Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-09
MAGAZINES

Tho current number Of the Youths
Companion comes with a handsome
cover design a young girl in QUITO suit
hat and veil all done in color Besides
the usual number OF good stories and
other materials In the number a special
feature is contained in an article con-
trbutod by his royal highness, the
Prince Wilhelm OF Sweden. on Winter
Sports I'm Sweden, and an interesting
incident IN connection with it's contrl-
button is that the prince in declining
remuneration for the article suggest
cd that the Companion have a cup spe-
cially designed as am annual award In
skee-running competitions for tho
youth Of sweden.
OF Charlotte Perkins Gilman, whose
article ON Woman and the Ballot" In
recent number Of Marchs Magazine
isls been hailed as one OF the best
expeditions by an American OF the suf-
fragette movement, the editor has this
20 say She Is a grand-niece OF Henry
Ward Beecher. the wife Of prominent
New York lawyer, an authoress ~ in
teruational reputation. and a most
prominent figure In the fields Of social
reform and woman suffrage Among
her more prominent works are 'Wo-
men and Economics. Concerning
Yellow Wall Paper Her Women and
Economies has been translated into a
number of foreign languages" Mrs.
Gilman is one Of the earliest OF the
corps OF writer's on radical subjects
whom the Boston publishing house OF
Small, Maynard g. Company is proud
Of having discovered.
while with LeBrethon ] under
a. D Ia a ..rf
ence--that OF the Draft Riots" runs
one portion Of the racily interesting
chapters OF THE "reminiscences OF
Augustus Saint-GHudens." IN the jan
uary Century Leaving my work be-
cause LeBrethOn, i'm some excitement,
had told me 20 go home one after
noon AT an early hour, I noticed the
strange appearance Of the absolutely
deserted strcets,-no omnibuses on
Broadway, which was always crowd
ed az that hOur--and not a soul,
wagon, car or anything that seemed
alive on Third Avenue as j turned in
20 10 A moment later o man or so
with gun running I'm the distance
gave the only signs that the city was
not a dead one, Then i recollect VIZ
wildly nay pounding upstairs, and the
wild taking me into her arms by my
mother, who had been in "A paroxysm
The others Of the brood already rest
.hg safe at home. Later an. as the
storm lessened. 10 was strange 70 sec
two cannon posted In TWenty-first
street IA the northeast corner of
iramercy Park, pointing due east in
.he direction OF tho rioters.
Then came the news Of Lincoln's
assassination. ] recall father and
mother weeping as he read OF Il TO
psi In the morning at breakfast be-
Tore starting for work. Latter / saw
Lincoln lying In state IN the City
Hall, after Joining the interminable
line that formed somewhere down
chatham street and led up by his bier
10 the head of the staircase. 1 went
back 20 The end of the line 10 look |
~ him again. This completed my
ision OF the big man. But the rum /
rat which J viewed from the roof /
'f the old Wallack's theater ON |
iroome street, revived the profound /
olemnly of my impression with see 1
nB every one uncover as the funeral l
AM went by Finally the boyish watch /
ug out among the crowds 10 try 1
ma detect anybody who looked Iiko /
Inc assassin John Wilkes Booth. who
cemed the perfection of manly beauty
D his pictures, must close ms Impress
ions of that extraordinary period"