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PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, JAN. 21. 1881.
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eye. assured us Joe himself knew how I
• Tapestry.
little was done until Paris was decor
funny it was.
ated for Louis XIV.
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The earliest account of tapestry
When in England I was very much
Quite a crowd had gathered at the
Now came in the present style
BY UEO. P.
WHEELER.
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V interested in the monkeys at the Zo open door of his room, and as he no wrought with the needle, for hangings known as "Gobelin tapestry,” from
Tire rain falls .gently on tlia sheltering ological Gardens, Regent’s Park, Lon ticed it, he put his hand in his pocket and garments, is in Exodus, where the
the name of the dyErs on whose prem
roof,
don. There -were hundreds of all . drew out the one eye-glass English- ■ cui tains of the Tabernacle which di ises it was manufactured. Here are
Soothing my weary heart to sleep's re
kinds and sizes, from the gigantic man so particularly effect, and put it vided the Holy placg from the Most carpets now woven for the palaces,
pose ;
orang-outang
to tiny creatures not to his eye looking as weakly wise as , Holy are described as of” fine twined but we must not judge of their style
My soul sinks into soft forgetfulness,
much
bigger.than
a large rat..
My head droops low—my weary Eyelids
Lord Dundreary himself. After a lit linen, with blue, purple and scarlet; by that known among us as “ tapestry
close.
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These monkeys ha'd a spacious glass tle he grew tired of so many specta with chterubimv of cunning _work-^ carpeting.” the word itself simply
Around me float the memories of the past, house, heated by steajn : and as a trop tors, left his chair and quietly shut wrought with the needle,” etc.
meaning coverings or hangings ; tap-
bike cloudland dreams—so sweet, so far,' ical temperature was always main the door in their faces.
The Israelites doubtless Ijprrowed isxerie is the French word, which our
ao faint ;
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tained, tall ¡ alms and luxurious vines
Looking about as if he would do this beautiful art from the Egyptians, manufacturers have as good a right to
Like distant landscapes, dirn'in hazy mists grew so »vigorously within its walls
something more for our amusement, while in bondage to them; for the use as those who weave for royalty
Whose chastened beauty artists ne'er
that I .have no doubt the quaint in he remembered his apple in the stove latter was skilled with both needle even if we cannot carry “ high art ”
ttan paint.
mates supposed themselves in their oven. Running there he took hold of and loom, and also in dyeing and into their work.
Sweet visions of my childhood's earliest
native haunts.
the door, but suddenly drew back, for painting.
In the reign of the last named king
yearn,
They
chattered
and
scolded
each
The Babylonians illustrated the Raphael and other Italian masters
it wus hot. He laughed'a little at
So dim that memory scarce can bring
other, wildly chased stray little dogs his discomfiture which he took in mysteries of their .religion, and" re copied, and weaving became one of
them nigh ;
Faces of playmates loved in youth’s bright and kittens, and really seemed to good part, stood thinking a moment, corded important historical events, in the fine arts.
hours
:now so much that I half Relieved an then used his’pocket-handkerchief as pictorial embroidery.
In 1862, ninety men were employ
Gone to. tlieir Savior in eternity.
ild
keeper,
who
told
me
the
only
rea
deftly
ask
dainty
lady
would
to
ac
To
such
perfection
was
this
work
ed
in weaving mainly for thé palace
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I see the flash of snow-white angel wings, son they did not talk, was because complish his purpose. But if -the
carried by the ancient Greeks that of St. Cloud. Occasionally the sup
Gleam through the shadows clustering they could make themselves- well
door was hot, the apple, Joe logically they attributed the invention to Min ply exceeds "the demand of royalty.
round my bed.
enough
understood
without.
reasoned, must be hotter ; so he ven er va.
Now a piece may be purchased by an
They come to me, still messengers of love, J
Many tunny stories I heard of their tured not to touch it before opening
And circle round me with their noiseless
Such value was Bel upon-it-that the ordinary mortal provided he has
sagacity. One I recall of a nurse his knife. Wondering what he was poets sang its praise; kings viedwith money enough to pay for it.
tread.
