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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07
Most Beautiful English Woman.

Dorothy Dene is said to be the most
beautiful woman in England. The late
Sir Frederic Leighton selected her as
the one woman in all Europe whose
face and figure most closely Tailed
with his ideal She posed for a number
Of his most famous paintings. When
Sir Frederic, who was president OF the
Royal academy and ranked first among
English colorists, conceived the Idea or
his famous painting, "Cymon and lphi-
genla," every quarter OF the continent
was secured for a suitable model to pose
for the reclining figure so well known
to lovers of art. Six months elapsed
before the artist met with any one sur
ficiently beautiful to appeal TO his ran
cy, and 1t was in London that he finally
found his ideal. The long sought for
model was discovered behind the foot
lights of a theater.
She was Miss Dorothy Dene, young
actress. Being told of Sir Frederic's
contemplated canvas and her fulfllment
of the artists ideal for the central hg-
ure, Miss Dene consented to pose. Eight
months later the most admired OF Sir
Frederic's works was completed.
Nowhere at the present time can a
more perfect type of Greek beauty be
IOunu tHdu GhiSS 4SthGs ASaNh 'i'N -
her face and figure is purely classical.
Her height is rather above the average.
but her limbs are long and 1.-THE. Her
eyes are violet. and she has golden hair
that is wavy and plentiful. In addition
to these charms Miss Dene's complexion
| is said to be the most beautiful of any
woman In Europe.
Miss Dene's features can be readily
| recognized in n number of later works
| by the same artist, for she continued
| to be Sir Frederic's model long after he
had finished "Cymon and Iphigenia.'
| Miss Dene is represented as the maiden
who is catching the ball in his Greek
! Girls Playing Ball." in which her ex-
quisite figure is displayed to advantage
Another well known painting by Leigh
ton is Summer Moon" in which Miss
Dene's shapely arms may be noted.
1t was gossiped in London shortly be-
fore the artists death that he was Their
in love with his model. Rumor also had
1t that there was an obstacle In the way
Of their marriage, but Just what this
obstacle was no one seemed to know
It may have been the disparity In theil
ages, for at the time of his death, about
year and half Ago. leighton was
nearly 70 years old. Miss Dene is now
about 28,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07
AN AVALANCHE OF COLOR.

ever that occurs 1t is quickly wiped of.
but there is just enough to make the
rouge and powder stay in position
Then comes the rouge. II Is tie varie-
ty known as the saucer" which Is
got from our French cousins, and It Is
applied in tho old fashioned way with
n hare's foot. Some goes under the
eyes. That will brighten them and
make them look larger. Some is
brought down on the checks. and the
tip of the chin gets It's portion. and so
do the lobes OF the ears and the very
tip of the aristocratic nose. Then comes
the really trying part, the blending of
the powder with the rouge. the laying
on Of sufficient white to soften the red
and make 1t look healthful and yet
not cause 1t to disappear. What must
be attained is rather bright color
which, however has the advantage Of
not fading.
Then there is need for a soft pencil.
Partisan in It's make and marked
"brun," for my lady. being wise, knows
her brows must match her lashes, which
are brown and not black. After care
fully dipping her finger into a bottle
OF perfume she runs 1t over the place
where the eyebrows ought to be. SO
that every particle of powder and rouge
Is removed from that curved line, which
she follows with her brown pencil. be-
Ing sure that she does not lay it on too
heavy and being very careful to give
the exact line that beauty demands.
Perhaps she may with dark blue pen
ell draw a line under her eyes. but a
well bred woman is not eager to do this,
as Timing" the face is difficult, and my
lady prefers to achieve success. Look
well? Why. she does not look like the
same duh skinned, small eyed woman
who. chatting so cleverly. sat down In
the chair before the mirror a few min
utes ago.
You look at the innumerable bottles
of beautiful cut glass on her dressing
table. and. being a bit curious, you in
qulre as to what they are. The first
bottle that you pick up has such
pungent odor that you recognize 1t at
once as diluted spirits OF camphor.
What is It there for? My lady laughs
and tells you that sometimes when she
is dining out a great deal her appetite
gets the better of her. and then-well,
then her nose grows q little red, and, In
addition to dieting for awhile. she
dabbles the offending member every
night with n little of the camphor until
1t is restored to its normal condition.
Another bottle. once It's stopper is re-
moved, gives forth the odor of fir trees.
1t is explained to you that It is the
tincture of benzoin. n few drops OF
which thrown into the water used for
bathing the face, Just enough to make
II look like skimmilk, will not only pu-
rify the complexion, but will give 1t a
wonderfully exhilarating feeling. Then
there is a bottle of myrrh, from which
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

