The National tribune., 1908-12-10

tupidCS, II anu Ciuciy put
out the eyes of her six brothers and
sisters as well as her own after killing
her parents She was rescued and
taken to the coast by missionaries, and
later adopted by the wife of the Eng
lish Episcopal missionary, DR.. Chas.
Gutzloff, who gave her his name,
brought her to this country, and start
ed her education. After year at the
Institution for the Blind at Columbus,
O., she was sent for two years to a
similar institution at Geneva, and final
ly to one in New York City, where the
higher academic branches are taught,
and where only those blind showing
unusual talents and abilities are re-
ceived. Not only is Miss Gutzloff a
thoroly educated woman in every re-
spect, but she is first-class typewTit-
er, an expert telegrapher and an ac-
complished musician. Nor has she
disdained to compete with her own
sex in the purely feminine realm of
fancy work, her beautiful embroidery,
with its exquisite blending of colors,
her fine, even crochetting, ETC., finding
a ready sale in the shops of New York.
Indeed, so unusually beautiful and de-
sirable was her work that while
student in the New York Institution
for the Blind, and helping to support
herself in this way, she was actually
abducted by an interruptions woman,
who hoped to reap fortune thru her
fancy work, but who, becoming fright
ened at the hue and cry thht was
raised, returned her victim to the in
stitution. Soon after her graduation
she was selected for the position she
now occupies. Miss Gutzloff does not
seem at all Oriental except in a very
few respects. Only in her complexion,
hair and facial characteristics, in the
clearness and power of concentration
of her brain, and the thoroness with
which che dnac avaryfhinO oh
suggest her wonderful people, the Chi
nese. She has been Christian all her
life, which has been spent in America
among Americans, and consequently
| she speaks and thinks like one of US.
| She is gentle and sweet, with a very
| keen sense of the ridiculous and the
most delightfully."- optimistic way of
| looking at everything. She makes one
think a good deal of Frances e. Will
lard in her agreeable voice, convinc-
ing manner and perfect command of
the English language. Her pupils,
some 35 boys and girls, love her dearly,
and her success with them Is wonder
full. Altogether she is very unusual
personality, and certainly holds a
| unique place in this country, that of
an Oriental woman teaching the chill
dren of the Occident not along the
| lines of the hoary old East, but in strict
accordance with the institutions and
ideas of the Western peoples. When
that poor little blind Chinese baby, left
1 to perish by the cruel marauders, was
rescued and sent to this country, what
a priceless gift was given to the world
All the Nations of the earth should do
her honor.
| Wherever King Victor Emanuel of
Italy may get his economical ideas, it is
certainly not from his grandfather, the
great Victor Emanuel, who threw away
1 money like water when 1t came to q
lquestion of his pleasures, nor from his
father, who, altho a little more re.
strained, thought 1t no part of the
kingly role to look after the pennies
1t is said that King Victor never had a
debt, that even as gay young Crown
Prince, with anything but an extrava-
CANT income, he always paid his bills
This is characteristic much more
reconcilable with the cold skies of New
England than the bright, warm skie.
of sunny Italy. When King Victor
came to the throne he found large debts
contracted by his grandfather and
father, which he Immediately began tc
pay by cutting down expenses. His
people, loving show and the display OF
a kingly extravagance, looked on dis
approvingly. but this made no differ.
ence to the young King, who went or
with his curtaiiing. He sold about 10l
horses from the imperial stables. keep.
ing only such as We're absolutely need.
ed for the royal use unnecessary cooks
and other servants were discharged
and Queen Elena, who brought from
her plain Montenegran home only the
simplest ideas with regard to dress
ETC., ably supported him in this change
She appears in the same gowns and
hats several times, and while f1el
clothes are handsome and suitable fol-
q Queen, they are not selected regard.
less of cost, as were those of her prede.
cessor, Queen Margherita Only two
great balls are given at the palace DUR
ing the year, and all other entertaining
is cut down to the absolutely necessary
functions. These the royal couple by
no means neglect, and when any en-.
tertaining is done the economical hand
of the King is not apparent. He has
not only saved money and paid the
debts of his grandfather and father
but he has turned the shooting places
of these former Kings, which required
Immense sums to keep up, into money.
making properties. The marshy lands
of a vast italian estate, large part OF
which he has given for the installment
of the Marconi wireless, he has had
drained, and 1t now pays him some
thing like 10 per cent Altho all this Is
generally regarded as praiseworthy, the
King and Queen have been criticised
as going little TOO far in their econo-
miles, 1t is said the Queen sells those
Of her old clothes she does not send
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