They tell me in their whispers soft and who shook a naughty little boy in the going to do, I found him sticking the each- other- in eHcbu raging, the art,
The art was patronized by Henry
presence of some of the mother mon blade into .the -apple and bringing it and possessing The richest’specimens. VIII. in England, and Windsor palace
low,'
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Of the sweet promise of the home to be; keys, whereupon all' the monkeys be out in triumph. The keeper gave
In the early days ,.pf the French Hampton Court, and other homes of
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That pain, nor sin. nor woe can never gan shaking all the young ones until him a plate, and after letting it cool a 1 monarchy
Re
read
of r women working
1 royalty,-|were decoiated with copies of
.
come
it seemed as if their-poor heads would little he offered it to us. We courte tapealry with the needle.
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the best English painters in tapestry.
Into that palace they have kept for me. w
drop off.
ously
declined,
but
the
servant tasted, , - lit the Gtl) century, when Clovis
The hangings were not fixtures,
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They tell jne of a Savior's love divine,
But, interested in all the singular explaining that Joe djd rot. Hka.j^^b^ed C^ri.itianity.eveu
Christianity,even the street's
streets but were raised on frames, and were
Tell me the story of his love for me
Whisper in flattering accents hushed and inhabitants of the house, I grew at eat anything alone. Then~Jde1fbflow- were decprateff- vviUi thia Costly fob' often taken down and fbrwardwLXo
tached to Joe, the young chimpanzee ed, but he did not like the flavor, and ric during the festivities' in
low,
decorate the ChiKKhers of klfigs afnV“
who had been brought a baby from being asked if it was sour, he nodded. the event..
- “Of the last’agony on Calvary.
queens when on "royal “ progresses,”
the coast of Guinea the winter before. We were told that he in common with
Gently my weary soul is lost in sleep.
At the dedication of the chutvh of as their journeys were then called.
But through the stillness'of the darken- 1 He had a little room on the sunny the other monkeys* liked oranges and St’. Denis, where generations pf kings » A good >story is told of a blunder
‘
ed night
side of the monkey house, with a bananas better than any other fruits. I lie buned"fthe decorations were of ta- occasioned by this- practice. jjenry
I know God's guardian angels watch.
atove/h table,’chairs and a couple of
Yet he kept tasting a" little of the | p'estry, wrought with gold and silver., 4A., in wishing to do great honor to
Over my bedside 'tillilie morning light.
beds’, "arranged like the berths in a ( apple from, a s|xx>n while- the keeper .and ¡»earls?
the Pope’s legate, ordered his most
Grandmother Grumble Read9 a state room of an ocean steamer. - Be | told us how the. sailors Who hoped to | Tapestry was wrougqt with the costly tapestry to be hung at1 St.
sides he had a man all to himself: to capture hisunpther'<»nlwsucceeded in needle in France, until the 9th centu Germain, where he was then On a
Newspaper Item.
wait upon upon, him ; and it was no bringing liirn off alive After they had ry, when the demand for it had be visit. By a terrible mistake one was
“ Shot dead, by the wretch he bad ruined, wonder the other monkeys wero jeal I killed her. They had hard work to
come so great that weaving was in sent which satirized the Pope and
In shambling saloon in Broadway.”
ous of his superior quarters and the I keep him alive on board ship, but troduced and a manufactory vstab- his court at Rom? —a much more
So that is the end of young Roberts ;
deference paid him ; for while Joe found a warm nook for him by the lished in the Abbey of St. Florian, in dreadful- thing in that day than it
His mother was Elinor Gray ;
was not handsome he was worth more gallery fire. He was in fair health 985. Monks then wove in their clois would be in ours. You may be sure »
I knew her, a belle and a beauty,
Religious, too. after.her.way.,
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whan they landed, so they obtained ters.; while ladies in their seclusion, it came'down quicker than it went
Though she never herself sought the ; ;er-
the larger price offered by the Zoolog portrayed with the needle on canvass
wretched,
He was worth this great sum be-' ical Gardens; but in spite of the most the stories that poets had sung of the
These ancient tapestries are now of
She was ready to aid those who would.
cause he belonged to the most intelli devoted care, he seemed to languish deeds of their fathers, as well as those great value, not only for their antiqui
Church festivals, fairs and tea-parties
gent and interesting species of- the in his new home.
,
of their livihg lords and lovers.
ty, but also as histoiical records of
' Were her choseu channels ofigood.
monkej"
family,
and
only
one
or
two
“
Do
you
love
me,
Jefe?
