BEAUTIFUL GIRLS !
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The Standards of To-Day.
The older generation in Club land are complaining that there are no beauties to-day to comparo with those of the late Eighties. Is this true?
Can the beauty of the shaved eyebrow, the short skirt, and the shingled head compete with her forerunner with luxuriant tresses and luxuriant Bgure clad in luxuriant draperies? asks a lady writing to the Daily Chronicle,
who continues:
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into the same popularity now is frankly spurious in this direc onjoyed by the slight undeveloped tion ?
type, created by the Parls dress Has our standard of banuty designers has moved with the fallen, or has it been ralaod untili timen. Ho acknowledges the good looks have become..so charm of the Bobbed Miss, who universal that they are counted he declares is quite as por common-place? V
One is entitled to one's own masively feminine as the old-
opinion on this score. fashioned beauty.
Still, tho question remains
moot one.
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Without doubt there are great -Our midet, but beauties in do they excite such fervent ad- miration as before?
Ceriainly no одо
Still, it is not without signific. ance that those who supply toys for the modera nursery aro un- animous in thoir assertion that there is now practically no de mand for those beautiful waxen hoars of ladies, so daintily dressed, that crowds climbing the chairs in were the most precious posses the Park to sco them pass, or sions of little girls of long ape, wailing breathlessly at big To- Folix cats and golliwegs have coptions for them to arrive. liken their place in juvenile Certainly all that onco figured
MODERN BEAUTY CULT, affections, is it therefore to be for feminine charm has disap. · Perhaps it is becauso smart-wondered that little girls brought peared. Grace and gracefulnessness has superseded beauty, and up to fondle golliwogs should the greatest feminine attributos smartness-is so much easier of grew up admire gelliwog heads of the past-have given place to attainment that it no longer and adopt Felix fashions? boyishness which now counts for creates a sensation. beauty,
Whore has this cult for modern Mr. Dana Gibson, the croator beauty sprung from? And what of the socond edition of Profosis it that, makes the general sional Beauty--The Gibson Girl, public especially the feminine who brought the fine woman
One never knows where thone things begin or where they end Aftor áll, are not the fads and the crazes of Society merely the playthings that ameo those of portion-so ready to accept what an older generation?
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A's unusual agreement has been made by the owners and miners of the Vauxhall Colliery, near Wrexham, in order to permit of work being continued. Notices discharging 700 men employed were to have taken effect the pre- vious week, but were withdrawn as the result of negotiations betwoon the company and the World-Famous "Spanish Prisoner" local leaders of the men. The Minors' Federation has not been
to share the losses, if any are consulted. The men have agreed involved, in keeping the mine open.
Caught.
The American State Depart ment at Washington has received word that the "Spanish Prisoner;" who has swindled men and women all over the world, is really a pri- soner at last,
"General Ramon de Santa Clara," who has passed under numerous other aliases, is stated to ba andor arrest after a fifty- year hunt for the real genius behind this astonishing inter- national "confidence game," saya a cable to the New York Herald (Paris edition).
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The police records of nearly jevery country in both hemisp- heres contain the namos of victims of the famous "Spanish Prisoner": hoax, and show that the man be-1 hind the fraud reaped a fortune from trusting Britons, Americans. Franchmen, and others, to whom pities me now" at various timos, he wrote the pathetic, appeal of the prisoner.
The tale nover varied much, The story was of a man held in prison generally as a bankrupt, although be possessed thousande of pounds for those who would. advance the money to securo his freecom. There were variations of the tale, but the prisoner with a fortune outside the walls of his prison never varied.
Those who believed the story generally had to go to Spain in porson, whore they were relieved of their money under the usual' confidence game methods. There was always a now crop when th author of the swindle needed) more money, and the harvest was regular.
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The committee (which was ap- pointed sometime ago by the Silver Trade Technical Society and the Sheffield (saction of the Institute of Motals, to investigate tho development of tarnish- resisting silver, presented a report to a joint meeting of the two societies, held at Sheffold University, with regard to a now matorial produced by Mossre William Turner and Co.
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