[Illustration]
Here we have a group of merry-faced schoolgirls indulging in a jump
arm-in-arm together, and the snap-shot gives us a very vivid idea of
the almost incredible positions assumed by the limbs and body under
such circumstances. The four girls on the left apparently led off,
and seem to be quite complacently perched in mid-air, but the trio on
the right are decidedly unsteady in their alignment, whilst the young
maid on the extreme flank is quite distressed in her uncertainty. The
photograph was taken at the château of the Marquise San Carlos, near
Paris, by Miss Lilian Noble, of Slissinghurst Grange, Cranbrook.