”
the
man
1 he walls of the palaces were high, great events. The banquet, the chase
She never had scruples of conscience.
of his kinsfolk had ever been seen in ended his story with. Joe nodded, and of rough, cold »tone, and the tap- and the tournament are as truthfully
- And wondered at people who could.
Europe, while the only one the Zoo smiled, and put his head lovingly on estrjjed hangings hid as well as orna described as are the Beige and the
Her husband was loose in his morals,
logical
Society had ever owned, had the other's shoulder.
And tight in bis bargains ; “ but then,”’
mented them Sfiakespease speaks of battle, forming pictorial Btory-books
died of lung fever before he had in
She said. “ the fine honor of women
As we left that day, Joe took his Fal staff hiding. behind the arras (tap- of rifainmoth dimensions.
It is folly to hope for in men.”
habited his comfortable quarters hat, cane, and heavy wrap, and es estry made at Arras,) in “ The Merry
You can imagine the labor of mak
He died, and she did the best she knew many months.
corted us to the great door of the NVives of Windsoi.”
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carpets and drapery by the slow
how
For their one son, thd b a ndanin a y n nng- __ Joe- was about as tall as an'aver monkey house, shaking our hands as -■ Horsemen were now robed and stitch of the needle on canvas, and -
age boy of eight or ten years. He we bade him good-bye.
Ben.
horses caparisoned in this costly work will not wonder that the haute Uwe
wore
a
thick
cloth
roundabont,
and
a
Another
time
when
1
called
he
was
at tournaments, and on the occasion or high loom (the one mostly in uso
He lqsed her, obeyed her, believed her—'
low Hat trencher cap such as the Ox taking tea, using milk and sugar and of great triumphal entries end other now), has taken its place. In this
Not all children do—hie beet friend.
A decade of travel and culture,
ford students delight in.
handling cup and saucer as if he had public celebrations.
loom, the frame and the warp are
A million of dollars to spend,
One day I walked to the door of been familiar with them from his ear The tapestries of Flanders were early perpendicular.
She gave hint, and died. With all this I his room and knocked. The keeper
liest days. He motioned-us to take famed for their beauty, and the Bay-
There are two rollers ; one at the
done,
so Joe chairs. We did so and he jumped up, eaux tapestry which is still preserved
.said
“
Come
in,
”
and-as
I
did
Who could have imagined the end?
top, around which the threads are
walked erect over the floor to me, found cups for us, and then passed is of pticeless value as the work of wound ; and one below, over which is
But, ifiVindling to pay the old church
1 pulled off his cap with his left hand
a plate of biscuits, laughing with glee fair Flemish fingers which have been rolled the finished cloth.
debt
and put out his right to shake mine. as we took one. I have taker! tea for long centuries, in the dust. ”
Is right at these vanity fairs ;
The'hutlines of the design are
When I said “It is a fine morning,” with many curious individuals, but
If lottery sales and mock auctions
In very early times tapestry was drawn on the threads in fron£but the
Must pay for the preaching and the he bowed briskly; but when I added.. never expect to be so honored again
confined mainly to altar-cloths and pattern is hung at the back, and the
privera ;
“Are you pretty well, Joe?” He as to be invited by a chimpanzee.
other church decorations, but the workman, standing between that and
If post office, grab-bag and fish-pond
shook his head and looked very sober.
Noticing his hand was feverish I growing demand for it as wall hang his work, has to turn round continu
Buy the organ, ahd carpet the stairs ;
The keeper explained: “ Joe had a found his pulse was 130. I said, ings, and furniture coverings, and car
ally to look at it, and never sees the
If woman her face aDd persuasion
cold, and that made him very low I «< What is the matter with him f”
pets, resulted in the establishments of beautiful design he is carrying out
To doubtful expedients lend,
“ Consumption is what kills all of looms at Antwerp, Bruges, and other unless he goes round in front to do
Saying, ‘‘young people must have amuse spirited.
Joe was listening attentively , and them,” the man answered, low, just a?
ment,”
cities; that made in Arra» being the so.
When the man finished, he shivered if talking before a human invalid.
And ifieasure the means by the end,
most famous.
