The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-06

the Duchess of Marlborough uses is of
American make, mounted on a charm
ing little inlaid desk and very sumptu-
Cusly trimmed with gold and red
enamel wherever such decoration is
possible. The paper her little grace
uses in the machine is sent her from
the states, and is the ordinary quality
used for single copy work. but in the
center at the top of every sheet is
stamped a black ducal coronet, with
the letters c. NJ. in gilt beneath.
Roman society has made great lion
of the eccentric author of that very
doubtful contribution to literature,
The Triumph of Death" During the
winter, D'Annunzio has given a series
of readings in Rome in the drawing
room of an important social leader and
the throngs of the supremacy fashion,
able who maneuvred to secure tickets
to the functions. were fully amused for
their efforts. At enc end of the grand
salon, in an old Roman palace, a daiS
three steps high was raised and covered
with scarlet cloth. All natural light
was excluded from the room, and no
artificial illumination introduced, save
about the dais, where towering can
delabra held perfumed wax candles,
softly shaded Crimson velvet curtains
framed the dais. myrtle and orange
trees, blooming in tubs, shed their
sickly perfume about a great gilded
chair upholstered in red velvet, in
which D'Annunzio sat, arrayed in
black, to read from Dante, the Bible
and his own works. The effect of the
gloom shrouded salon, the weighty
odOrs and the funereal novelist was
said TO have been overwhelming on at
least the feminine portion of the au-
dience. Many tainted away, but re-
turned to the scene of action to witness
the final browning of the reader, with
damsel, dressed to represent fame.
Americans may be surprised to hear
that throughout these readings neither
D'Annunzio nor his audience broke
down in laughter. though the comicality
of the scene was undeniable.
Princess Victoria, the only unmarried
daughter of the Prince and Princess of
Wales, is a woman looking for some
useful mission, that a royal girl may
fill without disgracing her family She
does not wish to marry, though divers
good offers have been made for her
hand. since of the three sisters she is
far and away the most clever and
companionable, and a number of eligi-
Bile young German and Swedish princes
and grand dukes have really wished to
nave her TO wife. But the PEnceSS
Victoria has not yet found n husband
TO her mind, and to her mothers great
dismay, she cherishes an ardent ambi-
ton to be a genuine wage-earner. Two
years ago she fitted herself for nurs-
ing and announced her intention of en-
tering London hospital. There were
serious family cOnclaves. and not until
sent to interview her very decided
grandmamma on the question did the
young princess relinquish the plan. In
heriting a decided artistic taste from
her mother. this royal spinster is now
turning her attention to book binding,
and the designing of book covers. The
library at Sandringham is really en-
riched with some of her excellent work,
and at d recent exhibition of book
covers in London, two examples, con-
tributed by a Miss Matthews. won
prizes. 1t was not until weeks after
ward that the judges. dispensers of
prizes, or the royal family themselves
knew that the energetic princess had
Won these testimonials to her excellent