NATURE'S GENTLEMEN AT DINNER

... . I have not often been more impressed by any attempt at philanthropy than by the dinner given on Christmas Eve to nine hundred bond-fide London sandwich-men. As a matter of fact, there were well-nigh one thousand of them before the proceedings were over. The immense King's Hall at the Holborn Restaurant, which has rung from time to time with so much political eloquence, and where I have sat ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 970 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

SOME OF THE EDITOR'S CHRISTMAS CARDS

... . From an Bnolish Child in Singapore. From a Distinguished Irishman. From Mr. Henhv Hess. . From Rose Dorothea Fownes, Aged 18 Months. From Mr. Coulson Kernahan\ Dear Mr. Editor,-- I come to wish you a jolly Christmas, and to tell you I am a great admirer of The Sketch pictures in fact my nursery is entirely papered with them. Good luck and long life, to linn. n ml In The. Stretch. Ynurs fnr ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 89 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

Front Matter

... Pfb^K&T ew!S No. 310. Vol. XXIV. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4. 1899. ...

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