LADIES' GOSSIP.
— Miss' Dorothy Drew, the pretty and much-petted granddaughter of the late Mr Gladstone, has had the worst possible luck that can befall a girl in her first season. Bronchial pneumonia gripped her some time ago, and she was laid -up at Hawarden. For a time considerable anxiety was | felt, but grave danger appears to be over, i —Do you know those miniature dinner . and tea services and odd pieces of china bearing the marks of historic makers and most exquisitely fashioned that are pre- ! served in many old families? This lilli- j putian china had an origin that Is not perhaps generally known. The leading ' china makers a century or two ago were . in the habit of sending it as Christmas ! presents to the children of then- best customers.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 72
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131LADIES' GOSSIP. Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 72
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