national guard have set to work to
make all sorts of needful things for the
soldiers, such as housewives to con-
tain pins. needles. ETC.. and little bags
of muslin in which to carry pepper.
salt and flour. Sewing circles to pre-
pare Undertaking have been set to
work. and the New York women's aux
Hilary to the guard has even pledged
itself to take care of the families of
poor soldiers during their absence. Tiny
emergency medicine kits containing a
few simple remedies and bandages are
another suggestion for the comfort of
the soldier. Indeed the women of the
guard have gone to work in such n
patriotic and businessllke way that the
American who upholds the honor Of
his country in the field promises to be
the best cared for fighter in the world.
Under Mrs. Jeanette Hardin Wal
worth, one of the officers of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution. a
number of prominent women have or
ganized themselves into sanitary COM
mittee, the object OF which is to do
about the work accomplished by the
sanitary commission in the civil war.
One Of the most encouraging features
of the present trouble with Spain has
been the loyalty with which all classes
of women have FASTENED to offer their
services in one way or another In aid
of the government. Miss Long, daugh-
ter of the secretary of the navy. Is
one OF the most eager volunteers. The
distinctions of class are forgotten in
the enthusiasm of patriotism. The
fashionable woman and the working
mans wife. the Vassar graduate and
the most humble scrubwoman, ignore
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

the right kind of tools. and next she
must learn how to manage them to suit
her special needs.
An acquaintance of mine has luster-
less eyes, one of those horrid heavy,
pasty skins. no eyebrows to speak of,
and yet she Is considered a pretty wo-
man. II Is because she knows how to
dress in the first place. and she I'M
uerstands the art of make up in the
second, She never denies to her wo-
men friends that she calls artificial
aid to assist her in being handsome.
nut only to her most intimate friends
is given permission to see the process.
She considers the first necessity is "A
proper place for her toilet table. II is
broad, has mirror that is perfect in
rejecting every virtue and every vice,
while in front OF 1t is chair Just the
right height for mistress of the room,
Tor she Is too wise to tire herself by
standing or walking during the making
up operation. All about her are glpss
bottles with heavy silver shoppers. glass
ana china boxes. indeed all the yarl-
Gus utensils that woman needs when
she has ceased to be youthful and new
err has been beautiful Gowned in a
pretty robe de chambre, having had
her hair arranged and her hands mani
cured my lady sits down to arrange
her face.
The maid who helps hands her, first
or all, tiny glass pot that holds some
sweet smelling and cooling cream. with
the aid of very thin handkerchief
barely film of this is put over the en-
tire face and forehead. There is not
enough to give greasy look. for when
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07
Women at the Paris Exposition.

The womens commission. American
department, of the Paris exposition has
opened an office in New York at 10 West
Forty-second street. This is to arrange
for an exhibit Of women's work at the
Paris exposition in 1900 on lines similar
to that at the Worlds fair. Mrs. Led
yard Stevens. the society woman who
recently opened bureau of social re-
quirements and whose object is to ena-
Bile aspiring members of the "noveaux
riches" to make an easy entrance into
the Four Hundred, is the president of
the commission. Congress has been
asked to appropriate a sum of money
to defray the expense Of getting to-
gether and sending to Paris work Of
representative American women in the
arts, industries and professions.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

