... Tlhie UinievemitlfuEll ILnfo B^ FsiSinio He was an innocuous little man married to an innocuous little wife. They had a harmless home in Putney, and during the day he was regularly employed by a City firm which was in no way deleterious. He was one of those men to whom nothing ever happens. This was unfortunate, for he was by nature talkative and liked particularly to talk of what had happened ...

... Smme BoM.s of Interest. The Novel for a Lazy Day. AS a cure for that moping melancholy feeling and general flatness which so often succeed Christ mas irresponsibility we can heartily recommend The Green Domino (John Lane), by Mr. Anthony Dyllington. Its cheerfulness is absolutely infectious, and before you have dived very far among its pages you are caught. Naturally the course of true ...

... First Prize of One Guinea. Fishy Mother (looking at Johnny reproachfully) Where have you been this afternoon, Johnny Johnny (uneasily) Sunday school. Mother Then how is it you smell of fish and are so wet Johnny (desperately) Teacher told us the story of Jonah and the whale. Thomas Phillips, 3, Baker Street, Handsworth, Birmingham. THE CHESTNUT TREE. The Editor of The Tatler offers One ...

... A Revolution in. Journalism. SometlfomsJ Never Dime Before0 The following was found in The Tatler letterbox, and it is reproduced here for what it is worth. THE management begs to announce the forthcoming publication of a new weekly journal. Every feature in connection with it will be as unique as its price, which will be half-a- guinea. It will supply a long-feltwant, and no one with social ...

... TOILB IN PASSING ioTES, American Acquisitions. THESE headlines from an American daily just to hand are quite in teresting from the English point of view:-- AMERICANS IN THE HUNT FOR PRINCESSES. Mrs. John W. Mackay secures Princess Louise as Her Great Social Lion. Very Difficult to Get. Mrs. Ogden Mills secures the Princess Christian, Who is in Great Demand. Young Americans in Paris. \\I ...

... His Lordship's C h axiff e ur InL TwyfcrdL They were sitting in two deck chairs hidden away among the palms and flowers on the roof of the houseboat, Sunshine. A silver moon topping the pine-clad hills above Wargrave turned the silent river to molten silver. The hush of the exquisite July night was broken only by a rich baritone voice singing a southern love song to a banjo accom paniment on ...

... OUR CITY ARTICLE. STOCK EXCHANGE SETTLING DAYS Mining Contango Days-- Friday. August 11, and Monday. August 28 General Contango Days-- Monday. August 14. and Tuesday, August 29 Pay Days-- Wednesday. August 16. and Thursday. August 31 Consols -Thursday. August 3 Bank Rate, Two-and-a-half per Cent. Stock Exchange Dulness.-- The Stock Exchange appears to have forgotten the first postulate in ...

... T)h ILosft Paimdiiseo FsiSinio For some time the man had seemed to be asleep. He sat back in one corner of the carriage, his eyes closed, the lower lip dropped, his slack fingers nursing in his lap the pipe that he had relinquished. Opposite to him sat his wife, a shrunken woman with tight lips, Hat hair, and an anxious eye. As she watched him and pursued the train of her thoughts she now and ...

... Very Mixed Bathirvg-- Have Railways Copyright irv their Colours The Mantle of Lady Tweedmouth-- One of the Drawbacks of Office. The Pyx Chapel.-- The Chapel of the Pyx, now open to the public, was the old treasury of the English Kings, and 700 years ago was the scene of the biggest burglary ever perpetrated in this country. The chamber was broken into while the King was away warring in ...

... . By El n r G1 n. It is our first shoot. Thousands of birds have been sent down the day before from Leadenhall Market both alive and dead. Menelaus is determined the bag should be gigantic, and if you are rich this seems a simple way of accomplishing it. We are a party of twenty-four, twelve guns and twelve women- kind, of a rather mixed description. Prince Omar is here, and he never misses an ...

... BooRs-- Useful and Amusing A Little-known Country. SO much ignorance still pre vails among the majority of Englishmen concern ing the kingdom of Hungary that the issuing of Mr. Percy Alden's interest ing and highly instructive book entitled Hungary of To day (Eveleigh Nash) needs little or no apology. Each chapter is an article dealing with the history, constitution, internal administration, ...

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