Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-29
PARSONS PERFECT PHOTOS.
An Artist of Attachments whose Rcpu'
InIinn Is National In lis ChnrncICr.

There are photographs aud photographs,
the same a there are genuine diamonds
and spurious ones, and the difference IN
quality and value i, as diverse in the one
as in the other. The product OF the came.
"a operated by a uruc artist, when placed
beside the work of a tyrO in the business,
shows the triumph Of pains and taste over
mere mechanical work. In writing no
tiCc Of the business OF Mr.. Parsons one is
inclined to nterlard every few words with
complimentary adjeCtiyes, and indeed were
this done in this instance il would be no
more than a truthful tribute to gentleman
who has brought 10 his studio an amount OF
originality, of invention OF taste, skill and
enterprise which marks him As one OF the
best opponents OF his art in the COuptry.
His talent is recognized by the leading pho
tOgraphlsts in the United States as equal
to any, and surprising all but few Of the
celebrated workers in them.
Calling at his studio on yesterday, AMI
telling him that wanted a few pointers
uu the Photographic hLslness be said that
tLcre was nothing specially new to tell.
i am always fixing up new appliances,
&c rewarded because in this business
here is absolutely no end in the changes
which We can make and which tend TO
freshness aud Oril inlrlity in our pictures.
There il no device introduced which en-
striking character to our work which do
not try,if it is at all worthy OF at e1tion.
We make progress We think every day and
people whom We can't please don't appear
10 exist.
And how is your business this spring.
Better than it ever has been since have
come to Wheeling. 1t is constantly grow
ing and We are reaching out into new
territory which in times past used to go
to other cities for their work. At the
same time we are willing to do more. !
look at il in this way: tOofew people rec
ogni1c the pleasure they can
give to their friends by hay-
ing good photographs of themselves
taken. Too few families take occasion to
get groups before they are separated. Chill
dren are born and pass through life with
ont having photograph to look upon in
later years and see how they appeared when
they were young. Procrastination is the
enemy OF the Photographic business, and
death often steals in unawares and leaves
no mourning friends with an almost living
semblanCe of the departed. They mourn
when il is too late and so it goes. ! think
that everybody should have 4 photograph
taken of themselves; at least once every
year. 1t would be as good as diary 10
many. know young friend who
has an album of himself who has pursued
this course the past sixteen years. and he
says he would not take a thousand dollars
for 1t. 1t is really an interesting book, and
he can recall almost every important event
in his life by looking On these pictures and
the year in which they were taken
And you never tire Of the continued
damages which you make in the way OF at
tanning perfection
Not By any means, That is what live
for. There is a reciprocal pleasure always
connected with my endesyOrs. | please
my patrons and their pleasure gives me
qualification
We'll, prices keep about the same, do
they"
"Yes. Like everything else, competi-
ton has cut down the profit to the mini.
mum, with the ratio in favor OF poor work,
however. But this kind will no! do.
am satisfied to make smaller margins and
turn out pictures which need but the
breath to make them speak. We have,
this spring, introduced many new adluncts,
and you can send along your thousands to
sit for me, and ! will do sll that sun paint
ing and art can do 10 give them complete
and unqualified satisfaction.