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STILL IS THE SUMMER NIGHT-August Derleth-Scribner ($2.50). Dramatic story of two brothers' love for one woman (conclusion inevitable), fluently told against an interesting background of smalltown Wisconsin life in the 1880s...
From the wheezing pugs and spotted Dalmatians of the 1880s through the French poodles of the Century's turn and the post-War German shepherds, fashions in dogs have fluctuated almost as frequently and inexplicably as fashions in dress. Katharine Cornell's co-starring Flush in The Barretts of Wimpole Street may have had something to do with the cocker spaniel's recent spectacular rise in the U. S. A more likely explanation, considering its simultaneous rise in Britain, is growing appreciation of the flop-eared little dog's all-around qualities...
...date" but which stood her in good stead in her lifelong pursuit of Romance. Elinor's older sister (afterwards Lady Duff-Gordon) was considered the beauty of the family. Elinor herself had red hair and green eyes, and red hair was not the thing in the 1880s...
Socialite but not smart is Brearley School. It has never wanted to be smart. The fathers who persuaded Samuel Brearley of Harvard and Balliol to found it were disgusted with the genteel finishing schools of the 1880s. They wanted their daughters to be as well prepared as their sons for college. When Founder Brearley died in 1886 they got for headmaster, James G. Croswell, an old-school classicist from Harvard. In 28 years he set a scholarly tone which Brearley has never lost. In the select sisterhood of Manhattan's half-dozen famed private schools for girls it retains...
...Stein & Co. Despite the rise of Nudism, Paris garters are sold in 65 foreign countries, and in a good year A. Stein & Co. makes nearly $1,000,000. (But last year it made only $280,00.) The concern was started in a one-room plant in Chicago in the 1880s by Albert Stein, a German immigrant, to turn out ladies' fancy garters with rabbits' feet and silver buckles and the blazing armbands favored by the high-collared boulevardiers of that era. One by one he imported his three brothers, the last of whom, Sigmund, is now head...