The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-08-01
From the E. Paso J0urn2Ll
A Beautiful Chrome.
R yooKs WASHING rBE cHILDRN.

Ii the religious press gets ahead OF the IL Paso
Journal we give it fair warning that 1t must get
up on It's spine. We have stood the "Sleeping
Cherubs," by the Christian Union; we have
gazed on the picture of w~all-eyed virtue with
which Bro. Talmage ropes IN subscribers from the
rural districts, ~unmovei, but when the Christian
at Work sends Us a picture of two sore-eyed dogs
watching three merino lambs, and wants US to pay
them twenty dollars for it, then, indeed, the free
spirit of an American citizen is aroused.
We want it distinctly understood that we are
in the chrome business ourselves.
Hereafter, every subscriber that takes the Ell
Paso Journal will receive a beautiful chrome, en-
titled, Mrs. Shocks Washing the Children. -"
1t is one of those beautiful home pictures that at
once appeal to the fondest and hottest affections
OF the heart. Every man who sees 1t Will at once,
Would he were a boy again. when being
washed and getting soap in his eyes was one Of
the regular Sunday affections next TO the cate
ehism.
In tie foreground is Mrs. Snooks. Before her
is a tub, and one of the orphans is struggling in
the water. The artist has seized upon the mo-
ment when the infant has just opened his mouth
for a prolonged solo, and is dexterously checked by
his mothers swabbing his voice with a sponge.
The manner in which a stream of sOapy water is
represented running down into the urchin's right
eve, is very finely done. In the other eye is
thrown all the added emotion of pent-up grief and
''sorrow that knows no tongue" We defy any
man to see this picture without being stirred to
his inmost depths. Mrs. Shocks face is q study.
1t is such an expression of %motherly love, house
wifely zeal and beautiful devotion to duty that
can be likened to nothing except that seen upon
the face Of our mothers on wash-days and at
house-cleaning times.
Three of the children have already been washed.
Their rosy countenances, bright with exuberant
health, have been further heightened by the art of
the thinner, who has depicted them suffering with
colds as one result of their baths. At the same
time, their complexion forms an agreeable con-
trast to the three behind the tub who have not
yet bathed. This is finely done, and cost a world
of labor.
The whole forms an agreeable contrast to the
naked cherubs sent by the religious press. 1t is
. u domestic scene full of holy joy and tranquilized
by a sweet and dream-like peace.
In order to convey the idea that even in SO per-
feet a home as this sorrow must enter, the artist
has depicted one of the children suffering with the
measles. The way in which the measle blotches
are struggling with the dirt on his nose, having
captured the last named organ, is one of the sweet
est things in the chrome line that has ever been
presented.
We are now prepared to furnish these chromos
to every subscriber of the Ell Paso Journal. We
append a few certificates from prominent individ-
uals:
"True to life. The very atmosphere smells of
soap."-HeRry Ward Beecher.
81 assure you, on my honor, that the chrome
is SO natural that one of my children actually
caught the measles from looking at t."-Ben
Butler.
''Reminds me of the time when they used to
wash me-, now many, many years ago."-SuSan
b. anthony.
sSend me 5000 dozen of your chromos,
Washing the Children We want to offer them
as premiums. Christian at Work.
alt shows domestic misery in the highest de-
gree. No woman ought to be allowed to have
seven children. = Victoria Woodruff.
We trust these testimonials are sufficient. We
could append many thousands but we forbear.
Now let the honest masses show their apprecia-
ton of art by coming up and taking the Journal.