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GENERAL EXTRACTS.

A DUMFRIESSHIRE POSTAL FAMILY. The whole postal service of a rural parish ill Dumfriesshire is performed by a single family-- The mother of the family—a w :!0W —is the village postmistress; eldest jsjofl, who is a cripple, ; delivers the corte qjeiideitce of one part of the parish With tin :.i sistartce of a dtthkey and cart; lief, tWO daughters, both of whom are . girls under sixteen, carry the -letters to Other psKs of the - parish \ aild the postal wants of tbfe remaining pfirt of the parish are attended to by her other son, «a boy of fifteen. The combined Wages of the family do not ainfnjfli to £150 per annum. ' ' ', !

OLDEST FAMILY IN THE WORLD,

Of the foUr hundred batons in the British | House of Lords about a deaendate back to 1400, the earliest being 1254, -. The oldest j family in the British Isle» i* the Mat family, in Scotland, 1093. ; The Campbells, of Argyll, began in 1190. Tallpytands date from i 1199, and Bismarck' from 1270. The Gifts- j venor family, the Duke of. Westminster, 1066; the Austrian house of Hapshurg goes I back to 952 and the house of Bourbon to 864. The descendants of Mohammed, born, 570, are all. registered carefully and . au- j thoritatively in A book kept in Mecca by a chief of the family, Little or no doubt 1 exists of the absolute authenticity of the long line of Mohamfiied's descendants. In j China there, are J many old families, .also | among the Jevs. , But in point of pedigrees j the Mikado of . Japan has a lihique tecofd.' His place has been filled, by members (if his family far more thrift ttfehty-fiVe hundred! years. The pieseiirt Mikado is the lß2hdi 111 the line. The first Was contemporary With ' Nebuchadnezzar, 666 years before' Christ.

THE LATEST CLttß FOR WOMEN, i There is irtlich talk of the scheme for an international residential Club for intellectual; Women, to be Killed the Lyceum Club; r - The originator of the idea* says the Outlook, is Miss Constance Smedlcy* and the club has for its first atid dearest object the. providing: ] of a home at reasonable charges for that! large. class of , women-writers who cbiiife <to ■ London to torn their living; by repotting, or ally other btatlch of journalistic and literary; work, and fof Want of inoney are compelled 1 to live in a bsd'sitting'rodm iflaome itreiily qtiArter. >,>. Gently brought up as » many .of • these i women are, and fond, as every gentlewoman i ! is, of the delicacies of existence, the niceties; Which make One recognise a lady's home the instant one enters it; they are condemned to liVe a colrttlrlefes life ill a cheerless room. $ too one is glad to see them When they get ill after a loilg d;ty, and the : companionship Of a book is all they can hope for during the lonely evenings.'. : . The Lyceum Club will try to change all that } these " intellectual women" Will there ; find a home, with large, airy reception a at their disposal) properly cooked food, in a convenient part of London for' tlieii work, and With ;is trtUCli Wlthpaiiiotts'fiij) as their iftdividtiftl natures lead % them to seek among tlie other lnfettibeis. Foreigners eofiiillg to London will be glad of the dub, ill preference to the uiilioihelike expense of a hotel or. the still more dreary economy of cheap apart- ! ments, The club also promises to be* a valuable libit between literary and distinguished women all over the world, Of the many details smelt as a service of private carriages,; mi iiitelligcitee bureau _ and chafing-dish;imp* pers tinder s' the , direction of an American chef, I have no room tit tell oil now, The club Will be open oil Sundays With music, and eh! what a different day Will the seventh of the week lie > to those; Women I have mentioned, Who ate now doomed to spend it in solitude, since they have no place wherein to receive friends and cannot always be receiving hospitality t ant' giving n&ftt.. Theirs exists lib more dreadful pTdte in Which to spend a, lonely Sunday than this big gray London of outs. The *cbncerts . Which • are now arranged at most .of the halls ; and theatres on Sundays are iiiendihg matters to some degree;, but- the Sabbath is still a j dreary; day to the lonely and the stranger,. I

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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12570, 11 May 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)

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GENERAL EXTRACTS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12570, 11 May 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)

GENERAL EXTRACTS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12570, 11 May 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)