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  2. TOPICS OF THE DAY.

    The maintenance of the national roads, in view of the rapid increase in automobile traffic of recent years, is giving rise to serious concern in France, as appears clearly in the report made ...

    Article : 221 words
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  4. WOMEN AS CHEMISTS.

    In these days when the question "What to do with our Girls?" is becoming an acute problem in all families in England and France, it may be interesting to learn ...

    Article : 160 words
  5. FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS

    In the cities there are, without a doubt, more ample opportunities for us to study such things of interest, as current art and literature, and so raise the tone of our conversation, than when ...

    Article : 193 words
  6. SOUTACHE EMBROIDERY.

    Soutache embroidery is very popular. Some workers employ their usual little braid in one way alone; that is to say, they sow it down with invisible stitches upon a running design upon a ...

    Article : 252 words
  7. "THE WORLD AGAINST US."

    General Keinn, the ex-president of the German Navy League, speaking at a Navy League festival at Jena, deplored what he considered the decadence of German ...

    Article : 240 words
  8. THEORY v. PRACTICE.

    In an address in connection with the Gawler School of Mines (says the Adelaide "Register") Professor Chapman referred to the conflict in some quarters regarding ...

    Article : 275 words
  9. WOMEN WHO MARRY.

    What number of women "do want to marry?" How many, or how few deliberately, and in the abstract, prefer some other profession? These are very delicate questions and no one who ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 385 words
  10. TO MAKE GREY HAIR PRETTY.

    If there is any poetry in hair, it exists quite as truly in the silver tresses of our mothers as in the much-lauded golden and Titian tints. Because hair is grey does not mean it has lost its ...

    Article : 336 words
  11. TRAIN IN FROZEN RIVER.

    A railway disaster, in circumstances of peculiar horror, occurred on January 23 on the Canadian Pacific line, near Espanola. An express became derailed, and several ...

    Article : 483 words
  12. ELECTRIC v. STEAM TRAINS.

    The London Economist, in an article on the electrification of railways, puts the pros and cons thus:—"The technical advantage of electrical working, especially when trains ...

    Article : 743 words
  13. RENOVATING BLOUSES.

    Many girls this season are lamenting over the blouses left over from last season, which are quite good, but hopelessly out of date, by reason of the old-fashioned sleeves elbow length being ...

    Article : 146 words
  14. FOR EVENING WEAR.

    Very magnificent evening wraps are made from chiffon velvet, panne or uncut plush. These are most servicebale and sensible for the winter, and are bordered with a narrow edging of fur. They ...

    Article : 195 words
  15. PERUVIAN MUSIC.

    The native music of Peru, according to Geraldine Guiness, the author of a recent book on that country, is exceedingly interesting and strange. It seems fitting that the ...

    Article : 303 words
  16. FAMOUS HOUSES DOOMED.

    With their fine oaken timbers surviving the great fire of London and the ravages of time for more than 250 years, three of the quaintest old houses in London, which stand in ...

    Article : 419 words
  17. THE DANCE SEASON.

    Every father at this season of the year begins to dread the energy of his family. He knows his daughters are going to ask a favour of him, which he will steadily refuse to listen to, but ...

    Article : 183 words
  18. BUTTON TRIMMINGS.

    Buttons are as much used as ever, and the designs of the newer ones are most fascinating. The very latest fad is to have mock emeralds, turquoises, amethysts, etc., alternating with rhine ...

    Article : 209 words
  19. THE NEW GORGERETTE.

    With some of these new, soft, flexible frocks, with their vague lines and draped tunies, the corset is dispensed with altogether, and a kind of gorgerette made of fine velvet is attached to ...

    Article : 225 words
  20. THE POWER OF POTEMKIN.

    Potemkin, the great Russian general and statesman, once desired that the word "impossible" be erased from his dictionary. Just how near he came to fulfilling this ...

    Article : 222 words
  21. FLORAL NOTIONS.

    Flowers are to play a most decorative part in all evening toilets this winter; and never before have such natural looking garlands, corsage sprays, wreaths, etc., astonished the delighted ...

    Article : 132 words
  22. THE WORSHIPPED DAUGHTER.

    It is the worshipped daughter, who has been taught that her whims and wishes are supreme in the household, who makes marriage a failure all her life. She has had ...

    Article : 101 words
  23. A MODERN SCHOOL BUILDING.

    "The handsomest, most modern school building outside Adelaide" is (says "The South-Eastern Times") the popular description of the now Millicent Public School. ...

    Article : 675 words
  24. PETTICOATS.

    The petticoats worn are still slim and straight, to match the usual form of the dress above them, and, as a rule, there are no frills or flounces on them, or only those of a very flat and ...

    Article : 199 words
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