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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 410, 20 January 1909, Page 8

In tho way. of new colours in ladies' dresses,' we aro now treated to such vagaries as Esterhazy blue," Spahi grey, hood blue, cabbage and Scsostris green. But red is tho really smart colour.—" Le Cri de Paris." It is a fine thing to bo able Tio make hundreds of people'laugh heartily. To have the power to achieve this purpose is little less than a gift of tho-gods, and tho price of a real humorist is undoubtedly above rubies.— " Lady's Pictorial." . Tho only" two countries who draw some benefit from' their" colonies and understand how, to manage them ore England and Holland, twojeountnes which have many national characteristics in, common.—" Handelsblad," Amsterdam. In criticising others, the German Emperor ha l ) laid himself open to such criticism as never before has been levelled at a monaieh. Never moro will ho hold the position which once was his, He has left the' loftiest pedestal of sovereignty, and he will never regain it.-