Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-03-21

land the same year took the silver prize.
The nextyear, failing TO get the gold
medal, though he had worked hard for
it and believed he deserved it, he said
TO his father: ''Give me time and I'll
Igive the Academy something to be
proud of yet"
All this time he was studying so Gili-
gently he was working hard at home,
making casts AMI images of plaster
that brought in a few pennies each and
helped to keep the wolf from the
door.
| While hewas drudging and plodding,
the great event OF his boyhood was
coming to him.
If you will turn over your plate a
dinner some day, as Iikelyas not you
will see the name ''Wedgwood" print
ed down deep in the ware. 1t is not
that Mr. Wedgwood made that partic=
ular plate, but because he was the in
yentor of English earthenware. His
name was Josiah Wedgwood, and he
lived in john Flaxman's time. Dis
Towering a process for making white
porcelain, h determined that such
beautiful ware Should have only beau
tiiul shapes, and hunting mp our little
friend, said:
"Well, my lad l have heard that you
are good draug ghtsman and clever de-
signer. Pm manufacturer of pots
name Wedgwood. Now want you tc
design some models for me; nothing
fantastic, but simple and tasteful. I'I
pay you well. Do you think toe
poor,'' F WN
"Oh, nosir," said John; "give me 6
few days and L wiz see what 1 car
do"
"That's right work away. Mind
Pm in need of them this minute. They
are for pots OF all kinds-tea pots, cups
etc. But what's more l want design
for the royal table service. Think q
that, my boy; for the Queens table,
john dIdshis best, and it pleased kint
Mr.. Wedgwood, whogaYe him eonstan
emplsyment. He made sthe lovelies
patterns, after Greek and Egyptian
models, and Greek Charlotte did act
ually have dinner service of his de
sign; it was the first ever madein Eng
land for kingly or queenly use, and t
5 this day our hest screckery is calle,
squeensware" for this very reason.
: Mr.. WedgYood did as he agreed, h
paid John well, and for several years h
worked on in this way, eoccasionall
modelling a plaster monument or statu
for he was too poor to buy marble.
b; Perhaps some of us, in these NOR
: hurrying years, and with his geniu;
: might not be content with this humbl
work but patient John Flaxman count
'sE ed himself happy to go intoeyery hous
in England with his tastefully forme
tea-rup and cream jug, furnishing eve
the chiidren-espeeialIy and always tn
lehiIdren Ia higher ideal of beauty an
iart.jJ.l e 80 lae ''iis.4g -7-l- p
n, / don't know as can rightfully te
you any more about Flaxman, for her
~ his boyhood ends, and it is as o boy d.
, lsigner that 1 recommend him to you.-
But am sure you win be glad to kno
M a little more about his most successfI
lcareer.i
think you will like to know what
: brave, noble woman he married; hoy
one day, the President of the Academ.
= Sir Joshua Reynolds, hearing of n
marriage, said to him: Nov, sir, yt
are ruined for an artist;;n how job
went home, sat down by his wife al
it. said, "Ann, lam ruined for an artist
re elbow 50, John?" said she; show has
re happened, and who has done it?n
happened" said he, laughing, ssin Il
land Ann Denhaln has done it
4 Then he told her how the greet Pre-
Us dent had said that if man would be
d. lgreat artist he must go TO Rome al
ed tstudy the great masters. Sand "
q, alshaIl 90 TO Rome,n - said Ann, ''and be
= = great artist IlInever have it said tn
IL Ann Denham spoiled John FlaXman
nd Ands so they did, aud before long Jol
het went to Rome and Ann went with hiT
IL and there, beside great deal of stud
NC ing and accomplishing many 9th
TO beautiful works, he made the statue oi
- great lord In England, that was Sc
N: home and placed in Westminster A
~ bey, and made the greatest sculptor
. those times say: S'This little man b
or cut us all out"
ISL Comm home to England he foul
ill., his old prediction true-tl1e Royol AZ
IL DENY was proud of him and showed
~ by making him its Professor of Soul
US ture.
So Last and best of all John F'laxm
ust was a Christian artist, and in all of
,od workings there is Christian lesson
= Little Corporal. 3
to The Comet.
ur- Professor Plantamour, an astronon
led of Geneva, announces the approach
as a comet, which is to collide with t