THE BILLIARD HANDICAP. It was rather singular how I came to join that handicap. A little while before, I began to be interested in billiards. I had learnt how to strike the object ball, to put on side to "screw," and to "pot." When I could score about fifty in the hour, I began to think of the time when I should challenge Ronerts.
About this period-the St. Leger week was drawing near a handicap was got up at the St. Leger Club. The secretary asked me to make one of the players. I declined, but Plumer seeing was half inclined, he told me he should put my name down. He added, he felt sure should win the premier prize. The commented an anxious time, First I observed that the board at the club was full sized, while that I had been used to play upon was only a three-quarter. This would make it more difficult to score, as L should not knew the apics so well. But had many friends and they all advised me to practice. I practised, and my friends in- stracted me. while they partook of sundry drinks I had the honour of paying fat. This of course, I did not object to, being assured I was bound to get the second, if not the first prize,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1901.
THE WAR AND THE DIAMOND
TRADE.
dependent for its supply of diamonds on the The fact that the world is now almost wholly South African mines made it inevitable that the continuance of the war would have a marked effect on the diamond and jewellery trade. In order to ascertain how and to what extent this effect has exhibited itself, & representative of the Fall Mall Garette has made inquiries among diamond merchants and jewellers in the City and in the West-end, in the course of which he has elicited some interesting information on the subject. The principal of one of the largest retail firm in the City (Messrs, Cornhill) stated that the war had not had anything like tinted, limited the supply of diamonds con. the effect they anticipated. "It has," he con-
siderably, and caused the prices to increase to a very great extent; in fact, they have gone up in the last twelve months, I should think, so per cent. The demand for diamond goods is not nearly so great as before the war. What we do now is mostly fancy jewellery. As to a further increase in the price of diamonds, I think that is likely, judging by the prospect of the war continuing. In any case, do not they were at before." think that diamonds will go de
down to the prices
While practising I had many advisers. Scribe told me to knock the balls about. Give them
Among other firms visited in the City was plenty of cue," he said, there are six pockets, that of Sir John Bennett, of Cheapside, whose besides your opponents' ball, and they are sure manager, Mr. George Russell, furnished our to go somewhere." Steward, however, taking the representative with some remarkable facts cue, showed ine the best way wasto play carefully. The consequence of the war," said Mr. Strike your ball," he said, "so that it will just Russell, "has been to raise the price of dia cannon with the other ball or if you are going
The war has bad for a hazard, or to "skop," the ball will just monds at least 35 per cent, roll into the pocket." Clark told me that I bit; but the prices of all genis-pearis, nn effect so far as gold ornaments are concern the ball too low; Taylor that I struck it too emeralds, sapphires, rubies, and so forth- high; Barber that did not put on enough have gone up enormously. side; and Butcher that I should do better if I
To give you an example of the effect of the struck the bail more in the centre. Then rise in prices, we have positively broken up Trimming cautioned me to be more particular thousands of pounds' worth of old stock to when I struck, as there were times, he said, make up in rings, &c, to save the cost of buy when I wanted to put on the right or the left ing new stones. And it has paid us to do it. side. I just did the contrary. This preparation We have sacrificed the mounting and remount for the contest lasted some days, and my genered the stones rather than buy new stones, and osity, in providing the necessary refreshments that is the case throughout the trade." for my friends, was at times put to a rather severe
Inquiries in Hatton Garden, the home of test. But when I thought of the prize that i diamend, merchants, generally confirmed the was going to win, and the honour that would information supplied by Mr. Wolff, of the firm go with the winning, I did not much mind. Only on one point di attempt to disagree wholesale trade.
of Wolff and Reiss, who are entirely in the with my many instructors. My opponent was known to be a man who liked the good things of this life. William Henry, who was best known by the name of Rosee," advised that on the day of the contest, but before commencing the contest, I should jake and treat my adversary to a good dinner, and the usual etceteras which generally follow and I declined to do anything so incan, especially when Steward assured me that he had heard that the man could play better when drunk than when he was sober. So 1 practised, and practised, and practised, till the day I and my opponent met.
I was rather surprised see the large company that had assembled. Rosee explained they had come to see me take Copps down Copps that was my opponent he assured me, was anything but a favourite. Copps certainly looked a little nervous, but this I was not sur prised at; for very likely he had learnt, from noe source or another, the little chance he had. Suddenly felt my aim touched. Turning I saw Copps.
