LONDON’S WINTER SEASON.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3355, 3 January 1927, Page 8

LONDON’S WINTER SEASON.

(By Lady Xorali Ben thick.) Despite the ■ country attractions of hunting and shooting, more and more people seepi to come to London in Unwinter. , . ; > Many of them like London nun-h lietter in the winter than in the snn,mer" I do. I would rather spend the darkening evenings in its warm, interesting anus than in tile bleak, hare arms of tho countryside, when •pleasure and stimulus of mind and heart and vision are as hard to come by as the great auk’s egg, Loudon is wonderful in the winter for many reasons. What is there more delightful than to come in from the streets on a cold, drizzling, murky afternoon to a gay, warm room, a large wood fire cheerfully leaping upwards, throwing fantastic, ever-moving shadows on 'the walls, and lighting up Avith its blaze shiny pieces of brass, silver, and glass? Hoav enchanting to change from the thick damp clothes of the street to soft, cosy indoor dresses, and then to drop into your favorite chair hy the fife with a book you want to read. How good to feel that near at hand is the telephone, and that along its magic wives' you can invite your most intimate friend to shave your quiet hearth. Miich eiftevtainingUof Hill especially charming kind goes oip-during the winv ter in London, and one of the reasons for its dcligbtfulness is because the rush of the real season is absent. People are no longer so, : keyed up that they always seem to, be looking over the shoulder of the person to whom they are talking in search, of some other person. . They respond to the cosy atmosphere about tbeuL London’s winter season is a ref resiling interlude before the curtain is mug lip on the noisy opera in May. Debutantes are often given preliminary canter in the winter, which will help I hem in the more strenuous affair*? of the summer months. London is one of the most healthy places in the world, and now. ivifh its tremendous possibilities of providing amusement, it is undoubtedly, one of the most pleasurable. To make it, therefore! your winter quarters is a commendable and wise choice. Yet another attempt to raise the treasure said to be contained in the Wnrnisb galleon Almirante de Florentia. sunk in Tobermorv Bay. Oban in the year LSSB. is shortly to be made by Lieut.-Colonel K. M. Foss, the “leaseholder” of the galleon from the Duke of Argyll. For bis forthcoming attempt Lieut.-Colonel Foss has designed a specially constructed diving-bell weighing three tons, with about half a iton of water ballast, and in bis task be will be assisted bv a young woman, whom be Ivs trained as a- deep-sea. diver. Marie. Alexandra Follontav. former Minister to Norway. has been "oeointed to Mexico. She is Russia's enlv "'nman diplomatist. A woman sonti is to command a Soviet T'-arm I'tlaptie steamer. She is Captain Marie Malaginoy. Russia's first woman sea captain.