A bazaar in aid of the Association for Promoting the
General Welfare of the Blind is to be held at Argyll Lodge, Campden Hilly Kensington, by the permission of the Duchess of Argyll, on Wednesday and Thursday., the 21st and 22nd June ; admission to begin. " at 12 a.m.," says the prospectus,—whenever that may be. 12 a.m. clearly ought to mean midnight no less than 12 p.m., but we conclude it is an imperfect attempt to express the idea of noon. All the duchesses, marchionesses, countesses, dowager-duchesses, dowager-marchionesses, and dowager-countesses in England appear to patronize it, and they only demand 2s. 6c1. entrance fee to this galaxy of nobilities on the first day, and only ls. on the second. The association is really a beneficent one, and it is quite justifiable and desirable to tax the admiration for duchesses, marchionesses, countesses, &c., for the sake of those unfortunate blind people who will never see them.
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