... THE KING has had a thoroughly enjoyable time at Biarritz, and so has the King's terrier. Love me, love my dog, says the proverb; and at Biarritz it has been very literally fulfilled. Ginger has been a universal favourite; but it is not so certain that he himself has a saving knowledge of national proverbs. One morning on the front a fine cat was gazing, like other ani mals, at the clog s ...

... OUR WONDERFUL WORLD mi mi iii i THE KING'S SHOE PINCHES-- WE KNOW NOT WHICH IT IS A BOOT BALLET. Our photograph shows the boot ballet in The King's Shoe Pinches, seen at the new Operetta Theatre in Berlin. THAT INFECTION MAY NOT SPREAD FROM MOUTH TO MOUTH A PUBLIC DRINKING CUP. That infectious diseases may not be spread by means of the drinking-fountains of America, a new type has been set ...

... THE STORK KING MAKER QUEEN DEPOSER. POSTCARDS CONCERNED WITH THE HAPPY EVENT IN HOLLAND. A STORK OUTSIDE THE PALACE, ITS MATE NESTING ON THE ROOF. A CROWNED STORK, BEARING A BASKET, OUTSIDE THE PALACE. WILLIAM I. (THE SILENT), PRINCE OF ORANGE, AND THE BABY. THE TREE OF THE HOUSE OF ORANGE THE BABY AT THE TOP. THE STORK TELEPHONING NEWS OF THE BABY. BISCUITS WITH COMFITS EATEN BY VISITORS AT ...

... The Khaki Fleet. Poor old Father Thames! He does not seem able to support even the baby flotilla that the County Council put on his broad back, and some of the khaki boats are to be sold by private contract and some by public auction. Probably some of them may find their way to strange waters, and it is quite possible that some of the great waterways of Central Africa may see the last days of ...

... TO be a Peeress in her own right is perhaps the highest hon our which can befall a woman of British birth; and yet, taking a leaf out of the book of the Suff ragettes, the dis tinguished ladies who have that high honour might well complain how barren that honour is. Strange to say, no Peeress in her own right has an official seat in the House of Lords. Her Peerage carries no right to vote ...

... Epsom. The Epsom stands and course will look very spick and span for the meeting which takes place next week. They have both adopted their new spring garments, the brilliant white of the stands contrasting with the vivid green carpet of the course in delightful fashion. Mr. Dorling has, as usual, been very busy getting everything into apple- pie order. He is a conscientious official, and ...

... AFTER 131NHERJ /^ssoN c^ $2fr %0f By ERNEST A. BRYANT. Who's for a Throne? The most recent developments in Servia, it is reported, bring the Duke of Teck for a moment within sight of a throne which, perhaps, he might occupy. Of course we have heard this sort of thing before, but in association with the name of the Duke of Connaught, who on more than one occasion has declined to forfeit his ...

... FOR their Easter sojourn the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk have chosen Seville as against Rome, and it is to Spain that letters will not be forwarded, as the orders left in St. James's Square express it. Our premier Duke and Duchess have chosen Seville for the sake of the rare ceremony performed each Easter in its Cathedral. 'I 'en boys, wearing short, white silk breeches, tunics of scarlet ...

... THE WOMAN'ABOUT *T OWN. The Latest About Luggage. Use your big dress-baskets and Saratoga trunks for your hats, and put your little, soft-clinging dresses in your hat-boxes. That is the very sensible advice followed by a friend now airing the said hats in the sunshine at Monte Carlo. I offer it for the consideration of my readers, because I am sure that their hats have outgrown their boxes, ...

... THE CHULALONGKORN TOP KNOT SIRENS OF SIAM. BEING OUR WONDJSJEtFUJj IVORRJ).) I. DRESSED TO KILL: A YOUNG SIAMESE WOMAN IN WALKING COSTUME. 2. IN THE DIRECTOIRE STYLE i A SIAMESE BEAUTY. I 3. ON A GREAT OCCASION A SIAMESE GIRL IN GALA DRESS. It will be seen that eccentricity of fashion is not confined to the ladies of Europe in general, and of Paris in particular. The Siamese girl knows as ...

... I HEM 2D the QEffiVEPPPI f For Wheel and Woe! The difficulties and discomforts actors encounter in going from one town to another, and the adverse conditions under which they sometimes have to act, have been referred to from time to time on this page. Certain experiences of Mr. Kenneth Douglas serve to illustrate them. On one occasion, he had been playing for a week at Oldham, and had to ...

... KErN°TES 4 The Wreckers. Miss Ethel Smyth is to be congratulated, for it is stated that her much-discussed opera, The Wreckers, is to be produced in London during the summer season. Many will regret that Covent Garden is not to be the scene of the production, but there must be many difficulties in the way of com pleting the grand season arrangements as published, and the resources of His ...