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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 

Books of the Season: STORIES FROM OLD-FASHIONED CHILDREN'S BOOKS

... made during the age in which these books held sway to make of British children insufferable prigs and appalling pedants. It speaks volumes for the national characters that our grandfathers and grandmothers should have survived the ordeal so well. ALL HANDS ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 986 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

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... summer nor winter, for it docs us mure good than the doctor's medicine. 1 have recommended it to many oj our Jewish people, who speak just as highly of it. (Mrs.) B- ^0Bk HIRSCH, Banstead Grove,' Roundhay Leeds. I have been a sufferer from Asthma since early ...

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... natural colour, and their bald spot covered with hair, after using one bottle of It is not a dye, it can do no harm. Every one speaks in its praise. An absolutely perfect hair restorer and dressing, justly celebrated for its life-giving properties to faded ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1227 | Page: 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE HUNTER OF THE DIDIMA

... all the others are dead and, for myself, why, I am only an old man of no account who will soon be dead too. In the days I speak of Makomo was Chief over all the country. I was a young man, and had only been married a few months. My father was one who ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 4090 | Page: 22 | 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 BATTLE OF COLENSO

... what it was at first, but I soon found out) it was musketry. The enemy spoko at last, and we, we were in the corner so to speak, between trees stretching along the river and trees growing beside the railway and the station, which we were almost in a line ...

A SMALL WORLD

... man inquired a woman's voice in Spanish, but with an accent which the listener recognised at once. This was an Englishwoman speaking Spanish. Ah! the other man is dead. Poor Miguel! He was always civil and God-fearing. He has driven the diligencia up to ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 4831 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

TOMMZ ATKINS

... not devoted that attention to his army which an enthusiastic taxpayer might have been expected to show. M. Delines does not speak of his own knowledge. He relies upon a Russian writer, M. Vassilevski; but as the latter was allowed to visit one of the largest ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1900
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 931 | Page: 3 | 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 

THE WELL-DRESSED MAN

... America, N/ indeed, it has been a favourite with golfers for nearly a year. With regard to hats, it is now, meteorologically speaking, the season of the bowler. I make no excuse, therefore, for giving place in these notes to the popular form of headgear in ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1631 | Page: 44 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Parisian Diamond Company

... is a wonderful reflection how the public taste has been edu cated 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 j-ield ...