The death of an old lady at Birchington in Kent, named Mrs. Ward (but it may be Mrs. Greatrex) has brought to light one of those records of eccentricity which are stranger than any novelist would venture to invent, You remember the horrible woman, an ex-wardress of a prison, in Agatha Christie's "Death by Appointment," who terrorized her whole family. But though she kept them under like convicts, she did at least keep them in comfort and even took them for Plum-coloured tweed having a Ught blue crossbar was used for this smart three-piece outfit. The skirt and the piping on the short jacket are of the plum tweed in monotone. The hat is of matching plum suede with a stitched brim.
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