The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

British aristocracy. excessively worthy"
 but. it must be confessed, dull. Lady Iaget is woman who draws the warm
 hearted Irish folk like a magnet. Her
 charm, her bright vitality. .her refresh ing urconventionality have made her the
 rage in Ireiands capital.
 Calls For Tact
 This, of course is all very gratifying in a way but it puts the American uo IT. an in a position that demands enormous
 and unceasing tact. It doesn't do for her to usurp the position of the vicerne in Irish society, and though she is ahso- iutely the last woman to think of such d thing, her tremendous popularity would very soon put her there, willy nilly, if she were not awfully careful. It would l imperl her husbands career, too, an un- l thinkable action to this ambitious woman. Partly to relieve the situation, there | fore, Lady Padset came to London a few days ago and will be at 35 Beleraye square until next February, when the
 beginning of the Irish season compels | her to return to the Emerald Isle. Lady Paget is looking astonishingly well by the way; so brisk and blooming" in
 fact, that it is almost impossible to re-
 member her as the pale invalid, con denned, as many thought not so long ! ago, to lie on ner back for the rest of her | life.
 Prince Arthur of Connaught is taking
 out a huge case of presents and season able delicacies 10 Ottawa, where he will spend Christmas with his parents and
 his sister. Queen Mary, certain that no llum Iuddings and mince pies can excel l these made in the royal kitchens from ! l CT own recipe, has had good size ham per of these toothsome delights packed, ap Drit A-sfl, from his sis ter a list as long as his arm of commits sions to fulfil for her in London.
 The brother and sister are looking for ward tremendously to this visit. BesiGes l being devoted to each other, they have | the same passion for all out of door puf- suits, and the prince is particularly anN- | ious to show his sister some very intri- cate skating feats that he learned when staying with his other sister, the Grown Princess of Sweden, last winter, although Princess Pat has replied that she can match anything he has to show WltA | those she learned in Canada. Make Longer Stay
 Prince Arthur will be able to make a longer stay with his people than at first intended, owing to the death of the mother of the King of the Belgians. AL though these things do not at first glance | seem to have much connection with each other, it is because the princess contem- Hated visit to Brussels early in the New Year to present the insignia of the order of the garter to the king, has, of course, been postponed owing to the demise ot the distinguished recipients mother So he will be able to enjoy to the full ths round of gaietias that the Duke ana Duchess of Connaught have arranged for him during his stay at Rideau house, and also some big shooting expeditions which have been organized up country. Lady Anglesey, with the assistance ot her sister, Lady Diana Manners, mouse decorator and furnisher in ordinary to the upper ten," as her friends sometimes playfully call her, is deeply engrossed Tn plans for her new home, No. 12 Gros- venor square, which promises to be a palace of rare beauty by the time 1t IS finished You remember, perhaps, that Lady Diana performed the same useful office for her other sister, now Lady Nlo- le. Charteris, for whom she designed an exquisite blush rose room, the walls start
 ing at the floor with the faintest pink and .'biushing' in it's ascent till it finished
 a warm rose at the ceiling. Lady Diana has designed for Lady Anglesey most charming gray" bedroom, calculated In it's quiet tones to suggest resttulness in every detail The note of the color IS
 taken from a suite of gray polished syca- more wood of an eXquisitely soft shade. 1 The carpet will match 1t exactly, and the walls will be hung with the softest gray brocade The bedstead to go with
 this is of oxydized silver, and the orna-
 ments on the dressing table are of gray
 enamel with silver initials and cut glass 1 witl silver tops.
 Covered With Satin
 l Then to avoid anything like dullhess | the bed is covered with a satin eiderdown' painted with pink roses, and over the l head of the bed is large painting or La France and a few damask roses. The electric light fittings of oxydized silver are hrng with little gray parchment shades painted with tiny pink roses and Tn a corner of the room is a large standard flamp of the same material with big enl- hire shade, which looks as if 1t has been turned upside down, as it's big opening IS at the top This is a cunning device or | Lady Dianas own. however, Tor over 1 this large opening is drawn soft pink gauge, which diffuses the prettiest and l most becoming light in the room. In an- l other corner of this pretty nest is most exquisite jug and basin of Bohemian rupY glass the latest extravagance among the 1 exouisites of the day started, curiously enough, by queen Mary, who IS not gem | erally given to extravagances of any klnd. But it possesses a quality WIiieh com. | mended it to her housewifely soul; II not most carefully polished, it shows up every speck. even the tiniest bit of fluff 1 from a towel
 Even the bell pushes and switches have not been forgotten. They are Of gray enamel, decorated with tiny wreaths of ninl, roses. the push" or switch as l the case may be. being of mother-of- 1 pearl ~
 The house the Angleseys have taken
 was the one formerly occupied by John Pierpont Morgan Jr, and they will nave las a neighbor Mrs. John Jacob Astor'
 Princess Hatzfeldt Coming Princess Hatzfedt will be another ln- 1 teresting tenant of Grosvenor square next season. Indeed she intends giving large house warming" party there soon after Christmas. The princess who' as you know was Clare Huntington pelore her marriage bought this house a year aeo hut it has taken all this time to arrange 1t to her liking. Arrange, now ever. is much too mild word to de- eorihe what was done before it suited the
 nrincess. Nearly the whole of the in- terior was takeI&out bodily, and has been rehilili according to the American Wom- ans ideas and the money she has spent over if would represent a decent sized fortune. . princess Hatzfeldt's decision to return | to the scene of her former scintillatons wil, bring joy to many, for her parties
 were always brilliant and original ar | fairs. She is easily one or me pest il, essed women in London and her JeWels
 ara the envy and despair of every fem l mine heart. Her tiara IS salu to pc ule 1 anost eyer seen here, and contains a mar
 yeIous yellow diamond, which alone Is worth 5000.
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