"I don't like all these folks, being here," he said. "They make me uncomfortable."
Rosee, who heard him, winked at me."
I mysett was a little glad, though I did not care that Copps sinald see this. His feeling uncomfortable, I thought, was all the better for me. They seem very much interested in the game," I said,
"Well, it will soon be over," he answered Then, after awhile," By-the-bye, old chappie, come and have a drink. I want us to feel that whatever the result is, we, personally shall be friends."
Certainly," I replied. But I did not care about Copas's proposition. I had not forgotten about William Henry advising me to treat Copps, that I might win the game, and of Steward warning me that Copps could play under the influence of drink, better than with" out. Was Copps wanting to treat me, knowing that he would be the better for a drink, and thinking I should be the worse? 1 was about to
decline his invitation when he again seized me by the arm: "Come along old man," he said, we have not much time. Almost before knew, we were at the bårtaking a friendly glass together. Just as we returned to the room one of my friends came to me. "Copps is in a funk," he said, "They are laying two to one on you." i felt a little flattered, and I thought of the time when they would clap and hurrah me for winning.
Presently everything was ready, and we took our places at the table. Copps broke the balls. 1 saw his face darken as I cannoned on the ball he had placed in balk. We played with vary ing results until the marker called Finneker 56,- Copps 38. I saw Copps was in despair. Just then my friend came to me. "I have laid twenty to ten," he said, "Shall I put you a little on?" "Do as you like,” I answered, "but do not bother." Cogps, I fancled, heard me, for be looked more glum than ever. I still con- tinued to lead, try all that Copps did, and there was a general chear when the marker called: Finneker, 131; Copps, 102. As I only wanted 29 to win, I thought it was time to show what I could do. But just now the balls began to roll wrongly, I could get very near to the pocket, or to the ball i wished to cannon on, but I could not get the pocket or the cannon. The worst of it was Copps began to knock the balls about and to fluke amazingly. The utmost jaterest now centred in the game, and when the marker called: Finnaker, 1401 Copps, 134; I began to be alarmed. Nor was much con farted when Copps remarkeds Will you lay another twenty to ten?" It was not nice under the circumstances, and I began to think that Copps was anything but a gentleman. Just then through a bit of luck ram; up to 147. Now was my revenge. I saw .Copps was in despair. I only wanted three. The red was within easy distance of the pocket. It would sot be difficult to run in, and then-ganfe, "He'll miar it,” I heard Copps, whisper. I de termined I would not miss it. I struck my ball and sent it into the pocket without its touching the red at all. Copps was in ecstacy. But he had not won, yet, and the balls ward not in the best of positions. But he scored, and scored ringing cheer which fose told me he had
and
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He
Since the war began," said Mr. Wolf, busi- ness has practically collapsed, the diamond business anyhow. Everything has gone up in for instance, have gone up ten times as much our trade-not only diamonds, but emeralds,
apply. Emeralds are much more expensive as diamonds. It is owing to the smallness of now than ever they were in fact, they are so dear that I cannot touch them. Fearis, too, are very dear; in fact, everything that is fine has gone up in price. No; I do not credit the state- meat that the De Beers people are bolding back 'stuff' so as to maintain the prices. It is the Americans who make the prices so dear. They buy up three-fourths of the diamonds. If the Syndicate had to rely upon England, the price would go down. Americans buy the very finest diamonds, and will pay any price for them. As to whom the increased profits have gone, I think the Syndicate has got the cream. There are only six of them, and there never was such a monopoly as theirs. They regulate with the De Beers people for every year, the output of the mines, and make a contract Profits? I should not like to commit myself that they have made about two millions of to figures; but, roughly speaking, I should say money in one year between them."
the war has had a serious effect on the trade, In the West-end, the general verdict is that
due, in the main, to the absence, of such a large
military connection, necessitated by the oper- ations in South Africa. The rise in diamonds and precious stones has been very consider- able, and, in many cases, prohibitive.
KISSING.
A special New York dispatch of 20 January
to the North American states that Dr. Anna liatfield, the chief factor in the anti-kissing Temperance Union, has studied kissing, and movement started by the Woman's Christian knows whereof she speaks.
"It is a vicious habit she reiterated" and if vice crusaders really want to purify society they should commence by tutoring children from their earliest infoncy that kissing is an evil.
