Curiosity Shop

In a Chicago suburb 82 old ladies declared warmly: "We are all young enough to believe in love as a very important part of international relations." To prove it the ladies gave a shower last week at the Hollywood, ILL. British Old People's Home. Amid toasts drunk in sauterne or tea, they sent a copy of Love Ledger, a bride's first-year book, and a hand-stitched sachet pillow to Princess Elizabeth.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth was trying desperately to decide on a future bower (Windlesham Moor in Surrey was still the odds-on bet), and the gifts were piling up. at St. James's Palace. Among them:

P: A cardigan sweater from Britain's Angora Rabbit Society.

P: A pillow embroidered with the words "Don't Fence Me In," from a Mrs. R. Lane.

P: A set of twelve crystal plates engraved with Audubon birds from U.S. Ambassador and Mrs. Douglas.

P: A scarabaeoid object labeled "Agnimani, the Magic Gem of the Orient" from one Baron Richard de Touche-Skadding.

P: Eighty pairs of Nylons from various well-wishers.

P: A crystal bowl from President and Mrs. Harry Truman.

P: A pair of blue garters from Mrs. Ella Whagy of New York.

P: A morocco edition of The World Crisis by Winston Churchill from Winston Churchill.

P: Ingredients for a wedding cake from the Girl Guides of Australia.

P: A little boy's suit knitted in green wool from Miss A. B. Esau.

P: A 16th Century psalter from Lord and Lady Melchett, on which England's first Queen Elizabeth had girlishly scribbled her name and a poem:

No crooked legs, no black eye

No part deformed out of kinde

Nor yet so ugly halfe can be

As is the inward suspicious minde.

P: Soviet Military Governor Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky made his contribution to the occasion by taking "administrative measures" against a German newspaper that criticized the planned lavishness of Princess Elizabeth's wedding in the face of European hunger.

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