However, the Court was not only very brilliant seene—all Courts are that—it made history. For the first Ume ladies of the Royal Housefiold were allowed to wear sleeveless Gresses! Also fans were much used, The Queen always carries one of ostrich feathers, so everyone else will bbe carrying them too.
Ostriches are going to boom. Tre Duchess of Kent Is to attend a rece) tion at South Africa House next week where a number of dresses modern style but combining ostrich feathers with them are tobe shown, One exhibit is a foot long cape made; Jentirely of ostrich feathers. It took the birds who contributed to it three years to produce enough plumes. Montezuma' would have felt quite at home in it; though T believe the Aztec dandies fancied humming birds for their cloaks, not ostriches, But really South Africa has all the luck, two new "diamond mines recently discovered, the lowest, income-tax.in the Empire, right out fof the track of the next war, and Row society all sot for its ostrich feathers. It doesn't seem fair.
To get back 10 the Court, Mrs, Kennedy, wife of the American Ambassador, and her two lovely daughters were, of course, the cynosure of every eye and the mark of every" camera, "O. matte pulchra filo pulehrior.* (Yes, T learnt Latin fence, and if T didn't, everyone knows that tag). But if the poet had been at Buckingham Palace he might have put it the ollier way round. For all her nine children Mrs. Kennedy is extraordinarily youngslooking und 'The Ambassador alone among the' gilded crowd wore plain evening! Gress, American democracy forbids him the snobbery of gold lace, But das one writer sarcastically points out, the only other people dressed like the Ambassador were the inferior grade of waiters. "When in Rome" Cle. I see that an English football team, "which plays" in Berlin (omorrow, will line up on the field and give the Hitler salute, "Just as a mark of courtesy in accordance with the custom of the country." the paper Says. So coally the Hearst Press might countenance at least a pair of knee-breeches on Mr. Kennedy's legs.
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