Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-12
FACES ON THE WALL.
BY HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE.

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nnce there was 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 whistling winds, and call back |
the green grasses and the summer sun. Isee |
yonder in 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 |
roguish meditation of kitten, weary for an
instant only of its play, and thinking slyly
of another spring. Thrown back upon the
velvet grass, she is not resting, only pausing;
from her bright glances to the tips Of her
tiny fingers, she is wide awake.
But now the merry play is over, and our
pet nestles yonder on the sofa-cushion, tire
at last in earnest. Slowly the lids fall, and
the lingering smile dies out; but the flush in
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-land, disturb the
sweet brow's perfectpeace. sheis fast asleep.
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, how
ever time or death may have dealt with them.
Nothing pleases more at first sight or gives
pleasure longer than poetical pictures OF
children. "The little child" who IA Jesus
sets in the midst of every family is a joy
that grows not old and fades not.
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, beside 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 amuse-
ment and intercourse to the little people akin
to them in age, The pictures that children's
eyes rest on as they are dropping otto 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
real companion. Not only in the parlor or
the sitting-room would they be an attractive
and fitting establishment, but they are q
charming pair for the adornment of nursery.
Undoubtedly these two pictures are por-
traits There is a realistic faitbfulness and
truth about them that forbids the idea of
their being fancy heads. They will remind
| many parents of little ones either here or in
heaven. Dickens says somewhere of his
portraiture of little Nell that he has had let
| ters from the farthest regions of the earth
speaking of children who resembled her-so
| dear, and SO early taken! He who paints
| one child we'll, paints thousands, and speaks
to the tenderest feelings OF innumerable hearts.
| Of course there is pleasure in possessing
an original painting; but when the question
| lies between an original at five hundred dol
| lars and chrome which can scarcely be
distinguished from it at ten dollars-particu-
larly 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 originals, which sold for many
| hundreds-which is certainly more than can
| be said Of the best copies of most pictures
painted by hand.
| Blessings upon chromo-lithography, by
which the successful painting of master
can be reproduced indefinitely, and can enter
thousands of homes with its educating,
| quickening, reforming influences
It is not alone into the dwelling of the
| great and wealthy that we follow this pretty
| pair with anticipations of delight We see
| them in the cottages of the poor, in the log
cabin of the backwoodsman, Frightening the
toll of the hard-wife and mother, and re-
| ceiving the almost adoring wonder of chill
dren who have never seen pictures before.
| God bless the darlings-send the little
| comforters fast and farl
| The charming pair of oil chromos, Wide
Awake" and Fast Asleep" of whose real
| beauty and attractiveness Mrs. Stoves grace
| full sketch can give but an imperfect idea
SO pleasing are they to all who love art and
| children-have always sold in the picture
stores for $40, and the original publisher has
| never been able to supply the great demand
| for them even at that price. And yet, al
! though thousands of them have been sold in
| America at that high rate, they are now
within the reach of all, for they are
GIVEN 4 WAY
| to every subscriber to The Christian Union,
| an unsectarian, literary, religious and do
mestic weekly newspaper, edited by HENRY
WARD BEECHER.
The pair, by a fortuna 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, are fur
nished to Mr.. Beecher's publishers at rate
entirely exceptional. The subjects are Life-Size
AS to the Christian, Union, the great sue
cess of that paper has been marvel in the
| history of journalism, and the scholarly and
| critical New York Nation calls it "not only
| the ablest and best, but also the most popu-
lar of American religious periodicals."
This paper, after the first of January, will
| be printed on still larger sheet, folded in
| taoenty.toWr pages, pasted at the back and
| trimmed at the edges, a decided advantage
possessed by no other religious weekly pub
| lished. 1t contains contributions from emil
| nent writers of all denominations, and has
matter of interest for every member of the
household, youag and DID, For the year 1872,
| Mrs. HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE will write &C.
eLusiUely for The CHRISTIAN UNION.
The terms of subscription to this paper
are For one gear, ONLY $500. This will
entitle the subscriber to the paper and to the
above pair of beautiful Oil Chromos. TRE
CHRISTIAN UNION, including the Illustrated
Holiday Number (2S pp.), will be sent FREE
until Jan. 1st, to all who moaD subscribe for
the year 1872.
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