Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — High Art. [ARTICLE]

High Art.

In a decorative ago all sorts of things become decorative. The Detroit Free Press reports that a colored man went into a grocery in that city not long ago, and asked the proprietor if he had any burlap lying about the shop. “Yes," said the grocer, “I’ve got a few coffee sacks, but they are old and in pretty bad shape." “Dat's all de better, sah. I want ’bout four of ’em." The grocer brought them out, and the negro looked round the shop. “Has you any pieces of rope to spare?” he asked. “I want about fifty feet.” A tangled lot of old cord and rope was handed to him. “Going to pack something for moving?” asked the grocer. “No, sah. My wife was workin’ fer a lady on High street de odder day, an’ she cotched on to a new idea. She’s gwine to use dis stuff, ’long wid a few suspender buckles an' shoe-strings, to make a pianer-kiver.” “Land! but what a cover that will make!” “Dat’s what I done tole her, but she brung home all de in her mind, an’ she’s boun’ to turn one out. If you h’ar of anybody as wants a twenty-five-dollar pianer-kiver, homemade an’ chuck full of art, jes’ le’ me know. ”