By London, June 2.
There is nearly always an element of sadness in a visit to an old home where one has spent happy years. However satisfying is the present, 1 these once familiar surroundings, almost forgotten nov, the past seems to rise up to confront and criticize it spite of the obvious diMeully of gory atmosphere, "says for her shrewd business ability After fifteen years in the. trade, Afrs, "Maugham feels that she. has cared i Fest. She will, however, preserve her connection with itorlor decoration, either in the wholesale ade or as dei That Touch of Smartness Hat-Kerehiet ret that such comparatively care. free days as they knew here, as Di and Duchess of York, can never This dramatic new idea was ferufeai Too the 3 Rerehiey st adds the flattery of rim, and you cet ehanine the her= chief 12 star all your frocks, need of registering for national ser-ice, some on the advisability of lay-Ing in a few tins of bully beef. some merely to remind us that "We've Got To Bs Prepared." a slogan which is shouted at us from every hoarding, home is rather a moment, as are all re the only' visitors tenants, of. as they fare here, visitors who are curious 10 See the house where the Princesses Spent their babyhood. But it won't be empty for long for the King Tending 145 Piccadilly for the Royal and Historic Treasures Exhibition, to help the Heritage Craft Schools' at Chaitey, Sussex.
Sighiscers will then be able to whose owners would be willing to of the sound of it. It is curious how come But. there is no empty and irritating a given set of their not by ones and twos but by hundreds to inspect the house. words may become by repetition, The aggregate cost of printing, fold ing, inditing and distributing" these circulars must be very considerable. They are seldom read. as the news: papers have told us a dozen times: what they contain. But T suppose the work of preparing and distributing them sends home each night a number of blameless civil servants glow.
with the consciousness of a good deed well done. So let them pass—to the waste paper basket.
Tt will not be furnished quite as was when the Duke and Duchess fof York were in residence, though th hhurseries are to be reconstructed. and many of the Printesses' playthings: and belongings are to be put back in place, The rest of the house will be led' with furniture, portraits and personal possessions of generations of the Royal family, past and present,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.