The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04


| NAL life alone. and will drive twenty
miles to get a shot at a group Of Iine
| livestock, or sit all day in the bushes
for a chance at a deer Miss Eleanor
| Hewitt carries her camera only for
street scenes, and Miss Helen Benedict
devotes all her talents to photograph
ing yachts under way
/ To such an extent has the JhOto-
graphic mania seized on the inhabitants
of Newport, Bar Harbor, etc. mat the
! owners of valuable lenses drive them
| selves to and fro in light runabouts,
their cameras set up before them over
7 the dashboards, searching with eagle
glance, and the aid of a devoted mas
| culine retainer, for some new and al
| Turing subject in the cherished indivld
ual line.
! Perhaps no subject, however, has
more profound attraction for these am
bilious photographers than the study OF
| moonlight scenes. Miss Elsie Mitchell,
| Miss CiewS and almost a score OF girls
| are devoting themselves to lunar ef-
| fectS with a praiseworthy ambition OF
| fidelity. Some of them, indeed, will
| gladly sit up all night in orde- to watch
| the progress of a promising exposure,
! and already this occupation has been
productive of several moonlight picnicS
about the cameras and interesting en-
gagements as will have developed. not
on the sensitive plates of the cameras,
but between the fair enthusiasts and
their masculine sympathizers who also
| elect to sit up through long watches on
cold, dewy lawns to ward off any fears
| of the darkness and loneliness that
might menace the gentle young artists.
The Belle and Her Rifle.
With little rifles of 2215 calibre the
| fashionable younger set of women that
already rides, drives, COLTS and photo
graphs have found new mode of MAX
ing summer holidays fly. 1t is the am
| bition of this set to organize small par
ties of nimrods and Dianas to go out
for the shooting season in the Rocky
mountains, and the girls who hope TO
make a gun record this summer have
been quietly practicing all spring at a
shooting gallery in New York. Their
chosen resort is not in any one of the
stately sporting clubs, but little base
ment gallery where twice a week q
group of them in soft silk frockS and
daintily -coiffured heads drop in with
their cousins, brothers, etc, and do
some really remarkable rifle work At
the end of the gallery swinging glass
birds, glass eggs on jets of water. ami
NAL automatons and crystal balls sup
ply target practice for the Misses Webb.
Stokes, Hodge and others who use these
as mere stepping stones to higher
things in the shape of Rocky mountain
goats. grizzlies and their ferocious
friends.
By the time the western shooting sea-
son begins these markswomen hope to
be proficient enough to take their part
in the long hunts, and just as soon as
the Adirondack season opens they Will
undertake to bring down the noble stag
or even go up into Canada, later on, for
cariboo and moose. To so lofty a point
/ hoe no Of Of los,
huntresses mounted that rumors of
nothing less than a trip TO India for a
try at tigers is whispered about. Per-
hapS that exploit will be successfully
carried out in time, but just at the mo-
ment the chief thrill of the situation is
felt over the getting up of the new
hunting dress and the discovery that
the proper costume for the Adirondacks
shooting season is to be brown canvas.
cut exactly like the uniform of the
rough riders, with the addition of
course of a canvas skirt just to the
knees.
Wonderful Resemblance.
An Englishman of high degree spent
the springtime in New York. whose
women he found notably beautiful, but
many of them. he assured his Sratihed
hostess, might pass as the twin sis
tiers of ladies who by portrait or their
existent selves enjoy an almost inter-
national fame for loneliness of feature.
So strongly was he impressed with some
of the likenesses that he is collecting
photographs of the fair doubles merely
| to prove his interesting assertion. He
| has found that Miss Edith Clapp might
easily be taken for the twin sister OF
that famous duchess of Devonshire.
whose beauty Gainsboro's brush i'm
mortaliZed. while opposite handsome
I nh nh of 10 x-ioarana IF India he
has placed a portrait of the empress of
Russia and the most careless glance
can at once detect startling likeness
! between these two. Mrs Charles Have
meyer shows almost feature for feature
the counterpart of those in the beauti-
full duchess of Portland's face, and it
did not take this Englishman long to
discover that Mrs. Burke-Roche and
Lady de Grey are as like as the pro-
verbal two peas.
But, as matter of FACT insists