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  2. Ladies' Column

    LANCE capes for summer wear are assuming a grace that is very pleasing, and the matron will find much that is suitable for her among the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 234 words
  3. Personalities.

    THE Duke of Devonshire holds the record for being phlegmatic. He began to obtain it when he yawned wearily in the middle of ...

    Article : 84 words
  4. Sketcher.

    PEOPLE who have read fanciful descriptions of Constantinople penned by poets, artists and other sentimentalists, have an ...

    Article : 823 words
  5. POETRY

    Let me to-day do something that shall take A little sadness from the world's vast store, ...

    Article : 144 words
  6. FISHING EXTRAORDINARY.

    While the cashier of a coal mining company at Ani[?]he, near Douai, was at lunch, not long ago, a daring thief entered the room above the office, and made a hole in ...

    Article : 101 words
  7. NOVEL

    Seen now in the full blaze of the gas, she seemed to him ever lovelier than he had imagined from those unsatisfying glimpses in the shadowy owl's light that ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 3,260 words
  8. GREAT EATER DEAD.

    Belgium mourne, for the champion eater of the country is dead. An extraordinary man he was. One day he entered into an agreement with a hotelkeeper, according ...

    Article : 189 words
  9. ADMIRALTY RED TAPE.

    Here is a charming little specimen of Admiralty red tape. A few days ago the Calliope had to put back to Spit[?]ead on account of a scarlet fever case which had ...

    Article : 95 words
  10. THE KING AS PITTITE.

    King Edward's visit to Drury Lane Theatre to witness a performance of 'Ben Hur' was specially notable as the only occasion on which a Sovereign has ...

    Article : 126 words
  11. INDIAN CONJUROR'S TRICKS.

    The conjuror threw a woman, almost nude, into a kind of cataleptic state of rigidity. Four of the officers' swords were then fixed, points upward, in the ...

    Article : 261 words
  12. MARK TWAIN AS A PUBLISHER.

    Mark Twain, who is now writing for 'Harper's,' tried his hand at publishing on his own account some years ago, but his experiences were not encouraging. ...

    Article : 147 words
  13. INEXPENSIVE GLOVES.

    Cheap gloves do not, as a rule, wear well, but most people find it an economy to buy two or three pairs of cheap, washable gloves for summer wear. This ...

    Article : 250 words
  14. COALING SHIPS.

    It is under consideration by the Admiralty to add to the arrangements for coaling ships at sea by the construction of a large ocean-going collier that shall be ...

    Article : 98 words
  15. DUKE OF KENT.

    Your interesting notes about the irregular or morganatic alliances of Princes of the Blood in recent times remind me (writes Modern Society) of a curious and ...

    Article : 522 words
  16. HOW WINE JUDGES KEEP SOBER.

    If you have ever gone into a wine merchant's office and sampled different vintages you will have observed that the dealer never swallows the wine he puts ...

    Article : 169 words
  17. A 'FIVE O'CLOCK TEA' CLOTH.

    A most novel and effective 'five o'clock tea' cloth can be made out of four pockethandkerchiefs—large size — and some torchon[?] lace. In this way: Lay two ...

    Article : 146 words
  18. A MOTOR-CAR WEDDING.

    It is difficult to be strikingly new and original nowadays, but the feat was accomplished by Miss Ord[?]Powlett when on the occasion of her wedding she drove up ...

    Article : 128 words
  19. A BREAKFAST ROBE.

    The comfort and convenience of having by one a dainty breakfast robe or dressing gown, or a loose robe such as one can slip into on returning from a dusty excursion ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 169 words
  20. SOCIETY.

    'One of the most curious outcomes of American traditions and inherited independence is the way young women who are in the same social [?]et are, to use a ...

    Article : 394 words
  21. OUR PRIMITIVE INSTINCTS.

    A philosopher thus explains the general preference which most diners out have for a table by the restaurant wall. 'Primitive man,' he says, 'ate in peril. The ...

    Article : 181 words
  22. VARIOUS

    73,000 out of every million deaths in England are due to infectious diseases. Towns cover 4½ million acres out of 33,096,000 acres in England and Wales. ...

    Article : 126 words
  23. Varieties.

    IT is not surprising that more people live to be over 100 years old in warm climates than in the higher latitudes. The German Empire, with 55,000,000 ...

    Article : 100 words
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