Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-22


of the hitherto unpublished journal Of
her illustrious ancestor a labor OF 1--we
and fidelity that has occupied her time
for IL years. The work has been Just
ly pronounced one of the great and
needful books Of the world.
4 MODERN DIANA.
Mrs, ]. Bennett Stanford, u handsome
| young English woman. is the modern
Diana. In company with her husband
she was the first white woman who
ever hunted in Somaliland. that rough
and comparatively UNEMPLOYED region
in eastern Africa. Rhlnoceroses. 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 a trophy of her prowess.
With the exception of some slight at
tacks of fever Mrs. Stanford bore the
trying Enthusiastically 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 pariors and
boudoir of this heroine's home, and ev-
cry one Of them recalls to her a tale of
| wild adventure.
HER FORTUNE FOR SCIENCE.
Miss Alice Bates Gould, daughter of
the late DIR. Benjamin Apthorp Gould
of Cambridge. Mass. who died a few
months ago, has lately donated to the
National Academy of Science $4,000 as
n trust fund, whose income shall he
used for the advancement of scientific
knowledge on astronomical subjects
This Is tribute to her father. one of
the ablest and most active astronomers
of America, who was at one time di-
rector of the Dudley observatory In AL
bany. and from 1868 to 1885 had charge
of the astronomical observatory in Cor
doba, Argentine Republic. Thus has the
fathers fame been continued by the de-
votion of the daughter.
MEXICAN ART WORK.
Things are not always what they
seem. The Mexican woman is not usu-
ally regarded as type of feminine in
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 increased 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-
tons of squares and oblongs. with tiny
blocks of the material interspersed, the
blocks not being appliqued in, but eff
fected by being left undrawn. The
mesh. fine as a spiders web. when It 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
flmy quantities from the balmy country
where 1t is made with apparent Lam
guorous ease.
DEPARTMENT CLERKS.
Women have fair representation In
the clerical force of the departments
in Washington. Among s22 in the post
office department III are female clerks,
their salaries ranging from 5000 to 81 SOC
per annum.
The dead letter office, where 1e5 OF
them are employed, is the most inter-
esting division. Twenty thousand un-
delivered letters are received there ev-
cry day, and of these each clerk is
expected to open 150-more, II possible.
A record of the daily number examined
by each one is kept and credit for rio-
fciency awarded. Letters containing
checks and money are given special at
tention and are naturally returned to
the sender when 1t is possible. In the
1 t,.Ii
received addressed TO Santa Claus or
his alter ego. Kriss kringle. but no at
tempt is made to return them TO the
writer. No record Is kept of the I'M
signed letters unless they contain vnlu-
ables. The latter are kept for four
years and then sent to the United
States treasury. where they may be
reclaimed at any time. There is a mu-
scum of unavailable articles. Its shelves
contain every imaginable object. as
diverse In character as pulpit and an
elephant.
A FEMALE SANDow.
Woman seems to be rapidly entering
into competition with man under al
most incredible conditions. There is
now in New York a young Australian
woman with the muscles Of n Sandow
and an arm larger than Corbetts bear
ing the interesting name of La Petite
Charmion. Though she acknowledges
the passing Of 10 summers she does not
| look older than 16, being n mite VI a
girl, feet tall and weighing 1l5 pounds,
Her muscles stand out like great knots
when she assumes the pugilistio atti-
tude. but n glance at her figure Wien
she is resting proves that vigorous eN-
ercise has not made hor limbs slnowy or
'lumpy' in appearance. The average
man would undoubtedly envy the mus