Mra, Scott, owner of Battleship! who won the Grand National yesterday, arrived from America about in time to see the race.
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The school at present has ae. commodation for $0 boarders and 150 day scholars. The cost of maintain" of women owners had entered horses, Including the Duchess of Norfolk, but none of them had any luck except Mrs. Scott. "All the papers com-
Ing of each boarder is $23 dollars '8) ment on her apparent difference to} month. At the present time school is desperately in need of equi ment such as sheets, dishes, towels and linen. Since the premises were Joceupied by Chinese cholera patients Jduring last summer, the bulk of the former equipment "ig no longer in The schoo! fills such a re civie need that it is hoped that as many) Jas can will assist by patronizing the Dall mentioned, her triumph and the "soft Virginian draw!" in which she spoke of it Yet the race made history in several ways. This was the first lime it had been won by an Ameri-an-bred horse, the smallest (15 hands 2 inches) ever to do s0, who had come back from the stud race, and has sons and daughters racing in America. Added to this that his jockey, Bruce Hobbs, was only' 17 last Christmas, the youngest professional National Hung jockey, and Is the son of the man who trained For Your Summer Table the "horse.
Afler weeks of sunshine the wea-
Set your luncheon table with n hing! but erystal—and by "crystal understand glass if your pocket prefers it—crystal plates, soup plates, glasses. pit chers, salad bowls, and even forks and Set them on plain-coloured foiled silk place mats which you can make yourself. The "crystal" can be picked up in any of the Shanghai [stores nowadays. It is al '50 cheap that one wonders how the manufacturers can turn it out. ther became. perversely wet and smart frocks disappeared under cloaks and macintoshes Some whose hair was done in the momen farlly popular Grecian curls, served them against the wet. under all skins. The Princess Royal was there in Lord Derby's box, watching the races mostly through shut windows.
'Some of the young girls kept themselves dry and warm in' woollen bonnets gaily coloured and very be-
Moke your buffet parti decent coming to the small, helpless type of with cream-and-brown pottery tes. "Now fashions suitable for rainy Bowls and casseroles. Set them on] ratiny days are cian shown, pure [These latter can be ordered {hick raia mats in gaudy colours.|ticylarly "a. transparent waterproof} cape of brilliant hue, scarlet, green, the matting. shops and the pottery) wee of Prowant is said to have fan be found for, the bunting Porug Beer invented in America, but oe, mats made from the solld Se} uncommonly ike the capes and coats] well known in England before the! new idea. Anything a litle rough fand_ rustic somehow books cool and inviting.
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