... London the enjoyment to be obtained from the smoke of certain burnt vegetable leaves, and Virginia was prouder of being named after a great Queen than of producing the first tobacco, the streets of Nor way's capital were gay with the festivity of a royal ...

... fortu nate in having in my charge a 14 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley, fitted with a Sandown body. It was one of the famous trio named after three patron saints of the British Isles. It had covered a con siderable mileage in competitions, and in other arduous duties ...

... the chapel, the bath ing-place, the sanatorium .and sick room, the gymnasium, the school paper, the Bradleian (a building named after Dean Bradley, and given up partly to the Foundation Scholars, the sons of clergymen), the committees, captains, prefects ...

... arose the question as to what name to give this new species of animal. Each boy said he saw it first and wanted the beast named after him. The father settled the matter by drawing their names from a stone hat and naming the beast in the order of the syllables ...

... picked ourselves up. Most of us hoped to do a bit of good for ourselves over Tommy Mac, which Lord Blandford has, of course, named after Tommy MacDougal though what he 's done with his Dougal no-one save Mr. Jimmy Roths child can tell us. The human Tommy Mac ...

... fortnight ago. Lupino Lane plays his original part, Sally Gray is his girl, Mark Lester is the old aristocrat, and the film is named after the song from the piece, not the piece Yes, My Darling Daughter The amusing American play about trial marriage and its trials ...

... came in the Rev. John Percival, young and a bachelor, hastily appointed and what a splendid appointment There is a road named after him in Clifton now, and one of the finest schools in the world must remain for all time to perpetuate his memory when he ...

... any old ostriches or parrots you may have running around the house. Madame Lelong, nee Princesse Paley, is wear ing a hat named after her by Maria Guy. This is black straw with a navy brim that looks as though it were too small for the head, but is terribly ...

... school in those French days. Among those of minor distinction were Fr. John Gage, who introduced the fruit into England named after him, the Greengage, and the first man who was so bold as to translate Shakespeare into French. He perpetrated the notorious ...

... globes and ship models, there is a shop in the Rue de Colisee that specialises in these things. It is called Mercator, named after the scientist who gave to the world Mercator's Projection. This shop is owned by an American woman. In the window she had ...

... concluded which form a wonderful background to the fine gardens, is the Rose- marina, built by the late Duke of Sutherland, and named after his only daughter, Rosemary, sister of the present Duke. The present owner, Mr. G. Thorpe Wilson, has, with exquisite taste ...

... addition to the perfumes, there are Zenobia Toilet Waters, all faithfully reproducing the scent of the flowers they are named after, together with violet-powder and soap. Sample boxes contain ing perfume, soap, and sachets can be obtained direct from the ...