Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-01-11
FACES ON THE WALL.
BY HARRIET BEEcHEE STOWE.

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Once there was a very good little girl, who'
by reason of her goodness knew where to find
strawberries in the winter. In the same way
less perfect people, blessed by the generous
FAIRIES of memory and Imagination, may sit, as
do now, in the midst of falling leaves and
whistline winds. and call back the green
grasses and the summer sun. l see yonder III
the glen the darling OF our house, the gold
CLEAN in her brown hair, chain OF daisies IN
her hand and in her eyes the rouglsh medlta-
ton of kitten. weary for an instant only oil
its play, and thinking slyly of another spring
Thrown back upon the velvet grass, she is not
resting. only pausing from her bright gances
to the tips of her tiny fingers she is wide
awake.
But now the merry play is over, and our pet
nestles wonder on the sofa-cushlon, tired at
last in earnest Slowly the lids fall, and the
lingering smile dies out but the Hush il cheek
and lip remains, like the glow after sunset.
The gathered buttercups and daisies are loosely
held by the fair little hand; no shadows, even
of dream-and disturbs the sweet brow's per
feet peace She is fast asleep.
4 In other words two chromos hang upon the
4 wall, bewtching child-heads, III which every
mother sees something of her own dear ones,
never grown old, and never lost to her, how
/ ever life or death may have dealt with them.
I Nothing pleases more at first sight OF gives
! pleasure longer than poetical pictures of chill
dren. The little child whom Jesus sets in
/ the midst of every family, is a JOY that grows
not old and fades not.
cage cannot wither, custom cannot stale
Its infinite variety"
For this reason happy picture of a child
brings an enjoyment more lasting than any
other, because it is subject of which no one
ever tires.
! But these pictures. besides their constant
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 companionable amusement
and intercourse to the little people akin to
| themin age. The pictures that childrens 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 childish dreams and
fancies make of the pictured face a real com
panion Not only in the parlor or the sitting
room would they be an attractive and fitting
embellishments but they are a charming pair
for the adornment of nursery
Undoubtedly these two pictures are portraits
There is a realistic faithfulness and truth about
them that forbiGs the idea of their being fancy
heads. They will remind many parents of little
! ones either here or III heaven. Dickens saws
somewhere of his portraiture of little Nell that
/ he has had letters from the farthest regiocs of
the earth speakinl, of children who resembled
hcr-so dear, and SO early taken! He who
paints one child well, pants thousands, and
speaks TO the tenderest feelings of innumeiahie
hearts.
/ Ofcourse there is pleasure in possessing au
original painting but when the question lies
between an original st five hundred dollars
and chrome which can scarcely be distin-
guished from il at ten dollars
when one has not the i've hundred to spare
the choice is not vesv difficult. As to these
4 two exquisite chromcs only critical exsmi-
nation can distinguish between the COPIES and
/ the originals, which sold for many hundreds
which Is celtalriY more than can be said nf the
best copies OF most pictures painted BY hand
I . " va ~ ''iiiO-iithVBldpHN,D ny WHICH
the successful painting of master can be re-
produced indefinitely. and can enter thousq nds
Of homes with its educating, quickening. re-
forming influences
II Is not alone into the dwellings, of the great
and wealthy that we follow this pretty palr
With anticipatlons OF delight. We see them
IN the cottages of the poor, in the log cabin OF
the backwoodsman; Frightening the toll Of tn
1 hard wife and mother, and receiving the al
most adorlng wonder Of children who have
never seen pictures before.
/ God bless The dariings-send the little com
forters fast and far