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FINE FEATHERS

... counters where thc desired of their eyes were exposed for sale and yet. as this excellent tradesman himself naively added when speaking of his Waterloo to a customer of the masculine gender shortly afterwards, And yet, I assure you, sir, most of these ladies ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1699 | Page: 42 | Tags: Illustrations 

CITY NOTES

... part of 1900, anyway. In circumstances such as these, many people with money to play with are asking, Why not Westralians In speaking about the Kangaroo Market, one is remiuded of the story MR. W. A. MORGAN, EDITOR OF THE 'HOUSE' ON SPORT. ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1505 | Page: 45 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Parisian Diamond Company

... it is a wonderful reflection how the public taste has been educated to this jewellery, which is not an imitation, strictly speaking, but artistic and refined reproductions of gems in less expensive fashions than our prodigal Mother Nature can so far yield ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1124 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

CITY NOTES: THE MARKETS

... premises are opened, there is likely to be a rise to at least £7 per share. Of the twin-company, Salmon and Gluckstein, we cannot speak so .highly, so far as attractiveness to an investor is concerned. The price is now 2 rs, and the report recently issued showed ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2636 | Page: 46 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE BROTHERS OF HAG G ART'S DENE

... of the newness of his bettering there 's none but Simon Cunliffe dare raise his voice in Haggart's Dene. The ghosts daren't speak, and the wind only stammers for fright, and the sunshine falls dead on the peat. You're in safe keeping with me, though, never ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3979 | Page: 36 | Tags: Illustrations 

GENERAL CRONJÉ

... force. The Government did want him. The Government have taken him by force, though nearly twenty years elapsed between the speaking and the taking. During those twenty years the strength of Piet Cronje seems to have measured itself against Great Britain ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1135 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

OUR LADIES' PAGES: FROCKS AND FURBELOWS

... noticeable how ubiquitous, not to say universal, is the present feeling for things archaic, or more properly speaking, Egyptian, in jewellery I speak now, be it understood, of fashions abroad, for at home things arrive and take possession more slowly, even ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1798 | Page: 42 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LONDON THEATRES: Don Juan's Last Wager

... new piece cannot easily be told in graceful words, though, to be frank, there is nothing improper in the production. Roughly speak ing, the wager is that Don Juan will ruin two girls in six days. He accomplishes half his task, but, moved by the innocence ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1533 | Page: 37 | Tags: Illustrations 

RACING NOTES: Flying Fox

... Turf Senators of our day will not grant a licence to any jockey who bets, and yet some of the professional riders, if report speaks truly, lose hundreds of pounds at a sitting at the card-tables, and their money is won more often than not by an organised ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1468 | Page: 40 | Tags: Illustrations 

MRS. HILD YARD'S CHOICE

... recognised him with a little bow and flicker of the eyelids, and went on talking quietly to Havers. Havers, on his part, was speaking very earnestly the tense attitude of his shoulders indicated effort. At intervals he glanced at his companion like one who ...

Published: Wednesday 28 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2691 | Page: 36 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE MAN ON THE WHEEL

... is one of the most unworthy of charges, to say that men who cycle on the Sunday are degenerate and irreligious. Generally speaking, the average young man is not an enthusiastic church- or chapel-goer, and, if there were no such things in the world as cycles ...

Published: Wednesday 28 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1518 | Page: 41 | Tags: Illustrations 

CITY NOTES: ON 'CHANGE; HOME RAILWAYS; FROM HANNAN'S; AMERICANS; ECHOES FROM THE HOUSE; COPPER SHARES; FOREIGN ..

... which have been opened again after long closing-down, shall take their places in the ranks of producers. It takes, roughly speaking, a couple of years to bring an abandoned copper-mine to the output stage, and, as the boom in the metal has now lasted about ...

Published: Wednesday 28 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3769 | Page: 46 | Tags: Illustrations