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THE CHINA MẠIL, MAY 21, 1938.
LONDON SEASON
PLANS
Many women are planning their Lady Ellesmere will give her Lon- London Season entertaining from don season tea parties at Bridge-. their country houses.
water House.
and the
Reception rooms are being de-
During the season palms corated in preparation for future summer border blooms from parties. Summer flowers schemes, Newmarket residence, Stetchworth to harmonise with the colours, will Park, will turn the great marble be thought out weeks ahead.
hall, with its many beautiful pieces. of sculpture, into a flower garden, on which the sun will shine through the glass-domed roof.
The games room will play its part in the summer dance season. One hostess has just had a games room carried out in pale yellow and cyclamen, black and gold.
PORTRAITS IN STITCHERY
Two corners of the room are] Women who delight in home em- broidery found much to interest occupied by folding mirror screens, one of which conceals a cocktail them at an exhibition of work by craftsmen opened by bar. An L-shaped couch covered in artists and pale yellow, with cyclamen Lady Snowden. cushions, occupies a third corner.
The fourth is given up to card tables. Black and gold armchairs give another decorative touch to this modern room for parties, which will make all ideal chaperones' bridge room at debutantes' balls.
AT BRIDGEWATER HOUSE
Contrast will be provided by the marble pillared setting, in which
Included among the artists' work was several portraits in embroidery, work of masters copied from the
Vareille. The actual by Mrs. stitches are so finely done that the finished work looks like a picture in oils until very closely examined.
One bright spot in a dull London day-this woman in a raincoat of blue and white checks with umbrella to match attracted much at- tention as she walked across London Bridge. An idea for a rainy day in Hong Kong..
Of particular interest was the copy of de Laszlo's portrait of Princess Elizabeth. This is worked on stiffened beige satin, which throws up well the rich peacock blues of de Laszlo's background The return of the vogue for, and gold brocade is thrown over framing the Princess's fair hair brocades and damasks in stained- the end of her grand piano. In front and simple white dress with pale glass colourings is being used by a vase of mimosa makes a splash of
a little posy.
WHAT TO DO WITH THE PIANO
A Woman's blue sash, against which she holds many women to solve one furnish-gold on the wood.
Library
List
The Showman, Anne Meredith's new character study, is an interest- ing piece of work. She presents a man of overwhelming vanity and egotism who encompasses his own
downfall. The tale of Nell Riley, the girl who married him, after other experiences, is interwoven as an equally colourful thread. The scene is, for the most part, the circus tent.
1.
This Man Murray, a short, poign- ant love story by an American, Wil- liam Corcoran, should appeal to most women. The author presents a man in search of love-a love that will give him a stable background and an ideal which is sadly lacking in the world he sees about him.
The Rains Came, a very long and fine novel. Louis Bromfield, not as well known here as he should be, has deal very faithfully with a group of people living in India. His people are involved in the political and religious life of the governed people. He is broad-minded, just, and clear-sighted. The story also has a powerful emotional appeal.
Mr. Arkwright's Marraige, J. L. Hodson's new story about Lan- cashire, is a good light romance. He tells of a middle-aged widower who falls heavily for a devastating Irish widow while
on a cruise to the
sunny south. The repercussions of the affair, both in his own family and ini the Lancashire village where he has lived all his life, are violent and instructive.
BEAUTY HINT
If you wish to make the skin of your neck softly white and fine- textured, take equal parts of cau de Cologne and barley water, and apply to the neck and throat after washing and before applying make- up.
This remedy is perfectly harm- less, and can be used as often as desired.
ing problem-what to do with the
Two other pieces of embroidery piano.
by this needlewoman are from Gainsborough originals.
PEERESS'S CORONATION
PICTURE
Mrs.
Ronnie. Greville has her Music-rooms, so much favoured piano almost entirely covered in rich fabric to tone with the scheme in the days of the large town house,
of her red, green and gold room. are almost unknown nowadays.
Another idea is to have the piano Women have to plan a position for the piano in their drawing-rooms. painted to match the walls of the Vivid colour schemes grouped room. This is the idea of Lady out by Anne Rhys, who had her piano in A Coronation painting of un-round the piano, carried usual interest is included in Fairlie means of flowers and fabric, are the shade of blue used to decorate her drawing-room, This plan, how- Harmar's "one-man" show' at the among the most successful ideas,
Old rose and gold are the choice ever, has its disadvantages if one Bond-street Leger Gallery.
of Lady Howard de Walden. Roselwants to change the colour scheme,
Miss Harmar, who in private life is Lady Harberton, painted it from drawings made in Westminster Abbey-during--the-Homage of the Peers. She had paper and pencil in her coronet bag, and occupied the long wait by sketching.
Afterwards she set up her easel and painted for four days, occupy- ing the same seat as she had dur- ing the ceremony.
A colourful study of Irish Lord Harberton, called "Himself," will not hide her genial husband's identity from their friends. She has painted him many times.
I WROTE A NAME
I wrote a name upon the sand,
As lovers do.
Each letter of that name I mark-
ed out tenderly.
And, when I had finished it, I
left a kiss for you,
As lovers do,
But after I had gone
The sea swept up the sand, Perhaps it did not see your
name,
Or, seeing, did not understand, As lovers do. For when I passed that way again
Nothing was there.
The sea had smoothed over the sand, and washed your name away.
And of the kiss I left for you,
only the gen-wind knew. For it gave it back to me.
Tenderly,
As lovers do.
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