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George Bray Barnard, sculptor extraordinary, is famed for his Gothic cloister in uptown New York City, where medieval sculpture and ornament abound. His works are scattered worldwide, varying in subject from The Descent from the Cross in Paris, to The God Pan on Columbia University's campus. In London stands his gaunt Abraham Lincoln, focus of livid controversy, of which Theodore Roosevelt said: "I have always wished I might...
...relics were excavated in back of the present Harvard Hall. Among them are bricks of odd shapes, one of them an oval ornament for a window, a run flint, the bone handle of a lady's parasol, a broken barometer, and fragments of the long clay pipes that were in vogue in the heyday of the old building...
...while the 6,000 people jabbered with alarm and the tigers were led out of the arena to their cages, looking less decrepit now, and licking their muzzles with junglar ferocity. The history of the lady was made public after the accident. She was Mabel Stark, once the chief ornament of Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey "cat-acts." In these she allowed herself to be embraced by a tiger, something no other woman had ever dared to do. When the Ringling circus gave up wild animal acts, because spectators often suspected cruelty to the animals, Mabel Stark was compelled...
White and bluish pink were the colors most favored this year for Court gowns, and in consequence harmonious bouquets of orchids were numerous. The most striking jeweled ornament to be worn was a $150,000 diamond sunburst originally presented to Admiral Lord Nelson by the Sultan of Turkey, and now owned by Mrs. G. Eyre-Matcham of Salisbury, England. The sunburst, operated by clockwork, revolved slowly, emitting dazzling rays which visibly attracted the attention of Their Majesties...
...Everything must be avoided which contrasts with reserve and modesty which are the ornament and safeguard of virtue. Such instruction must contain no incentive to vanity or violence. If a woman's hand must be raised, we hope and pray it may be raised only in prayer or in acts of charity...