The age-herald., 1898-01-23


 of the hitherto unpublished journal of her illustrious ancestor, a labor of love and fidelity that has occupied her time for 12 years. The work has been just ly pronounced one of the great and needful books of the world.
 A WOMAN GAME WARDEN. T' E Michigan has no longer the proud boast of being represented by the only female game warden in the United States. Colorado will also claim the same honor as part of her distinction. Game Commissioner Swan of that state lately appointed Miss Annie Metcalfe of Denver, recently a commercial traveller for a St. Louis house, to this rather dangerous position.
 Miss Metcalfe was born in Missouri 26 years ago, is an attractive brunette. refined retiring and accomplished. As yet she has not decided what costume to wear when on duty as a warden. She has independent but not radical ideas of dress. Skirts and such things she considers out of place when a woman is horseback riding or cycling She is not in favor of equal suffrage and takes no part in politics except to vote. T do not anticipate that shall be sent to the front or will have to brave any very great dangers, though I expect to perform every duty, if called on, no matter what it consists of," was her reply to an anxious inquirer. As a clerk she will receive S900 year. As warden her pay will be S5 per diem only when she is in the field. The ap- pointment was received by her on the eve of the game commissioners depart ure for the scene of the Indian troubles in Routt county, but he did not order her to join the other wardens in the shooting bee.
 MEXICAN ART WORK.
 Things are not always what they seem. The Mexican woman Is not usu- ally regarded as a type of feminine n- dustry, but the dark eyed senoritas of our sister republic have mastered the rare old art of drawn work, something that would sorely try the patience of the most willing and earnest American Drawn work is the primitive method of lace making and consists of drawing out threads in linen fabric and, by the use of a needle and thread drawing the threads that are thus left uncrossed in the linen into cunning designs and fam ciful bewildering shapes. The best work is of threads drawn lengthwise and crosswise of the goods, in complica- tions of squares and oblongs, with tiny blocks of the material interspersed, the blocks not being appliqued in, but ef- fected by being left undrawn. The mesh, fine as a spiders web, when 1t is completed, defies analysis or imitation unless by an artist well versed in the craft. But even connoisseurs of fancy work have often given up the attempt to do the work which comes to us in q ha ha Inn rd where it is made with apparent Ian. guorous ease.
 A MODERN DIANA. Mrs. J. Bennett Stanford, handsome young English woman, is the modern Diana. In company with her husband she was the first white woman who ever hunted in So1naliland, that rough and comparatively unexplored region | in eastern Africa. Rhinoceroses, tigers, | leopards and other denizens of the jun gle and forest received their death wounds from the steady but sure aim of | her rifle She was the most successful in shooting leopards. Nightly she was | on the search for them, attended by two or more natives, and seldom returned to camp without trophy of her prowess. With the exception of some slight at- tacks of fever Mrs. Stanford bore the trying climate-deadly to many men without any particular discomfort. Among the animals brought back by this intrepid married couple were three wildcats, one of which is now in the London Zoo. But the skins of many strange beasts adorn the parlors and boudoir of this heroine's home, and ev- cry one of them recalls to her a tale of wild adventure.
 WILL BUY HORSES.
 There are clubs innumerable for the social, political and business advance. ment of women, but young ladies' as, sociation in Lewiston, Me, proposes to get some advantages out of their or- ganization that no other club of the kind seems to have thought possible
 The girls, who are 50 in number, pro- pose to hoard their assets and net re- ceipts until the springtime. when they will purchase a span of horses and blackboard. Then every member of the club will be given at least one delight ful ride weekly about the wales of the Kennebec and the shady roads of the beautiful Maine country.
 A GREEK "CoACH."
 As a tutor. professor, teacher in pub lie and private schools, in seminares and boarding schools, woman has long held an enviable position and a success fui course Now woman graduate of Columbia college, seeking a new field for the exercise of her talents, turns her collegiate education to practical ac- count by acting as "coach" in Latin and Greek to aspirants for baccalaure- ate honors, having already enrolled among her pupils not only many girls and young ladies, but also a considera- ble number of male students.