IN THE CARD-ROOM OF A LONDON CLUB.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 429, 11 August 1904, Page 3

IN THE CARD-ROOM OF A LONDON CLUB.

Neither frost nor thaw is supposed to affect the deniseßs of club-land, bat only family people. A whist club not a thousand miles from Charing Gross nevertheless discovered the other daj, writes Mr Jamea Payn, that it possessed no such immunity. Imagine four tables ' going' in a large room lit by electric light, in an atmosphere of silence, aud with all tie solemn circumstances that environ the sacred game, and suddenly, as though evoked by a miraculous rod, a cataract bursting from the wall!' However, it swamped only oae set, and the rest went on with that Bublime inattention to the troubles of others peculiar to whist-players and hunting-men Those brothers have come to grief in a ditch, 'Under this chandelier,' said one gentlemm, who had been holding exsellent hands, ' I think we are pretty safe, no matter what the thaw does'; and, as the words left his lips, about half a ton of water came down his back from the very source of light. ' I am not going to leave my seat/ he spluttered, ' with cards like this I' Waiter, nij umbrella 1'

Mob's or waits can very often be removed by use of lemon-juice or aqetic acid. If on the face electrolysis is always to b) preferred, as with other treatments there ia danger of soars being left.

If the feet are tender it is a mistake to soak them too long. Leave them a few moments in water, then cover with bozaoie powder. Sprinkling the stocking with same powder,

The chemists sell a penny picket of borax&line, which, thrown in the water at night, renders ic beautifully soft for morning use, - / .*•■ ■