The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-15
PR|NCESSES WHO
KNOW HOW To DRESS
Two Taught This Lesson By
An American Woman
"FETE AT VERSAILLES"
Men and Women Ransacking London
for Accurate Details For Their
Costumes for Lady Pagets
Affair
"FETE AT VERSAILLES"
By LADY MARY

London, June 14.-(Special)-Y would
have to go a long way before YOU could
find such a good looking trio as the
crown princess of Sweden, Princess Pa
tricia and Prince Arthur of Connaught,
the children Of the Duke and Duchess or
connaught, and this evidently was the
opinion of a large part of the house at
the opera a Covent Garden the other
night The two sisters and their brother,
relieved from immediate anxiety about
their mother, who is now making slow
but steady recovery from her two severe
operations and very happy at being to-
gether once more, we're looking their best,
and if they had not been royalties. and,
therefore hardened to a certain degree
to a certain amount of staring, might
easily have been embarrassed at the no
uce they attracted.
Great Credit to Tutoress
The two princesses still continue to re-
fleet great credit on Mrs. Jack Leslie,
who when they were growing up, gave
them invaluable lessons on how to dress.
She also taught them another Lesson that
everyone is grateful to them for, and
that is: How not to look like an English
''princessy" coiffure that, introduced oris-
inally by Queen Alexandra, every British
feminine royNty has thought fit to adopt.
whether it suited her or not. We all
know that these hard-worked creatures
haven't the time 10 dress their hair over
and over again for the various functions
which they are often obliged to attend
in one day. but it doesn't excuse them for
adopting the one pattern of--well, wig,
since that is what it is in plain Ian
guaee-and of which Queen Mary Is the
most unfortunate example. The Con-
naught girls have never done it. Their
hair is their own and is dressed taste
fully and according to the prevailing
fashion.
Not Conscious
Another thing that Mrs. Leslie taught
them is that adorable faculty possessed
by nearly all American women. and alas.
by so few British-the art of forgetting
their clothes when they have got them
on. They are entirely devoid of any
trace of self-consciousness; partly be-
cause they are not cursed with shyness,
which is the lot of so many of our royal
family, and also because of the sensible
upbringing they had from their mother.
81 The crown princess, known before her
marriage as the "tomboy" of the royal
family, has grown into strikingly hand
some matron. none of her Vivacity marred
by the dignity that she has acquired since
she became future queen. She had rather
a hard row to hoe when she first went
to Sweden. The excessively worthy, but
sombre, Swedes were triile taken aback
by the lively manner of the newly inn
ported member of their royal house al
of them most frightfully proper people
who never strayed so much as a hair
breadth from the conventional path,
they thought her 'skittish' and she
thought them cold. Since then, however
they have got to know each other bet
ter. With all her gaiety of manner and
though she can ride and cycle, swim and
row, play golf, tennis and hockey. and
drive her own car. the Swedes discovered
that She was a thoroughly good house
looking after her home and her children
herself.
Travellers Club Ended
There is much dsgruntlement over the
state of affairs of the United Travellers
club. which was opened with such a
flourish of trumpets and big drums last
year You will remember that this great
club was intended primarily for animal
lovers, the arrangements for the mem
bers' pets being almost extensive and
luxurious as those for their masters and
mistresses The membership grew enor-
mously at first, and everything seemed to
be all right, but evidently some one
blundered and blundered pretty badly in
the financial department for one day last