**If you will take a microscope and examine the teeth you will realize how limitless are the dangers of kissing. Kissing has come to be a eater plague than drink. It is more insidious; it is more deadly. Girls are not taught to view a kiss with awe, as they were in the days when I was young Girls then considered a kiss a betrothal."
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*Then engaged people may kiss? || "No," said Dr. Hatfield, positively, "engaged people should not kiss. A betrothal kiss is a different thing. It is simply a token of respect, the sealing of a pledge.
"The mothers of to-day," continuéd Dr. Hatfield, "are to blame for nine-tenths of the evil that exists. They don't know now to train children. When their sons and daughters are babies they are kissed incessantly. Every one who comes in is allowed to torment that infant in the same fashion. By the time the infant becomes a child of several years it has become used to the kissing, and you will find that most children. before they are five have cultivated the kissing habit. It is like any other vice.
Which, to be dreaded, only needs be seen Zut sen too oft, familiar with its face, Wo'fisi andurn, ihen pity, then embrace,***
If
"The trouble is, with modem mothers, that they are too liberal and their daughters no not receive the protection that is their due. some of the hours spent in solitary association with young men were given up to teaching them how to become good wives and mothers, rizis would realize that the way to win a hus band is not through the medium of spooning.
"Kissing between women is quite as up- wholesome a practice as could possibly exist have seen women kiss each other not once or twice, but hundreds of times-who hate each other, who would kill each ether through the medium of their kisses if it were possible. Yet it is expected of them, and so they are hypocrites"
Local leaders of the Boaten W. C. T. U. aro
certain that whatever the Demorest branch of the union in New York may hold, kissing neither has made, nor is likely to make, serious rayages among the young women of Boston, Mrs. Todd, secretary of the Massachusetts branch of the union, interviewed said:
"That isn't a Massachusetts' idea, It be longs to New York. We are not responsible for what happens in the Empire State.
there is somathing good with that crowd round it; let us go nordas."
THE PALETTE OF NELESIS, A mari stood on a mossy stone in mid
Ho acquiesced, laughingly, and they strolled streama man big-limbed and young--and as up, and stood on the outskirts of the little be fished he sang, now and again, snatches of throng of spectators, and gazed at the pic song is a gay, light-hearted way. A girl sal on ture. It was called "The Land of Promise." the banka humble maiden in a cotton frack Suddenly, some sense of familiarity with and the held his fishing basket in her bare the scene began to dawn upon the man, pink arms, and threw back jeat for jest to him and his heart contracted; then bounded rio across the gurgling bit of water that darked lently in his breast. The girl's perception between them. They were net mere acquiia. was quicker; she glanced with a shudder tances, these two; for several weeks the file from the white face beside her to its trea- drama had been enacted. A rising barriter cherous counterpart smiling from the can- little village forthe Long Vacation the daughter How long he looked, searching out every with a mania for fishing-lodgings in a secluded | vas—and understood. He did not know
of mine host to add a zest to the day's spot well-remembered, detail, methodically, me It sounds simple enough, and it was for him chanically, as if he were getting up points of For her well, whilst he dreamt of woolsacks evidence in a caso. The little crowd melted and promotion over his babbing: float, the away, and he câme back with a start to the woke to something less tangible, but just 11 present and turned away with forced smile and ↑ ambitions-sitting there on the bank. She twitching lips. He would laugh it off to the true daughter of Nature, this tile woman who believed in him something about plebeian-fresh and dainty, and altogether coincidences-strange likenesses. He turned pleasing; but her mind was set beyond her further round to find her. His eys) swept the station so her father said, and he was right. room. The young barrister found her company quite singularly attractive. By day he was playful, and teased her about har villige swains; but when the summer moon peeped out ind touched the rushing stream with silver, he grew grave and incautious, and talked about himself. It was an attractive pastime for him with just a soupçon of danger about it, but only enough to keep him amusedly interested. It was with a thrilled surprise, therefore, the he began to realise she was not the sort of everyday little Phyllis to whom a kiss now and then was only a kind of piquant sauce to the drudgery of life.
was
There was some real tragedy in the scint which took place on the evening before his departure. Not tears, but dry passionate eyes looked such anguished love that he threw dis cration to the four winds and scathed her with an eloquence which even a soulless jury could not always resist. Various visionary prospects and intensified; let her give him time to make and half whimsical promises were renewed. a name to gain wealth-and they would defy the world together. When a bright curly head sought its pillow at length the bain inside ran riot for very fulass of joy. Sech transformations as it pictured the metamor. phosis of a litle country maid into a stately fady, with, ob i such a brilliant husband who worked for her and in whose smiles the basked!
