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TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1925.

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THURSDAY, 18th Jane, 1926, commencing at 2.30 p.m. at thoir Salos Room Daddell Strošt, A Quantity of Valanble Household Furniturą, Comprising:

Tesk Batetand with Bovelled Mirror, "Chesterfield Conch and Armobairs, Silver Cabinet, Book Cassa, Fire Brasses, 'Brass Ornaments, Carmies, Carpets, Bugs, Tablo Covers, Door Mats, Curios, etc., etc.,

Test: Ertension Dining Table, Din- ing Chairs, feik Dinner Waggone, E.P. Ware Tabla Fase, Ceiling Fans, Electric Fitlig, Dinner Crockery, vic...

etc.

Toak and Iron Bedetende, "Teak Doable and Single Wardrobes with Glane Doors, Linen Cupboard, Drossing Table, Chest of Drawera, Marble Top Wash Stands, Screens, etc., etc..

Also

A Solootion of Canton Blackwood Ware.

inclading

Deske, Bedstead, Card Table, Chairs, Armchairs, Curio Cabinet, afc., olc.,

and

One Roading Standard Motor Cyclo with #ide Car

One Enamelled Bath

Two Shanghai Baths

One Player Plan by Auto Piano

Company, New York

Two Cabinet Gramophones

One Gramophone and Chinese Records

Ono Ricyclo

Two Remington Typewriters

Ona Marble lock

Thre: icans

One Combination Safe

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The Prince's Lucky Charms. Wethered's New Partner.

If emblems of good fortune really Large crowds turned up at St. Outstanding features at the do possess some subtle quality which Margaret's Church, Westminster, rerous smart weddings of Inte ensures success, tho Prince of Wales last week, in the hope of seeing were the new shade of pulo gold should be one of the luckiest men some famous golfers (roports issue known as wheat, used for alivo, for His Royal Highness writer in the Daily Now") It Mrs. Aird's train: the bunches of already had at St. James's Palace, was, the wedding of the famous lilac worn in the hair by Miss Poppy before he left on his latest tour, golfer, Roger Wethered, to Misa Baring and her fellow bridesmaids, wonderful collection of such luck- Elizabeth Cavendish Bentinck, which constituted another original bringing articles (says the Star').daughter of Lord and Lady Charles touch at this wedding, and shaded Those live quickly been added to in Cavendish-Bentinck, and a niece of piuk chiffon frocks, which formed Woat Africa where the natives, have the Duke of Portland. Cyril the very pretty dresses of brides- presented him with gifts which, in Tolley, who, curiously enough, up-maids who carried shenyes and their view at least, should cause the pured in his first open competition baskets of pink and red roses (suya, Guidess of Chance to smile on him at the same time as Mr. Wothered, the Weekly Disputeli.") { for the remainder of his life. One acted as an isher, and Lord Charles Burns in Westminster.· ́ of the most treasured mementoes of Hope, who is a very good golfer, this kind of his trips abroad is a large was the best man. Joyce Wether

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Fome of the wives of Civil ser- vals liable to be sont abroad to spend a few "yours in sums out-of- the way spot, are seriously concern.

certainly abseit from a film which, I believe, is now being exhibited in London and elsewhere (writes Colophon" in "John o' London's Wockly. This work illustrutes # tour round picturesque London | ☀

of their plays running simultaneous, I have heard (says Newsman Naturally it pays a visit to West

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in London, but neither was in the "Daily News) as to whe-inster Abbey--and then the in- young man when Fortuno smiled ther or not they should shingle, innocent spectator is treated to a view 1000000000000000000..............0000004AER thus broadly (writes "Mr. Curdle" case, they are called upon to live of the tomb of Robert Burns? This in John o London's Weekly). A in regions where the mirdresser is will be nows to Scotland, where they real record is created by that very unknown. The problem, luas been always believed the Bard to

have been interred at Dumfries. clever dramatist, Noel Coward, who ently solved by one sinart woman, is soon to have three plays running who has adopted the prevailing The Servants' Car at once--and Coward is aged about fashion. She induced her husband 1971 Apparently he is qualifying to go through a completo course of our chief castigator of modern deurdressing under a professional dence for his three plays hear expert, so when they are ordered icely ophisticated sitesThe to West Africa he can keep her Vortex, Fallen" Angels," and head trim wid tent. And you to an imaginative novelist (says "Easy Virtue."

