NOTES AND JOTTINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 428, 20 November 1930, Page 2

NOTES AND JOTTINGS

Home Truths. The Queen, while visiting an exhibition recently, was shown a room furnished with antiques (says “Time and Tide”). Her guide, finding an album of postage stamps in tho room, drew her attention to them. “I expect these will interest Amur Alajesty,” he said. The Queen looked at them a little grimly, then smiled and said: “No, thank you, I get too much of them at home! ’ ’ Mrs Grundy. News comes from England that there are rumours on all sides that the “cocktail age” is nearing its end ami that Airs Grundy is once again to come into her own. It was believed that she had been killed, and her voice stifled for ever. But apparently this was not so. Young people seem to be beginning to realise once again that Airs Grundy, with her long skirts and laughable ways, and her constantly disapproving nose, might have been a bit of a bore at times, but that with it all she stands for wholesomeness and selfrespect. And so one finds long hair taking the place of shingled locks, skirts reaching decorously well below the knees, and rumour also has it that even the chaperone may again be reinstated during the coming season. The King’s Aerodrome.

The King is having a private aerodrome constructed in the grounds of Sandringham. When it is completed the aerodrome will rank with the one at Fort Belvedere (of which it is almost a replica) as the finest private aerodrome in England. The “drome” is intended for the use of the Prince of Wales and the King’s other sons and also for visitors to .Sandringham.

The entire cost of the aerodrome, totalling several thousands of pounds, will be borne by the King personally, as .Sandringham is a private estate an'd is not maintained by the Office of Works as are tho royal palaces. M.P. Wife of a Premier.

“Lady Sguires, wife of the Prime Alinistcr of Newfoundland,” states an English writer, “has established two precedents—she is the first and only woman member of Parliament in Newfoundland and she is the only woman in the Empire to sit in a Parliament of which her husband is the Premier. In another way she is less original, for she shares his political views. Lady Squires has been a frequent visitor to London. Her eldest daughter was educated at an English school and at tho Royal College of Alusic. Her two oldest boys ■were at Harrow, but are now at a Canadian university. The youngest boy, now at a preparatory school in England, will also go from to a Canadian university. Lady Squires graduated in Canada. Aliss Elaine Squires accompanied Sir Richard Squires to the Economic Conference at Berlin last year.”

Life Abroad. Life abroad is ideal, from all accounts, remarks an English waiter. You breakfast in your room, put on bathing things, and over them wide scarlet or sailcloth trousers, a vest and a straw hat with a ribbon carelessly tied, and go down to the beach. The sea is inconceivably blue. The pines ridiculously green. The bathing suits and umbrellas fantastically over-coloured. The beach is packed with long chairs, with an umbrella over each second one. You swim, drink at the bar on the beach, eat figs, swim, and have another iced drink. Lunch in pyjamas on enormous quantities of figs or melon and ripe peaches. A siesta after lunch, and then down to the sands. Everyone dines between nine and ten, out of doors, on a circular terrace, edged with marigolds. Everything is lit up, even the pines, and the band plays under an orange canopy. You dance on marble. Some wear pyjamas, some evening dresses, with the ™v Empire line, and heavily fur-edged little coatees. Perfection of Needlework.

A catalogue has now been prepared for the remarkable collection of embroideries bequeathed to Alanchester in the name of Lewis F. Day by his wife. Air Day was not only author, artist and decorator, but a designer of cretonnes for Alessrs Turnbull and Stockdale, of Ramsbottom, at a time w'hen such cooperation was extremely rare. He devoted himself largely to the collection of embroideries and upon his death in 1910 Airs Day continued Io add to his acquisitions until her death in 1929. The gift includes a number of Chinese embroideries which wore particularly attractive to Air Day, but it is not restricte<l to the works of any country. Aunong 'the Persian embroideries some show an equally laborious perfection, achieved in this case by an elaborate patterning. A Turkish sampler of the eighteenth century is remarkable for its delicacy. Ono of tho Indian embroideries, a sari many yards in length, is said to have taken twenty embroiderers two years to complete. Some of the materals are of extraordinary fineness. Several pieces of Danish “Toiider lace” aro contained in the collection, and there is a woman’s bodice of pineapple fibre, so fine that it appears to be woven from filaments of glass