... Servants (Marshal, Miss Woolf) carried a fine design with a painting of a Government Office upon it. The nurses (Marshal, Miss Kent), with the red cross on gold, were vociferously applauded ; then came the banner of the athletes, with dumb-bells and clubs ...

... that woman was made to take precautions on behalf of the race: Apart from the ludicrously inaccurate medical dictum—for the boot is entirely on the other foot : riding astride cannot possibly hurt women and does very frequently hurt men—one feels inclined ...