Show CHEAP PICTURES Some Tips for Inexperienced Put chasers The case of Dunbar vs Morgan which was tried in the District Court this week but proves what THE DEMOCRAT has said I in regard to cheap pictures This was a case in which a picture peddler brought I suit against a lady to recover damages for two pictures enlarged from photographs True there is some blame to be given those who will be taken in by the chronic picture fiends who come and I sell and are gone These enlarged pictures pic-tures are nothing more than solar types colored in a few momentsand then given to the purchasers as works of art and I that too at exhorbitant prices With I home artists whoare competent to give to the purchaser work of art as well asa as-a picture of some relative or friend there can be no excuse for patronizing these nomads who wander over the country with their cheap trashy wares to catch the unwary True these peddlers come to our homes so handy you know and they talk a great deal oi moonshine which is prepared for the i occasion and you give them an order which could be duplicated for onetenth 1 of the amount you pay by our local I artists Another thing you could not t get Clawson Ottinger Hafen or any ol four f-our portrait painters to turn out such work as was exhibited in the courtroom during the above trial When you want enlarged pictures go to any of the portrait por-trait painters in the city and let them do the work and you may be assured that tit t-it will be done with cure and faithfulness I the people withdraw their patronage from these frauds who but rob them these same peddlers will cease visiting our city and the people will never be importuned to give their earnings for worthless daubs made by very ordinary artists in San Francisco or Eastern cities S I |