CARTES-DE-VISIT.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 227, 8 June 1866, Page 3

CARTES-DE- VISIT.

Leigh Huat, in the most charcniag of all his essays, tell us that in the family in which a child has died there is an eternal infant. But by the photograph a family may have an eternal infant without the intrusion of death. By having his children photographed once a year Paterfamilies may for a trinle preserve for himself all the looks they ever wore — Jack's progress from the juvenile pinafore to the shooting-coat and the turned down collar of manhood — Mißs Mary's growth though charming stages, until she enslaved the heart of Tomkin's the stockbroker, and was by him carried off proudly to a new home, of which she is at the present moment the grace and ornament. In every way and at a cheap rate too, photography aids the most affectionate feelings of our nature. The widow values the letter from her son in India or China, but she values still more the carte enclosed. On the little piece of paste board stands the boy himself, so mnch grown so much more manly looking than when he went away, and with perhaps a little bit of tropical scenery brought in by way of background or adjunct, making the the thing yet more real. And then, to young peoplo who are lovers, photography is a mighty boon. Through the aid of Sir Rowland Hill "Love wafts cartes from the Indus to the Pole," and with the face of the beloved one always before your constancy both in man and in woman become a viture comparatively easy to practise. Photography t;ends to subdue all exccess in the passion. If Juliet could have sent her carte to Romeo, it is not likely that that young gentlemen would have climbed over garden walls, raved about the moon silvering the fruit-tree tops, and exposed to detection and the swords of the Capulets. Photographs will prevent the the poets of the future from writing passionate adress to absent fair ones. Every hero will have the heroine's carte in his pocket. — Morning Star.