General Knowledge Questions
OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss Margaret Elliot, Alesworth, Bishop's Stortford, Herts, for the following :-
Some Sartorial Questions-from Fable, Fact and • Fiction
1. Who wore . " . . . a faded silk, A faded mantle and a faded veil " ?
2. For whom were red shirts de rigueur ?
3. Who was nicknamed after his boots ?
4. Who left his red stockings exposed to the view t 5. What ancient shirt wrought destruction ? - 6. Whose baby shoe restored her fallen fortunes ?
7. Who longed -to wear velveteens and ankle-jacks ?
8. Whose thick scarf and very broad hat must have added to her deafness ?
9. What man would have perished without his suspenders ?
10. On whose ‘behEdf and by whom _was this advice given : "Get her a flannel waistcoat and flannel drawers, tna.'am, if you wish to keep her alive." - II. Who went riding in a borrowed hat and wig 12. Of -whom was this said -: " It pleases you to-day to wear the mood and kirtle, and perhaps you may be seen to-morrow m hat and feather, hose and doublet?' 13. What bride was deprived, of a new dress, with a sleeve "like a demi-cannon : . carved like an apple-tart " before she had ..gver,Tun it 2 • . Answers will on
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