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ROYAL HOLIDAY ENDED
Stay On Deeside Very
*Much Enjoyed
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P. Middleton, "London, Sept. 30.
Ballater; Chief King and Their Majesties the
Constable J Gau.d; "Mr. F. J. M'Hardy, the stationmaster; and Queen concluded their holiday on
Robert Lundle, former Deeside last night and travelled Mr.
from gamekeeper at Balmoral. South in the royal rain
BROUGHT DOWN A STAG Baitater The Court has been in
The King, in conversation with Castle for residence a. Bamora)
Lord Aberdeen, said he had great- a little over five weeks, and botti
Deeside. the King and Queen, before leav-ly enjoyed his stay on ing Ballater, mentioned that they had greatly enjoyed their stay on Deeside
to
crowd
The sun was shining briliantly from a blue sky as their Majes
frem ties drov
Balmoral Ballater in a closed car. awaited their arrival in the Sta- tion Square at Ballater, where the
guard of honour from the 2nd Battalion Back Watch, under the command of Major Gilmour, up in fron. of the was drawn station"
The crowd entrance. cheered and waved handkerchiefs as the royal car arrived in the square.
**INSPECTION OF GUARD
Their Majes ies-who were ar- companied by Lady Cynthia Col- to the vile, Lady-in-Waiting Queen; Lord Alastair Innes-Ker, he King's Equerry; and Lord W.gram, the King's private sepre... | tary-received on alighting by the Marquis of Aberdeen and Temair. Lord Lieu enant of Aberdeenshire. His Majesty, who was wearing a black coat and bower hat, after aking the royal, salute. Inspected the guard of honour, acccmpanied by his Equerry.
The Queen, who was attired in bine wihtouue to inatch, chatted with the Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temal and Colonel A, H. Farquharson of Invercauld. Their Majes.les then entered
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His Majesty mentioned with ob- vious pleasure that he had brought down u stag in the royal forest this week.
As the royal train lett promptly at 5.45 p.ni, cheering again broke
Bakater
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"A BIG MEAL
Eaten By Britain Every Year
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London Bapt. 30.
A million miles of loaves of bread is a big meal. But that. was told at the 39th Confectioners' and Bakers Exhibition, which opened at the Royar Agricultural fall, Islington, on Saturday, is Britain what Great year.
eats every
No Lower than 3,200 British bakers are competing for the cham pionship, and the Royal Navy has its own competition-for the best leaves and rolls, made cumpletely from usual ship's stores." There are 9,000 entries in 300 classGN,
thap
Mr. Arthur Bromley, chairman of the committee of judges, told me a spécial set of judges of out. The railway officials travel-bread would begin work this work They will judge the thousands ing on the royal train who were presented to that Majesties are upon thousands of saves by their Bavour, texture and volume. They G included - Mr-J make great uses tou, of their sense Singer, trafic superintenden af smell, particularly in judging Aberdeen, and Mr. G. A. Mus-cakes. grave, locomotive running super- KING'S PORTRAIT IN SUGAR Intendent, Glasgow, Or the The 17 Judges at work on Satur L.N.E.R., and Mr. C. R Byron, day upon confectionery were divid
One section operating manager of the in Avsections. chief L.M.S. Railway, who remained onged artistic work, such a win- dow displays. Of these, the three the train until s arrival at
most noticeable were a black and Euston, and Mr. William Crozler,
white sugar portrait of the King, operating manager for the LM.S. (Northern Divisioni, who traveled
as far as Carlisle.
ARRIVAL AT ABERDEEN
The royal train was greeted with a burst of cheering from a crowd of several hundreds when
Aberdeen
Joint It steamed into
Station at 7.10 p.m. Lord Proves Henry Alexander, who was wait- ing with the platform party, was call d into the royal carriage by Lord Alastair Innes-Ker. King's Equerry,
the
marzipan Sculpture, of two shire horses and a ploughman, and a Tyrolsa halet set in Phocolate !pines.
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This section of judges dealt also with the external decoration of enkes. Mr. Bromlay wedding
that of the three- pointed out tiered wedding cakes only one was were of nowwhite. The others
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BRITISH LOVE OF ANTIQUES
Fair Opened In London
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London, Sept. 30. Duke of Kent, who was accompanied by Lord Herbert. opened the Antique Dealers' Fair and Exhibition at Grosvenor House yesterday. "In his speech he paid tribute to the long British tradi tion for fine, art. In the appre- ciation bath of the works of our
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London, Sept. 30. Countess Haig, and Grant and Murray Ltd., publishers, Princes- street, Edinburgh, have lodged answers to the petition for suspen- ston and interdict presented in the Petition Department. of the Court of Session by a majority of the trustees of the late Field-Marshal Earl Halg.
Lord Garmont recently granted Interim interdicts against the Publication of a book called "The Man I Knew," prepared by Lady Haig, on the grounds that Chapter of the work infringed the cops- right of Lord Haig's Trustees in the late Field Marshal's WIT diary.
ancestors and of the best works of other nations.
