London, Sept. 30.
The international crisis has mot upset the even tenor of life in town. Even painter sand decorators are seen busy at their normal jobs, outside and inside, preparing for the autumn Season. The workmen are in Buckingham Palace, where they are carrying out quite an extensive operation, no less than converting a tennis court into an indoor swimming pool for the Princesses. This necessitates a great deal of excavation and therefore not a little noise within the Palace precincts, But it is the noise of normal London life and therefore reassuring.
In the very heart of Downing Street, the centre of the crisis, the sound of the workman's hammer is heard. The future home of Sir John Simon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is nearly ready for occupation. Soon No. 11 will be trans-
Miss Stack herself is entertaining some of her friends at another afternoon party before the wedding.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.