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No. 15, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, of gold embroidery and such material richness, and yet such real vulgarity.
Harcourt was the first sparkloof brightness WSTWARD RO" Ng 13, Bol That rain-worn-cooked-hat shown at after a slab of singularly dull questions in Roab, with garden. Fontainebleau-or-the-two-others- siznwn-the-House of Comatong na March 20:
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st the Invalides, and the steel grey over. Mr Scott baten all the forlornest coat, slightly cut. and soiled, but still ends of the earth under his special wing. serviceable, which is also in the Invalides, and he "got up to worry the Colonial all look much more in taste and certainly Secretary about the woes of Malays and much more in character so far as NayChintamen in the Straits Setticmenta, who leon is concerned. The large gold-em- broidered beca, which replaced the debarred from entering the Civit banished feurs-de-lys as a decorative Service of their culeny. Mr Scott comes motive, are fadly wrought-the velvet from Glasgow and owns a sense of humour, and the Bill are the best that could be and by insidious stages he managed to shift hod, each detail is worked out with care; the discussion from the remote quarters sad yet the whole effect, with clashing where it began to the matter of Me Hr. colour and clumsy design, is disappoint court's own Plantagenet Blood. ing indeed. Any brocade waistcoat of the Mir Harcourt did bot think it mattered carlier century or huntsman's "pink" much anyhow about Mr Scott'a Malaye, of to-day would look prettier and yet because even if they were allowed to sit for more dignified. But the cocked hat and Civil Service examinations they would bo the overcoat, even in their rude simpli-unable to pass them. Whereupon Mr city, have all the sense of style which Scott anked him to explain to "a puzzled these pretentious garments lack. They House" how he coull estimate their are well designed and well made, and they always show purpose and idea. „
Yet Napoleon was much less careful with his everyday clothes than with his court finery, Possibly he was not un authority in the matter of tailoring. At all events ho seemed to be the lagy man to understand the economy ci dress, and even had ho lived after Carlyle it might have been held certain that he had never read a page of "Saftor Resartus." An authority, lecturing on the subject the other day, said that he spent money foolishly on repairs, when new clothes would have been better, and yet persisted in wiping his pen on his white riding breeches and scorching the soles of his boots by using bis fest instead of a poker.
It was all rather false economy; in some of these matters no man was more careful, but in others certainly none was more caroles. He used constantly to deduct large percentages from tailors"
capacity to pass it he refused to examine them, and why it was necessary to refuse at all, since he was so sure that they could not pass?
The House, which always enjoys the fre- dent encounter of wij hetween the two protagonists, chuckled at the puser, and waited for moro. The Colonial Secretary blandly protested that Mr Scott was the only man in the place who was puzzled.
andidates in tbo Straits Settlements. have to be of European descent on both sides, and after achieving a fine phrase about “alleged persons who are anony mous," Mr Scott, who alwayn voili bis binage under a demeanour of solema ferocity demanded to know whether the Colonial Secretary coudarted his genee bogical investigations into the ancestry of Civil Service candidates himself.
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Mr Sonit suggested that the matter
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This is a strange document, just ro- discovered and published for the first time, relating to repairs to the Corans tion costume. It is included in the accounts of the tailor Chevalier for the year 1800. Napolon having woordd the great victory of Austerlite, was coming Back to Paris to make a great impression. Els coronation robes wore to be prepared with the Thread that in fortnight be mon
lar solicitade as to silos trimself was tem porarily allenced by the dig Bub altis Fortega Goods Ataly he recovered himself saffidently to All good
would move & resplatiwa daling with the
But it was no simple matter, golden rantter, not merely in the Straits Solda had grown stoutar, and theroforobioments, but in Hongkong and the Federated following
Malay Biztos valls With which glacing
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