Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1887 — The Picture Frames of Commerce. [ARTICLE]

The Picture Frames of Commerce.

Among the incidents of a flitting, or of unfurnisliing a house, few things leave so disagreeable an impression of dilapidation as the row of framed pictures, large and small,which, taken from their nails, are laid resting on the ground leaning against one another, their faces ignominiously turned to the wall. Then we see revealed pretense and shabbinoss in little; the mean edgings of wood; the miserable tacks which keep the tliin boarding in its place; the meager strip of brown paper pasted round; the cheap bending rings; the bit of red string; the square of loose glass; tho glue - all making up a sort of “rickety” combination. Such are the picture frames of commerce—the adornment of every correct house, and which exhibit painfully their makeshift character. They are indeed things of shreds and patches; every principle of sound construction is violated in their manufacture. The frame proper, too weak to hold the glass and backboard, and being further weakened by the grooving, is kept together at the corners b/ glue and a tack, while the thin boarding of the back is held in its place by a row of tacks driven under awkward strokes of the hammer. Finally the engraving is squeezed fast between the glass and the backing, sandwichwise. —Art Journal. A prominent farmer of Bowling Green, Howard County, Md., Mr. J. T. Ridgetly, said his four children were sick with sore throats and coughs at the same time. Red Star Cough Cure cured them in a week. No opiates.