Not everyone should see how earnest he is,'

she Newsman in the Daily News") 8 is it given to be a censor of morals old, a friend to whom she related Knowing that a quiet country life, in the twentica. Tall, slim, and her triumph.. dark, "Coward is what the Scots call kenspeelde figure in that social world which keeps up to the minnte in intellectual fashion,"

At Bowhill.

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miles on the nearest cineinu. has: no attractions for the average housemaid, he decided that the only The Prince of Wales will find thing to do was to provide her with Cape Town scriety comewhat differ- - her own car.. in which she could en from that gliseribed by Lady | make the journey say, to Guildford. Aim Baggand, Whose husband was] So it happens that in Sir Philip's "The Buccleuch family are appointed serrélary to the Governor stage there are three ears-one Solkirk, and the Cape in "1797 4sys the closed and one open for Tis own use, Bowhill. Fagin al

Describing her aid Ford for the servants. {Pince Henry will once more stay

"Morning Past."). here with the Duke and Duchess first aftroilanens i alla GoMiss Poppy Baring.. when His Royal Highness visits mont House, Lady Ann stated: Glasgow in May relates the "Daily" at "The Puteh ladies danced wild. Chronicle. Bus hill is an ideal halting at all, a sort of pit-a-pat rasidence, and the Bucclenchs a little step which they have prob likely to rena until the season calls ably learnt from scene beauty on What they them to Tandon. Three members her way to Bengal. of the family at least are keenly in want most is shoulders and man- terested in the coming festivities, pers. But the most exceptional for the Duchess of Bacclench is pre-things about them are flair, teeth sonting her youngest

and the size of their feet. A daughter, Lady Angela Senft, and her two tradesman in London, hearing their nicces, the Misses dan and Marjory shines were large, sent a box of shoes Scott; at Court this year. Another on speculation, which almost put the nicee of her Gate will also be golony in a blaze, so wry were the But day by day a pair among the debatantes, This is beauties. Lady Diana Brilgeman; but in this was sont for by a slave in the dark; instance the "godmother of the until at last all theslines vanished.

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conventional of the younger "set" is Miss Poppy Buring, the pretty daughter of Sir Godfrey and Lady Bring (says the Woolly Dis- patch.")

She is a favourite ball- room further of the Princes, and is often seen dancing with them at public, as well as private, functions, day last week the Duke and Duchess of York, Miss Baring, and one of the Duke's brothers were enjoying themselves at a restaurint! in the heart of Picadilly. No one appeared to notice these four happy young people who danced with one, another and dined from the orlimey meng which less illustrious visitors were sampling.

The Perilous Cradle.

Margot Asquith's 'tis thus the literary Countess still styles herself --new book, Places and Persons," is to appear this week. It is slight! Perhaps the most dangerous compared with her two other nursery in London is that choseh volumes of memoirs, but it has just by a cat in Hammersmith, writes The great lart do most of the same arresting touch (observes "Newsman" in the "Daily News." about any foreign my is that, we Sunday Chronicle writer.) The cat, with her family of kittens Tave been to it. Our presence in She Is a style, a tam of speech was discovered in a small recess at geems to fill it for ever with a

all her own, and way good it is. in the wall on the District. Rail radiant light to endow it wirh

And she is quite at der best when way between Stamford Brook and Each time life that it did not before posses. [giving her own philosophy of life, Ravenscourt Park, di gives nie quel modo plessure to like her frank remarks about she went in search of food, the -rentomber l'ad i was oure in Ploy family to and family fiffection. little mother carefully, stopped. ener Tix b remeber that "When people say that there are over the live electric rails, always Savonarola was one" in Florence, to many children forn, reply that successfully dodging the trains I am interested in Saxar, the joy and hope of life lie ate that whirl past her home every deal, only because he seems portly Fect of the ghildren. ". It is two of three minutes. But the to belông to me now thur I have through children and children along ]kittens might not have been HIGH CLASS TAILORING seen the place where he was burn that rien and women are embed careful, so a good-hearted wordan

ed. He is now, as it were, a toy in

to fight every inch of the way in the neighbourhood has now my tordiphard, writes Roisert

