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With regard to a rather alarming suggestion recently made by Mr. Arthur Ponsonby the effect that men should cultivate a copious growth of hair on the Ince in order to regain their .ost ascend ancy over the fair Box, a writer in the London Daily Telegraph advances the following whimsical objections:-.

in is the experience of one of the leaders of the Labour purty, we read with sympathetic anxiety, that thing is incking to modern man, and thur the modern young woman bus ** un-) manageable characteristics. Like Han" Irt, he finds that mun delights him not, no, for woman neither, a state of mind common among gentlemen of his colour since the last Election. The times may be out of joint, but Mr. Arthug Ponson- by, as becomes a politician, as a plan to set them right. Let men

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philosophy, are a sign of virility; and when they are thus equipped less will heard of the recalcitrance. the im practicability of the damsels of the period.

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es. We cannot all have whiskers to our desire. It is open to doubt whether the susceptibility to whiskers which Mr. Ponsonby has discovered is universal among women. The weight of evidence Seems to be against him. The whisker se against the background of human history is but an insignificant phenome- non. It was only in fashion for a truc- tion of a century, and only in our owa country for so long as that.

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Whiskers came in with the Prince Re

went out with the Prince Consort. That two men so extremely different should both have affected the decoration may prove the whisker has more charms than we are apt to believe. But how can Mr. Ponsonby's case stand against the dates! Men have been find- unmanageable characteristics in women far uncounted ages. To com- mend themselves to those rebellious feminine eyes men have attempted many toasorial variations, have shaver elona, worn long, boards, shart beards, square beards, pointed beards, worn nothing but a moustache. For each and all of these fashions long periods of popularity wong nations are recorded: but for whiskers hardly a bare half-century in €y11;P? U* I} island, even less anywhere else. No man ever thought of whiskers

before Brummell; hardly any man has ver thought of them since Lord Dundreary. is is credible that if the whisker were away potent over the fair as Mr. Ponsonby believes men. would not have grown it before and kept it growing longer?

Deeply we feel'his disappointment; but the Labour party must seek some other means of dealing with the manage able characteristics of its lady men berg. Not though all the late Ministry grew whiskers would they be safe,

MARRIAGE BY PROXY.

Queen Maria Sophia, widow of Francis I. the last king of the Two Sicilies, who has just died, is said to have been the Just surviving royalty to have been_marri ed by proxy. The event took place at Stanich on January 8th, 1980, the late Leopold of Bavaria representing the abgent husband, the unattractive son of the notorious Bomba." Maria Sophia bad not at that time seen her husband, but was permitted to look at a

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asked on her way to Naples. He was: and it was a minor compleation that he could speak no German, while his wife could speak no Italian.

In the old days there was nothing un- usual about marriage by proxy. It was by proxy that Charles II was married to Katharine of Bragacea. The roya! substitute was the Earl of sandwich, who was instructed to press vertain business questions about the dowry which would have been unbecoming is at ardent bridegroom.

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Solo married Marie Louise, there wha proxy Cerez mony at Vienna before that at Notre Dame A close competitor with Qonen Maria Sophia for the honour of being the last of the proxy brides must have been Queen Maria Pia, sister of · the late King Humbert of Italy, and grand-mother of ex-King Manel, who

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PREMATURE 'OBITUARIES.

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far as I can learn, entirely unfounded. misled by the report." Rather more In its lack of dogmatism that is per-riaborate was the focularity of an Ameri- haps most nearly approached by Dr. can gentleman, whose disclaimer appeared Venn, of Caius College, who found him- a few years ago:- self mentioned as dead in a book of current biographies. He wrote for fur- ther information: "I am not disputing the fact, "he said. Mr. G. B. Burgin followed the. example of Mark Twain by describing the rumour us 'greatly exng- gerated and Whistler, who read a pre- mature obituary of bimself in the Alorning Post, wrote aarcastically about Mr. Shaw, like a prudent man, has shot "your gentlemen of the rendy wreath," his bolt beforehand. In response to an Mr. Montague Crackanthorpe, whose inquiry from a nawa agency during an demise was announced in The Times, illness some years ago, he soot the mess wrote to say that he was not really I am dead. It will save me a great deal ags: Kindly inform the public that (Continued at foot of feat Columb)

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