Royal Choice

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 154, 25 March 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)

Royal Choice

New Decorations At Sandringham LONDON, March 3. tpi-lE Queen has recently been superX vising the redecoration of the guest-room suites at Sandringham, and* the dining-room has also been greatly altered in appearance. The oak panelling has been replaced by pale green decorations, making it look larger, and the furniture has been rearranged. Several other rooms have also beeu redecorated, in several cases in pale green, which is one of the Queen s favourite shades. Queen Mary, however, prefers pink, blue and light grey, and these colours are predominant in the suite of rooms occupied by her. Women in the distressed areas of Durham and South Wales are making three off-white satin quilts which have been specially ordered by Her Majesty. These will be used in the Sandringham house guest-rooms, and will tone with the off-white walls and Empire woods, mostly in pale greys and coffee-beige shades. The carpets are of naturalcoloured pile closely fitted to the walls and the main colours are found in. the glazed chintzes used for curtains and covers in tones of lime green, dusty pink and pale blue. It is one of the Queen’s rules that early-morning tea-sets and breakfast sets must match the main colour scheme of the rooms in which napkins and tray cloths are also carried out. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester are also superintending extensive alterations at their new country seat, Barnwell Castle, a lovely old Northamptonshire mansion, which they will occupy in the autumn. The kennels and stables are being considerably enlarged, and it is rumoured that the Royal couple may run their own pack of foxhounds next season. The ancient creeper which has covered the front of the castle for so many years is also being removed in order to expose the stonework and the whole place will be electrified. In the middle of this month the Duke and Duchess intend to call on all the tenants on the 2700-acre estate, who number nearly 100. For this visit thev will stay with the Duchess’s brother, the Duke of Buccleuch, . at Boughton House, near Kettering, only 10 miles away. . . (Above recipes courtesy “Electricity Department.”)

TO MAKE STOCK

You can make good stock from the water in which bacon has boiled, but it is often on the salty side. Next time you boil a piece of bacon and want to use the water for soup or stock, put a scrubbed potato in witn the bacon before it starts to cook. You will find that the potato takes away a great deal of the saltiness.

If you do not possess a vacuum cleaner, blow the dust out of wire mattresses with a bicycle pump.