... °th King Alfonso of Spain and King Manuel of Portugal here shown exchanging hats, to the eclipsing of the King of Spain are much in evidence just now: the former by reason of his interest in the Wilbur Wright aeroplane, the latter because rumour continues to inarry hira. The meeting of the boy Kings has had various unofficial explanations that they are contemplating a defensive alliance, that ...

... FOR THE WRIST AND (WHY NOT THE ANKLES. THE BEASTIE BANGLE: THE WHOLE ANIMAL FUR WRISTLET. The old c'alin that if the wrists and the ankles are kept warm the whole of the body will be warm seems to have inspired a German firm to produce the wristlets here illustrated. We are unable to state whether similar provision is being made for cold ankles. ...

... Turkish Football The Athletic Turkish Officer. ONE of the results of the bloodless revolution in Turkey is that the Turkish boys in Constantinople are following their elders, are imitating Western things, and are taking to football. I suppose they play on the very dusty parade-ground, not far from the German Embassy, which has always been the resort of all the little raga-muffins of Pera. The ...

... JIM JAM PHOTOGRAPHY. A HORSE THAT IS FIRST COUSIN TO A NIGHTMARE: A STEED TELESCOPED BY A PHOTOGRAPHER. Photogyaph by Battauce. We Rive on this page a remaikable example of freak-photography. The lesult was obt.ined without faking negative or print in any way; how it was obtained we leave it to photographers to find out. ...

... LORD CROMER, who was born a diplomat sixty-eight years ago on Feb. 26, became engaged to his present wife, a sister of the Marquess of Bath, during a well-earned holiday in England in 1901. His first marriage took place when he was twenty-five, and he had been a widower three years when he married his second wife, who is twenty years his junior. Lord Cromer is well content with his new found ...

... . THE ROYAL VISIT TO BERLIN THE GERMAN EMPRESS AND THE QUEEN LEAVING THE EMPEROR FREDERICK MUSEUM. The German Emperor and Empress and the King and Queen visited the museum on Thursday last, and saw there some of the most important art treasures of the German capital. The museum itself is by no means old indeed, it was built between the years 1898 and 1903, and only qpened'in 19Q4. A STRANGE ...

... the clubman Dr. Svf.n He'd in At the Gatfs of Tibet. DR. SVEN HEDIN has set us all talk- ing once more of Transhimalaya. I have sat at the doors of Tibet, and I have seen just enough of that forbidden country to understand the longing every explorer had, and has, to travel over the snow-swept roof of the world. When 1 looked in through the crevices ot the gates, tne oriusn expeuuion had not ...

... HE BOWED HIMSELF WITH ALL HIS MIGHT SAMSON, AT THE GARRICK. JEROME LE GOVAIN, LOVER OF ANNE MARIE BRACHARD, SEEKS TO DRAW A SWORD FROM HIS STICK ON BRACHARD, AND IS PREVENTED. 2. BRACHARD HEARS FROM THE LIPS OF ELISE VERNETTE THE STORY OF THE SUPPER -PARTY TO WHICH GOVAIN TOOK HIS WIFE, AND AT WHICH SHE WAS INSULTED. Photographs by Ellis and It alary. ques Brachard was a porter at Marseilles ...

... THE WITH AND WITHOUT DRESS --WHITE AND BLACK. THE BEST DRESS FOR LADY SKI RUNNERS WITH AND WITHOUT SKIRT. is so made that it can be worn with and without the skirt, as may seem desirable. The lady ski'runner can leave her hotel in the skirt of convention, and indulge in the sport in the more rational, if less conventional, dress, ...

... THE WOMAN'ABOUT -T OWN. WHEN fog descends upon us, the afternoons and evenings in cosy, well-lighted, and thoroughly warmed rooms are the most enjoyable times of our days-- not then very much removed from nights. We play bridge or poker-bridge and we gossip, while after dinner the men join us and take us to the play or the Opera. Bridge palls after a time; most of the women about town are ...

... THE WOMAN ABOUT 'TOWN. WOMEN'S Suffrage is not recognised in the Upper House. Two Peeresses in their own right have recently been added to our Peerage. Both are clever, not to say brilliant, women in different ways. Lady Amherst of Hackney is thoroughly well read, and has splendid ideas of education and character- forming. She is an expert in antiques, a gift which she had in common with her ...

... AFTER DINNER BY ERNEST A. BRYANT. Distinction and Difference. Motorists have another bone to pick with the law. All are agreed that the King's highway is no place for the road hog, yet the law, as now interpreted in the Appeal Court, declares that a sow which has escaped from its sty has a perfect right to be on the road. Hence the man on the car who gets his motor smashed in seeking to avoid ...