lied Red Cross sisterhood is too small.
the rules under which it may receive
for hospital and field service any wo-
man able to comply with the require
ments in all provisions but that of spe-
cial training.
Not all the work of the society. how
ever, is the caring for the sick. Women
are needed to cook. to wash, to sew.
to scrub and to perform numberless
services besides binding up wounds and
administering medicine. On the field
of battle the injured need water, there
are letters to be written home. and there
are hundreds of other directions in
which healthy. CHEEKY women, unafIiict-
ed with nerves. can make themselves
useful in the Red Cross service.
When called to the front, the Red
Cross nurse may carry a single trunkful
Of impedimenta with her. The uniform
Is of blue glngham. with a white cap
and white apron. As the climate of
Cuba is warm, 1t Is suggested that sum-
mer clothing be taken and such as will
not make the wearer look untidy In case
the laundress proves poor one.
Women unable to help the Red Cross
work in any other way may send con-
tributions of money or such donations
OF food and clothing as. after writing to
Miss Barton, they shall find to be most
needed.
Among the women OF America whose
names are connected with philanthropic
work there IL no one more generally a
subject of interest and admiration than
the lovely creature who stands at the
head of the Volunteers of America, Mrs.
| MarIl Rnllinptnn pnpth Mrs Rnnth has
stated that the women who work with
her are as ready to toll in hospitals and
on battlefelds for the lives of her adopt
ed countrymen as in prisons, noisome
slums and dens of sin, where they have
labored to redeem souls from sin.
The mother superior of the sisters oil
charity Of the Roman Catholic church
is also authority for the statement that
her sisterhood may be depended upon
as volunteers for hospital nurses or fol
any service which 1t will be in theii
power to perform to alleviate the hor.
rors of warfare. The sisters Of charity
are universally notable for their good
works in time of peace. Whenever ant
| wherever war has broken out. however
their heroism and self abnegation ir
| ministering to the sick and affording Il
the last hours of many storm tossed
soul the peace and consultations of re.
ligion have earned for them the graft
tude of the world, for no matter how
dreadful death may seem under ordna
ny circumstances the horrors are hun
dredfold multiplied on the field of bat
tie. where the actual suffering of tn,
dying man is intensified by sounds o.
agony from other unfortunates.
Sternly practical, the women's aux
iliaries OF the different regiments of tn
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07
Present Styles Are Trying
to Women With Poor
Complications Bab'S
Fashion Talk.


with the absolute avalanche OF color
that has overtaken us this spring there
followed as a natural course some
thing that has been talked about and
against and INDUCED in from the very
beginning OF the world. l mean the use
OF rouge and powder. With the curious
new blue grays, the brilliant shades OF
orange that suggest nasturtiums and
all the trying violet colors 1t is difiicult
to find natural complexion that will
harmonic with two or three or posi-
bly, Ave or six of these colors gleefully
rampant on the fashionable chapeau.
Nobody knows when rouge was first
used. Certainly 1t was old when Cleo
patra chose little of 1t to add to her
beauty, while powder was In such or
binary use that the beautiful Laura put
q little on her face because she blushed
too much when she met the gallant
poet who adored her. There is an old
story OF the horrfed father who came
home and with great anger and much
quickness said to his daughter, Il have
heard that you use rouge" The daugh-
ter looked at him and answered. Yes.
father, / do" VERY WELL" said the
irate parent, 'go up stairs and wash it
or at once" She did so, and In little
while there appeared a sallow, pallld,
dull faced girl. whose father gave one
look at her and then said. go up stairs
and put 1t on again"
Evidently she was not like the maid
ems who give n daub of red to one
cheek and daub to the other and then
conclude that no one notices the added
color and believe that they understand
the art of make up. Any woman who
realizes that little pink or a little
white or a little black or a little brown
will improve her appearance III wise in
using It, but she needs first Of all to get
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

Tuesday. Sept. G. 1898. The ceremony
of taking the oath will be performed in
the New church OF Amsterdam.
Miss Edna Sutermeister OF st. Louis
proposes to make herself n landscape
gardener. She is studying. the only girl
in her class. in the Washington univer-
sity In st. Louis. Every morning Miss
Sutermeister goes to Shaw's garden.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

probation of her faithful service. re-
solved to erect small building near
Miss Pratt's place of labor which
should be for village and church socle-
ty gatherings.
The coronation of Queen wilhelmlna
of Holland has been officially fixed for
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

where she is superintendent of two
greenhouses and where she directs the
arrangement and care OF the flowers.
She has four men working under her.
A society woman of st. Louis recently
returned from Europe and laughingly
boosted of the way In which she snug
gled in handsome unset diamond. She
put the stone In q stick of chewing gum
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07
THE WORLD OF WOMEN.

