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GKONG TELEGRAPH

December 31, 1938.

THE LIFE PRIMITIVE-FEW

MILES FROM HYDE PARK

Commons Keepers' Cottages Are

Lit By Oil Lamps

ADMIRAL SIR BARRY DOMVILE and others re- cently formed a deputation to meet the Wimbledon and Putney Commons Conservators to discuss the amenities of the commons.

| heat water and carry it to a portable

bath.

With all these drawbacks, there are compensations.

It is rather wonderful to live in the heart of London and to have a colony of wild rabbits living in a bank honeycombed with their bur- rows at the foot of one's garden and to come out on a moonlight night and

them playing in their dozens near to one's back door.

Or to wake on a winter's morning

and see the whole world as far as the eye can see a mass of untrodden white snow an isolated as a York-

shire moor.

TREES UPROOTED

One of the matters of which Sir Barry complains is the conditions in which some of the keepers live, which critteised for planting he has described as "almost primeval."

The Conservators have also been a formal avenue of birch trees alongside a horse-ride near the Windmill. This is an open, natural birch spo: and every-described as completely inappro- priate and quite out of keeping with the wild amenities of the common here.

The keepers say they have no complaints at all, although, as the planting of the trees has been one of them said, "There is always room for improvement where. We are really very comfortable, though,"

Nine keepers live on the commons. Yet all these serviers surround the Three of them are in the old wind- commons, and come comparatively mill and others in cottages scattered about.

The birches were planted two or near the cottageJ.

three weeks ago, and keepers

that E found

number of them WHEN THEY WANT A BATH

had been pulled up Though less than five miles from

and TO- Hyde Park Comer, there is no gas These cottages have no baths and moved. Some of the lovers of the and no clrctric light in three of the presumably if the keeper wants a common declare that the Conserva- coltages, and the sanitary arrange-bath he either cycles to n pubile bath tors ought to remove all the trees at ments are of the most primitive, or gels his wife to make up the Bre, once.

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German Ambassador Hans H. Dicekhoff, recalled by his gov- ernment, leaves the State De- partiment building in Washington after making a farewell call on Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The call was exceptionally brief, the two remaining together hardly more than two minutes.

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A quilt, made and designed by j Mrs. Hitchcock, wife of an unemploy ed Durham miner, was praised by the Queen recently,

Of the 2,000 exhibits in the Handi- craft Exhibition held by the National Federation of. Women's Institutes at the New Horticultural Hall, the Queen was most impressed by this exquisite rose-coloured silk bed-spread, beauti- fully quilted, - -

She stopped to chat to Mrs. Hitch- rock who told her that things were "not too good" in Durham now.

"Is your husband working now?" the Queen asked, and whốn told "No" caid, "I'm so sorry, I do hope things will improve for you."

Mrs. Hitchcock's husband has been unemployed for six years, so the Federation have paid her fare to London to altend the Exhibition.

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"I am lucky in having a big room I can give to my work," said Mrs. Hitchcock. "It has to be set up in a frame the size of the greatest length of the work (the quilt is more than yards long) and there, it has to stay till its finished."

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Quilting is now more than just a hobby with Mrs. Hitchcock. She has qualified us a teacher of quilting and sometimes has taken classes for the Durham County Council.

Now she means to enjoy her holiday in London. When not on her Holl at the exhibition she plans to visit the shops-everything from the by bazaars and Father Christmas ́nterests her "And then I expect 191 e quite tired enough," she said, "and ready to go to bed in the evening."

Another country woman who is pecially proud of her work is Mrs. Williams, of Bodwenna, Newborough, Inglesey. She cannot be at the ex- ibition, so a fellow member sent her

a telegram to tell her that the Queen had bought her basket of Marran grass, made from the sedge grass that grow. near her coltage.

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