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  2. LONDON'S NEW FIRE CHIEF

    The London County Council considered the appointment of a chief officer for the Fire Brigade at their meeting on July 28th. The General Purposes Committee ...

    Article : 639 words
  3. THE LUNCNEON HOUR

    The managing director of the well-known Allan Steamship Company, Mr W. Beckett Hill, some little time ago made the important business experiment of ...

    Article : 544 words
  4. INTOXICATED MOTHERS

    The terrible extent to which the drinking evil is spreading among women is made manifest by the result of inquiries made by a representative ...

    Article : 461 words
  5. NATURE MARRIAGES IN INDIA

    What strikes tile Bengalee Hindu as very queer in Hindu marriages in the south is the time when they are usually celebrated there. Marriages in the ...

    Article : 532 words
  6. AN IDEAL BABY

    Is your son and heir a year old and does he weigh 20½ pounds? If so he is a normal child. With the passing of another year the ...

    Article : 511 words
  7. UNGLOVED WOMEN

    One fashion frequently influences another. Jewellery is at this moment exercising an autocratic sway over gloves. Women wear rings with enormous stones, ...

    Article : 590 words
  8. SIAMESE CIVILISATION

    The latest item in the story of Siam's civilisation is the purchase by the Siamese Minister in Paris, for use at home, of a brand new guillotine. The incident ...

    Article : 693 words
  9. MRS RIGHT

    The business man is a man who should marry very early and as often as fate demands. He, above all living men, should realise that it is not ...

    Article : 1,025 words
  10. TITLED MONEY AGENTS

    Some facts have become known lately which throw some light on the trade in motor-cars among people of position. More than one lady in society is adding ...

    Article : 476 words
  11. NEW JAPANESE ENTERPRISE

    The struggle of the energetic and enterprising Jap to establish Western civilisation in his native country has recently been marked by a new departure—no less ...

    Article : 243 words
  12. THE OBJECTIONABLE OCTOPUS

    The octopus has to keep a sharp lookout and do his best to guard against the too pressing attentions of whales, monster congers, and sharks. A close ...

    Article : 335 words
  13. "BLAZING INDISCRETIONS"

    Lord Cranborne, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has seized the occasion of the visit of the French senators and deputies to read the French nation ...

    Article : 238 words
  14. THE POOR HEATHEN IN COSME

    The Anglican Bishop of the Falkland Islands has been concerning himself with the souls of the little Cosmeans in Paraguay, who, he says "grow up ...

    Article : 241 words
  15. LADY GYMNASTS ABROAD

    Thirty-three amateur gymnasts from the South-Western (Chelsea) and Battersea Polytechnics took part in a great display of physical culture held at ...

    Article : 710 words
  16. NEW GOLDFIELDS IN CENTRAL AFRICA

    The gold discoveries near the shores of Victoria Nyanza are attracting a large number of prospectors and capitalists from South Africa. Every ship from the ...

    Article : 345 words
  17. UNDER THE STRAND

    Not the least important section of the improvements now in progress in the Strand is entirely out of sight. Last year the Council obtained power to ...

    Article : 234 words
  18. MODERN CAVE DWELLERS

    Mr Lydekker drew attention, in an article published in "Knowledge" a few years ago, to the evidence in favor of an Asiatic origin for the aborigines of ...

    Article : 233 words
  19. HARDSHIPS IN SOMALILAND

    A member of the British Field Force in Somaliland, writing to an English correspondent, says:— "At present there is not much fighting ...

    Article : 475 words
  20. A FANCY HOSPITAL

    Those ragged youngsters of Kenningson who have managed to creep up the steps and peep past the doors of the new Belgrave Hospital for Children in the ...

    Article : 422 words
  21. CHILD MURDER

    A strange tragedy has come to light at Allerton, a suburb of Liverpool, in connection with which Mrs Elizabeth Ann Sturgeon, aged thirty-six, the wife of the ...

    Article : 364 words
  22. SCHOOL OF ACTING

    Now that His Majesty's Theatre has closed for the season, Mr Tree is giving more attention to the prelimnary preparations for establishing a school of acting ...

    Article : 310 words
  23. A DOG IN COURT

    From Vienna, on 12th July, the correspondent of the "London Daily Mail" writes:— An amusing trial has just ended at ...

    Article : 266 words
  24. TRANS-SIBERIAN MAIL ROUTE

    The time when Australians will be able to post their letters "via Siberia," with a view to their getting to England a week or two earlier than by the present route ...

    Article : 288 words
  25. ABRIDGED BELLES.

    A five-feet-four bachelor writes in London "Truth" anent the statement in the "Daily Mail" that the standard of feminine beauty is changing, that beauties of ...

    Article : 236 words
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