Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-24

is already out of the class of rarities. The finest made at this price, each, are carbon prints on canvas.
 An indescribable softness is furnish ed by this canvas, the texture of which is apparent at close range, and the gen eral effect is that of a painting in mono tone, rich brown in countless sbadings that blend into perfect whole. Such a photograph should, of course, be ab solutely permanent. The same photo graph in carbon print on Japan paper costs $l50. The size is 25x30 inches.
 The photographs costing from $50 apiece upward are fulfilling distinct mission in post.mortem way. For in- stance, the donor of building of real service to a community died within the past year, and the thought naturally came to the family that the mans DOT trait should hang on the walls of the reception room.
 | With abundant means at the family's command the first impulsef if this had happened a few years earlier, would have been to commission portrait painter to do his best with photo graph and the suggestions of wife and children to guide him. Instead, the order was given to photographer to do his best to the tune of S200-the fixed price, not the limit, since more would
 have gladly been paid had it been
 necessary.
 The usual painted portrait is always
 a subject of criticism. There are no
 two opinions in the case of the pho- tograph. Tn this instance an enlarge
 ment had to be made, but it was an enlargement of many processes--the gradual perfecting of plate from
 which the final print was made.
 Again the costly photograph is taking
 the place of the painted portrait for the
 adornment of club houses and the head
 quarters of many organizations where
 it is customary to use series of the
 presidents, etc. But, after all, the chief
 mission of the high.priced photograph
 in the world where money is no object is as a special gift in the intimacy of
 the family circle.
 The wife with a fat purse surprises her husband, who may have been
 brought up on tintypes, with $2OC
 photograph of herself or their child or perhaps the two together. The price is paid without murmur and on tor of that $50 or more is laid out on g frame. What does it matter the cost so long as the husband is pleased2 As for the wife, she will be so happy over it that she is likely to accompany the check in settlement of the bill witf note of such appreciation as to make the photographer feel that he has don' real favor One photographer is sC accustomed to receiving these notes oi thanks as to experience a sense of los'
 when they are not forthcoming ant says frankly that they often mean more
 to him than the money; for to thu artist appreciation is the next thing t' the staff of life.
 As for photographs at sl0o dozen exquisite platinum prints llxl4 inches on large mounts that fold opce-the! : are not merely an extravaganza of th' rich, but the moderately. .yell-to-do ar - indulging in them. F"sy a photo ' grapher getting an order for $i00 wortl of work from one young matron! Ye the customer nor the photographic
 thought anything of it. This was no ; for couple of high priced prints, bu ' for a miscellaneous lot of photographs
 s;ttinOs of herself and her children. . Men pay $l00 dozen for photo ' graphs quite as readily as women. Pho
 tographs at s$45 "a dozen and s36 dozen have become a mere eommonplac of extravaganza and are only luxur. [ to people of moderate means.