"And Meyshe mids feel rescued the family and trans- plaspäin. Lynd in die "Sunday Chronide,'

ingly, that if birth control had been ferred it to a cat's home... „Every man's memory is a toy-practised in her inther's household An Interesting Engagement. "Cupboard Full of such toys. As we she and her, brother Harold, would

The engagement of Lady Sholto. go from place to plac, we take pos probably ever have existedly f sm of everything we see and they were the last of twelve."Houglas to Price Buy Hai Il Din, add it to our collection. Men who Nevertheless, Papa, as she calls the fourth son of the late Sultan once Pull the world were on him, was a very rich man, and that Abdul Hamid, is interesting, as it appropriated playthings. We makes a great differences

will be the first time that a not be given to reading the Gahlen

Turkish Royal Prince will yo married a Christian, and proves the Book of Marcus Aurelis, but, after Early Risers,

extent to which the Turk becoming emancipated (writes the

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we have been to Rome, we runat There are, ! Taniy, a good many heur mage without thinking orsons, we will thrill with syn-

ndly of him and saying to on-aithy on learning that Mr. P. P.Evening Standard). The Prince gelves — “Ali, jos: that's this chap O'Connor, Ims a lograr of getting up is a picturesque figure who during to whom the mument was put up before 10.30 am. and some who the reign of his late faller could bek in the Plazza Colman! But, after will question his datement that only on driving about the streets of xx all, what int. 1. us most in a Lord Balfour can dispute with in Constantinople always followed by' foreign city is, qui the ruins or the in the strength of this horror (says outriders, in a small victoria. Hned, churches or the pictures or thewriter in the "Evening Stab with pale blite satin, which showed scenes of historical and legendaryard.") As a matter of fact, this of his brilliant uniform and almost happenings, but the ordinary life of question of the hour of rising probas brilliant complexion. Divorce the place the crowds go to Flor-bly has some deep seated physio is easy in Turkey, indeed, all that' ence, I doubt it you will get more logical, basis. Dr. Osler once pro- is required is to express the wish to pleasure from the relics of the peninded a theory dividing all brain-he free and the imam (priest) ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ glories of the Medici in the streets, workers inte "Buks" and "owls," jammoners the fact, so that the the tradic mid shop fronts, that is, those who did their best Prince will have no difficulty in die- than from watching the drivers work in the early morning, and posing of his harem, should it still cracking their whips with a noise those who were at their best late ut exist. like repeated revolver shots or from night, I never saw this botter Seeing the hontholders in the upper exemplific thun in the sad cuso of storeys letting down baskets and a young friend of mine, a poct, who pulling them up with rope when was attempting to write a libretto for the butcher's boy las put the ment Dame Ethel Sinyth. She, like most into them or the grocer's boy the very energetic persons, is decidedly coffee and the macaroni. Every-rk, and when she wanted to thing in a new town seems de discuss the qpers he was rubbing his account of the day's doings, so that 000000000000000000000000 lightfully different for a day or two. eyes and wishing himself back in the book is now actually in the The fishermen in the river have & Bed. On the other hand, whọn his hands of the publishers. It is to different way of fishing. The washer-foralties began to awake, she was is called 'From Red Sea to Blue women have different ways of wash. rubbing her eyes and wishing, he Nile, and, of course, deals with a ing clothes in public. or of lunging would go away so that she might country which has never been ex- I should not like to piorad before by a white woman, them out to dry. Here in Rome than to bed. Fred tassels on the carters' whips suggest what effect this had on the On her return Rosita Forbes' was. Baths and sitary Wittings, Elős and Cold

and the other red tassels on the finished work. horses' collars and bridles charm

the ove, though they are really very shabby, Especially churning are the narrow winecarts, with barrels.

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ather, and on the top the driver's seat, with a folding hood set side

Writing on the Road.

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