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  2. JEWELS TO MATCH THEIR EYES.

    The women who delight in wearing jewels are now informed that in order to get the best effects from the stones they must wear carly those that match their ...

    Article : 123 words
  3. ALL DONE BY WOMEN.

    "No woman, anywhere has such a wide sphere of activity as in the Russian provinces," says a traveller. " There she is the gardener, the ...

    Article : 161 words
  4. PARIS HATS AND ENGLISH WEARERS.

    "I do not suppose the Frenchwoman's bead differs actually from the Englishwoman's," says a Writer in the ;" Manchester Guardian," "though after some ...

    Article : 311 words
  5. MARRIAGE BY CIGAR.

    In Siam the lighting of a cigar indicates a bethrothal. In that country a person wishing to become engaged to a girl of this choice offers her a flower or ...

    Article : 160 words
  6. FEATHERS IN HATS.

    The New York Legislature enacted a law three years ago prohibiting the possession or sale of feathers of wild bards, no matter where killed, under heavy ...

    Article : 193 words
  7. CHAIN-MAKING MACHINE.

    Lelong, a Belgian inventor, has devised what is said to be the first successful apparatus with which, by the use of but one furnace and one machine, a cont[?] ...

    Article : 80 words
  8. THE LIFE OF GREEK LADIES.

    The Greek lady does not rise till 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when she makes the longest and most elaborate toilette imagination. and after that she has ...

    Article : 148 words
  9. ABOUT GIRLS

    Mrs. Humphrey, who has been writing in the "Daily Chronicle" on "Useless Women." is unquestionably very severe on some of the younger ones. The following ...

    Article : 384 words
  10. FAITH CUBE DISCLOSURES.

    For more than five hours yesterday (says the "Express" of .May 9), the Westminster Coroner," Mr. John Troutbeck, and a jury, listened to a series of extraordinary ...

    Article : 1,970 words
  11. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT

    King Charles of Roumania, and his bean tiful wife—best known by her pen-name of "Carmen Sylvia"—met first in quite a romantic manner. Princess Elizabeth of ...

    Article : 1,216 words
  12. INSURANCE AND CRIME.

    Murders in which the criminal has sought to profit by insuring his victim's life, as did Basson, the Cape murderer, who killed himself on the discovery of ...

    Article : 1,284 words
  13. HOW I BEAT MADRALI.

    Georges Hakenschmidt defeated Ahmed Madrali in a contest for the wrestling championship of the world at Olympia, winning the two falls out of three in ...

    Article : 629 words
  14. EXTRAVAGANCE OF MODERN LIFE.

    A good deal of comment has been caused by a delivered by the Bishop of Birmingham, criticising the extravagance of modern social life in ...

    Article : 522 words
  15. "JOHN BROWN'S BODY."

    In reading the new volume of Grove's Musical Dictionary (says a "Times" reviewer), I came across one point of literary rather than of musical interest, ...

    Article : 383 words
  16. ANTIQUITY OF SAYINGS.

    Mr. J. A. Lovat Fraser writes to the "Speaker":— "In your last issue you ask 'Who was the author of the famous mot that ...

    Article : 517 words
  17. BOGUS BARONESS.

    An extraordinary story was told at the Clerkenwell Sessions recently concerning a woman who for twenty-one years has masqueraded under aristocratic titles. ...

    Article : 471 words
  18. A TRIUMPH OF STRATEGY.

    Although the actual wrestling in the match between Georges Hackenschmidt and Ahmed Madrali at Olympia occupied little over five minutes, the majority of ...

    Article : 717 words
  19. STELLAR DISTANCES.

    If we attempt to express such distances as those of the stars in ordinary units of measurement (says the " Spectator") we have to deal in numbers which are quite ...

    Article : 414 words
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