The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-06
Mrs. snOoks washing the Children.

IF the religious press gets ahead of
the Ell PasO Journal we give it fair
warning that it must get up on its spine.
We have stood the " Sleeping Cherubs
by the Christian Union; we have gazed
on the picture of wall-eyed virtue with
which Brother Talmage ropes in sub
scribers from the rural districts un-
moved, but when the Christian at
Work sends us picture of two sore
eyed dogs watching three marino lambs,
and wants us to pay them $50 for it,
then, indeed, the free spirit of the
American citizen Is aroused.
We want it distinctly understood that
we are in the chrome busines ourselves.
Hereafter, every subscriber who takes
the El Paso Journal will receive beau
tiful chrome entitled {" Mrs. Snooks
Washing the Children" It is Oneof those
beautiful home pictures that at once
appeal to the fondest and hOliesb affec-
tions of the heart. Every man who
sees it will at once "WOuld he were q
boy again." when being washed and
getting soap in his ey yes was one of the
regular Sunday Affections next to the
catechism.
In the foreground is Mrs. Snooks.
Before her is tub, and one of the or
phans is struggling in the water. The
artist has seized upon the moment when
the infant has just opened his mouth
for a prolonged solo, but is dexterously
checked by his mothers swabbing his
voice with a spunge. The manner III
which n stream of soapy water IS repre-
sented running down the urchin's right
eve is very finely done. In the other
eye is thrown all the added emotion of
pent-up grief and g sorrow that knows
e. 20
this picture without being stirred to
his inmost depths. Mrs. Snooks' face
is a study. It is such an expression of
motherly love, hOusewifeIy 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
limner, who has depicted them suffering
with colds as one result of their baths.
At the same time their complexion
forms an agreeable contrast to the three
behind the tub Who have not been
bathed. This is finely done and cost a
world of labor.
The whole forms an agreeable con
trast to the naked eherubs sent out by
the religious press. 1t is domestic
scene, full of holy JOY, and tranqulllzed
by a sweet and dTeamlike peace.
In order to convey the idea that even
| in so perfect a home as this sorrow must
enter, the artist has depicted one OF the
| children suffering with measles. The
way In which the measles blotches are
| struggling with the dirt on his nose,
| having captured the last-named ryan,
! is one of the sweetest things in the
chrome line that has even been pre-
sented.
| We are now prepared to furnish these
chromos to every subscriber of the T.
Paso Journal. We append a few Ger.
! tificates from prominent individuals
True TO life. The very atmosphere
smells of ap."-Henry 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 1t. Ben. Butler.
Reminds me of the time when they
/ used to wash me, now many, many year
ago. Susan B. Anthony.
"Send the $4,000 dozen Of your ohro
mos Washing the children We wan
TO offer them as premiums. ."-Christial
at Work.
cit shows domestic misery IN tn
highest degree. No woman ought to b
| allowed to have seven children. Vie
toria Woodruff.
We trust these testimonials are sufii
cient. We could append many thous
ands: but we forbear. Now let th
honest masses show their appreciation
of art by coming up and taking tn
Journal. --EI PaSO (Iiis.) Journal