... bonnets, packets of sweets, opera glasses, boots and shoes, walking sticks and umbrellas, brass fittings, bicycle tyres, razors, and, in fact, some thousands of articles of every couceiveable kind. The prices realised in nearly every instance were r ...

... it the wonderful little spiders’ web veils that some millinerial genius has evorvedf The headgear, too, is becoming. The straight, hard sailor hat is replaced by those composed of rush and gently curved upwards all round; or by the more pointed shape ...