The effect however was altogether
delightful.
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The decorations for a particularly smart "pink-and-white" dinner at one of
our smartest restaurants last evening were charmingly carried out in spring
rhubarb and Spanish onions, the table being softly illuminated by tinted
electric lights concealed in hollow turnips, fashioned to represent the
heads of famous statesmen.
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FROM THE SERIAL STORY.
"Sick at heart, Adela tottered across the room and, opening her bureau,
drew from its secret hiding-place an old letter. As she tremblingly removed
it from the envelope a few faded leaves fluttered down to the floor. It was
the brussels-sprout he had given her on the night they parted."
* * * * *
AN INDUCEMENT.
"WANTED, Nurse, L30, for three children, 13, 7, and 3 years: nurseryman
kept."--_Evesham Journal_.
To help, we suppose, in making up the beds.
* * * * *
"The stream proved treacherous in the extreme, being a succession of
rapids and whirlpools.
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