HOME NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17836, 8 October 1929, Page 5

HOME NEWS

(By a Londoner.)

Growing Up. Princess Elizabeth is fast growing out of the baby chairs that once adorned her nurseries, and these have been replaced by bigger ones. Her little cot, too, has given place to a small white bed of which she is justly proud! The rooms in her own special suite at 145 Piccadilly, London, are furnished in the simplest style, in white with large cupboards, for her toys. ’ When in London the little Princess delights to kneel on a chair at the window of her nursery, Poking out on the crowds and the traffic at Hyde Park Corner. Everything amuses Princess Elizabeth, and she can play by herself quite happily without bothering anyone.

London Deserted. Everyone is busy packing up and rushing away to the country, and London looks very empty' these days. Lord and Lady Clanmorris have gone over to Ireland for a bit. Prince and Princess Wiasemsky and their little daughter Princess Titania ha-\e gone for a trip in Mr Gordon Selfridge s magnificent yacht. Lady Howe and her lovely daughter, Lady Georgians. Curzon, are entertaining friends at Penn House, the Howes’ beautiful old place at Amersham. This old-world house is full of treasures, and stands in a garden that just now is looking a positive picture. The Graceful Old-fashioned Waltz. The old-fashioned waltz is slowly but very surely finding its way back into the modern ballroom, and, danced to the beautiful music of Strauss, the master of waltz writers, it is extraordinarily graceful. 1 saw Lady Peacock and Mr Archie Balfour waltzing together to the “Blue Danube ’ at a party recently, and they were reversing to the left all the time in the true Viennese style. Mr Arnold Henderson ■is another good dancer of the oldfashioned waltz, and he and his tall, good-looking wife are an attractive couple waltzing together.

Brighter Luggage. Nowadays while there is a call for brighter London we have arrived at brighter luggage, too; there are delightful red, blue, green and tancoloured suitcases and hat-boxes. Ilow much more cheerful they look than the brown things of yore! Lady Ancasler has a cheery-looking red cover to her dressing-case, and another well-known London hostess has selected green for her luggage this season. Her suitcase and dressingcase arc green, and she has. a broad green band around each cabin trunk; her small handbag is also green, as is also the square leather case in which she carries a cushion for the journey. Rather a cute idea this! I should advise anyone who is going across to tne Continent for their holidays to lea\e large boxes behind and to take onlysuitcases and such luggage as the porters can carry. This saves a great deal of bother, and as abroad one is allowed to have really quite large suitcases in the carriage with one it is easy to arrange, unless one requires lots of clothes for a long stay.