to the four winds. Some have gone to New York. one to London, some to Biarritz, The papers:
is that black-out time is D pan. Iwhich ts actually #8 by the sun, who does not get up now till 40. But what Is lovelier than these calm days of late summer? The dahlias are by now superb and the earlier Michaclmas daisies are coming into flower. Apples are for the most part con: Spieuous by absence after a crop last year that obliged us to put. stays Under the branches. Probably. the bitter winter was too much for them. But there never hasbeen such a crop of plums, and greengaues, Dr. Johnson said that he had never but once had enough walla fruit for his appetite, which was notoriously gargantuan, But that is certainly my feeling. about greenages, which people do not seem to row so plentifully or so. carefully og once they Another of the! shortcomings of our modern age. For is there any fruit better than a really good greengage? Its combination of sweetness, sharpness, softness and. indescribable flavour put it surely frst among all the late summer fruits.
Shall we hear, 1 wonder. this year of fruit rotting on the trees because it devs not pay to pick it? Perhaps not in wartime, and for one very ood reason that from the day after tomorrow to waste food will be a They will do what_ they can in their new quarters. But it needs the clash and. combination of the rear minds together to produce a Feal fashion. Without Paris there fan be no real authority in the mat. ter of what should be worn, It reminds one of the fate of that peer less liqueur, green Chartreuse, after the monks had been expelled" from the Charterhouse in Grenoble. went to Terragona sod began making ps their liqueur there. I tasted some fence on the waiter's assurance that it was as good as the old Chartreuse.
After one sip 1 wanted to. ask him Twas a fool. But of course no real Indy would say such 2 thing. week-end. which was officially no holiday but found any number of are likely to be called up soon. They ask where the rent is coming Paris's loss Is to some extent our: people able to get away from their from. opportunity. A. great drive has been started to fill New York with British clothes. Coats and costumes were: shown in a parade at the Dorchester Hotel this week and certainly Ameri cans will have no ground for eritieiz~ work. Wartime, of course, added to the normal numbers Of happy couples fond registrar offices had to for queues of their clients.
In future brides will have to put! up with much thinner wedding rings. 'The jewellers have announced that, *|t0 save gold, the former broad rings must be cut' down. Oddly enough. yet _no restriction on platinum, which, it will be recalled, to famine prices in the last wa for the need of it in making fuses, 1 remember rightly. "And for some tiers can {ara out clothe that have Zea? platinum welding rings have jing. increasingly popular, no equal. The only trouble is that they will really not wear out. Meanwhile, the sales to America should help io buy quila a number of aero-
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