Victorian Vogue

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 22, 21 October 1937, Page 5

Victorian Vogue

Old-Fashioned Names Are Again Popular ■'Dominion” Special Service—By Air Mail. Loudon, October 1. WITH a wave of plays about Queen Victoria and films about Queen Victoria, comes a vogue for 1 ictorian names for the important babies of Mayfair. The great-granddaughter of Lord Derby and granddaughter of Lord Halifax, Mrs. Charles Wood’s newly-arrived baby, is to be given Victoria as her second name. Mrs. Wood’s mother, Lady Victoria Bullock, was so named after the Queen. The baby’s first mime is to be Caroline. But although 1937 babies may have 1837 names, their nurseries are very different from the stuffy, overfurnished rooms in which our grandmothers grew up. A modern mother witli novel ideas about nurseries is Mrs. 1 incent Paravicini—she was Liza Maugham, daughter of Somerset Maugham, the author. Mrs. Paravicini, who is expecting tier first baby next month, is having two rooms decorated as nurseries at the top of her town house. The walls are plain cream, with a narrow frieze of fairytale scenes, but low down in the outside walls are special glass peep-holes, which children arc bound to find much more fascinating than ordinary windows.