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Show 6 THE BEE. AUTHOR OF THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL. LILIAN WHITING, the subject of this sketch was born in Olcott, N. Y. Her parents, both of whom were teachers, migrated to northern Illinois when she was only three years old and established themselves on a farm which they worked during the summer EVANGELINE S. POWERS, EDITOR. while they taught school in the nearest village Arid res all roininunlatllons for tht Womans to Mrs. Powers, P. O. Hox Depart in the winter. Miss Whitings early schooling was irregular, but what was better than schools, They say women are pre eminently was to be seen, and further she was brought up in a home where books were scarcely a observation showed it to be a perfectly safe operafitted to manage affairs of sanitation. and carefully read and discussed. From tion. She resolved to have her son inoculated. plentiful This may be only a wily compliment, her early childhood she evinced a taste for comThose who realize of the oldest sons preciousness for it comes from a man, and the average man in English families will perceive what a bold step position, and some newspaper articles wTitten behas always been inclined to shirk problems of a this was, but it was a success, and she wrote home fore her twelfth year gave promise of future work to England about it. But it was looked upon which would be creditable. Her last school sanitary nature. From the time he was a boy days askance and considered akin to suicide. On her were and tracked mud in on his mothers lloor he has passed at Lombard University, in Galesreturn to her native land she labored zealously to been a better distributor than regulator of dirt. diffuse a knowledge of it, but from the history of burg, 111. Here her work in the languages, So probably if there is a reform in Salt Lake, rhetoric and composition excited much favorable the times was evidently regarded as a crank. that the will fathers be She used to take her little daughter into homes comment. urgently needed, city here persons had smallpox to manifest her faith to wholly willing accept the help and advice of After leaving Lombard she began teachin its In of efforts her it women upon, it is city sanitation. And if there protective power. spite ing school and in this work met with dewas not till years afterwards, when cided success. Her pen, however, was not idle is a field in which average common sense and she was dead, that a member of the royal family it is ordinary insight could gain submitted to the operation, and that not till fifteen while she was teaching, and she at last decided this neglected work. persons in the kingly families of Europe had died from smallpox in the compass of a year. We shame the chance nature gives us here in Xo such discouraging prejudices as Lady Utah. With clean alleys, pure water, complete Montague encountered face us today. The end sewers, careful quarantine of contagious disease, of the 19th century is an improvement upon the and other precautionary measures, absolutely beginning of the 18th, and besides England, even necessary in less favored localities, Salt Lake City of today, is not America. The women of Salt could set up as a sanitarium where everything Lake can accomplish what they in earnestness set except old ages hould be defied. But we havent cleanliness, we have dirt ; out to accomplish. If they determine to establish about their homes the safeguard of purer condiand we havent care, but carelessness, and sometions and more healthful surroundings, such a times it seems, carelessness gone mad . If women have any power and influence in Utah, and if safeguard is already assured. thev know or can learn how a city can be cleaned The Visiting Xurse association is a step in the and kept clean, the voices of sickness, suffering, right direction. Salt Lake cannot afford to let it and bereavement call upon them to apply their languish for want of hearty support. We have talent. the broadest spirit of charity and helpfulness In order to estimate what women might acamong us, time and again that has been a where most have here effective they complish demonstrated, the only difference that can arise let their look us at of opinions, registering way will be differences of method. The efficiency of in a city where they have done the work they have this proposed and at last organized venture, will to for and their the plead power petition only at once reveal itself to everyone. to first refers cause. Our clipping Philadelphia, which has been drinking the horribly contamThe talented writer, Miss Lilian Whiting, inated water of the Schuylkill river for now these whose portrait appears in this number, is a sister a had has psrpetual epidemic of of Utahs first, last, latest, and most lasting favmny yeirs, and within her borders. fever The question typhoid orite, Dr. C. A. Whiting of the University. Her of obtaining a pure supply from some distant books, books that it would seem impossible to mountain lake has often been mooted, but the are to be reviewed or more propcostliness of it has caused it to be uniformly voted shocked was into establishdown. Pennsylvania erly made the subject of an article for The Bee, of board the state a terrible health, through ing by one who has the reputation of being among outbreak of typhoid at Plymouth, and all over our most appreciative, discriminating readers. to give her whole attention to literary work. She the state sanitary measures began to be taken, but cost deterred Philadelphia till last year, when the began her career in St. Louis. Here she met Once a a there was ago long day upon pagan of with reasonable success, but the work was not reunder the of Mrs. the city, women leadership Ostara or who was the Eastre, goddess personifimunerative and she determined to go to CincinScribner, took the matter up, and now that deof cation the or the also of and the east, morning to nati. liberate community is be supplied with filtered with very little money she Her month, April, was went Arrivingto there opening Spring. year, done to be as it was at the Murat Halstead, editor of the water, just filtering straight , called in Here is Cincinnati Estormonath. when the cholera in epiCommercial, and informed him that Germany, Hamburg, where name the Easter comes and as the from, conchecked she must the demic was completely have work. After considerable hesitathrough pagans applied the term to awakening nature, tion he gave her a place on his staff which she struction of filters. Christians apply it to the Resurrection. held until she decided to go to Boston where she But a more notable piece of sanitary work was now resides. She had been in Boston only a accomplished by Lady Mary Montague in 1717. One of the characteristic Her husband was sent as ambassador to Turkey, Easter rites short time when she was made editor in chief of the Boston Budget, a position which she held unwas the use of eggs eggs being considered era and she accompanied him. She had left a country til she was ready to cut loose from all blematic of a future life. where nearly every person was pitted with the papers and of thousands where there were blind For the satisfaction of the mother who doesnt devote all of her time to creative work. smallpox, Aside from voluminous newspaper letters, she know why her small boy should hide all the eggs and deaf made such by this loathsome disease. transfor weeks before Easter only to produce them has written four hooks: The World Beautiful, She had seen many of the fairest faces with an air of triumph upon that particular time, in two series is a collection of essays on true living ; formed into frightful visages, and a person who After Hr Death was inspired" by the death of it may be explained that while he may not know had a smooth face was remarked, just as a pocksufMiss is herself noted now. what had She Kate Field, and Thoughts from Dreamone marked hes doing, he is really playing Scotch. In the moorlands of Scotland it used to be the land Sent is a volume of poems, some of which fered severely from smallpox in her youth and it custom for young people to go out early on were written in her childhood and others only a had destroyed her eyebrows. She saw nothing Easter Sunday and search for of this kind in Turkey, but she observed that the l eggs for few years ago. Mis3 Whiting is now at work on breakfast. The boy is not to be scolded he the third series of The World Beautiful, and Orientals practiced inoculation, following well of has also on a biography of Mrs. Browning. and methods inherited that the trick. established procedure, im-n- t pock-mar- i k i. i t: i; i sixty-thre- e pre-eminenc- e . w over-estimat- e, , Anglc-Saxon- old-tim- e -- wild-fow- i |