The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-01-22


her illustrious ancestor labor of 1--we
and fidelity that has occupied her time
FOR - years. The work has been just
ly pronounced one of the great and
needful books of the world
A MODERN DIANA.
Mrs. ]. Bennett Stanford. handsome
young English woman is the modern
Diana. In company with her husband
she was the first white woman who
ever hunted i'm Somaliland. that rough
and comparatively unexplored region
in eastern Africa. Rhnoceroses. tigers,
leopards and other denzens 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 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 200. But the skins of many
boudoir of this heroines home. and ev-
cry one of them recalls to her tale OF
wild adventure.
HER FORTUNE FOR SCIENCE.
Miss Alice Bates Gould daughter OF
the late Dr. Benjamin ApthorD Gould
OF Cambridge. Mass. who died a few
months ago has lately donated To the
National Academy of Science 500. 600 as
a trust fund. whose income shall be
used for the advancement of scientific
knowledge on astronomical subjects.
This' is a 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 i'm AL
bany. and from 1865 To 1886 had charge
of the astronomical observatory i'm 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 a 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 i'm linen fabric and. by the
use OF a needle and thread, drawing the
threads that are thus left uncrossed i'm
the linen into cunning designs and fan
ciful. bewildering shapes The best
work is of threads drawn lengthwise
and crosswise of the goods. i'm complica-
tions of squases and oblongs. with tiny
blocks of the material interspersed. the
blocks not being appliqued i'm. but ef-
fected by being left undrawn. The
mesh. fine as a spiders web. when IL is
completed defles 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 MS i'm
filmy quantities from the balmy country
where il is made with apparent Ian
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 Ia are female clerks.
their salaries ranging from 5000 to 81 500
per annum.
The dead letter office. where 12J 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, If possible
a record of the daily number examined
by each one is kept and credit for plo-
fciency awarded. Letters containing
checks and money are given special at
tention and are naturally returned to
the sender when IL is possible. In the
holiday week hundreds OF missives are
received addressed 90 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 un-
signed letters unless they contain valu-
ables. The latter are kept for frur
years and then sent To the United
States treasury. where they may be
reclaimed at any time. There is a mu-
scum of unmailable articles Its shelves
contain every imaginable object. as
diverse i'm character as a pulpit and an
elephant.
\ FEMALE SANDOW
Woman seems To he rapidly entering
into competition with man under al
most incredible conditions. There is
now in New York q young Australian
Wuman with the muscles of Sandow
and AN arm larger than Corbett's bear
ing the interesting name of La Petite
Charmion. Though she Acknowledges
the passing of 10 summers, she does not
look older than 10. being n mite ~ n
girl. feet tall and Weighing ll5 pounds.
Her muscles stand out like great knots
when she assumes the pugilistic atti-
tudc. but glance at her figure when
she is resting proves that vigorous rX-
ercise has not made her limbs sinewy or
"lumpy' in appearance. The average
man would undoubtedly envy the mus
Mass, so that " her lover returned
he might know she still waited for him,