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AIRY PHILOSOPHY

... . TRAVEL DE LUXE. 44 These 'ere flying machines and wireless telegrams-- wonderful, ain't it, Mike 44 'Tis that. Ah, Tim, afore we 're old men we shall be able to travel round the world without leavin' 'ome. RIDICULOUS. Wife Now, see 'ere, Jim if yer don't provide fer me better I shall quit so I warns yer. Husband i Provide better Well, I like that. \7hy, ain't I got yer three good jobs o' ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 84 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

A SLIGHT FALLING-OUT

... A SLIGHT FALLING OUT. Brown: Confound you, Sir I I'll never go in your beastly machine again 1 (Which is more than likely!) Drawn by Dudley Tennant. ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 27 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: Another Commemoration

... Another Commemoration. Late again! Why did not somebody write to me a fortnight ago and tell me that Dr. Johnson was going to have a bicentenary? I never said I was good at dates, and I have always thought that the teaching of a mass of them to children was one of the many stupidities of our system of education. One should know roughly when great things happened and great people flourished, ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1128 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE-MAN-ON-THE-CAR: Dustlessness a Selling Point

... Dustlessness a Selling Point. Notwithstanding the apathetic disinclination of the trade as a whole to participation in dust trials, such trials will be held by the adhesion of private owners. Certain manufac tures and some technical journalists have been at considerable pains to throw cold water upon these trials on the ground that they have proved nothing, and nothing has been learned from ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1022 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

WORLD OF THE SPORT: Races to Come

... :^BKS^mMM UtaE i/ ^W.WSksS|L n&P- y$r 5^-1 /v ry .^jnL^ i :S' JjL **^VX '-T bi^^? ia BE \1 y /_ ^_ w/ im '-t F^k *1 Be 1 R^vSi- i^l fff nl F 7 CT^^At b-j a vy /r^*V^feLl p> j _ ..lttukj If _ 'Vi^riTj Races to Come. There will be a fine race for the Duke of York Stakes at Kempton Park on Oct. 9 if the favourites go to the post. Unfortunately, this event is set to be run four days before ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1120 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

BLOWN, BUT NOT IN THE WAY YOU THINK

... This is not the old joke of the country farmer trying to blow out the electric-light, but merely Jones going through a course of fat-reducing exercises before retiring to bed. Drawn by H. Radcuffk Wilson. ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 43 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

WOMEN'S WAYS: He, She, and the Great Divide

... BY ELLA HEPWORTH DIXON. He, She, and the Great Divide. The new American play at the Adelphi contains one amazingly thrilling incident, which may be described as Woman's final protest at marriage by capture. Time was (and the custom still exists among remote tribes), when prehistoric Man wished to marry, he stalked out of his tent, seized the nearest girl by the hair, clubbed her senseless, and ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1049 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Illustrations 

AJAX

... AJAX has come of Age. ITS phenomenal success for the past twenty-one )-ears as a hair tonic and dandruff cradicator, proves it to be the greatest known to modern science. It is sold by the principal Hairdressers, Per fumers and Chemists through out the world at 4/6, T6, 10/6, and 25/- bottle. And bv the Inventor Sole Manu'acturer CHARLES JASCHKE, 52, Reg-ent Street London, W. JVhen ordering, ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 77 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Illustrations 

LOTUS

... r To^us 11*11X11 J Black J or tan for men, 22s. 6d. i 'I Write , STAFFORD, for style booklet. ToTUS ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 21 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Illustrations