Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1891-12-19
SELLING BY PHOTO.
THE CAUSE or THE DECLINE or
ThE pRuMMER'S GRIP.

gra.h---cal..sea Pre.entmsBts OF Deli
cate Wares and Intricate Mechsnissns1
Employment for Women.
The commercial tourist Is being divorced
from his travelling bags, or, 20 speak mor4
terssly, the drummer isdropping his ''grips.T
The only infallihle mark OF the drummet
will now be the pockets which bulge with
paper covered novels The cause OF the de-
cline Of the gripsack is the colored photo-
graph. The bulky samples that the travel
ing man used 10 bear from place 10 plscs
and which were, - 10 speak, his badge Of
oslicc, he has replaced with counterfeit pre-
sentiments Of the same.
Delicate, true, light and compact, these
pictures, carried about in the pocket, CAP
represent an immense quantity Of goods ID
such a manner that there is no mistalink
tint, quality, texture or size They repre-
sent everything from machinery TO bric-d-
brac and from kitchen stoves to ladies' sliT-
PERI. Those which need no coloring-hkb
the stoves and machinery-nre simply pho
tographed in black and white. But the pho
tographs are the very bsst Of their kind, and
set forth each part with a faithfulness that
Is remarkable. In the most intricate ma
chinery every bit Of betting, every whee,
cog arm and elbow Is most UNDERSTANDABLE
produced from every point of view.
But the inviting albums are those which
contain the coIored photographs These are
used in particularly large quantities by the
crockery and the furniture houses The for
mer find use for them because their wars
are so fragile; the latter because they are 20
cumbersome The pictures of the bric-a-brac
and the fine china are wonderfully delicate
and 1t is IA surprise to learn that the micrb-
scope is never used in the painting Of them.
The work is done entirely by young women.
One photographer keeps eight or ten quite
steadily employed. The work ns taken to the
houses OF the artists and done there as a
usual thing. IL requires much more art than
the ordinary painter of photographs uses IN
putting IA touch of carmine ON the cheeks Or
, dash Of azure ON the eyes Of IA portrait. The
painting of texture is several degrees above
this, and this must lie thoroughly understood.
, The soft satin wear, the Worcester and royal
Dresden, the queen and Bohemian the class
and porceains, all have n very different fin
ish, which must he preserved In the photo
graph if it is 10 be OF any value. IL needs
not only accurate but strong eyes, steady
and delicate touch, and a most painstakihg
patience.
Young women are the very ones out of all
the world in whom all of these qualities are
combined, and that is the reason that this
pretty toll is given them 80 universally.
But there h another reason-an old, fanil-
> lar reason. A man could not make enough
!. to keep him The work must he done by
Z girls who have homes. To be sure, one can
Z make s250 a day at the coloring OF the photo
u graphs Of china or bric-a-brac, and now and
then 10y working over hours and very stead.
lily It might be possible TO make a. Shch
9 ardnous work could hardly lie repeated on
l,ksa nut
r this wage is not bad, It has the draw back OF
q being tiuctuating and unreliable One W eel
= there may lie quantities OF work, tho next
i week none at all.
One of the conditions Of successful photo
: graph painting Of this fine nature is absolute
silence. "A positive concentration of the
: faculties is needed and most OF the girls who
: do the work have little studios where they
= can quietly work by themselves. Here, with
= = big aprons protecting their dresses, theil
y photographs set on little inciIneC
;, board before them, and their case Of
: liquid paints oloso ut hand. they patiently
I strain their young eyes over the almost in
!, finitesimal figures which they are coloTtng
I, = 1t is very combining, and no doubt the spas
7 modic demands are blessings In disguise fol
2 = continued application to it would be al C 3,
. tell seriously upon the nervous system.
The tinting of the photographs Of furni
!, ture is simpler ON the whole, although many
= wholesale houses have their furniture up
: holstered in cretonne before il is photo
:. gruphed Cretonne, OF course, admits q
coloring, which plush does not
!, The business IS one which is likely I'd in
:. crease steadily and to extend 90 man.
branches of commerce which have not We
!, investigated it.
This fact has been recognized by the iea
mute school on the west side, and the ART @
coloring commercial photographs is anon,
the industries in which the pupils are heini
instructed Tho abnormal development o
y sight and touch which all deaf Intltes 20 seS
u makes them especially fitted for this work
70 A woman VINO was one Of the first TO atEvis
% teaching artistic branches in this school sal,
:, the other day: mo one who has no
:, watched the development of these chill
- dren can imagine whit difference th
ID introduction of the light arts has made Il
70 their lives They have gained In self-res pect
70 ,ls well as in enjoyment OF life Many O
a. them had been regarded as little less than i'm
;, beetle in their own homes, and some had bee
= the recipients Of all the cuffs and kicks tina
= that an ill-natured household chose 10 btsto,
I" upon them. At the very best they were con
~ sidcred great cross.
- In the school, after thorough system O
II
- struetel them in the common branches an
= then gave them an industrial course. TIL
z girls We're taught dreSsmaking, the boys cal
7 pentering. But II SEEMED to US finally tina
y we were making mistake in putting ther
I, in competition with such great number 0
= overcrowd these trades. As an experiment
81 we put teacher in modelling in the sahoo
y YOU can imagine nothing more touching tina
y, the scene the first morning gave them ID
= clay. They took 10 IL as ducks do to Hatel
. There was nothing of the awkwardnaSs
- handling il which most children show al frs
Why, they t,egan making things Of their ow
accord immediately, and some Of tho fac,
=, which had always been as blank as d wa
- previously were liz up with a sudden viyhcit,
40 Il wss the same with drawing, for whieh "
~ engaged a teacher from the Art insiitut.
~ From these experiments We gathered colLrag
=, We perceived that We could mako engrAyer
hn designers, wood caryers, architects and dec,
he rators ous OF our poor unfortunate chlIdrel
al and in time We shall try TO do all that y
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