A memorial has recently been dedl-
Gated in Deerfield. Mass. to a faithful
village postmistress, Martha Pratt. who
acceptably served her small constitu-
eney for 20 years. Her death was sim
eerely regretted by the whole commune
". and the villagers. to show their ap-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

since she was a girl of 20. She has look.
ed after the unfortunates in the wo.
mems wards. Nervous and demented
patients were her care. and her success
with them was the result OF gentle
treatment and humoring them as much
as possible.
Lady Winifred Howard has issued her
book, journal of a Tour of the United
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

States, Canada and Mexico anr r,s 4.
of her interesting experiences, = ,skes
with her own camera. "a, q,
The Countess of Wisborg' Mnsring
Prince Oscar OF Sweden, IS pleppurses
herself at a London school ioi .,onsfJ
to assist her husband in his mis'
efforts in Africa.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

and chewed industriously. She got
through without any trouble.
No fewer than eight women have
seats on the London board of education.
Mile. Botard. the young woman whose
name has been recently placed upon the
list OF the Legion of Honor OF the
French academy, has been connected
with the Salpetriere hospital, Paris,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

the artificial distinctions of wealth and
birth and intellect and stand hand to
hand and heart to heart united for
God and right and our native land"
LUCY DE TREVILLE.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

with huge pearl buttons and worn over
a yellow silk shirt waist trimmed
lengthwise with rows of narrow black
lace and finished at the neck and throat
with ilaring bows of black velvet. The
hat is white neapolitan. made smar.
with yellow chiffon and yellow wings.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-04-29
splendid crystals In California.

Some time ago John E. Burton of
Lake Geneva, Wis, leased the right to
prospect for crystals in the old Green
Mountain mine, near Mokelumne hill,
in Calaveras county, Cal. He found a
number of fine specimens, and one of
them is claimed to be the largest group
or mass of crystals ever found. AS taken
out from the drift where it was uncov-
cred it was II feet inches in circum-
ference. 1t was 4 feet inches long, 8
feet inches wide and feet inches
high. It weighed 2,200 pounds. The
mass included one large central crystal
and a surrounding group of smaller
ones. From the central one it was esti-
mated that perfect sphere IA inches
in diameter could be cut, while several
others from three to eight inches in
diameter could be. obtained from the
mass. Mr.. Burton has found in all
about 12 tons of crystals Engineering
and Mining Journal.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-04-29
To suppress Sweating.

A large number of the best women of
Syracuse, those identified with clubs
and those not so organized, have united
in movement to suppress the sweating
system, SO far as it exists in Syracuse.
A consumers league has been formed
and cooperation with the trades assem-
bly, is hoped for. The movement origi-
mated with the Political Equality club
and was speedily Endorsed by the House
hold Economic association, and from this
start has spread through many club and
social circles of Syracuse. The league is
formed on the lines of the New York
and Philadelphia organizations.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-04-29
She pidn,t SAY Nay.

Eyes, " said the summer girl to be as
she held up two shortened skirts, one
of duck, "all our gowns for exercise are
short, ending at what would be our
shoe tops if we wore high boots, but
we shall wear low shoes. I don't
know" she said shyly, whether we
think we have nice ankles or if we wish
to show our stockings, which are gayer
this season than ever. " Both" ven
tured, and she didn't say nay. Pitts
burg Dispatch.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-04-29
Honesty.

