... n tree, feet high and over eighty years old. This gift war, accepted by the Qu&en when Their Majesties visited the Chelsea Flower Show last month. The magnificent rhododendron trees in the Palace gardens are gre.it favourites of the Queen, who is delighted ...

... Bethell had chosen a satin net frock in a shade of off-white pink, and carried a hand spray of white flowers. The satin skirt was slashed at the bottom to show the net through, in preference to the ballet skirt that debutantes once wore. Mrs Bethell wore ...

... means, for hundreds of tiny flowers go to the making of a necklace, brooch and eavrings.. ROOMS I had tea the other day with Lady Roo dHy in the beautiful sew louse she and her Ihnsband have taken in Square. Afterwards she showed me the louse, which has a ...

... is a fine, sunshiny afternoon, to show the flower•tilled gardens at their best. The Garden Party is always one of the most enjoyable Royal functions of the year, with informality —as far as possiblethe keynote. Flower Necklets. The vogue for organdie has ...

... bowl of flowers harmonising with the decorations, that graced the waiting room. who inherits a The Duchess of Kent, great artistic sense and natu ral taste from her father, Prince Nicholas of G reece, takes great pleasure in arranging all the flowers in her ...

... gathered, was a trophy t ravel in India. POPULAR SPORTING DOGS Blur dogs are the latest to Come into faith' and I went to a show of them the other day. The' were Kerry blue terrier. —lrish sporting dogs that were find bred, I believe, to herd the peasants' ...

... autumn drew shows have been pouring in on me thick and fast just lately. It is amusing to note how the keen competition among the hig fashion houses leads each of them to offer some extra attraction to induce people to attend its display. The show's the thing ...

... good and novel idea. enabling one to snatch up gloves, handkerchiefs and shoes in a hurry. Spaniels on Show. An interesting doggy occasion was the show held by the King Charles Spaniel Club Here I met Mrs Raymond Mallock. the president of the Club and ...

... original idea of giving a series of luncheon parties as a house warming at their new Chelsea home. I was invited the other day and, after lunch, Mrs Walker• Leigh showed me over the house, which has been completely rebuilt in six months. The tour was most ...

... soR4 8 PARLY Nora Shelley, Mr. Pattinson’s ward, had been left an quite young, and her early life in a dull old house in Chelsea with her father's sister; a melancholy spinster who gead medical books and imagined herself in turn the of every disease that ...

... HIRE-PURCHASE TERMS 3 ARRANGED. A WOMAN IN LONDON By SYLVIA MAYFAIR. 'Phe Horse Show. I made my pilgrimage to the opening of the International Horse Show at Olympia. an event I never like to miss. Many sporting peers and much of the wealth and beauty ...

... Academy must be • well-known artist—or at !east well-known 111 Chelsea circles. This is not so at all. and there are =my pictures from the brushes or dinary working men Ind mown in this •esson's show. Oue charming study is the work of a clerk in an insurance ...