Glass Topped Kitchen Tables.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18900, 26 October 1929, Page 10

Glass Topped Kitchen Tables.

English cabinet-makers have started to make kitchen tables, writing bureaus, and dressing-tbles with tops of plate glass so thick that they do not require a wood surface between them.. Thus is produced a piece of furniture with drawers into which one can see without opening. This will be a splendid idea for the housewife with a model kitchen, where everything has its place and stays in it.

Poets’ Corner. Poets’ Corner, in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, is one of the most well-known spots in that beauti ful abbe)'. It received its name more through accident than by design. Chaucer, “the father of English poetry,” was the first poet to be buried here, in 1100. But he owed this honour solely to the fact that he had held the office of Clerk of the Works, and dwelt in the abbey garden in a house that was afterwards pulled down to make room for Henry Vll’s Chapel. Two hundred years later Spenser, the author of the “Faerie Queen,” was aid to rest beside Chaucer, to be followed at intervals by Dryden and other famous poets. Hence the popular name for this portion of the abbey.