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I .I - f to the study heir of musk-- and art .It wits Salt LakestCitys cartoonist, Jack Sears, who first told her she had the ..1Aulptor's thumb" and led her into that field. 'Later, she studied with LeConte Stewart. Rose Salisbury. Millard Malin and Torliel Knaphus. More recently, she studiedi lifedrawing with Burton Boundey of Monterey. She studied music with Becky Almond and John J. 0 . I 1 I . With her husband, the late Dr. Fred Stauffer, of Salt Lake City, she spent a great deal of time traveling through the Orient and Europe. In these journeys, she constantly directed her . attentions to the works of art Always, she was t moods of fascinated by the rich; humanity and vit.& especially impressed with t quaint, picturesque settings, and happy, carefree t folk who had time for music and laughter. t Her leprechauns, two to three inches in height, are original from the tiny rnodeled,facet to the very colorful costumes with their trim, tmlig of embroidery and beads. : , . . , -- . ,11 1 ( : 0 .N.0 of the little leprechauns is Mrs. Etat:ilia Stuart Stauffer. Using the yams, she has mode more than 300 of the mythological Irish gnomes. , , I I ,, . Its' and ' ( 4 - -- 11. IP i McClellan. - ... ilk ever-changi- ng 1 , . i?"-,,- . () - , - . I . ,,,, - - 't -- r t . 1-- - 1 t I I . - 1 f I A 1 ' f IN I ! I t . g ,k - - "1 , : ImilommonnonomPOINImomloommlimuillfr 40,ZatitaMillWailktiNg0 1 i,. , 111 finest , P , I - ' si....; . t I rl'r" - ,f-r- - , , 1, 4 , . - - , ' - - - - g 1 lartiictii-- ' ti t, , - g --Ikturh-- . 7 ---- ! I Artists and laymen 'alike are enthralled I with the tiny figures, each face with its own ex- - j pression, and the expressions seeming to change t with the shifting lights. For the past two years. Mrs. Stauffer base been modeling these faces from clay, then skillfully firing and painting them according to a process all her own. She 1 . also ,models the tiny hands and the feet and nu- merous accessories such as pipes, canes, mallets. musical Instruments and any other thing which a tiny personality calls for. Each leprechaun is a different personality who demands his own particular hat, cos- - I tume and vocation. Eula lia Stauffer uses the finest felts, yarns and beads to complete each ' perfect detail of these costumes. She has finished over 300 leprechauns. They are not for ' sale, but she has agreed to let a certain num- t ber of her clan go on exhibition, throughout the West. Since she is a native of Salt Lake City. she plans to exhibit here sometime next spring. I . Eulalia - Stauffer- - Is , person of many interests-an- d rare versatility, and regardless of her achieved marked success in various fields of endeavor, she declares that until now, she has , segeoweAkvolow. rs.4, i 1 rs , - , - 4 I are instruments, and a group of merrily sashaying to the beat and rhythm of old fashioned tunes. It must have been near Christmas time, for there is a miniature Yuletide scene. A large cone from the high Sierra's is the sugar-pin- e Christmas treein a setting of evergreencoytered with snow, and a group of minstrels are gathered about the tree, while the Golden Thumb Leprechauns are making merry. Officially, these little people are named the Golden Thumb Leprechauns by Mrs. Eulalla Stuart Stauffer of Pacific Grove, a native Salt Laker, who designed and created them. And for the first time, they are on public display at the t Poor Scholar BookShopamd scoreoof peninsula 1 people together with many visitors are-- seeing t square-dance- , - 1 ' - Of course, no settlement is complete without its musicians, and there are musicians with their DAYS, ,one hears strange stories from all parts of the world and, perhaps, c", s4 , cme of the mose remarkable is about an : 4. l 4 artful colony which has moved to the ... i '4.41I Peninsula. And they have come a ,' .' . 2; Monterey .,t,', long ways because they are some of the Golden , I 44. ' -- 0' , - , ,. , Thumb Leprechauns of Irish Folklore.' 1.1 , . "L.." 1. Leprechaun legend says that the first lep- :' ' , , : ., ,, rechauns, setting foot on, the peninsula, came. ,, 4 ' a crack in the iintiquated wall of the ? hrough Alp 0 . Book Shop" in Old Monterey. Ac'Poor Scholar . CN . il 4 to the legend, the leader crept cautious, cording , ly through, looked the place over, gave the sig. , Rol and other leprechauns came through the 1 IS . crack in the wall, like a swarm of ants. and moved onto the mantle and settled there. But the Golden Thumb Leprechauns are not insectsthey are Little Peoplea colony of en- - , ' chanting and illustrious personalities. Among 4.) , I ... 41 h them are witches in black and brooms g,,,, and eels. There are bats and owls too, and on of a tree, is a little man in a flying: ' , --- k saucer.' ,There is a dentist, with a r lit '4' , in his professional hands. Also, there is person ., 0 , t . ,7. a doctor, with square-rimm'.. glasses, and what ;,1-'may well be his patient, is an old gentleman The faces, of cloy,. resemble . with rheumatismand his rheumatism hurts. carving: . , . By GRACE STUART COZZENS - . 1 --------- "'------- -- - ,,, - native Salt Laker gains wide recognition with her Irish,"elves!:. A , 1 1. DESEIET NEWS MAGAZINE. SAL, LAKE ...;......ceAssit L |