He said that
many of
those present knew what an enthusias the collector the Queen was, and how keen an eye she hud for the plece that was worth buying. If he had not inherited all her sk!!' in that respect, he had certainly In their answers the respondents Inherited her love for antiques. state that Lady Haig did not ap- There was probably no country prove ni the proposal that a irt which the love of antiques blography should be written by was stronger than in England Mr. Duft Cooper, it being her view and, the works of our ancestors that the proper
course was to seemed to appeal to us in a very publish the diaries themselves. m direct way, perhaps because we conformity with Earl Haig's de- were very conservative and
ac-sires. cepted the new only with much hesitation after an experimental perlod.
work.
own
DENTAL
It is denied that the trustees as such had any right to make the aperies available to Mr. Duff Cooper or any other person. That right was vested in Lady. Hale'as custodian ol the diaries. She re- Proquested
the trustees to. approve the diaries for publication and they refused.
From time to time, however, our furniture and ornaments underwent curious transforma- tions, as in the Victorian era or in an ultramodern design. bably one reason for our interest pastel shades." which often match
in antiques was that we possess- the bridesmaids' dresses. There
fine however, a movement among con-ed the long tradition of
This appreciation of our fectioners to get back to the pure white wedding cake.
treasures gave
us also natural, fair for the best that other nations. had produced. Anyone who made a tour of that exhibition would he was sure, come to the conclusion that for quality of workmanship, choice of materials, and care taken in de sign the works of our ancestors were unsurpassed
In his conversation with the Lord Provost the King expressed they spoke with different. mem- his peasure on hearing that the bers of the party. The Queen, in condition of trade generally, and conversation with Stationmaster
the stain the fishing industry in part-Jahr.
Davidson, inquired what
tion, and among those whom cular, in Aberdeen had shown an sors of summer they had had at they gre.led
were
ΟΠ 'he platform
and Viscount
Viscountess Dunedin, Sir Vietor Mackenzie of Glenmuick, Colonel Farquharson, Mr. C. M. Barclay-Harvey, M.P:! Provost Brockle. Ballaler: Dr. G.
NOW ON SALE
į
was
and asked about the improvement. The Lord Provost Aberdeen was assured that their Majesties į railway traffic. She
very interested in the Duchess of York's had mjoyed a pleasant holiday?
visit to Aberdeen to-day, and asked Mr. Davidson about the Girl Guide ceremony.
ON THE PLATFORM
During the few minutes their Majesties spent on the platform
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Lady Hatg was informed of arrangements proposed to be en- tered into between Mr. Duff Cooper, his publishers. and Sunday newspaper. She learr.ed that it was proposed that the diaries should be published by the newspaper as part of Mr. Dun irag- Cooper's blography and in mentary form, and that the news- paper should be entitled to select the portion. It desired to publish for a payment of £10,000, one- half of which would be received by Mr. Duff Cooper. She objected strongly to fragmentary publica- tiozt
This year Lady Haig decided to publish the book entitled "The Man I Knew," and it is contended
that she had the right to make use of certain information in the diaries.
of that exhibitiona.
Every pieces there had been inspected and
of
were
A SEASON OF GAILY COLOURED
TWEEDS DECREED
Tweeds have never shown а greater range in colours, and those chosen by Paris dress. makes from the textile group are fascinating in their unexpected mixtures. There are bright greens with
garnet reds and orange in broken bouc'ette strip- ed effects that look gayer than pheasant plumage, dark amethyst and sapphire heather mixtures with
the
aspect of crushed jewels, "plains" in Corinthe and ginger browns as well as checks in two tones of green and blue
All come into focus in an in- teresting manner. . onc way 1 to put a plain coloured tailor- ed Jacket with a tweed mixture skirt or vice versa. This does not always follow. but the Iden is attractive.
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satin
Jackets of these tweed suits may be entirely closed with frog- fastenings of soutache. One model has the jacket speckled garnet red and gripped to by match the skirt plain amethyst frogs which An in tone. apple green gauze tweed muffler tucks in at the neck opening. A ginger brown tweed suit with a black military collag and souta - che frog fastenings is worn with 3 black
Satin blouse. blouses are
neut- preferred to coloured crepe de chine for tweed sults, so make note of one in brown being worn with
dark sapphice blue sult and one of dark blue with amethyst This dark-coloured blouse note in morning-sports - dress is smart and extends to pullovers of the sweater type with turtle collars and long slee- ves of fine tricot. Imagine these neat style in dark red or black with grey mixture tweeds. and dark amethyst can be visualised next bottle green...
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Steeves of blouses billow П. bishop fashion. When this oc- cars contrasting colours give the vivid note in sleeveless walst coats cut frem broadcloth, They are semifitted at jumper length and may be made of fat fur such as astrakhan, Persian lamb, ur antelobe. See real astrak- han trimmings are being sub- stituted for those made of wool there is no reason why a fourth piece in a vestee medium should
be
not
considered... always providing the coat, line is slack. and the slack ine is far from going out of fastion. notwith- triumph of wide
standing the sleeves
CAPES SWING IN
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Shortening days-but lengthen- ing days, says Vogue in the new issue.
