. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. re situated in one of the most beautifulparts of Haverford, on hilly ground, from whichextensive views can be obtained. The ninth hole,at the bottom of the hill, is perhaps the mostbeautiful and is situated near Mill Creek, a streamwhich from its source to its outlet in the Schuylkillis almost as picturesque and historic as the Wissa-hickon, for all around and up its \ld depths AllenMcLanes light horse rode constantly in the stormydays of the Revolution. The course is eighteen holes and is consideredto be one of the best i
. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. re situated in one of the most beautifulparts of Haverford, on hilly ground, from whichextensive views can be obtained. The ninth hole,at the bottom of the hill, is perhaps the mostbeautiful and is situated near Mill Creek, a streamwhich from its source to its outlet in the Schuylkillis almost as picturesque and historic as the Wissa-hickon, for all around and up its \ld depths AllenMcLanes light horse rode constantly in the stormydays of the Revolution. The course is eighteen holes and is consideredto be one of the best in the vicinity of Philadelphia,and many important tournaments are played thereevery year. M. T. P. The Pennsylvania Academy of the FinteArts announces under its patronage an architec-tural exhibition of the T-Square Club and thePhiladelphia Chaj^ter of the American Institute ofArchitects to open the 13th of this month in thegalleries of the Academy, Broad Street, above Arch,Philadelphia. The Walter Cope ]\Iemorial Prizewill be awarded. LXXXII Fine Linen for America. OLD MKTHOD OF RETTING OLD METHOD OF BLEACHING F ?MNE LINEN EOR AMERICABY F. \\. SHU MAKER to shorten the time the same general methodpracticed by the early Egyptians is the one nowfollowed in Europe where almost all the linen yarnfor fabric purposes is prepared. The difficulty hasbeen to dissolve the fats and gums that penetrateand tenaciously bind the flax fibers. A long processof retting has been necessary to get the desired Some attic philosopher ventured theopinion that whatever men can conceiveman can, soon or late, realize, and that the miraclesof one day may become the commonplaces ofanother. Whether or not this is strictly true there results. Retting is nothing but rotting the flaxis no denying the fact that, soon or late, man plant by immersing it in water for several weeks,does work out for practical use a vast number of or by exposing it for a greater length of time to dewthings that were regarded at one
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