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FLASHBACK.. to Jan. 10, 11,922

The wedding took place of Christ Church, Hampstead,

st Violet Helen Millar and Clement Richard Attlas

M

AND NOW

MRS ATTLEE HAS BROUGHT NEW IDEAS TO NO. 10

By EILEEN ASCROFT-

was wearing a printed allt, frock of shades of beige white and pink with

were at home. When morning, at 7.30 in her bedroom, tical activities in London's East campaign. In the wir she drove a petrol was short she with its pale peach walls. She End, was caked to accompany YMCA mobile canteen. She keeps did her shopping on opens her letters at breakfast them. The Millors did not her own car at Chequers. a bicycle.

and afterwards strolla for a few agree with his polities. But Because of this minutes with her husband in their daughter did not think her clothes. But she drones well. Mrs Altice does not wish to discuss background, Mrs St James's Park.

this mattered and within a few for town she chooses black or navy Attice has brought Many of her letters she an- wooks of returning to England a new tradition tower personally by hand. Others they were engaged. Mrs, Att-c. When I saw her at home she OST agreeable compliment

No. 10, a tradition are dealt with by her secretary, lee always wears her engage over paid to the Prime, of ordinary practicality.

and between them they often ment ring of sapphires and

small diamonds. Minister's wife. Mrs In her eight-roomed, flat on handle about 200 a week. Clement Atlee, Was by the the top floor of 70-roomed No.

Official functions and enter- White Wedding Lord Mayor of Birmingham, 10, Downing-street with its when she visited that city to saft Indian red carpeting and taining visitors to Downing- open a nursing exhibition.. pastel walls of egg-shell blue, street take

Ho said: "The world would Mrs Attlee has little time for time and most afternoons she be a different place if all hus- house-keeping these days. A goes to the House of Commons. full-dress pffair with white

Afternoon tea is usually A and vell, bouquets and bridesmaids. bands were cared for so well." good housekeeper arranges the quiet meal enjoyed at home in Mrs Atlee is Church of England by

the company of Ting, 12-year- religion.

old black and tan Welsh ter- rior, old family friend and think give-and-take and an under member of the Tail-Waggers standing which permits differences Her vulce is soft, and she spenko 'in short sentences, Her whole Club.

in views, is essential."

approach to life is matter of fact. Mrs She is a little shy, parlicularly about Soon after her marriage

Party public speaking, but. entirely un- Occasionally, if there is no Attico joined the Labour

is swift and official function in the evening, through any influence of my hus- sweet.

"By my own wish and not affected. Her smile the. Attlees manage a quiet band's," evening together at home. On

Banner March their stiver wedding anniver- Her

(24 children Janet

and sary, on January 10 this year, ly 22 and a nursery school teacher). visited Italy, Germany and In- studying psychology), Felicity (near- QHE has travelled rarely, but has the staff at No. 10 presented Martin (nearly 20 and in the Mer dia. She spenks no foreign langu them with a Georgian silver tea chant Navy) and Allson (17 and ages. "Quiío hopeless at tliem," sho caddy.

leaving school this year)-were all says. born at home in Woodford

a smurt little black hat with; soft pink feathers sweeping outward from the brim, and black arcessories.

She visits the hairdresser usually up much of her AFTER a three-month engagement once a week and wears her allver!

Attlees were married at grey hair swept up in front into littlo Rcurls, sometimes rolled at the backs, Christ Church, Hampstond

dress other times in a short "pageboy".

For Violet Helen Attlee, 51 years old, slim, blue-eyed, with 'delicate, clear complexion and silver grey hair, puts her hus- band's welfare first in every thing.

Part of the war years she did her own housework and cook- ing, washing, mending and Stopping for her husband then. Deputy Prime Minister- and her family of, three daugh ters and one son when they

staff and domestic matters.

Her personal secretary an swers the telephone and creates the beautiful flower pieces of which the Prime Minister's wife is so fond, ...

་་

Called at 7.30 MRS ATTLEE'S life today is a very different one from the busy housewife of the war years.. She is called each

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber.

+

rosegardens for.

1

Of marriage Mrs Attlee says:

She has little time for beauty parlours, but her complexion would de her daughtera credit. Her only "I ailment is recurrent rheumatism..

