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PLAYING HOSTESS AMONG CHILDREN: Solving a Sleeping Problem for Small Guests--Some Ideas for Birthday Cakes and ..

... found my Cocker spaniel puppy (a woman, of course) evidently infected by the whimsical gaiety of the company, arranging the parlour maid's shoes under my husband's bed and (as I afterwards learned) had placed his boots under hers. So ended a wonderful day ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1930
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1520 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

PLAYING HOSTESS AMONG CHILDREN: Solving a Sleeping Problem for Small Guests--Some Ideas for Birthday Cakes and ..

... found my Cocker spaniel puppy (a woman, of course) evidently infected by the whimsical gaiety of the company, arranging the parlour maid's shoes under my husband's bed and (as I afterwards learned) had placed his boots under hers. So ended a wonderful day ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1930
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1520 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

The WORLD of WOMEN

... a note of was that there was a perfect maids' work-room, with electric irons and various sized ironing-boards, large fitted wash-basins, and in fact every sort of appliance which the most exactingof ladies' maids would require. There was a valet's room ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 831 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

CHINA BETWEEN WARS: Soldiers, Soldiers Everywhere: Celestial Cameos

... the city ran up forever, in continuous single file, never stopped all day. As we were rowed ashore in the gaudily decorated parlour of a sampan, by two little pigtailed girls who looked as if they had never had any leisure or pleasure in their lives, we ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1930
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2128 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

CHINA BETWEEN WARS: Soldiers, Soldiers Everywhere: Celestial Cameos

... the city ran up forever, in continuous single file, never stopped all day. As we were rowed ashore in the gaudily decorated parlour of a sampan, by two little pigtailed girls who looked as if they had never had any leisure or pleasure in their lives, we ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1930
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2128 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTOR DAYS and WAYS

... Thornton, looking like Mary Brough in all but stature, was a splendid cook. Miss Dora Brown, as the extremely refined parlour maid, and Mr. William Gliddon, as the Odd Man, gave amusing character sketches. Mr. James W. Keating was responsible for much ...

The Cinema: A Gossip of Romance

... that they have to cut down expenses owing to amalgamation with a richer one. Now take Mrs. Jones. Baby is frac tious, the parlour-maid has not come in, and there is a letter from mother saying that owing to the old trouble she has to put off her visit. A ...

Published: Wednesday 11 June 1930
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1426 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

BOOKS of the 1930 SEASON: Two Volumes Describing the Conquest of England, a Work by Norman Douglas, and some ..

... took cheap lodgings where several families were herded in a decayed mansion. He drank ale in pubs, sat in grocers' back -parlours, went out with Mrs. Thwaites of the string bag and the protuberant bottle, watched Lettuce trying on her Celanese trousseau ...

Published: Saturday 14 June 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2068 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

COOPS--A FISHING STORY

... accusation. Jennie, the little maid-of-all-work, stood before them bursting with a most important message. Sir Richard himself was in the hoose and would be obliged if Mr. Dalblain would see him in the landlord's private parlour now. Sir Richard detested ...

Pictures in the Fire

... charming person I happen to know is a case 1 in point. One morning when she was staying in someone's house the new head parlour-maid, who had been particularly well brought up and il never went into anyone's room until she got the pass-word, came to the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1930
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1789 | Page: 76 | Tags: Photographs 

your house in order: New ways in old walls

... neces sary offices, a maid's sitting- room, and a new dining-room. Above the basement rose floor after floor, each consisting of a largish front room and a smallish, generally dark back room. By removing the wall between the old parlour and the old dining-room ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1931
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1006 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

your house in order: New ways in old walls

... neces sary offices, a maid's sitting- room, and a new dining-room. Above the basement rose floor after floor, each consisting of a largish front room and a smallish, generally dark back room. By removing the wall between the old parlour and the old dining-room ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1931
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1006 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs