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A WONDERFUL OLD LADY WHO WAS PRESENT AT THE WATERLOO BALL

... A WONDERFUL OLD LADY WHO WAS PRESENT AT THE WATERLOO BALL. Far away in the south-eastern corner of Ireland a Wonderful Old Lady of Ninety-six Summers is living. Mr. Yeats has pictured a land where even the old are fair. That must he the County of Kilkenny, for you will find Lady Louisa Madeline Tighe in her home at Woodstock, Inistioge, enjoying vigorous health, and as erect as if she were ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 898 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Illustrations 

HOW A GIRL MAY LEARN DIGNITY

... . HO. YES. STOP I CAPTAIN CHIOSSO'S PUPILS. LIKE THIS, LADIES: MR. EltNEST D'AUUAN'S DANCING CLASS. THE QUEEN RECEIVES: MADAME CAVALLAZZUS DEPORTMENT CLASS. FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY HANA, BEDFORD STREET, STRAND, ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 35 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

THE ROMANCE OF RUPERT THE RECKLESS

... With the exception of the Young Chevalier, Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, is the most popular Prince in our history. He lived and died and is remembered in a glamour of romance, which the investigations of the critical historian do not dispel. One of his contemporaries once described Rupert as appearing at a battle clad in scarlet, silver-faced, and mounted on a gallant black Barbary. ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1400 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LIGHT SIDE OF NATURE

... . Tommy When I grow up, I 'm going to marry Bobbie Smith. Katie You can't do that, 'cause Bobbie Smith is a boy; and I've noticed that a gentleman always marries a lady, and two gentlemen never marry. ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 43 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

QUEER PLACES TO GET BURIED IN

... . The desire to be buried in some spot other than the usual churchyard, vault, or cemetery, which, we just learn, was expressed by the late eminent surgeon Mr. Lawson 'fait, though uncommon, is by no means unexampled. Up and down these islands, in many an unexpected spot, amidst romantic scenery or the most commonplace surroundings, the bodies of various eccentrics are scattered, their owners ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 842 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Illustrations 

Front Matter

... PThc> K &T €TF No. 335.-- Vol. XXVI. WEDNE6JUAY, JUNE 28, 1899. SIXPENCE. ...

OUR LADIES' PAGES: FROCKS AND FURBELOWS

... OUR LADIES' PAGES. FROCKS AND FURBELOWS. French women of prosperous degree are now rapidly quitting the Bois and the Boulevards for those picturesque chateaux dotted plentifully over the fair land of France, which are, perhaps, the sole surviving incidents of a long-past glory as compared with our up-to-date Republican, very modern, Paris, and whose mediasvalism and old associations seem to ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1810 | Page: Page 41, 42 | Tags: Illustrations