Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1906 . Comtesse Edmond de Pourtales,the Comtesse Lafont, the Marquisede Mun, the Contesse Greffulhe, andMme. Strauss had planned and fur-nished. The Parisian milliners have beenbusy all Summer preparing innumer-able new models, with which evennow their shop windows are bloom-ing. Blue tulle is a favorite ma-terial, as is also the diadem of goldlace. Wreaths of small roses are onmany a charming creation, and theuncurled ostrich plume, in possessionof which the wearer can brave theterrors of dampness, is used oftenand with beautiful effect. The hats were purchas
Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1906 . Comtesse Edmond de Pourtales,the Comtesse Lafont, the Marquisede Mun, the Contesse Greffulhe, andMme. Strauss had planned and fur-nished. The Parisian milliners have beenbusy all Summer preparing innumer-able new models, with which evennow their shop windows are bloom-ing. Blue tulle is a favorite ma-terial, as is also the diadem of goldlace. Wreaths of small roses are onmany a charming creation, and theuncurled ostrich plume, in possessionof which the wearer can brave theterrors of dampness, is used oftenand with beautiful effect. The hats were purchased at excel-lent prices, and so great was the de-mand that one model sold thirtytimes. In order to commemoratethe inception of the League, the en-tire, proceeds of this, its first sale,were turned over to a prominentcharitable organization—La SocietePhilanthropique. This was, more-over, a tribute to the founder of theLeague, for Comtesse Greffulhe isalso one of the most generous andinterested patronesses of the philan-thropic HEREDITY AGAIN INurse : He gets on beautiful sir. He takes after you, he does,exact, and he do take to his bottle so ! Hes got your eyes -Windsor. Humor in the Magazines A IS American tourist on a visitto Glasgow a short time ago,on emerging from the railwaystation was accosted by a lad v^riththe familiar shout of Carry yourbag, sir ? The gentleman, handingthe boy the bag, requested to beshown through Glasgow. Crossing George S,quare, theycame opposite Sir Walter ScottsMonument, and the boy said proud-ly : That is one of the largest monu-ments in Scotland. Oh, said the Yankee, with anair of indifference, we have three-cent cigars as big as that in Am-erica. They boarded a car going east, andjust as they alighted at the termin-us, a long circular piece of iron on a lorry drawn by twelve horses cameup the street. The American, in sur-prise, asked the boy what that wasfor. The boy, remembering what theYankee had said about the cigars,and, with a r
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