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  2. WOMEN’S FIGURES.

    An eminent foreign sculptor has just declared that the figure of the woman of to-day more masculine than beautiful, and further from the Greek ideals of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 847 words
  3. SHORT STORY.

    Her name was Aspasia Harrington, and at the precise moment at which my story opens she was walking in the gutter. Her feet beneath, her petticoat like mice stole in ...

    Article : 2,764 words
  4. WRANGLING EMPRESSES.

    Etiquette, when carried to extremes, is always ludicrous. In China, where the royal family observe formalities with the utmost punctiliousness, an amusing ...

    Article : 357 words
  5. DOES THE BRONTOSAURUS STILL LIVE?

    Herr Carl Hagenbeck. in his recently published book, “Beasts and Men,” mentions reports received by him as to the existence of an immense and wholly ...

    Article : 327 words
  6. PREVENTING REBELLION.

    It is likely that we shall know how serious the position in India has been only when time has softened it. The nature of the corrective and then preventive ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 278 words
  7. THE BATHING QUESTION.

    “Why—oh, why did I try to distinguish myself.” she moaned. “The Magistrates are remorseless even over our small offences, so what will their sentence be for ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,203 words
  8. “TRAVEL” WITHOUT TRAVELLING.

    It is not given to every one to travel— to see the world. Some haven’t the time, others haven’t the money. Some have neither the time nor the money. For them ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 447 words
  9. STRANGE DISCOVERY

    The other day a shepherd came across a tree in a remote part of England around which were twined a pair of ram’s horns. They were locked in an extraordinary ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 241 words
  10. AERONAUT’S ADVENTURE.

    “Tschudi.” one of the Berlin Aero Club’s largest balloons, had an exciting sail last month. Two club members and a lady ascended at half-past 9 one morning, and ...

    Article : 160 words
  11. ADVANTAGES OF THE CLEAN SHAVE.

    Is it a fact that clean-shaven men enjoy immunity from “common colds?” A w[?]ter in The Lancet thinks it is, for be says these men are attacked less frequently by ...

    Article : 129 words
  12. THE WONDER AGE.

    The twentieth century is going to be more wonderful than was the nineteenth. Future generations may, speak of it as the “Wonder Age.” The Stone Age, the Bronze ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 353 words
  13. A NEW STORY OF LORD CHARLES.

    When Lord Charles Beresford was a sublieutenant in 1667 he was in Admiral Denman flagship Sutlej, on the Pacific Station. Sir Lambton Loraine (now a retired ...

    Article : 402 words
  14. FEMALE SHERLOCK HOLMES.

    When Edouard Ernest, a smooth scoundrel of many aliases, invaded Switzerland in pursuit of his profession as a defrauder of lovelorn women, he made the mistake, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,540 words
  15. PINK LAKE.

    Further details are to hand of the journey just completed by Mr. Fred Shelford, the engineer, in connection with the projected railway from the Uganda Railway to ...

    Article : 204 words
  16. NEW RADIUM MEDICINE.

    Some time ago Professor Rutherford discovered that charcoal made from cocoanuts possesses the property of absorbing at ordinary temperature and retaining for a long ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 172 words
  17. LORD ROBERTS AS A BOY SCOUT.

    General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, in opening a boy scouts' exhibition at Crouch End on Saturday afternoon, said that he had written to Lord Roberts asking him to ...

    Article : 118 words
  18. BORONIA.

    “Boronia. boronia! Look, lady, but threepence a bunch; Come now, you surely won’t refuse! Do smell them if you I ve mind; ...

    Article : 146 words
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