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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 87, 7 January 1919, Page 9

.-.-•■ ' .6 Among the many despised things that have come into their own through Armageddon in England, not the least not- ' able is the common or village ' goat. ■ .Time was, not' iong ago,.when this was tho most condemned of all.domestic animals, .the.no plus ultra of Zoological in- ; ■ significance. Superior folk hardly knew it, except by name, and that'merely as ,'a. synonym for a fatuous person. Tho highest position in life it could liope to achieve was the shafts of a baby's gocart'in'a well-to-do family; Here it was , tho children's -plaything,ranking pari J passu' with theii.". otlicr toys', 'with the gollywog, the (eddy bear, and tho rock- * ing-lio'rse.' A sovereign was a good price 3' for if.'''Often it'wn's known to change '• 'hands' .at a 'modest dollar. '-That was „ only a. year or two" back.' Yet how-ab- f, surd it sounds-to:dny, when the'despised ( animal 1 ' has leapt- at a' bound' from its clieap absurdity'and butted into an ex- n ■pensive' front place in the limelight. Must now*- .£lO is nothing for a respect- ? .ib'le specimen. • For an aristocrat of the genus' you will bo-asked anything from- : ;ln in "ili guineas. ' What is:.the- most '-•a.liinblc costume in the world? An inventory of the dresses , of queens, of the wives of the niahnra.jnhs of India,, and of the princesses of', .fashion, in "every land would no doubt J include costumes of fabulous value, but ,eo'iil(| any of.them, .match Iwo gowns men- " t'oued 'In Thcpphiio Oaiitier's "Italy" :— "The sacristy of.the Cathedral.at Milan ..contains a treasure which ought not to .' surprise, those who have seen the ward- . . robe of Noire Dame at Toledo, Spain, in c which a. single ;robe covered with white and black pearls, is worth seven mil- | .ion..francs. (Uflfl.flOOddl:), and yet that of I -Milan .is'fully as valuable." ' ' j ( ;'. For Children's liackirig Cough, I '■■' Woods' Groat .Peppermint 'Cure*