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  2. THE LADIES' PAGE.

    "I've made up my mind about the winter fashions," I said, as I helped myself to cake. "No! said the Practical Girl, looking at me rather quizzically. "What—already?" ...

    Article : 952 words
  3. THE GRAND OLD LADY.

    Mrs. Gladstone seldom varies her plain, almost shabby, black dress with the velvet basques made very high in the collar, and the lace ruche that reaches to her pointed dimpled ...

    Article : 224 words
  4. WEDDING PRESENTS.

    Weeding presents originated in a feudal tribute from the vassals to their lord; when feudalism ceased the presents became voluntary. In the days of Queen Elizabeth a pair ...

    Article : 229 words
  5. THE LOVE STORY OF THE DUCHESS OF PORTLAND.

    The Duchess of Portland has one of the most romantic love histories of any woman in England, and it is very far from being "ancient history" as yet, for she is still on ...

    Article : 297 words
  6. RECIPES.

    SALAD AND CHEESE.—Whatever vegetable is selected to serve with [?]heese it should be dressed only with salt, pepper, oil, and vinegar. This is a French dressing, and the proper ...

    Article : 635 words
  7. WEDDING RINGS.

    The custom of wearing wedding rings arose in Egypt, where bracelets, whose circle was the symbol of eternity, were freely given and exchanged. The Greeks and Romans adopted ...

    Article : 123 words
  8. STOOPING.

    Stooping habits and round shoulders are sometimes, or, indeed, often treated by mothers bracing back the shoulders by means of straps. Now, an authority on the ...

    Article : 164 words
  9. THE USE OF LEMONS.

    A correspondent of an English medical journal some time ago furnished the following recipe as a now cure for consumption:—"Put a dozen whole lemons in cold water and boil ...

    Article : 521 words
  10. ILLUSTRATED HOME FASHIONS.

    Cowslips or startlingly yellow daffodils, heaped up at random on a bright green straw, cannot really appeal to those of any artistic instinct. And yet we have already noted ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 873 words
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  12. HOW A BURMESE GIRL "COMES OUT."

    A curious description is given in "Among Pagodas and Fair Ladies," by Gwendolen Trench Gascoign, of the ceremony of earboring which marks the "coming out" of a ...

    Article : 382 words
  13. GLEANINGS.

    A music-hall artiste, well-known in London, has lately been adding to her reputation in New York in a curious manner. She has been hailed before the Magistrate for failing to pay ...

    Article : 686 words
  14. THUMBSUCKING IN CHILDREN.

    The habit of sucking the thumb among children is one probably of very ancient origin. It may have descended from our Simian ancestors, although no observations bearing upon ...

    Article : 293 words
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