Watts-This is the most honest town,
think, on the continent The conductor
missed me this morning, and everybody
in the car looked as if they were angry
because ! did not pay.
Potts They were not angry because
you hadn't paid. but because they had.
indianapolis Journal
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-04-29
FALSE TEETH TRADE.
4 REGULAR BUSINESS IN BUYING AND
SELLING THEM.

Sometimes the Discarded Sets Are Cleans
ed, Frightened Up and Resold, and
Sometimes They Are Broken Up For tho
Old Gold In Them.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-04-29

Agent for the Garfield Properties In Madiso.
Avenue and Normandie Park.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-04-29

a French physician who has been
investigating the proper nutriment for
long distance bicycle riding has con-
cluded that the ideal refreshment is
fruit and milk.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-04-29

In Paris the chairs in the squares and
gardens are let out to visitors for a tri-
fie each. From this source an income Of
$50, 600 francs year is derived.
The Yale expositor., 1898-11-25
THE SOUTH I'm LITERATURE.
Thomas Nelson Page, Joel Chandler
Harris and other Lights.


With new economic ideas, with an
ever-increasing development Of her
natural resources, with more flexible
industrial system, a more rational at
titude toward manual labor, and more
enlightened methods OF public educa-
ton, there has come a literary inspir-
alton impossible before, and the year
1870 has more than made amends for
the year 1880, says the Suwanee Re
view. The words which Sidney Lanier
wrote to his wife in 1870 may be taken
az rejecting the new energies OF the
time: DAY by day .. a thou
sand vital elements rill through my
soul. Day by day the secret deep
forces gather which will presently dis
play themselves in bending leaf and
wsxy petal and in useful fruit and
grain" Hardly were these words writ
tea before Irwin Russell opened new
province to American literature by his
skillful delineations of negro charac-
ter. Two years later Maurice Thomp-
son is hailed by Longfellow as "a new
and original singer, fresh, joyous and
true" In 1875 Sidney Lanier attains
national fame by his poem on Corn"
and the six years of life that remained
to him were to be filled with bursts OF
i'm perishable song. In 1876 Joel Chan
dior Harris annexed the province
which Irwin Russell had discovered,
and Uncle Remus" quietly assumed
a place in the worlds literature OF
hu NOR and folklore never filled until
then. Two years later Miss Murfree,
better known as Charles Egbert Grad
dock, set all the magazine readers
wondering at the genius that could find
literary material in the illiterate
mountaineers OF East Tennessee. The
decade closed with the appearance in
literature of George w. Cable, whose
"Grandissmes" is ranked by not few
critics as second only to the Scarlet
Letter" The next decade witnessed
tie advent of Thomas Nelson Page OF
Virginia and James Lane Allen of Ken
tricky. Mr.. Pages "Marse Chan" and
"Eleh Lady" not only presented the
relation Of master and slave in a new
light, but furnished at the same time
eXpose of the latent, though perhaps
upintentional injustice OF Uncle
Toms Cabin" The historical value,
20 the south of stories like these, 10
say nothing of their literary charm,
cannot be easily overrated. Mr.. Allen,
in his "Blue-Grass Region of Kentuc-
ky" added another state to the south
erie literary union, and spread a charm
of a stored past over a region that
had long ago led Henry Ward Beecher
to say: Hereafter to me the twenty
third Psalm shall read: He maketh
me lie down in bluegrass pastures
The Yale expositor., 1898-11-25
Coal-Dust Firing

Fine dust of coal or of -four mixed
with air forms an explosive agent
which has been the cause Of many a
mine and flour-mill disaster Adyan-
tage is taken of this property OF COM
bustible dust in a new process of boil
er-firing. The fuel reduced to dust is
fed by machinery into the furnace in
which a fire must constantly be main
tanned. The instant the dust falls into
the furnace chamber it burns with a
flash, almost explosively, and the pro-
duction OF smoke is absolutely pre-
vented and the firing becomes econom-
ical as regards consumption Of fuel. 1t
would seem that it might lead to the
utilization OF the enormous mountains
OF coal slack which cover so many
square miles of land in the mining
districts