The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-02-01
Progress Of the
New Won7aD.

ished the translation from the French
OF the hitherto unpublished journal OF
her ilustrious ancestor, labor OF 1--we
and fidelity that has occupied her time
for II years. The work has been just
ly pronounced one of the great and
needful books OF the world.
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 sSomalfland. that rough
and comparatively unexplpred region
! in eastern Africa, Rfrnoceroses. tigers.
p, 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
i'm 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 climate-deadly 10 many men
| without any particular discomfort.
! Among the animals brought back by
| this intrepid married couple were three
! wildcats one of which is now i'm 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.
HER FORTUNE FOR SCIENCE.
| Miss Alice Bates Gould, daughter OF
| the late DR.. Benjamin Apthorp Gould
| of Cambridge, Mass. who died a few
months ago has lately donated To the
| National Academy of Science SEQ 600 as
| a trust fund, whose income shall be
| used for the advancement OF scientific
| knowledge on astronomical subjects
! This is tribute 20 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 1855 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 uf feminine i'm
! 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 tho
| threads that are thus left uncrossed i'm
the linen into cunning designs and fan
ciful. bewldering shapes. The best
| work is of threads drawn lengthwise
! and crosswise of the goods, i'm 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 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 i'm
hlmy quantities from the balmy country
| where ii is made with apparent lam
| guorous ease.
DEPARTMENT CLERKS.
Women have a fair representation In
the clerical force Of the departments.
i'm Washington Among S22 i'm the post
Office department 177 are female clerks,
their salaries ranging from $500 to 81, 500
per annum.
The dead letter Office. where 125 OF
them are employed, is the most inter-
esting division. Twenty thousand un-
delivered letters are received there cv-
cry day, and of these each clerk Is
expected To open 150-more, if possible.
A record OF the daily number examined
by each one is kept and credit for pro-
ficiency awarded. Letters containing
checks and money are given special at
tention and are naturally returned 10
the sender when IL is possible In the
holiday week hundreds of missives are
received addressed To Santa Claus or
his alter ego, Kriss Kringle. but no at
tempt is made tu return them TO the
writer. No record is kept of the un-
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 he
reclaimed at any time There is a mu-
scum of unmallable articles. It's shelves
contain every imaginable object as
diverse i'm character as a 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 i'm New York a young Australian
woman with the muscles of a Sandow
and an arm larger than Corbetts bear
ing the interesting name OF La Pctitc
Charmion Though she acknowledges
the passing OF 10 summers she does not
look older than l6. being mite of a
girl > feet tall and weighing ll5 pounds.
Her muscles stand out like great knots
when she assumes the pugilistic atti-
tudc. but a glance at her figure when
she is resting proves that vigorous ex-
ercise has not made her limbs slnewy or
"lumpy" In appearance. The average
man would undoubtedly envy the mus