Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-24
Be strong!

matte tales OF the Veldt, "vrouw Gro
belaar and Her Leading Cases" has
earned for him the title Of the Kip
ling OF the Kraal," Is a Welshman lie
vas born In CarnarVon about 80 years
ago, the son OF Nonconformist clergy
man. He had an extremely eventful
life. Leaving school at an early age
he went 10 sea- was apprenticed as
cadet on a merchant vessel; ran away
from his ship; worked before the mast
on French liner for two years, thus
seeing all corners of tn eglobe. and
having all kinds Of exciting sea-going
experiences. During his long sea trips
he had done a good deal of writing;
and he returned 10 London TO go into
Journalism. Though success In Fleet
street was instantaneous. his wander
Ing spirit soon seized him again and
he went To south Africa TO act as COR
respondent for London papers. He
served throughout the south African
wra; was five times captured and i'm
prisoned, He remained In south Africa
after the close of the lighting; pros
pecting for gold, and went on cxplor-
Ing expeditions, shooting big game and
learning the country and the people.
Il was during this time that he gath
cred the material for "Vrouw Grobe-
laar" During the Russo-Japanese
war he was correspondent AT 81. Pc
tersburg for the Daily Mail. and has
been more recently an active reporter
&, in Russia,
The report has gone broadcast over
| the country that Ida VI. Tarbell, the
writer and historian whose latest essay.
Commercial Machiavellianism," is to
appear In McClures Magazine for
March. has purchased a splendid es-
| tate" in Connecticut with a great CO.
| lonial house" commanding mag
nifcent view Of Long Island Sound"
| This has given rise again to the often
repeated question. Does literature
pay?" AS a matter of fact Miss Tar
| bells tastes arc too simple to extract
| any comfort from such an estate. She
has bought the old Bradley place near
| Easton, Connecticut, comprising, per-
| haps 40 acres of land about q small
| house which has fallen into sad dis
| repair. She will make the house COM
| Portable on her return from California
| In the spring. and expects to spend her
| summer in II.
| Some one has said that the author
| who could invent a new fashion In
| love making would create a new lter-
AZURE However this may be, the au-
| thor who finds a particularly fetching
way Of dressing his heroine can start
| new fashion In frocks. Meredith
| Nicholson has done It, though, to
/ speak precisely, II H. not n new fash
| Ion bur an old fashion revived In the
case of Marian DevereuS, the delight
| full heroine of the House of Thousand
| Candles, and her now famous red tam
| o'-shanter. Just why "tams" should
| ever have gone out at all Is n puzzle,
| since, as Mr., Nicholson remarks,
| There is something jaunty, sug-
| geston OF spirit and independence In
| a tam o'-shanter, which IL most be-
| coming to youthful feminine heads,
| But In again they assuredly are, and
| II seems certain that II was the House
| OF Thousand Candies that reintro-
! duced them Girl readers OF the story
must have found something particular
! Is alluring In this bit OF head-gear
| worn by Marian Dever6ux, for they
| are adopting It In numbers that sug-
| gost that IN any city OF considerable
| size there will be ere long q thousand
| Girls In red tam-o- shanters to match
| the thousand candles OF the story,
School girls and girls who are no long
| er at school alike find the tam-o' -shan-
ter a convenient. cosy and fascinating
article for head-wear. The tam-o'-
shanter has many qualities that COM
mend It to It's wearers, Besides be-
| ing universally hecoming-f the face
beneath be young and frcsh-it Is an
all-weather covering that VIII go
through the snows--as Marian Deve-
reux's did--and come out as gay as
ever. II has the further advantage
over other head-wear that II Is easily
| faahtnood ~ homo hv n uirrs own fln-