29 AUGUST 1896, page 13

On Being A Woman.

" I T'S a horrid scrape to be a woman," said Mr. Walter Bagehot, with an insight rare indeed in the masculine observer. To most men the matter is far simpler. Women, as Mrs.......

Prawns And Prawn-pools.

D URING the past summer the price of prawns has risen higher than that of any shell-fish except the oyster, and if the present prejudice against the "native" continues, the......