Next day the barrister went back to London and to work, and the little maiden inked her
bought with her scanty savings. finger and furowed her brows over babks
She was beginning to train for the life of her dreams and his promises.
Four years went by. The little maiden gave up her books. Her dreams changed in chart ter, and her heart grew hard; har step, ico, become wondrous slow, and she never sang at her work.
But the girl was there no longer-she had gone with the crowd.-S. and Gossip,
THE GREAT STATE COACH.
After having been in use for just one hun dred and one years the royal state coach has lain by and been occupied by nothing but moths for 38 years. But when the King and Queen go in it to open Parliament on Thurs- day, says The Aforming Leader of late date, the grand old coach will look a magnificent and as picturesque as ever.
If anything, the royal coach will really look better than it has ever looked before. For it will have no coachman riding on it, and that will lend it a grace and a fitness it never had in its youth: There has not been time to get a new hanintercloth made, and as the old one, alter laying by for nearly 40 years, is an old one, the hammer cloth and the coachman have got to be done without. So far as looks go this will be an im provement, though in the matter of exciting public wonder some may regret it, for the or namentation of the hammercloth was of solid gold. It is lying in the strong room at the Royal Mews, and will no doubt make its appearance again in time. But there is no need of a coach- man; the horses are controlled by postillions.
Queen Victoria never liked riding in the big state coach. First of all it is not an easy vehicle. to get in and out of. And, oddly enough, it is not comfortable to ride in. Its perpetual swing-swing on its straps makes a motion which resembles that of a boat in which somebody, is "Jarking."
Moreover, the coach was extremely dan gerous. The wonderful improvement of the paving of the London streets since the days of George the Third made the great coach unsafe to ride in. It had no break and it weighs four At first letters had come from London, tous. No two homes in the world could have but the intervals grew longer and longer, hold it back-and, of course, all the holding || and then ceased. It was neatly three years back had to be done by the two horses at the since one of her own letters had come back pole. Going down such a bill as that of St. with "Not known" acrawled across the enve-james's-st, now that smooth paving has taken lope. She looked at her pitifully small bundle the place of muddy or at any rale soft macadam, tied up with a photograph be had given her it would have taken a' couple of elephants to and tried to harden herself into destroying them' bold it back, all but she cried instead.
Her father had another visitor-not a fisher-
man, but an artist. Sometimes she watched him paint; and one day a thought struck her,
Paint me," she said, when he was puting the finishing touches to a small view of stream' "Paint me sitting on this stone just here." and hillside.
He smiled indulgently, as one who humeurs a pretty spoilt child.
Very well" he said, “only you should have
sume tallant by your side, and it should be called 'Love's Young Dream."
She did not smile back, but looked at him with intense serious ayes ; then she ran backto the cottage and anon returned carrying some thing in her hand. She gave him. It was a full length photograph of a man, knicker bockered and stalwart, posed with an say fishing-basket. grace on a piece of boulder, and at his feet
Will that do?" she said, eagerly, Will you paint, as you said, a picture of me and him and may I name it?"
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are beautifully painted, and represent historical and allegorical subjects"
The wheels, which are comparatively alight, are carved after the models of the triumphal cars of ancient Roman emperors.
There is but little, doubt that the use of this fine coach by the King will in these days of enormous wealth give a great fillip to the coachbuilding trade.
LORD KITCHENER'S PARTY AND
THE FLEAS.
turned to Mm. Wagner. "Would you be kind nough to give my three children a spanking?". But Mrs. Wagner was considera in her hour of victory. She only remarked that 'children would be children," and led the way down to the bathroom to help wash away the blood of battle-Chicago News,
NEWEST FASHIONS IN HAIR DRESSING.
The following should prove interesting to our lady readers.
The crimped Pampadour, drawn slightly to one side, is really the style of the moment. It may be high or low, and can be worn either well off the face or with a slight fringe, Puffings at the sides are to decrease some what in site, but they will not be altogether, abandoned for some time to come.
