The Archive · 1940

Princess Margaret Collects

Clocks i But our children still look forward to birthdays. Princess Margaret is ten ext month and the King, knowing a8 every good father Ienows what fun' these anniversaries "can be to the very" young, has already chosen a birthday present for his little gir Long ago he noticed that Margaret hada Weakness for clecks, Just had her grandfather, the late King George V, who was a celebrated connoisseur of old clocks and chromo There was a certain sunray clock n the Queen's sitting-room in Buck ingham Palace which Princess Ma faret always admired, and an exact duplicate of this beautiful time-piece which His Majesty—is going to ive. he Princess Elizabeth is certainty more interested in cameras than in. clocks and she is showing a nice senso of humour in her choice "of snapshot subjects, She takes dozens of snaps these day's and encloses at least one in every letter she sonds te her grow= ing elrele of friends. A recent and amusing soap of hers showed the Queen in ne dignified pose, for the Firat Lady of the land was elutehin her hat in-a high wind, Another Mr, SE. Clark, president of the Shanghai Amateur Swin Asioewition, apers Mme P. Auge, wife of th Now, eggs are deliberately flavoured with' Temon, chocolate, tomato and several other plants, simply by mixing the appropriate essence with the hens' regular diet Safety Clothes West-End shopland the great summer sales are opening, and while 'ut womenfolk are not this year the Look-out for bargains in clothes and household goode of all Kinds, they are buying oh a generous scale. There can be no more Paris fashions for while and so Paris models which were bought up by London shops in May have rarity value.

Practical clothes and Curnishings and in no less a degree safely Croquet Players Benefit War wund "NC.D.N" Photo.

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