Show POSTAGESTASH PHOTOGRAPHS A Successful Jicvlce to Blake Handsome Hand-some 1ortvaits of Plain Women The postagestamp photograph is the I latest contribution of science to vanity As the peculiar merit of these little pictures is that they have the property of transforming a rather plain woman into a thing of beauty on a microscopic scale they are much sought after by the gentler sex Postagestamp photographs ire most unconscionable flatterers They not pnly give a delicacy and refinement to coarse and homely features but they enhance the beauty of a pretty face as well As the name signifies these little examples of the photographers art are he exact size and shape of an ordinary letter postagestamp Their edges are crforated they have mucilage on their reverse side and around the figure or head is an ornamental border The idea is said to have originated in England where the suggestion was had from the head of the Queen on the ha there Like all anny stamps in use English frivolities the little pictures soon bund their way to this country and as their flattering propensities become more widely known doubtless the demand for them will increase i proportionately When the full length figure of a woman is contracted tracted into the limits of a postage stamp I photograph it becomes as if by magic i graceful and captivating the features lose theIr irregularity and appear delicate and peculiarly refined The size is also a great advantage The devoted swain can paste his sweethearts picture in the case of his watch where he can gaze furtively at it every time he pretends to be looking at the time of day A letter with one of the senders pictures pasted on the corner of he note paper is doubly acceptable to a friend and as the uses are so many to which these pictures can be put and as the cost of them must needs be trifling they will doubtless soon become the rage r |