... WOMAN'S PASTIMES Thi Kennel Club The banquet held each year by the Kennel Club is always interesting, as it gives the members a pleasant opportunity of meeting and discussing their hobby. This year the illness of the chairwoman of the Ladies' Branch, Mrs. Charles Chapman, unfortunately prevented her from being present, and some other prominent ladies of the committee, Jemima Countess of ...

... MONDAY.-- Won 2s. at Bridge, which I shall spend on a fascinating brown veil with fluffy chenille spots of cream and coffee colour all over it, this being essential to the best conduct of my new hat of white beaver with snail-like ruchings of brown and white, and red soft satin ribbon and two large brown roses dangling gracefully over my left ear. Bridge has its points. Not yours, says my ...

... A Correction Since my saleroom notes appeared in the first number of THE BYSTANDER, I have discovered that inadvertently I greatly overestimated the elasticity of that much utilised frutifer, the Shakespeare mulberry. I wish to correct my error and apologise right here to the tree and all whom it may concern. My mistake was, in stating that the armchair sold at Puttick and Simpson's for £80, ...

... Looking East Showing Damage to Cliffs in Consequence of the Rush of Water Looking West: Showing the Double Foreshore Caused by the New Channel ...

... The Gevrderv I by Archibald Marshall I The Pergola There is hardly a garden nowa days, however small, whose owners share in the revived interest in gardening where there is not some form of pergola to be seen. Much has been written on the subject, and the majority of moderately informed garden lovers no longer fall into the most glaring errors of taste in the disposition of the pergola. It is ...

... The interest which the Countess of Warwick takes in woman's work in the world is so well known, that but a few words are needed to explain the accom panying illustrations of the school, lately opened for the purpose of instructing girls in dairy farming, for lady farmers, at Studley Castle, Warwickshire. The idea of such a school was so successfully carried out at Reading as to create the ...

... ^=355* -T.-- . An English Exhibit at Paris Show The chief point noticeable (amongst numerous other good ones) at the Paris show was a decided tendency towards simplicity in the cars exhibited at the Grand Palais by the Napier firm, as, wherever possible, moving parts have been eliminated. In the 15 h.p. chassis, light ness, combined with great strength, is obtained, the total weight being but ...

... The Amateur Championship of 1903 Mr. Maxwell's Play At Muirfield, this year, Mr. Robert Maxwell at length con quered the throne of amateur golf after a hard and desperate struggle in one match, that with Mr. H. de Zoete, when the latter very nearly upset all the prophets. Indeed, at the nineteenth hole he seemed to have Mr. Maxwell at his mercy, having all tire best of the hole, and then, ...

... | The Beatification of Joan of Art On Wednesday, January 6, be neath the great dome of St. Peter's in Rome, an event will be celebrated with all the ornate ceremonial of the Roman Catholic Church, that may be said to represent the closing scene in a drama of which the opening act was played well-nigh five centuries ago. The day, commemorated by tradition as the birthday anniversary of Joan of ...

... The Capital of Korea, which is at present the bone of contention between Russia and Japan. Once in every few years Korea appears to attract for a time the attention of the political world in Europe, as in Asia and America. The crisis which now marks the relations existing between Russia and Japan is concerned directly with the affairs of The Land of The Morning Calm. If it were not for the ...

... fojt 3V Miss Mary Fraser Photo by Johnston and Hoffmann ...

... The Oldest Burgh but One With the exception of Newport in the Isle of Wight, Fordwich is the smallest and oldest of the English municipalities, and when the Domesday Survey was made in 1085, it is mentioned as the little burgh. It is supposed to derive its name from fiord-wic, which means the bay (wic) on the arm of the sea (fiord), and, at one time, doubtless, the town really occupied a ...