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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26,

MARBLE PALACE

IN A FLAT.

NOTED ARTISTS AT WORK ON A PICCADILLY HOME.

corations.

The lease of the Bat has already cost him £25,000-the suite is the largest in a building which con tains only the best of everything- and a famous architect, Mr. Oliver Hill, has been put in charge of the decorations..

Two noted artists, Mr. George Sheringham and Mr. Edmund, Dulac, are onch "doing" rooms, and when the work is completed, some two months hence, the flat will be like a palace in minlature,

Their plans include:-

One day in May three years ago,

Upon a "wonder" flat in the new. saya a lady writer, I went to the Devanshire House In Piccadilly a Hotel Crillon, in the Place de In London business magnate is spend- Concorde, to catch the motor busing thousands of pounds in de which conducted the passengers for the Handley Page Air Tran- sport line to the Faris Aeropiane. The office was a tiny shack on the edge of the field there we were datained for about twenty minutes whilst our passports, our luggage wore examined. We then followed our guide to the waiting machine, and took our places as our names were called: My steamer trunk was put into the luggage compartment, to gether with two or three hand- baga. To my astonishment I found that it was cheaper to have such heavy luggage, as a trunk convoyed by air than by rail. According to the various transport companies, my trunk, which weighed seventy kilus, would have cost Fra. 175 by la Grande Vitcase. and would have taken from three to five days to arrive in England. By slower freight it would have cost a little less, but would have taken three weeks to deliver. It was taken by the aero- plane with me at the cost of Frs. 1.50 per kilo.

The saloon was comfortable, with an aisle down the centre and cushioned wicker armchairs at the sides, ao that one could look out of the windows. There were places for ten, but only seven were presents the weather was bad.

Trundling Over the Ground.

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The great blades revolved, and we were off, trandling over the ground towards a line of trees which formed the boundary of the ficht.

We must jump - over them,"

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marble dining-room, with marble table.

Music-room in French walout. Bathroom with alabaster walls. Venetian bedroom.

Amber-tinted marble is to be used for the ceiling, walls and floor of the dining-room, with a fireplace of red marble inlaid with malachite. The table, will be made from a solid block of green marble,

Panels Like Tapestry.

Mr. Sheringham is painting, the French walnut panels of the music-room in a way sugestive of tapestry, but a good deal of the woodwork will be left to show.

There will be a special alcove for the piano, and a beautiful fire- place. Lights will be concealed in crystal figures.

One of the bedrooms is being painted by Mr. Dulac with a palm- green background. The Venetian bedroom, with glass pilasters and engraving, is to have a colour scheme in blue.

The entire walls of the wonder- was my thought. "Can we possi-ful bathroom will be of orange bly do it?"

alabaster, with a marble frieze, whilst the bath and basin will be fof jude-green marble.

We did, easily, and at once the ground fell away from us with a quick swoop, much as one feels in a lift. We then soared back over the aviation field for a trial flight, and were off.

To my surprise I felt none of the sensations of dizziness that I invariably experience when close to an open window or on a high platform. The world was 20 huge and flat that depth below us did not matter. Indeed it was more pleasant to be higher than nearer to the ground, as trees and other obstacles did not seem. Ho prominent.

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A study, with walls of silvered oak, a hall with a green marble floor and verdigris-coloured doors are other notable apariments in this dream flat.

DOG'S MILITARY HONOURS..

U.S. ARMY MASCOT WITH RANK OF SERGEANT-MAJOR.

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Now. York-Sergeant-Major Before starting the pilot had supplied us with cotton-wool to Jiggs, of the Marines, America's stuff into our cars, both to deadenmost famous dog, was precently the noise of the engine and to pre-buried with full military honours vent the queer feeling in the ears in the great Athletic Stadium at incident to mounting rapidly. the Marine Corps' base at Quan- The weather was bad, and theretico, Virginia, near the mouth of were periods of bad going against the Potomac River, strong wind and through clouds The entire brigade of Marines when we had to change our eleva-, stood at attention as the encoffined tion rapidly. I remember watch body of the corps' mascot was ing the dials in front of the car- borne slowly to its last resting- regisidring a drop of from 3,000 place on a gun-caisson draped to 1,000 feet in a few minutes, and with the Stars and Stripes and then I felt that feeling of nausea flanked by a guard of honour. which made me put my head down, on the window-sill.. However I was not actively seasick, as I am grave just as the sun began to invariably during a rough sea sink. Simultaneously the clear

passage,

We passed over a number of large towns after leaving Paris, and the names of these were writ- ten in huge letters on cement, so that one felt as if one were flying over 2 map. At the coast we passed another aeroplane flying from England. The sun was glit- tering on ts shining body and wings. It was a pretty sight and is was then that I realized that I was in one too, and not dreaming.

Over the Channel.

The little elaborate silk-lined casket was placed tenderly in the

notes of a bugle sounding "Taps," the American "Last Post," brok the silence and echoed among the low-lying hills on the Maryland side of the river and down over the lower reaches where the Potomac empties into Chesapeake Bay.

A firing squad rendered a final tribute, then the square was broken and the Marines marched sadly back to barracks.

Guard of Honour.

Before burial the body had lain in state on the caisson, with Jiggs'a The surface of the 'Cannel was collar and many decorations reat- mottled with white clouds of a re- ing upon it, and every man had gular shape which clung to the filed past to take a last look water. Channel steumers and

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Jiggs, an English bulldog, seven fishing boats churned below us, years old, who "enlisted" but we outtripped them all. The Philadelphie, had served with the weather continued bad in Eng- Marines for five years. In that land, but although I had my win- time he travelled more than 100,- dow open it was not cold. I was 000 miles by sea, land and air, pleased to be able to get up at He was made a sergeant-major intervals to walk about and look by Major-General 'Smedley Butler. at the various dials for registering Jigga, a victim of overeating, speed, temperature, and altitude. died at the Canine Hospital, The journey would have been tir-Washington, where four veterinary ing had I been compelled to sit still surgeons and a nurse tried to say: for the whole of the three and ahim. half hours.

The body was removed to an The field at Croydon looked very undertaking establishment, where small. Wo turned, and it seemed a guard of honour stood watch" as if the whole flat earth had tll-ovor it until it was taken to Quan-

ted up like a plate, and that wo tico by special acroplane.

were flying parallel to it, like a #

fly along a wall. Then we swoop-

ed, touched earth, rebounded, pany, which conveyed us up to

touched again, and at last settled London. down steadily, running up to the

When I recall the dirt, discom-

shed as if we were in a taxi. fort, and trouble of going by train. Our baggage was examined, and and boat from London to Paris I' in a fow minutes we were in the am filled with amazement that motor car belonging to the com- 'more people do not fly.

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