Thursday, January 25, 1900

From the day

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The Headlines

EXTREME ANXIETY FELT IN LONDON; News Awaited of Buller's Attempt to Seize Spion Kop. CROWDS BESIEGE WAR OFFICE Recognized that Success Must Be Bought at Great Cost. Conjectures and Forecasts of All Sorts Take the Place of Actual News from the Scene of Action.

Best-selling Sheet Music

A Bird in a Gilded Cage

Harry Von Tilzer

The must-have

Lionel Trains

You Share a Birthday With

• Virginia Woolf (1882)
• Robert Burns (1759)
• Robert Boyle (1627)
• W. Somerset Maugham (1874)
• Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736)

Slang

Tech Check

Kodak Brownie Camera, Zeppelin Airships & Escalators.

Style of 1900

Silhouette: S-bend corset and pouter pigeon chest

Material: Lace, silk, and heavy wool

• Gibson Girl hair
• Parasols
• High collars

Cost of Living (1900)