For you may wear a seven-eights cape of woo!.. or tweed. At night. you w! Inok dramatic and lovely in a Renals- sance cape the sweeps back from floor. shoulder to
The fabric?
Velvet, The colour? Any one of these glorious Italian shades in which the new fashions look so
lovely
pronounced "as a genuine anti- que-but that remark might not quite true: The opening ceremony, for instance, was being filmed, und the Alm was to pu shut up in a glass casket, pre- sented to St. George's Hospital, and not to be opened for 100 years, He did not know whether them would count as an anti-
There are many unusual com- binations in materials wäch re- que.
time but the passing of
flect the cominon tas e for luxur would make it appear so. How-
lous-looking, clothes of rustic, ever, the ccanoisseur of A.D. 2035
almost barnaris, texture. would not be taken in. Laughter and cheers.)
Long-haired, rough-faced wool-. On the platform at the open-
lens are
and put with velve. ing ceremony
Lord
zatin. ада
Artificial complexions 80 Lady Greville, Mr. C.. F. Turner, with Scotch tweeds, diamonds, are Mr. A. : Lewis. Mr. J. Rochelle worn with woollen evening
dresses, Eastern
эге Бес styles Thomas, Mr. A. O. Edwards, and
with Mr. E. C. Cohen.
Italian Renaissance for mality. Warm and dep are the colours, Flecked tweeds, checked, show several colours in one ma- terial. Smooth clothes are used for rim tailor-mades and soft silk crepes for afternoon dresses, in contrast with the shaggy Wool- lens, cloky crepes, more allks, and F taffetas. Velvet is as much as many used as satin, and in kinds and qualities. Tae putting together of two widely different materials is a distinctive fashion. Coarse monkey fur sleeves go with a coat of soft silk crepe, or velve; a satin jacket is put-with a skirt of rough tweed; and Vion- net sels a checked woollen jacket over a velvet frock.
Many Unusual Combinations
WIDE RANGE OF EXHIBITS The wide range covered by the exhibits is perhaps the outstand- Ing feature of the Fali. They range from the sliver Hittite bul., probably dating from 2000 B.C.. fully described In "The Times" on September 16, trough the Middle Ages to the productions of the artists and craftsmen of the early part of the nineteenth century.
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There is the same diversity in cut as in materials. Greek dra- peries are as right for the even- ing as Turkish trouser-skirts. A woman in a full skirt and neat bodice of the late eighties sits
On one stand is a vast Tudor refectory table; on another are tiny dolls' tea sets in flgree silver. Notable exhibits include a unique collection of "treen" wooden ornaments and domestic utensils Cf the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries used in the days before silver and china be- came general; a set of ivory chessmen carved in Delhi for the Begum Samry (who married a European and became a Roman
at dinner near to one in burnous Catholle; Chippendale maho-
draperies and the sart. For the gany knee-ho'e desk with 430
daytime there is a braided jacket drawers from Lulworth Castle:
of smar military cut, square and a large Chinese glazed pot-shouldered and slim at the waist. tery group showing the seagods alongside a loo83-backed, three- welcoming the return of the Buddhist missionary Yuan Chuang, who went to India in A.D. 629.
Mr. Chaucer
Literature
Drank his tea from a zäucer. This somewhat Impaired the sales Of his "Canterbury Tales "
quarter length tweed coat with aloping shoulders and wide, in- definite sleeves. Capes, whether the long, wide-spreading velvet cape which is worn of an evening or the rustic tweed which reaches nearly to the hem of a shor, slim skirt and goes with a coat and gkirt to match, or over a plain jersey," may equally have hoods, since hoods fare Work n both
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ends of the day but not in thes. afternoon. The rough, soft wool- len coat with a hood which Bru yere makes for travelling is a practical protection against hard weather. The wrap with a "soft wide collar which can be drawn over the head in the evening is made by most dressmakers. The university hood in two colours on a long cope of black velvet and the hood of fur on a winter coat are but two out of many more hood fashions.
SLEEVES
Sieves are immensely import- ant. The little dress which is slim in the skirt and prim about the bodice has sleeves which give It character and dignity. They" may be impressively" cterial or may take the form of the long sleeve worn by chatelaines of the Middle Ages. The leg-of-mutton sleeve is now soft and crushable without loss of style. The puffed sleeve of the Italian Renaissance is for the evening. No collection of dresses is complete without a full-skirted dress of red velvet which has these long sleeves put- fed by, bands of gold embroidery set at regular intervals: « from shoulder to wrist and edged with the same about the square-cut open neck.
The beret is as correct as the felt hat with a high, dented crown and gallant brim, The Giotto cap, the halo hat, the draped toque, the cloche brim. the Cossack fur cap. the postilion are set at angles more or less becoming on heads elaborately or simply dressed. The Alexan-. der fringe and the Botticelli flat curls are often strangely crown ed by. felt and feathers. Flowers and plumes are wreathed-to- gether or evening coiffures, MI÷ Hinery and hair-dressing are pushed to the limits of artific'al- ity.