London, A brilliant brimstone' butterfly sped past the window yesterday while we were at lunch. Brimstones are always the first out, but this one Jseemed unusually early. Since' March began we have been having] the most glorious weather. Yesterday it was warm enough to sit about out of doors. For which we shall. no doubt pay later. 'The deceased but still' malignant Buchan Will produce one of his cold spells, shall get into a "corridor" from Russia. Meanwhile it is dim cult to, know how to dress, but all very delightful. 7 Appropriately to the weather The Times" produces an account of, Tawns that_can "be Ind down like! Mnoleum. The grass seed is. spread {in some way on crinkled paper which you Buy at so much the square yard Jand cut to the desired shape with scissors, You lay it down, spread about an eighth of an inch of fine soil on the top, and leave the inven-for and nature' to do the rest, Truly] a labour-saving age. And what] Eecomes of the Oxford college porters reply to the American who asked how Oxford got her perfect, Tawns, "We mows and we rolls for five hundred years"? Now it is not 500, minutes.
Hampton Court Heating While for the moment we let the fires out, at least till evening, the interesting announcement was made in the House of Commons this week that an anonymous donor had given, the money to put a new heating! system into Hampton Court Palace, As a matter of form the-OMice of Works contributes £10; the balance privately given is £6,900.
For over half a century Hampton' Court has been heated by hot water pipes. very ugly, which interfere} badly with the hanging of tapestries and arrangement of furniture, but} which unfortunately do. their work well, so that a conscientious govern-mani, always so anxious to cut down expenses and save the taxpayers' money, could not recommend the! price of a new system. You would think that everyone would welcome such a gift. Yet one of the Labour M.P?s, when it was announced, asked whether the secret donor "would be entitled 40 Interfere in, the busless of other departments."
One set of people who will rejoice fre the elderly Indies, relicts of admirals, generals and others who have! done well for the country, to whom. rooms are granted in Hampton Coutt, They live in exquisite surrounding But Tudorian architecture, _lovely as it is to look at, needs a good deal] of modernizing to make it comfortable., The only drawback in the new heating from the ladies' point of view ig that it will deprive them of a legitimate grump!
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