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...Carpet. Captain Mildred Olsen, of the Salvation Army, received a summons to appear before Commander Evangeline Booth, at Lake George, N. Y., and explain her conduct in bobbing her hair. Captain Olsen is 25, an expert swimmer and diver. Commander Booth's niece, Mary Booth, had her hair bobbed in France during the period of her War work. She was condemned by General Bramwell Booth to stay away from the front until her hair grew long again. Will the decision of the Commander differ from that of the General...
Alexander Smith Cochran, millionaire carpet manufacturer and second husband of the now Ganna Walska McCormick, whilom opera star: " In my private yacht, Restless, I arrived in Honolulu from England via Panama. The Restless cost $500,000. She is on her maiden voyage around the world...
Instead of using the magic carpet of the Arabian Nights, King Feisal of Iraq will fly over the Arabian desert from Bagdad to Amman in seven hours to meet his brother Emir Abdullah of Transjordania in a political conference...
...East talk of music, and art, and literature in a carpet-covered room, never realizing that the West is still full of Rocky Mountains, and Piute Indians, whose music is the war-song of a Sitting Bull, whose art is the art of shooting straight, and whose literature is what they read from the bitter books of experience! For further particulars ask any Englishman...
...dining room" Miss Eustis explained, "where wool, peppers, onions, and corn are hung up about the room to dry. In the first act on a late September afternoon in 1820, before the marriage of Peetcha, Case Steenkoop's son; everything is in disorder. There are bits of dingy rag carpet on the floor; a single harness, cider jug, horse pall, and other things have been left carelessly about the room. By the second act, five years later, a woman has entered the house, the room is much neater, and a bright carpet has replaced the rags on the floor...