London Sept. 18, London was evidently determined to show that Paris could not do all the hurrahing for Princess Marina: really from all one heard of her reception across the Channel one might have thought she was going to marry French Royalist. So," thousands were cheering themselves hoarse at Victoria station on Sunday evening, and all the way to York House. And Wherever the train stopped on the way to Balmoral more thousands were tat the stations and Prince George and the Princess appeared at the windows to wave and shake hands. It really might have been an American} presidential candidate on an elector al tour.
The N tional Rose Society has bril-Yantly" come up to scratch with a brand new rose exhibited at the autumnal show last Friday, 10 be alled the "Princess Marina. Tt is apricot-coloured, flushed with crimson, and rose and sweetly scented. I am just Wondering whether the great Cunarder 834, whose name is a secret Ull'she Is launched next week, will not be christened Princess Marina, What a merey by the way that, although a Greek, her name Is so easy to pronounce: imagine the Cockney tongue struggling with Euphrosyne of Protogenia! building and steel-making trades. But fancy having. walls into. which you couldn't deve a nail to hang a picture The prevailing impression of designs and contrivances is that we are preparing for a race of pigmies. Houses Hive place to fats, rooms deserving of the name to cupboards. Joints will disappear from the menu (in fact the consumption of the roast beet of old England is decreasing alarmingly) because no dining room will hold a table big enough to carry one, and no kitchen contain a stove large enough to cook one," Extraordinary ingenuity has" been shown In" getting all necessary equipment: into. these tiny dwellings, They are dainty and pretty and convenient enough for sort of restaurant chafing dish existence. "But, of course, one must give up all idea of "possessions: There is nowhere to" put anything. away.
And the Theatre Theatres are breaking out with new One of those amazing correspondents who know everything says. that Prince George's choice of a wedding ring—a Kashmir sapphire flanked by two square cut oblong diamonds—was to have been a great surprise. And then the Princess read all. about it in the papers! There are too many inher ent improbabilities in this story for me. We are all a litre off Our balance about the Princess. We have even swallowed the story that she. offered to manicure Prince George, was accepted; that he then found courage to propose (her head being bent over his hands) and was himself accepted.
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