... old-fashioned notion that a girl should not go alone lead to a habit | u on the part of the gontlar sex of always hunting in ! couples. You seldom see one woman-it is nearly -aways a man and a woman, or else two women. This is a great ...

... too-much washed. It must, indeed,be a cruelblowto have a promising model of unwashed picturesqueness I converted by the fitful zeal of a proud parent into a I shiny-faced, smooth-pated, =~rcsaic-looking urchin . in a brand-new suit of ...

... Everything fashionable must now be decorated with a startling blob of bright colour. If you have a sober brown hat you crown it with a brilliant blue-green bird; if you -have a cream lace lamp shade you pin on it a buge scarlet poppy. Two ...

... I AFTERNOON CHAT. EBY Ot1R LADY CONTRIBUTORS.] All London has been at Henley thiw week, enjoying I a taste of country life, in spite of somewhat cold and a showery weather. Henley ought to be a feast of fruit T |and flowers, but this year the rain has ...

... published by a London firm. It is edited by Joseph Hughes, and the various sections are written by experts. May Morris, a daughter of William Morris, tells us How to Make the Home Pretty. Mrs. Burgwin, head mistress of a London board school and a member ...

... every social function is a show. A big ball, a gorgeous iweddingor a great tennis party receive unqualified praise if the guests ia departing remark, Wasn't it a show ! Twelve months ago they would haae ?? it ripping? ...

... on the seam of the sleeves, to form a s sort of epenlette; a narrow edgeof it borders the cuff C at the wrist, and a broad band is taken along the e | bottom of a panel in the side of the skirt. t A smart dress of this kind worn last week ...

... chocolates in a crowded court, one C tile chief fiures in n thrilling drama, while the 5o'd er-hero's honour and fair name is trembling in the balance. An origrinal ar ument for granting the suffrare waas pat forward by Mrs. Fawcett at a recent meeting ...

... perpetual h bustle of the lock, the passing of pretty faces and a ni quaint craft, all make up a typical scene of a Londoner's holiday. _. - as This has been pre-eininently and almost exclusively In a mathematical year for the women students of Cam- nm bridge ...

... kitten bring the old cat a mouse ? There's a thought for you. Wttrk it out for yourselves, An interesting elopement t )ok place in a town Nvithin easy walking distance of Preston, one night during the week. A well to do tradesmnan had a ...

... loteotions. a.40 Not a, long ago there was, in Preston, a teetotal public house keeper with a teetotal family about him T're other day we heard ofea kindred case, some dietant'e ntirth of the town-a large hotel kept by ...

... quarters, and by persons never suspected of having any regard forlucoli a thing. A farmer, living in a dis. trict on one side of Preston, bad occasion, a few days since, to go into a small field, containing some grain stacks, near his place, ...