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Evening Star, Issue 10394, 16 August 1897, Page 4

It "is not often that a woman is able to array herself in any fabric which 300 yeara ago was the property of a Queen of England. Ihe Countess of Pembroke had, however this proud privilege at a recent " drawing room, when her magnificent white-and-silver gown and light peach velvet train were trimmed with old point de Flandre which once belonged to and had been worn by Queen Elizabeth. It was in admirable preservation, and consisted of deep flonneea, partly of floral design, and also displaying a terrace walk, with birds on pedestals—quaint and curious. "We often hear of sensational bets being made, ich as a guinea to a gooseberry or a Biblebacked .policeman to a pint of sheoak, but there a nothing safer to bet on than iha effitauw « wooas urat Feppermlnt Cto fof coughs ana colas,—)!advt,] '