Logan Republican | 1903-04-14 | Page 4 | An Artist's Fearful Cruelty

An Artist's Fearful Cruelty. It may bo doubted whether tho dictates dic-tates of fashion havo over led to anything any-thing more cruel and repulsive than tho French practice adopted to pro-euro pro-euro thoso sinister-looking animals whoso flerco and hideous attitudes aro reproduced In the Jowclry worn to-day by fashionable. Parisian beauties. The artist who provides thoso morbid do-signs do-signs lives In a vlllago near Paris, and In different cagos keeps cats, rats and many othor animals whom he slowly starves to death. Though ho lives among his victims, the artist has grown callous to their cries, and as tho wretched animals writhe in their agony he gets the horrible and fantastic forms he desires for the Jewelry Jew-elry destined to adorn tho beautiful women of tho French capital. If anything any-thing could bo rooro incongruous than this practico when brought Into contrast con-trast with tho gentlo and sympathetic traits usually ascrlbod to women It would bo difficult to say whoro It could bo found. It is charltablo to believe that the women who wear such Jewelry are not aware of the methods by which It Is produced.