Hotels For Convalescing.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1931, Page 18 (Supplement)

Hotels For Convalescing.

A. patient of a Wim-pole Street doctor was sent by him recently, not to a nursing home, but to an hotel in the Lancaster Gate district; states a London paper. -She was not ill enough to need nursing, but it was essential that she should stay in bed in a room with an even temperature, and, to save her the high feps of a nursing home, the specialist arranged for her to go to this hotel. This specialist frequently sends patients to the hotel, whose proprietor is glad to fill his rooms. With centralheating, running hot water in the room, an obliging staff, who do not mind performing little services for the patient the semi-invalid is able to recuperate in better conditions, possibly, than in most households, and at a cost far less -than would have to be paid in nursing homes. We are told that doctors are finding such hotels a pleasant solution of the problem of the patient who cannot get adequate attention in her o*wn home.

Oldmaidish?” The real Victorian tippet of ermine and velvet, in'fine split marmot skins -and satin, or of chenille and marabout has come back, writes a correspondent. In other days it suggested an oldmaidish and unbecoming cross between a collar and a cape. Even nbw it can bo distinctly of an awkward length, but modern “chic” presents the tippet of 1930 in attractive ways. As a bridge

wrap it is tlirpwn well b?ek eo that it drops off the shoulders, which makes it easier to wear. The' latest modern version can be cut longer,'therefore it its more useful and gleeful. In fapt, all sorts of new ways with the Victorian tippet may render it an important feature in the way of the house wrap. There is a new type of evening wrap in the form of a fichu scarf cape ’that covers the shoulders to cross’ over in front or tie in a bow knot. These fichu ci|pes look charming in white on white when embroidered with beads, and in a fantasy ' fish Het of bri”hi gold edged wjth a black tulle nifflfe oil black. A wide line of quilttoo,' enhances the plain back- of one in° Imht capuciiie printed chiffon to match a graceful evening gown, with a simple line, of narrow quilting round the decollete.