.
 This paper, after the first of Jannzey. will be printed on a still larger sheet, folded in twenty-four pages, pasted at the back and trimmed at the edges, Q decided advantage possessed by no other religious 1 weekly published It contains contribu- tions from eminent writers of all denomi- nations, and has matter of interest for every member of the household, young and old. For the year 1872 Mrs. Harriet Beecher StoYe will write exclusively for Christian Union. sss.....-.ss | The terms of subscription to this paper are, For one year, only $3.00. This Nill entitle the subscriber to the paper and to the above pair of beautiful Oil Chromos. The Christian Union, including the nlns- trated Holiday Number (2s pvLN vii he sent free until Jan. 1st, to all who now subscribe for the year 1872.