Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-22
What Nasty Things We Wear.

COW 81 lAueouC, dOLSutO, NOiO uC
We're kind of a girl" says Clara Belle,
:" attracting attention on Broadway by
the iaunty, rich fur dolman, quite as
much as by her refined beauty. And
what do you suppose it was? Nothing
else but monkey skins, or rather,
monkeys skins, for llnt less than 200 of
the grinning, chattlng little Brazilian
rogues had been worked up into that one
garment. They were dappled grey,
with brownish red streaks. Ii all the
chopped-off heads be suddenly restored,
what frInny-looking girl she would be
Monkeys heads, i'll point of fact, are
riyaling those of kittens and owls as
ornaments for plush and fur mulfs.
What can't utilized for women's adorn-
ment? / got to thinking of this yester-
day. and my meditations spoiled my next
meal. Among my natural hair was woven
some that might have grown on the head
of felon, or been cut from a corpse.
My dress and stockings made of the
spewing of silk-worms My cloak was
lined with skunk skins, rechristened
sable. My hands were in kid CD gloves
made of the skins of rats. Ugh Let's
talk about something else."
Helped.
John Flaxman (wao began to be ia
nous nearly 100 years ago. was the one
English sculptor of whom his country
has reason to be proud-and his statues
and exquisite designs in the gallery in
London, called Flaxman Hall after his
name, are one of the choicest collections
of art in the kingdom. His designs and
outline drawings are the best known,
and scholars will never cease to admire
his "Shield of Achilles and his illus
trations of Homer Flaxman had good
wife, who rather helped than hindered
his success, and she deserves q share of
his fame.
At II years of age, when he had al
ready begun to give great promise as an
artist, John Flaxman married Ann Den
man, a cheerful, noble woman. A friend
OF Flaxman and an old bachelor, who, of
course, was expected to have no better
views OF marriage, said
$50, FlaXman, [ am told you are mar
RED; if SO, sir, [ tell you you are ruined
for an artist.
Going home, Flaxman, taking a seat
by his wife. with her hand in his, said,
Ann, l am ruined for an artist"
How SO, John? How has it hap
pened, and who has done it?'
1t happened" he replied, Sin the
church, and Ann Denman has done it. -
He went on to tell her what his friend
had said, how that, if an artist would
excel, he must bring all his powers to
bear on his work, and that if he would
become a great artist he should visit
Rome and Florence, and study the great
works of Raphael and Michael Angelo
and others. "And l." said Flaxman,
would be a great artist"
"And great artist you shall be-"
said his wife, "and visit Rome, too. if
that be really necessary to make you
great"
"But how?" asked Flaxman.
Work and economize," was the re-
ply. 81 will never have it said that Ann
Denman ruined John Flaxman for an
artist"
=" I will go to Rome" said he, "and
show that wedlock is for mans good
rather than his harm, and you, Ann,
shall accompany me-
They worked, they economical, they
went to Rome. John Flaxman studied
the great authors, and returned to Lon
don great artist, and Ann Denman
helped to lift him TO this pinnacle of
tame.- Youths COn1DGHiOn.