SPRING CLEANING?
Owners of town houses are divided on the subject of spring cleaning, writes a London correspondent. February and March are busy social months, and women bringing, out debutante daughters usually decide that spring cleaning must be postponed until some more convenient date. The system adopted at Buckingham Palace and York House appeals to many chatelaines. New curtains are put. up now, to give houses a fineweather air, but cleaning operations are left until August, when the London season'is over. A $oyal chatelaine who insists on spring'cleaning at the correct time is . Princess Alice Countess of Athlone. March is always the month when furniture goes under dust-sheets at Clock Hoiise, Kensington Palace. Curtains have been down, sofas and armchairs under cover, and a protective pillow-case slipped over the head of each statue, for some time while activities were in progress.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 112, 14 May 1938, Page 19
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141SPRING CLEANING? Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 112, 14 May 1938, Page 19
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