bs: Athletic, musical.
ARC, Joan of, celebrated French suffragette. Spent girlhood milking cows
and embroidering. When the English ministry began operations in France
J. dropped her embroidery in the milk bucket and began suffragetting.
She did not break windows or blow up anything. Gathered a host of males
about her and captured towns. English exited. J. went back to the cow,
but again had to take to the armor. She was finally jailed, and burnt
up by the Radical ministry. She burned an old maid. Recreation: Barn
dances, churning. Clubs: Orleans Suffragette.
ARISTOTLE. Introduced brains into Greece.
ARMOUR, a Chicago family who keep the world supplied with meat, and
themselves out of the government jails.
ARNOLD, Benedict, a man who sent his name down through history with a
bad odor attached to it.
ARTHUR, King, a very dead English sovereign who manufactured the Round
Table, and did all the things a good English king should do. Little is
known of his Prince of Waleshood. Was crowned in Westminster Abbey, but
without the American contingent. Became proficient as a knight. Stayed
away from the palace so much his queen began flirting. Al's sword was
a wonder. Press Agent: Lord Tennyson. recreation: Grailing. Address:
Windsor, Buckingham.
ASQUITH, Herbert Henry, an Englishman who helped run things in his
country before 1908, and who ran things after 1908. Was also a
favorite rallying point for suffragettes. Led a successful wing-dipping
expedition against some of his countrymen who held titles to names
and property. Also juggled dynamite in Parliament (see Lloyd-George).
Ambition: Women without ambitions. Recreation: Dodging, golf. Address:
Constantly in danger of a change. Clubs: Favored Radical.
ATKINS, Thomas, celebrated red-coat-wearing dandy who flirts with nurses
and cooks, spends his time boasting about South Africa and the U. S. A.,
posing for motion pictures, and exhibiting royalty. Authorities differ
as to his marksmanship, although it is now conceded he can often hit a
man-sized target at the distance of 4 feet 3 inches. Weather, however,
must be clear. Is an authority on creases, backbone, accent, and tea.
Beverage: Everything. Recreation: Jacks, collecting stamps, Kipling,
blindman's-buff, parlor tricks, May-pole festivities. Ambition:
Tortoise-shell monocles, camp manacurists, pocket bath-tubs, and
restoration of the tea canteen. Epitaph: See Emperor William.
ATLAS, a man who held up the heave
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