No style so much improves a long, thin face as these huge puffing, for they help to give the neces sary breadth which makes the face appear much less thin. Another favorite fashion is the side parting, which, however, should be more suggested than real. The effect should be as if the hair has divided naturally; the dis- tinct patting is always a trifle hard. With this style the hair on the forehead should also be arranged with a somewhat careless effect, a fow short curls falling loosely wherever they may
be most becoming.
To may faces the high hairdressing giran infinitely belter results than any other style, and for this reason it will die slowly, and wa may rest assured that it will hold equal farous with the low styles for some time to come. Two new designs are given in the illustration,
Slatin Pasha's feeling reference to the Egyp The popularity of the high hairdressing is at tian plague of the lively insect irresistibly re-last beginning to alate, and as is Fashion's minds us (says Today) of an episode which way, we are to go to the other extreme, and took place on the banks of Old Nile a few dress our hair quite low. For a young face years ago. The Sirdar, in the plenitude of his the most becoming style is a simple coil on the wisdom, conceived it would be a very cute anpe of the neck. thing to combine business with pleasure, by taking a lot of fellows of the Anglo-Egyptian Army, and a score or so of fair English and American visitors, to Cairo, a few mites down the river, in a steamer, to inspect some empty barracks which he was minded to appro- priate. The ladies (mostly young and pretty) accompanied the officers in their tour of in- spection round the barracks, the floors of which were deep in dust. Soon, there were apparent aigns of distress among the girls and their chaperones. Do what they would, it seemed impossible for them to avoid every now and then stooping down furtively to pull up the hem of their skirts, anda billow of white-laced petti- contification, to give a nervous scratch at a shapely silk-clad ankle. Presentlythings become desperate, and any further attempt at disguise being impossible, every lady was rubbing and scratching herself through her skirts like mad When their cries of genuine dismay brought their cavaliers to the rescue, it was seen that even the outside of their dresses were literally covered with Beas. As for the officers (being in uniform) they were wearing long brown boots and cord riding breeches, so fortun-The Morning Lendes, ately for them the little hopping gentry gave them no trouble.. A retrograde move- ment executed in double quick time was made for the boat. Here the persecuted fair had to shut themselves up in a stuffy little cabin, and pass through the partially opened door a wealth of lace-bedecked garments, that 2 selected commiting of married officers might, if possible, shake them clear of the myriads of tiny intruders. These gallant gentlemen did their work nobly, and handed each dainty article of attire back again as spot- less and white asundriven snow. Not withstanding the devotion of the Sirdar's off cers, the alarms and excursions of which the fair ones had been the victims were not yet at an end, for on disrobing themselves many of the little beasts had fallen upon the cabin floor, and as they dressed themselves again they hopped back to recommence the Cam-ingham, and which paign. These luckless women complated the return journey to Caire in indescribable misery, and for a full week afterwards not one of them was able to wear a low-cut dress. ́-
OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN.
writer once that even with the semi-state coach his heart was always in his mouth going down St. James's,
as
But the King has had this remedied. The old state coach is being brought up-to-date by the addition of a brake.
This break is to be on the inside edge of the back whecis, and is worked by means of
a
screw, which will be in charge of one of the state foolmen who walk behind. It is very
readily applied, but is very powerful. If the famous eight cream stallions should become restive the footman at the break could screw it down till the eight might lug at the coach in vain. The King will now therefore be able to to anywhere in his state coach in perfect safety, and will no doubt use it frequently.
Two or three English firms have claimed the credit of making the royal state coach, and who really did make it is, curiously enough, not known with any certainty. But there is reason to believe that it was not made in England at all, bur in Ireland. The credit of the work, which is as good and sound to-day as on the day it was made, is believed to be due to an Irishman named Hobson, who made the coach in Cork, and brought it over and put it together in England.
The artist, who was in a light vein himself was amazed at the strained; feverish anxiety with with she proffered this request. However, he had more or less completed the work he had come to do, so more to please her than to
Yet, though the actual maker's name has not interest himself he began a half-careless sketch. But it was such dead seriousness to the girl-been kept, nor has he recorded it himself any. she watched his progress with such painful where on the vehicle so far as has ever been interest. Never, too, had anist such a model found, the royal accounts show with singularly she sat with a supple case and naturalness, interesting detail what the coach cost. The but as rigidly still as stone carved Crusadersum, apart from the honorarium to the great artist Cipriani for painting the panels, amount- in the old church hard by. And when it came to the more difficult part-the enlarging and ed to £7651 165. 310. It was disbursed as re-posing of the other figure she supplied follows;- such vivid and accurate descriptions, and the bright spots in her thin cheeks burnt so fiercely with excitement, that, in spite of him, self, the artist grew absorbed, settled to his task, and worked well.
