Ttis a constant source of argoment slother dances with programmes or laces without are the more enjoyable. Teequestion appears to be clinched, at least in so far as Indies are cancer bra grave warning which tdetors feel bound to issue against the duagers which programmes contain. Quite recently in Paris a lady was tucked with a painful eruption on the trck,—this is not " patent medicine adetisement, but " plain narration of fact gunateed by respectable newspapers. Oneonsulting & doctor she confessed flat she bad been to a dance a couple of sights before the eruption appeared, and tat she was in the habit of slipping her Programme in at the top of her décolleté} tume, This, of course, is a usual
programme was decorated with o with ladies. On this occasion coquet of beautiful roses, the brilliant colour of which was due to Rbstance known as cosine; and this ingredient in the cover of the programme von brought in contact with the win skin was pronounced to have the eruption, Painted roses spear to have peculiar influences in have served on the outgoing Council, of which the two members who do not seek re-election are Mr. E. B. Skottowe si and Mr. J. C. Hanson, both due to' take prolonged leave this spring. The new candidates for municipal honours Stepbarius, who must be of/ as a rival for the German seat, and Mr. D. Coath, who represents new American blood. On the face of things the issue is one of personal predilection. The Settlement has the satisfaction of knowing that there are at least eleven men capable and willing to serve it, trid the outgoing Council receives tacit endorsement of its policy in so far as the new nominees may be supposed to be candidates in the main for the two vacancies.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.