London July 30.
The Last Rose of Summer (which igedentally comes some time in November) can never have been more moving to our grandparents than the Last Dance of the Season' to our modern gossip writers, who fave hada lean time this summer, This was given by Lord and Lady dclendale In their Rouse in Piccadilly, andthe King asd Queen, who lived next door when they were Duke and Duchess of York, came to it and danced all through the night, and. thus nally" clinched the Queen's inuence on future styles of dancing. Her Majesty favours full-skirted evening frocks without trains. So other women will have to wear the same style and will take much longer Steps in daneing than last season, when a girl could nov take along Step backward without treading on. her gown. (But there was a time when girls picked up their trains before dancing, or hada loop on the skirt by which It could be hung on the arm.)
Altogether Somerville can boast a high record in scholarship and litera ture,
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