... belles Americaines who have married into our nobility. She was nee Miss Ellen Stager, daughter of General Anson Stager of the United States Army, a well-known officer who had many friends She married Lord Arthur Butler, the brother of the Marquis of Ormonde ...

... comes to London to seek his fortune it is long odds on his making his pile either in the draper's or drug store business. Irishmen, probably owing to the fact that they lack the money-making instinct, flock to journalism. The successful Scotsman is, of ...

... carelessness is not noticeable, admitting, even, that it exists. I suppose that in no hunting country in the whole of the United Kingdom will you find a better-turned-out field than you will s e in Leicestershire on any day of the week during the legitimate ...

... point of view but as both of the contracting parties are Catholics they will still be married in the eyes of the Church which united them though severed by the law of their country. Sir George Chetwynd's Family. The Chetwynds are a family of great antiquity ...

... notion. Welsh methods have always been regarded with suspicion in English Rugby Union circles, but now that a committee of Irishmen, whose amateurism is unquestion able, have adopted the Welsh system of training it is to be hoped that the English Rip Van ...

... Composers. Who can deny that football is a humanising profession The Athletic News last week tells how Beer, the old Sheffield United half-back, has just com posed and produced at the Primitive Methodist chapel in Sparkhill a service of song entitled From ...

... League. In the three-quarter line there were E. Morgan, the Welsh international, H. Orr, the Scots inter national, and two Irishmen in A. B. O'Brien and P. F McEvedy. This cosmopolitan collection of players recalls the famous Middle sex team of ten years ...

... have never succeeded in reaching the first division. I have only seen Woolwich play three times this season and Manchester United not even so often, so I cannot claim to be a really competent judge of the comparative merits of the two teams still, if I ...

... amount of imagination to guess that in their match against Aston Villa Sheffield United would not have been too enthusiastic. As I did not see the match, for all I know the United may have been at their best and the Villa may have shown superhuman form, but ...

... Athletic News last week pointed out the curious fact that in the Cup tie between Manchester City and Sheffield Wednesday the united ages of the linesmen and the referee amounted to 1 55 years, Mr. John Lewis being forty-nine, Mr. Lythgoe fifty-five, while ...

... involve little or no travelling. Aston Villa is next door to West Bromwich, Small Heath, and Wolverhampton, and Sheffield United like Notts County has one of its most important rivals within easy walk ing distance. Woolwich alone has not a single rival ...

... exception of Stout, Rogers, and Coopper, boldly throw overboard every one of the fifteen which fell such easy victims to the Irishmen. Nine Bedford boys with Horsley, Stoop, Mainprice, Coopper, Stout, and Rogers may not look on paper like an international ...