The Globe-republican., 1890-08-06

Not long afterward she set out for Chi
cago, determined upon earning her liv-
ing by her art If possible. On the way
she was cruelty robbed of all the money
she had carefully boarded for this risky
enterprise. and when she arrived in
Chicago she was literally penniless.
Unwilling to be cared for by friends
there, and unable to earn any thing i'm
mediately by her art, she worked at
dressmaking until she had saved enough
money to establish her in art rooms in
Central Music Hall. Here she taught
and studied, and dreamed of a glorious
future, for pupils came and work was
ordered, and success seemed almost at
hand when, entering the building one
dark winter morning, she walked
through the open door of the elevator
and fell upon tho stone floor some If
teen feet below, shattering her bones in
such a manner that months were re-
quired for their mending, and even
then one leg was more than three inches
shorter than the other, and she had to
go upon crutches BY many more
months of toll and sacrifice she amassed
little money and set out for Europe
alone. After few months of study in
England and Scotland and a year in
Italy she returned to Chicago and re-
sumed her work of modelling and of in
structing class es. Soon after General
Logan's de ath she came to Washington,
bringing wit h her a relief portrait of
that disting uished soldier-statesman
which so delighted Mrs. Logan that she
invited the young artist to Calumet
Place and turned the conservatory into
q studio for her. Here Miss johnson
modelled bust of the General in clay,
and here began trouble between Mrs.
Logan and her protege. According to
Miss Johnson's story, Mrs. Logan was
so much pleased with the bust that she
ordered it done in marble, discussed all
the details and matters of expense, and,
in fine. gave An order for marble busts
of the General and herself. which Miss
johnson was to make in Rome after in
curing certain expense for further in
struction in carving.
Miss johnson says that her mother
raised the 81. 400 necessary to the trip
and the work by mortgaging the farm in
Illinois The artist remained in Rome
five months studying and working on
the busts under the direction of Altini.
When she returned Mrs. Logan is said
to have denied that she ever ordered the
busts and declined to take them. Sub
sequently she did accept the bust of
herself and paid $500 for it Once more
moneyless Miss johnson opened a
school of art, in connection with which
She teaches the Delsarte system of phi
losophy. She also holds a position in
one of the departments and in the ca
pacities of clerk and teacher works
nineteen hours day. She lives entire
ly alone in q small house on street,
where she carries out many peculiar
ideas of life. Her house is now in sum-
mer garb. the ~alls covered from CELL
ing to floor with white cheese cloth
gathered and fluted into soft back
ground for the few pictures and carved
cabinets artisticallY disposed. Filmy
white curtains are looped back from the
windows, in one of which hangs q bird
cage. in another globe of water for a
growing vine. A white-dlaped table
and couch and few white-painted
chairs with rack for photographs con-
stitute the furniture of the studio. Here
Miss johnson lives her eccentric life,
eating almost nothing (never any meat)
and enjoying her enthusiasts with lit
tie hindrance. She is what people call
theosophist, and is firm believer in and
practicer of Christian science, which,
she AYERS. has utterly eradicated all
traces of the results Of her fall down