It was a simple picture endugh-just theiro- figuret by the banks of the stream-the pink frocked country maiden, with swinging sun bonnet, sitting on a projecting stone, and the tall min lying at her feet, gasing up into ber face with treacherous love-lit eyes-the maiden with parted lips seeming to listento him extetatically, as if she saw her paradise lo the words he was saying. When it was finith- ed, he stood by his model and they devoured it together.
You will send it to some exhibition. ? "she said, as was he wondering what had inspired him to do his best piece of work in such s strange way. It is wonderful-beautifu-and they do have big exhibitions in London, for you have told me so and it should bring you fame, for it is just like life itself," Her bust heaved strangely, "Promise me, ob, promise me you will sand it somewhere-where all the world may see it."
The artist asked no questions; probably be had painted his curiosity and his surmises into the wonderful passion-ilt faces before kia- and he promised.
Fashionable London had coms, as fashion- able London will do, to gate at the dazdag array of gay costumes on the private view day at Burlington House,
Two middle-aged ladies, resplendent but exhausted, who had "done" the rooms some what perfunctorily, now sat down to "do" the company very thoroughly,
"There goes the new Q.C.," said one (whose husband was still waiting for briefs), ila speech at the Seymour trial is quite the seria
I looked round for my friends. They had left. I heard they had suddenly remembered they had another engagement. While I was standing alone, discomforted, I felt a tap on laid my arm. It was Banks. "Muggs," he said fald methirty shillings to fifteen." "Yes?" I said, "Dr. Anna Hatfield is reported to have sajtl {, tíon of the hour." wondering what that had to do with me. that a girl should not kiss the men she is ergen Who's the girl with him?", queried ter told me," Banke added; “ that it was on your aged to." Lan't that assertion rúmarkable.” friend; “quite remarkably pretty, isn't she?? account. I paid him rather reluctantly, won Absurd exclaimed M. Todd, with 4 Oh, yes," said the frit, that's his fancia. dering if there were any more. Later on I motherly smile. “I should want to hear from It was only settled last week, I believe. As discovered there was; and when I came to headquarters before discussing the matter.. As earl's daughter-qufie pper, but, RE YOU SAY, reckon up 1 found this to be the result for any such action in this State I do not think charmingly pretty the rage of the season, to ||Refreshments for friends while show.
it is necessary. The conservatism of Boston fact rather a prude, I hear the Puritan type of ing me how to play...
60 124 girls is well known." A
girl, you know. But men like that sort of thing Cost of billiard tables for practice ... o 8%
for a change. They say he simply worships, Paid debts (losings) made by Muggs
**You mean that their attitude toward kissing so is that of a chilling front
di Exactly."" smiled Mrs. Todd. “We have for Meinwhile the pair In greation were so £3*5:10 had some talk about kissing as unhygienic and **d up in their new fould happiness that
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utterly oblivious of the interest the girl diuidj 1 Frank, people will looking ridiculously appy, and
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£ a. d. 1753 15 0 2500 0
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737 10 7
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£7651.16 31 Lord George Sanger is credited with having once offered £15,000 for it,
The coach is glided all over except the panels, which bear Cipriani's pictures, and the interior is upholstered in crimson satin,
It was designed for King George III. by Sir William Chambers to sclipse one designed some few years earlier by Sir Thomas Elkins. The construction took threw entire years, 1759- 1762.
WHICH?
Which, says the Morning Leader, is to be the London home of King Edward VII, and Queen Alexandra-Buckingham Palace or Mari- borough House?
The answer would seem to be inevitably Buckingham Palace, the town residence of Queen Victoria since her accession..
But it is years since herlate Majesty occupied Buckingham Palace for more than a night or two at a time, though it was there thatsha watched Wellington borne to his grave and bade the Guards farewell on their way to the Crimea, and talked with Dickens two months before his death. The fact is that the place which was once the home of the Dukes of Buck
cost George Ill. 11,000-is not only the ugliest palate in Europe (someone has excepted St. James's), but also far from the heilthiest. If in both cheerless and enervating, and Queen Victoria found herself never really well when she lived in it.