Some of the Gobelin tapestries have
What wonder that tome men go farther
and drew up the collar of his jacket
From
that
day
Joe
failed
rapidly,
A piece representing the battles of all the delicacy of a picture. But the
Than their beautiful tempters intend? I round his hairy throat, as if to con- j
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and one morning, under the head of Alexander the Great was among the work is very slow, and so can never
Tha^keeping the smooth ways divergent I firm the statement.
“Great Loss,” The Timex announced gifts sent by the king of Flanders to become common nor cheap. One '
From the rugged old footpiths of right, t I gave him an apple, which he look
that he died at midnight.
the Sultan in 1371), for the ransom of who can afford to order a small piece
Iti their "blind sta-cli Tor pleasure and
ed at a moment, then' opened ~tlie
I went down at once to see the captives taken in battle. It portray of it now must wait two or three
profit,
years for
Companion.
door of the oven of his stove, and put keeper whose grierl .knew would be
They sink from integrities height
ed, also scenes of history and romance;
it in out of right. Seeming to under keen.
To the madness of willful self-murder,
—A Londoner, who has traveled
the feats of fabulous heroes ; and gro
Or the fate of yon ng Roberta last night ? stand that the fire was low, he pulled
over the United States, writes : " I
He'told me how for a few days, Joe tesque figures of men and animals.
—Sei.
a basket from under the lower berth could only be persuaded to take food
do not think the women of America
Some pieces of this work were al quite appreciate the deference and re
and
took
some
bits
of
wood
from
it
to
“Oh, shall it be a red rose, a rod rose,
by seeipg him eat and hearing him
the stove. Then the keeper handed praise it, how lie made him sleep in most national annals, and were styled spect they receive at the hands of
A deep tinted red rose ?” said she.
their countrymen. They are too apt
him a match, and he lighted a fire as his berth by his side, and when death historical tapestries.
"In the sunny gsrden-closes
to
accept special courtesies as a right
How they burn the deep-red roses 1
In the lfith century Francis I. es
cleverly as any Yankee boy I ever came, held his band through the last
No
wonder so many of them dislike
How they l'ft their glowing cups to me '
tablished manufactories of this fabric England, where men too often give
saw.
struggle.
“ Oh, shall it be a blnsh rose, a blush
" Show the lady how you read The ' The man s voice actually choked at Fontainebleau. Hitherto it had them mere equality^of position, let
rose,
. ,
been made in piece's and joinecbneatly ting them fight their own way in a
Timex, Joe,” said the keeper.
with sobs as he said, , It don’t seem
A dewy, dainty blnsh rose ?” said she.
’
into
great hangings ; but now it be crowded railway depot or omnibus
Joe drew up a chair, tilted it back right, indeed it don’t, not to have a
" At its heart a flnsh so tender,
station without the slightest acknowl
gan
to
bo woven in one large web
I
a little, spread his legs apart, opened funeral for. him ’ He ought to have
With a veiled and softened splendor.
edgement of the privilege of the
Francis brought workmen from stronger sex, which is to be kind and
How it d io ops its languid head toward me. the sheet, turned it until he found the | had it.”
I never heard‘Joe had anv funeral, Flanders paid them well for their gentle in its treatment of the weaker
“Oh, shall it bs a white rose, a white page he „wanted, then settled himself, i
into
the
exact
petition
of
the
comfort'
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but I did, hear that he was stuffed, skill and supplied them with the 1 et a pretty American gfrl once «aid
A fair and shining while rose ?” Mid she, t able English 'gentleman who supposes and looks more like .a big” boy than richest materials, including gold and to me: *1 admire an English hus
“ With its fair cheeks tinted faintly, v.- . The Timex is printed for his exclusive when he was aliie. WS. Axxu? siiver thread His bon Henry II. es- band because he does not let his wife
Like a vestal pure and saintly,
to ffelp laugh ”) ( 'u;! . > W
taWiahad manufacture iea in Paris, but, fool him as an American husband
1
I wouldn't marry an Emr *
Lof it light* ila silver lamp T3r me.”
I after his death the art declined, and lishman. I should be afraid of him.’’ *
ing,
and
the
sly
twinkle
in
his
narrow
,
A
make.
—Jvuk C. R. Dana.
Fot the Meeeenger.
Rest.
Joe, the Chimpanzee.