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"A grand Mahogany Bedstead, 9-1/2' x 8', with posts and testers
complete, meant for Rajas and Zemindars. Can also accommodate 4
middle-class people comfortably. Going for Rs. 500."--_Advt. in
Indian Paper_.
Mr. KENNEDY JONES will kindly call the attention of the Middle Classes
Union to this proposed congestion.
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[Illustration: PLAYING THE 18TH--LAST ROUND OF THE DAY.
"YOU FOOL, CADDIE! HOW CAN I PLAY FROM THAT LIE WITH A WOODEN CLUB?"
"SORRY, SIR. I'VE JUST CLEANED THE IRONS."]
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THE ROOFS OF THE MIGHTY.
At the meeting held recently in the hall of the Worshipful Company of
Hatters in Tile Street, the Chair was taken jointly (as in the old
monarchical days at Brentford) by the Bishop of LINCOLN and Mr. ARNOLD
BENNETT, and among the company were the SPEAKER, Lord RIBBLESDALE, Sir
SQUIRE BANCROFT, Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL and Mr. EUGENE CORRI.
The two Chairmen, speaking almost in unison, stated that the meeting
had been convened in order that the views of the enlightened might be
gathered regarding the proposed revival of the tall hat or topper. A
recrudescence of this form of covering for the hair (or otherwise) was
threatened under the name of the Victory Derby, and a paragraph in
_The Times_ announced that "so remarkable has been the revival in the
silk-hat trade that old men who had gone into retirement in the Denton
and Stockport districts are being asked to come back and give what
productive energy they possess.
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