The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-07-31
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 it's 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
scribe rs from the rural districts un-
moved, but when the Christian at
Work sends us q picture of two sore
eyed dogs watching three marino lambs,
and wants US to pay them $40 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 Ell Paso Journal will oceive beau
tiful chrome entitled " Mrs. SnoOks
Washing the Children" It is one of 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 a
boy again." when being washed and
getting soap in his ey es was one of the
regular Sunday affections next to the
catechism.
In the foreground is Mrs. Snooks.
Before her is a tub, and one of the or
artist has seized upon the moment when
the infant has just opened his mouth
for prolonged solo, but is dexterously
checked by his mothers swabbing his
voice with a spunge. The manner in
which a stream of soapy water is repre-
sented running down the urchin's right
eye is very finely done. In the other
eye is thrown all the added emotion of
pent-up grief and " sorrow that knows
/ O tongue" We defy any man to see
this picture without being stirred to
his inmost depths. Mrs. Snooks' face
is a study. It is such an expression of
mOtherly love, hOHsewifely 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 q
world of labor.
| The whole forms an agreeable con
| trast to the naked cherubs sent out by
the religious press. 1t is a domestic
scene, full of holy JOY, and tranquilized
| by a sweet and dreamlike peace.
| In order to convey the idea that ever
| in so perfect 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 organ
is one of the sweetest things in the
chrome line that has even been pre-
1 sented.
We are now prepared to furnish thes,
chromos to every subscriber of the E
Paso Journal. We append a few Ger
tificates from prominent individuals
True to life. The very atmospherl
smells of soap. Henry Ward Beecher
L assure you, on my honor, that tn
chrome is so natural that one of M,
children actually caught the measle
from looking at 1t. Ben. Butler.
Reminds me of the time when the,
used TO wash me, now many, many year
ago. Susan B. Anthony.
Send the Is, 900 dozen of your chro
mos Washing the children We wan
to offer them as premiums. Christial
at Work.
"It shows domestic misery In TIA
highest degree. No woman ought to b
allowed to have seven children. VIC
toria Woodruff.
We trust these testimonials are suffi
cient. We could append many thous
ands; but we forbear. Now let th,
honest masses show their appreciatio
of art by coming up and taking tn
Journal.-EE PaSO (IlLS.) Journal.
AN interesting little boy, timid whe
left alone IN a dark room, was over
heard recently by his mother to say i
his loneliness, go Lord, don't let an
one hurt me, and I'll so to church mex
Sunday. and give You some money.