A STATESMAN AT HOME
The Family Life Of Sir Stafford Cripps
London and conventionally casual grey flannels and rough tweed jacket for country wear make Sir Stafford Cripps (in spite of his progressive leanings), look the typical public school product, says a writer in News Review. And although the speed with which he makes his decisions and the austerity of his appearance make people suppose him all intellect and no emotion, Lady Cripps and his son and daughters know better. And realising the importance of the "personal touch," Lady Cripps has been engaged in furnishing and equipping a new home for her family near Stroud, in Gloucestershire, Frith Hill was just a two-roomed cottage on a lonely hill when they bought it, but by the time Lady Cripps had finished, it had 10 rooms and central heating. Grey stone from a local quarry was used for the additions, and the whole now makes a plain squarish blob which almost melts into the grey of the hillside. "This home is the last one I'll ever need, I hope," says Lady Cripps. Looking to the future when people might have to do their own housework, she designed it so that it could be run very easily, if necessary, entirely by the family. NOBTRUSIVE dark clothes for
The dining room is one of the original cottage rooms; six people at the polished table would fill it. Mats and no tablecloth save laundry. Next door is a streamlined modern pantry, where. the eldest daughter, Diana, grates the raw vegetables for herself and her vegetarian father. Beyond it again is an equally modern kitchen. The stove is of glistening white enamel, and the boiler something that would thrill an engineer. Most of the furniture is from the Cripps’s old manorhouse home at Filkins, which was given up when the war began. The furnishings are modern in trend, and the beige loose covers on the chairs are brightened with splashes of blue. On a pouffé in front of the*log fire in the big lounge Sir Stafford likes to sit and talk by the hour about the kind of world we can build after the war.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 153, 29 May 1942, Page 18
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