She has lots of friends, but Ittle these days to see much of them.

One of her rare political ventures on her own account was when, with

Green. A few years later they moved to the Family of 11

Stanmore. big, cheerful house at where, they had a large garden and VIOLET HELEN MILLAR kept chickens.

was born at Heathdown,

a leading churchman, she led a ban- Hampstead, in 1895. She and and games. Her favourite

Mre Allies enjoys reading, music net march through the West End as thors protest against the Japanese

first

Mozart

her twin sister were the are Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen bombing of Canton, în 1040 she TE is." said someone. " But he would not give up Lynette. youngest of six boys and five and Winifred Feck. Her favourite made her first broadcast.

highly educated man." A In fact, he would tell her nothing girls. Their father was a busi composers are Beethoven,

Mira Alice's fa for the past few Bratims and Haydn. I should have until the honeymoon was over. The ness man in the export and im-

months has been very, full of engage- few years aro

Urkets for St. Moritz were bought,

Sho likes golf, but plays seldom ments. She is looking forward to known what that phrase meant..and he nickoned he would have just port trade. Mrs Attlee's twin Today I think it usually means enough ready money to scrope sister is now Lady Willis, wife and, to quote her own words: "None the family holidng in Wales, when.

too well." Recently, at the Margate her youngest daughter leaves school the Commander-in-Chief Conference, she lost her wedding and her son comes home on leave a man who, not being interested through for a couple of weeks. After of

While this was going Mediterrancan.

ring on the golf course at Clifton- from the Merchant Navy. in football pools. busies himself that?

un, Lyn

Lynette in the lodging-house was

ville. It was found eventually by a with quizzes. brains-trusts,

She is president Her childhood was spent at local photographer, who returned it.

of the Ladies' listening to a lot of arch nonsense.

Pound questionnaires. and all the rest from Mrs, Wicker, while Lady Hampstead, and she went to This is the second wedding ring she Committee of the Million

Stadpole, with pencil and paper school there and later

Was never Victory Club Fund, which alms to of it..

to St has lost. The planned two new

establish a London headquarters for [ound. Felix, at Southwold.

all ex-Service men and women, Nimblesiy, -

Irrespective of rank. Commercial candour

abres ot in THE other day,

cigarettes, 1 went into one of those shops where you can strawberry on Christmas Day ter le?" I asked with a courtly in £9 145. id. "Have you any cigar clination of the head. The gentle- man behind the counter mentioned a name I had never `tward. What are they like?" I asked. He leaned

hissed forward confidentially and "Horrible!"

He can tell you what is the pre- vafling wind in Korça during the

who

smoked Invented autumn, glasses, what is the average depth of the Sea of Azov, the origin of green ginger, why basins are round, at what date plane trees were first mported into France, and-what-is-the average growth, in height, of a baby giraffe

in four months

of

Water-diviner hissed

Starlight and Slime CHORTLY before the wedding-day Staunton Farragos gave a party to a number his unsavoury friends, and it was while they were all laughing and talling over their brandy that a secretary, livid with tear, arrived 11 cab. Farragoe WHEN Mrs. Urge, of Spring Villas,

VY went out, and in three minutes, ne Bumpsey, thought she heard a know that he was a ruined man. mause at her door, she rose to In- The deal had fallen through. Some- vestigate, and walked a full- body had betrayed him. He was grown elephant. "I felt so silly with done for. Beads of sweat the size the little trap in my hand," vouch- of dart-bourds bedewed his receding safed lovial Mrs Urge. forehead. Nimblesby must be sold."

(Beachcomber News Agency.)

Throughout the first world. war she worked na u VAD.

Her Own Car

Sho has travelled many miles to WRS "ATTLEE loves the theatre attend exhibitions and functions in In 1921 she went with her MA loves the west ald of the nursing services. But her mother and brother to Italy on End theatres, accompanied by one or greatest interest is the welfare of

A Socialist, war-, more of her daughters.

children. Perhaps because her own holiday.

life and hoppiness have been su ready well known for his poli- her husband through his action mi wounded-major, who was al-- She is a good driver, and drove closely bound up within the family.

The tops in suspense when a desperate mis- sion traps a girl in the cross-fire balwaan twb nations' super-splast

DANGEROUS to love FATAL! Eric Portman Ann Dvorak

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