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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 155, 27 March 1926, Page 10

From Tallemant des Reaux we gather that the young lady had taste and originality. She was the first, he says, to have a room painted “in any other colour than red or tawny brown.” Bluo velvet hangings with gold and silver embroideries she chose, and she also set the fashion of having separate rooms for special purposes, instead of dining, sleeping, meeting people, dancing 01 play-acting in any room that chanced to be convenient. For eeeh of her guests there was a chair, “or other seat, the ' 'best piece of furniture accorded to the highest in rank, and for each one present a screen as protection from the cold nnd draught."