AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 132, 6 June 1929, Page 12

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

I In addition to her duties as first lady when her husband took over the governorship of New York on January 1, Mrs. Franklin D. Eoosevclt will teach literature in New York City and spend part Of her time running'a furniture factory. * * . « » ■ The newest trinkets sponsored by fashion make their own appeal to the seeker after individual gifts. Enamel workers' have never been more artistic in carrying out original notions than they arc to-day. And the newest and most "personal" gift idea takes the form of an exquisitely wrought. flower, in tinted enamel, attached to a slender silver chain. » # * * Lord and Lady Athlone are among the Royalties who are obviously happily married. Princess ,AHce is very lovable and her husband has "all the sense of-humour of. the. family," he was once heard to declare—he meant his own "Tcck" family, to which the Queen belongs.- The' tragic end of the young Lord Trematon brought father, mother and daughter even closer together. ♦' * * • _ The Queen has sixteen women attendants at Court, including the. mistress of the robes and a maid of honour, though only rarely, are they all on duty together. The ladies-in-waiting customarily take it iii tlirhs to attend Her Majesty. Two of them are.chosen.each 111911th 'by tl'yj. Queen and usually it is the older generation who are oil duty during the quiet months. This month the Queen has chosen Lady Desborough and Lady Joan Verney; Lady Desborough because she is such a sympathetic confidante —two of her sons, fell in the war and the youngest was killed in a motoring accidpnt—and Lady Joan Verney because her husband- is the. Queen's private secretary, and it is a happy arrangement to have them both at Court together in the present'crisis.'