... Though the sudden death of Sir Edward Appleton, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, has cast a shadow over current university proceedings, Charities Week went on more or less as usual with the students making their normal imaginative efforts at money-raising. The climax of the week the Charities Ball was held in Holland House, one of the men students' halls of ...

... by Jessie Palmer A telegram from Her Majesty the Queen in reply to their greetings was received at the eighth annual Women of Scotland luncheon held recently in Glasgow. Guest chairman was the Countess of Elgin, and Lady Miller, Lady Mayoress of London (and former Lady Provost of Edinburgh) travelled north especially for the luncheon. It was the first official function she had attended in ...

... No. I.-- Edited by J. M. B. a, Dear V., We have had such a time since we came up to town for the week. In fact it has been a perpetual gime (as the Cockney will say) though the fog and the grime are enough to make anyone shriek. Yet London is London whatever you say it lives in the dusk and the dawn. The shire in December is horridly grey, and the world as you look from your Libertied bay is ...

... Mr. and Mrs. Noble, as well as being busy officially, are now up to their eyes in a more personal matter-- preparations for the wedding of their eldest daughter Catharine who announced her engagement this month to London businessman Mr. Peter Vey, only son of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. L. Vey, of Ewshot, Farnham, Surrey. The wedding is to be at Holy Trinity, Brompton, on 8 September. Mrs. Noble ...

... Being the Correspondence of the Hon. Evelyn Fitzhenry with her friend, the Lady Betty Berkshire. 200, C'urzon Street, Mayfair. J II JI Y DEAR BETTY, We stand on the edge of great I 1 events, so they all tell me. Also, it seems, that as I V 1 far as the war goes, we're just about where we were last September, for all the P.M.'s telling us at New castle that everything's quite all right in the ...

... Tine Bee In 4jh,e B mime ft AM AUTOXAUSEME. By Gerald Bisso MY DEAR TATLER, I was premature just a trifle premature. Hardly had the ink dried upon my last scrap of papyrus-ration than old Count Zepp relieved my anxiety and courteously paid us a visit, which alas I cannot return. Yes, the Bing-Bangs are here or not very far away. The first night it was not so bad. You could hear your partner's ...

... THE BEE IN THE BONNET-- cont. of itself a vote of censure upon the existing bodies and may cause them to awake to a sense of their responsibilities in these highly subversive times and this projected Motorists' Protection Associa tion will, I fancy, be eyed a bit askance, for in stance, at the shrine in Hedge Lane, Charing Cross, whence we may hear wild cries in the night of poaching and black ...

... By Mildred. A well-known fashion expert writes on footwear and other fashions. These letters will appear approximately every three or four weeks at the instance of James Southall Co.. Ltd., of Norwich, who have made high-class shoes since 1792. Mildred will gladly answer any enquiries as to fashions, etc., if addressed care of Messrs. Southall. Dearer MEG, Grannie is suffering from bats in ...

... OUR TRB3MIS LETTER. ]\/T Y Dear Tatler, This has been another full week of lawn tennis fixtures both at home and abroad. The Junior Championships of Great Britain at Wimbledon have been well worth watching, and more than ever amongst that huge entry of girls and boys one notices the evidence of good coaching and the result of more hard court play upon the youngsters of to-day. Looking at the ...

... OUR TENKES LETTER. MY Dear Tatler, One of the best features of the past week's tournaments in England has been the good play of some of the younger men. H. K. Lester, at Worthing, has been at the very top of his form, while Avory, who has been improving very rapidly all this summer, also gave an extremely good display in the singles at the same meeting. A popular pair at Cranleigh were the two ...

... OUR TRNMIS RRTTERo MY DEAR TATLER, There is no denying that the championship lawn tennis at Wimbledon has been of the most entertaining and attractive character possible. That this is so is proved most conclusively from the fact that never in the history of the game has there been such a record attendance, not once nor twice, but continually throughout the entire two weeks of the meeting. ...

... OUR TRB3MES IU£TTRR9 IX/Ty Dear Tatler, This week has been a very pleasant one, as far A as the English hard-court meetings have been concerned, and the fine spell of weather has made both watching and playing very agreeable indeed. Roehampton, that favourite meeting-place of autumn tennis players, looked more than usually attractive in the September sunshine and as always there is an enormous ...