GARTERS AT PADDINGTON.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1198, 5 August 1911, Page 11

GARTERS AT PADDINGTON.

ON AN OCCASION. On such a morning when the Prince of Wales was invested with the Order of the Garter, one sees Paddington as the station more concerned with Royalty than any other in London (writes a correspondent of an ■ English newspaper). You see th 6 fact chiefly in the careful, discreet, but wholly unfus'gy way in which it manages these occasions.' If you were catching a train there about ten or half-past there was no overbearing treatment of you. Your cab drove handsomely in, after, maybe, holding up a moment at the top of the slope to % brougham go by with a gorgeous uniform flashing in it. Tho excellent police managed to watch for such carriages, and Blip them past without congesting the , ordinary stream. Then inside the station no one worried you. There was enough gorgeousness about to make any ordinary station clear its platforms and worry its officials' heads off. At Paddington you might stroll down one platform behind I.ord Rnsehery in hi 3 Garter ribbon and bareheaded, turn on to another platform' with tho Duke of Marlborough, pass a couple more dukes and three earls, all Gartered and ail strolling, find yourself in a knot of goldlaced Court ofkcials, Lifo Guards officers, and excessively trim officers of the Coldstream, and finally go to seek your own ' train after having watched tho Royal party politely cheered) walk across to tlw shining Royal 'rain. But for the colour and glitter of uniforms and orders you would hardly have known that anything remarkable was going on. ever a raised voice or a scrap of flurry, no excited whistles from guards no aggressively vacant lengths of platform. Paddington does this kind of thing too often to be upset. At the proper moment tho strong puffs of a powerful engine under the station roof, a vision gliding past of exalted figures in comfortable airy saloons, then after a few minutes' pause a vision on the other .side of another train full /of splendid uniforms and a few pretty frocks—and there was the Chapter of the Garter under way. ■ A shooting accident at Qneeustown, Ireland, resulted in the death of Captain John William Attridgs, J.P. Captain At'tridge was out shooting not far from his home nt Wilmount, Queonstown, and when getting over a fence the rifle which ho carried it appears, accidentally went oft and shot 1 him dead. Captain At I ridge was a master in the mercantile marine and sailed out of Liverpct-l for raanv years He v.-as subsequently Lloyd's surveyor at' Uiteenslown, and was a magistrate fnr the county of Cork. It is supposed that the deceased s legs got entangled in some brushwood, and that as he fell the rifle accidentally went off.

net. Hats covered with ruches of tullo aro popular as well as pretty. A. typical/hat is in white Tagal straw' lined with dull blue and trimmed with a touch of the same blue velvet round the crown, and two beautiful pleureuse feathers. All the new hats stand away from the neck and leave .the ear and shoulder line free. Incidentally v they are infinitely more becoming. As soniebody says, the silly women who "simply loved to cram their litle heads into all-enveloping toques and great big mushrooms and then scuttle along in their funrir tight skirts i like queer little animals will regret tho change, but the rational woman is delighted to see more graceful hat lines again, and the effort of choosing headgear this season will be a much pleasauter process than it has been for some time.