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ART WITHOUT ROBBERY. A Man Who Thinks Pictures Cost Too Much. Mr. John Held has an idea that pictures have heretofore cost the great American public, locally local-ly at least, too much money, and in the role of a philanthropist, which becomes him beautifully, he proposes to carry such a stock of beautiful pictures pic-tures at his art shop in the future that there will be nothing like them in the state. He has all of the beautiful reproductions from the leading lead-ing weeklys and magazines, comprising the original orig-inal ideas of Gibson, Christy, King, Clay, Flagg, Bayard Jones, the beautiful heads and color work of Gilbert, and many gems too numerous to mention. men-tion. Some of the finest pictures are the Tojetti water colors. There are no prohibitive prices on these pictures, pic-tures, the four and live hundred per cent profit rule, having been eliminated for the benefit of those who like to buy pretty things without insuring in-suring the merchant an Income for life. By the way, Held makes original dinner cards, on three or four hours' notice, at 54 Main St. |
