WORLD'S RICHEST BABY.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXV, Issue 3266, 7 February 1935, Page 6

WORLD'S RICHEST BABY.

CHILD TO BE ENTERED FOR ETON. The richest baby in the world will be entered next year for Eton. It is a common practice among; wealthy families to nominate their boys for Eton or Harrow in early infancy. This new scholar for the years to come is the infant son and heir of the Crown Prince of Hyderabad, son of the Nizam of Hyderabad, the richest man in the world and ruler of India's premier state of 14,000,000 subjects! The boy was born a few months ago. His mother, a beautiful Turkish princess; is the daughter of the last of the Turkish sultans and caliphs whom Mustapha Kemal banished. The baby will inherit a private fortune of £100,000,000, the gold mines of Golconda, and 50 marble palaces, castles and forts. He is also heir to the title conferred during the Indian Mutiny—" The Faithful Ally of the British Government." Already the baby is dressed in heavily bejewelled cloth of gold. During the summer heat the infant chafed, but only when doctors ordered it was he put into more comfortable clothes. CLEANING A PANAMA. To clean a panama, brush it free from dust, removing the ribbon, then make a lather with hot water and a good soap. Put this in a basin large enough to hold the hat. Put the hat on a towel on the table, and brush the soapy Avater thoroughly into it, occasionally dipping the hat into the basin of lather to remove, the dirty suds. When it appears clean, rinse it in fresh, warm water containing about a teaspoonful of ammonia. Get some clean water, add a tablespoonful of glycerine, and rinse the hat well in this. Lay it on a towel in the sun to dry, and occasionally pull it into shape with the fingers. Or you can make a "block" with a suitable pudding basin covered with soft cloths and turned upside down so that it just fills the crown.

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TABLE SMARTNESS. NEW IDEAS FOR HOSTESSES. New table mats of glass, wood, rubber, or cork are useful for informal meals as an occasional change from your linen luncheon sets. Square cork mats are gaily painted in a three-coloured cubist design. Other plain cork mats have a coloured picture of one's favourite dog, be it spaniel, retriever, or Alsatian. Round or square rubber mats, too, are handpainted in a variety of designs. Wooden mats which are heatproof and stainless are now heing made to match every type of table in light oak, sycamore, limed oak, or mahogany. Folding wooden mats are specially designed to fit the dinner waggon or sideboard, so that there is no fear of polished surfaces heing spoiled. There .are, of course, small mats of the same type. A smart London hostess has luncheon mats made from old engravings sandwiched between a sheet of glass and a piece of stiffened haize. Any woman who is clever with her fingers could imitate this idea, backing a favourite print with a cork mat and fitting over it a glass mat of the same size. The edges can be bound together with a piece of black or coloured passe-partout. Wooden cocktail mats, each inscribed with a suitable phrase—''Have Another?" or "Here's to You"—are very gay, and are certainly worth their price for protecting polished trays and tables. Mats of real lace, are fashionable again, and are most suitable for the formal dining-table that is laid with

sparkling cut glass and silver. Small-sized table na.pkins of the finest linen, edged with matching lace, should accompany these. Organdie table mats in pastel colours are at their smartest when veined with fine drawn-thread work, and even whole tablecloths —for festive occasions—are made of this diaphanous but strong-wearing material. Pink is the colour most in vogue for these. WHO SAID 1 "Tobacco has made more good men, good hu(sbands, kind masters and indulgent fathers than any other blessed thing on this universal earth."—"Sam Slick—the Clockmaker." "Tobacco smoke is the one element in which by our European maimers, men can sit silent together without embarrassment.' '—Thomas Carlylc. "The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher and shuts up the mouths of the foolish."—Thackeray. i "Smoking makes nie a bolter Christinn.'' —Bishop Moorhouse. "I do hold it and will affirm it before any pyinee in Europe to be the most sovereign and precious weed that ever earth tendered to the use of man." —Ben Jonsou. "There is nothing to equal the plea- : sure t get out of my pipe since I switched to Blue Shield (Medium) and TJod Shield (Dark).' They are indeed !s f ew Zealand. Tobaccos, at their best—find so delightfully cool and satisfying —at 1/7 per -oz. tirr —I consider .them very modestly prices-."—Thousands of smokers who have learned how good tobacco can reallv be. 63