A MAID IN MAYFAIR.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 225, 22 September 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)

A MAID IN MAYFAIR.

GOSSIP FROM LONDON

TOWN.

THE GAY ROUND.

<By Our London Lady Correspondent.)

Mrs. Baldwin loves children's parties more than anything else. She is said by her friends to arrange them on the slightest provocation, and recently she had a really charming one which I am sure she enjoyed quite as much as her guests. The children were the delicate little people who attend the open-air school in St. James' Park. Mrs. Baldwin often visits them when she is crossing the park, and talks to them •bout their lessons. She found that they were very excited about the Trooping of the Colours for the King's Birthday, but fearful that they might not be able to see it very well. So she invited them all to the garden, from which the Horse Guards' parade can be seen, had a platform erected so that from it they could see everything that happened, and entertained them in the way children love best. They cheered her to the echo before they left. Princess Elizabeth's "Pal.* The Duchess of York's neighbours in Piccadilly, Lord and Lady Allendale, are established in their London house now for the* season. They share the strip of garden at the back of the two houses with the Duke and Duchess, and as Lady Allendale's younger Boy and her little daughter are about the age of Princess Elisabeth, the three make very good playmates. The little Princess is very fond of a boy to play with, so Master Hubert Went worth, who also is two years old this year, and she get on very well together. Lady Allendale was Miss Violet Seely, Sir Charles Seely's daughter, and is a tall, pretty girl with fair hair. She is interested, like her husband, in racing, and they both hunt with Northumbrian packs of hounds when they are up at theif north-country home in the winter. Visitors at Westminister. I hear that a number of members, of , Parliament intend to sound their fellow < members during the next week or two as to the possibility of putting a stop ' to the competition of entertaining con- ' stituents at Westminster. Large orga- ' nised parties from the country have ' been more numerous this year than at ■ any time since the Wembley Exhibi- ' tion, and showing them round West- > minster has become something of a bur- ' den to the members. When the local < political organisation arranged the tours ' the member did not object, as he had ' always the feeling that he was in a ' measure repaying his own election ' workers. Nor did he mind giving then} < a cup of tea. But the position has been ( altered 'by the char-a-banc companies ' arranging trips from every part of the j country, and, because the home of the ' visitors may be in the division of a particular member, expecting that mem- 1 bar to act as guide and host. The 1 J visitors may even be political oppo- 1 nents. For the most part they are i women who, now that they have the 4 vote, are showing ah increased'interest '. in Westminster. Having heard stories i of tea on the Terrace, they are badjy < disappointed when the experience does Bot come their way. The member suffers in reputation. Return to Cart Wheels. It was beginning to look as though those mysterious artificers who "create" feminine fashions "have over-reached < themselves, and .produced two sartorial ' Frankensteins beyond their control. All ' attempts to kill the vogue of the modern short skirt have hitherto failed, except in the relatively small affair of ball room frocks, perhaps as signally as equally strenuous endeavours ito sup- ' press the small tight-fitting hat. But now comes a serious rumour, big picture hats are to be once more in evidence. Tbis may be joyful news for the milliners, but it is sad tidings for matinee audiences. Once again the latter may be in danger of total eclipse behind my lady's Nell Gwynn chapeau. The favourite dress hues for Ascot were to be cowslip and buttercup yellows, mahogany reds, shades of blue from navy to forget-me-not, and green and coral. But against these herbaceous border colours evening frocks favour a subdued black and white. Beauty Culture and Dress. Tucked away among the chimney pots near Hyde Park is a little salon presided over by a very clever woman. Some years ago she had handed down to her a few really excellent old recipes for cleansing cream, skin foods, and day- i time complexion beautiflers, such as the Incomparable BelkUrs might have used at Bath. The creams had never been exploited commercially, but when thev came into madame's hands she quickly realised their possibilities, and set about making and judiciously advertising ' them. Soon she had gathered together a fine clientele. Realising, also, that < beauty needs beautiful clothes, she re J cently took as junior partner, a girl who ' is marvellously * expert at designing an* ' cutting lovely frocks, which she sells a* quite reasonable prices. A few chrtfc* < model gowns are now displayed dis- ' creetly in the beauty parlour, and a few j pots of cream are placed modestly upon a ■ jrlass-topned table dress salon j Result: A ladv enters©*buy face cream* J and leaves with a new whil" ' she who comes for frocks falls: victim y to the little earthenware pots. * TJnshingled Royal Ladies. ' [ I think Princess Ingrid of Sweden 6 must be the only young relative of tß** Queen *•*» •Mngled hairjf Except, of course, Princess Arthur of t £53*5 w \°< ** her P"*ty fate e ft? £?i* ttae ago. Princess Mary, a the Duchess of York, and most of J r women members of the Roval FamiW have retained their long* haiTlnS 5 J . always understood that this J B £*<&£ a ence to the wishes of the Queen. ££ » EL In ?^'. who j? ™y «ke her au™t. I Lady Patricia Ramsay, looks verv t charming with her hair softly draped at * tee ears" *"* and cut <

Needlework for Nerves. While the draper; are bemoaning the fallmg-off in home dressmaking, and the consequent smaller sales of cottons and silks, some of the smartest doctors in Street are doing something to offset this state of things. I have heard recently of several young women with ample means and leisure who, to their great surprise, have been told that as a cure for jagged nerves they must take up sewing. It is now no uncommon thing to And a piece of elaborate I embroidery in one's hostess' drawing room, its intricate pattern a testimonial not so much to a careful upbringing as to the dictate! of an expensive medical