This on the one hand. On the other, Marl-` Mrs. Wylie has believed in the kindergartenborough House, was bought by the Crowa for Princess Charlotte in 1817, ocupled by Queen with the ardent faith of the true disciple of
Adelaide till her death in 1849, and thereafterre Froebel, Mary and Benny have gone to their
served to await the coming of age of the Prince of Wales who is now King Edward VII. The King in his shirt sleeves once saved it from being burnt down. But despite all its momo- ries it may almost be taken for granted that Marlborough House will have to give place to the superior accommodation of the Palacs which has been the London home of the reign- ing Sovereign ever since the second year of George III.
Lindergarten as regularly as the morning comes and their mother deplored the holiday vacation
simply a clog on their upward course, "I think a kindergarten han such a refining influence on children," she said the other day to Mrs. Viselle. "I notice such difference between your children, and mine and those horried little Wagners, who just simply run wild. I can't understand, how Mrs. Wagner can let them go until they are 7 years old before they begin to learn anything. I really don't like to have Mary and Benny play with the Wagners, but would hate to hurt their mother's feelings by hinting that to her."
Mrs. Viselle also deplored the blindness of rs. Wagner, but both women agreed that they mustn't hurt her feelings by not allowing their own cherubs to play with her unregenerate offspring.
The young Wylles and Viselles, however, were extremely fond of playing with the Wag- ner children, who had a large playroom at the top of the house. One day it chanced that Mrs. Wylie and Mrs. Viselle called on Mrs. Wagner at the same time. The talk fell on schools. The two devotees of the kindergarten exchanged glances and began to tell about the wonderful influence of the kindergarten on a child's mental and moral development They. said the songs and the nature plays and the weaving of paper mats all had an influence in the development of the child.
Mr. Wagner folded her hands complacently and said that she believed in old-fashioned methods of bringing up children. She intended to keep-hers at home until they were 7 years old, then she would put them into the public schools and they would learn to make their own way without much coddling. "I li spank them when they're bad and kiss them when they're good and love them all the time," she said at the end,
Mrs. Wylic and Mrs. Viselle remarked that they considered spanking to be a relic
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can have the same delicate moral perceptions as a child that is reasoned with," they seid. Privately they both believed that their own broods were much sweeter and better than the children of the Sparen like Mrs. Waguar,
Every true mother will defend her children and her theories to the death. There Was beginning to be quite a chill in the air when there came a series of the most horrible sounds from upstairs. There were shrieks, groans and yells interspersed with heavy falls and muffled thumps. The unproer evidently came from the playroom.
"The three mothers ran up the two fights of stairs that led to the seat of war and burst in at the door in the violence of their fear. On the floor was a writhing knot of children. Little Edgar Wagner and Baby Wylie were at little distance engaged in throwing terra cotta blocks at each other. They glared like infuriated baby wolves. It took but a moment, however, to stop their warfare, then three mothere descended on the writhing, yelling knot of older children. Each sorted out her own.
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borne by four huge Tritons. Beneath, joining Swaet little Mary Wylie, renowned for her the axles of the fore and hind whests," is a angelic expression, had a large purple lump in double pole, but so curved that it is not much the centre of her forehead. Edward Viselle isgen
and Stevie Wagner wore bleeding at their respective noxes, Core Wagner had three long scratches across her checks and Banny held in ons hand a tooth which had been knocked loose and which he had to extract or swallow
Mr. Wylis and Mra, Visëllé fooked at their children in consternation, only upheld by the -belief that the trouble had beengte
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The body seems if it were formed out of eight golden palm trees, the branches of which support and hold the soot Atteach corner at the topioa iarge emblematical design, sur Her own Mary answered promptly: "I did): mounted by a helmet. From these run four mamms. I made up a play like taucher does, great laurel festoons, meeting in, the centre; only I made up a lighting play, - We was all and cherylng the centrepiece, three boys, repre- that Bible man, Ishamael, and everybody was senting thethree, kingdoms, and holding, aloft against us, and we van gesinst everybody the imperial chord dad coptro, The Chief I made it pout af my own here, at a cons feature of tan ornamentation consists of fertoons, „cluded with an air of virtuous triumph. of laurel and bay-lötven 2007 Koreaimu 3. Föntimately, Mis, Whylie, has rata ad
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