The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 7, 1954, Page 9

Duchess Of Windsor ells Story Of Royal Couples First Home ? By DOROTHY ROE Associated’ Press Women’s Editor Duchess of Wi ‘ . ‘jesenl at nea ee - . ‘I Suppose because we haven’t |both are terrific collectors ‘ by aces vo veveatetla ee ut bes <u of our own for oo. melare and collections need a ed article, which will ap- | surro Duke and I dike.to| place to stay. Of course you und ii : is pear in two installments in the i¢hi ourselves with’ farhiliar |have to add, too, my passion for October and‘November issues of house we rented at LaCroe—our | us of some event in our lives, some | srst home after we were gqiarri- | shared experience, some old friend or member of our families. We |Unele Dan To Begin New Work 814 FLEMING STREET Superette Market ‘Women’s Home Companion. Her subject is the remodeling and decorating of the “first real home” she and the Duke have owned since their marriage—a quaint old stone mill about an ‘hour’s drive from Paris. De- scribing step by step the trans- formation of the mill into a home, the Duchess writes: “After living in rented houses and with other people’s things for so long—we’ve gathered to- gether in this. enchanted spot all our most cherished possessions. Like the garden . we’ve planted here, we've put down roots. “This is the first home the Duke and I have owned since we were married—in fact it\is the only one—for even our house in Paris is leased. What endears it to me’ is not only that it is really ours, but that it is so dif- ferent from any house we have lived in before. And because it is small and intimate and informal, T have been able to use the things we love most and have owned for years.” One of the problems faced by the Duchess was making room for all the. priceless collections and furnishings owned by the man who once was King of England, and in. blending harmoniously the many styles of furniture accumu- lated by both the Duke and Duchess from their many previous homes. She says: “We've used a great deal of the furniture that came from Fort Belvedere, the Duke’s home when he was Prince of Wales anc King. We also have here some of the things we had in Nassau and the furniture we had made for the Nixon Reports To Eisenhower On Outlook By MARVIN ’L. ARROWSMITH DENVER (#—President Eisen- hower gets a report on the political situation today from Vice Presi- dent Nixon, who. says he is “tre- mendously encouraged” but that the ans still face a diffi- *maintain control of Congfess. Eisenhower’s conference with the vice president probably will be a big factor in the chief éxec- | utive’s imminent decision whether to play a more active personal role role in the November elections campaign. Aides already have said private- ly that the President is inclined to schedule more than the two major campaign addresses he has agreed to maké between now and election day, Nov. 2. The first of those will be a na- tionwide television radio address tomorrow night, with Nixon joining in a half-hour program which the Denver White House is calling ‘‘the major single effort” of ¢he GOP drive to retain-control of the legis- lative branch. The address of the President and vice president will originate from the 6,000-seat Denver Auditorium, where the Colorado. Republican organization has planned a big po- litical rally. Two hours ahead of the broad- cast, Eisenhower and Nixon. will meet here with GOP congressional leaders for a review of the party's Political prospects and a briefing on the international situation. Several GOP leaders either have indicated or said outright that they want Eisenhower to step up his Personal campaign. HIYA, FOLKS! — This. head- strong heifer looks like she has stuck her neck into trouble, but gain't so. The youngster was just curious and poked her head between a bam corner and the silo on Norbert Bron. ner's farm near Sun’ Prairie, wis : DRAWING ROOM—Here the Duke and Duchess of Windsor chat with their friend, “Margaret Biddle, who helped advise them on the decorating and remodeling of their “first real home,” near Paris. The sofa group is dominated by the famous Picture Sir Alfred Munnings. painted of the Duke on horseback when he was Prince of Wales.. The coffee table, givn the couple in Nassau, has a map of the Bahamas in black and antique bronze, DUCHESS’ BEDROOM—The far window behind the dressing table opens over the millstream, of which the Duchess says: What I love best about this room is the peaceful splashing of the waterfall under the ‘window.” She has used clear pastel colors in the striped antique ‘taffeta draperies over the old beams, and in the harlequin bedptead. The litfle Victorian rocker in ‘the foreground belonged 9, ythe Duchess’ American grand- mother, gs.Each small object reminds ‘fixing up and decorating houses. DUKE’S DRESSING ROOM—Writes the Duchess: “One of our planning problems was the Duke's dressing room and bath just across the landing from my room. We solved it by building fixtures into closets and cabinets and setting a stall shower in one corner.” lived, I soon learned that there were certain tricks which would turn an impersonal or discourag- ing room into something homelike | and personal. And this experience has stood me in good stead since. I’ve learned that the things you love and that mean most to you are the important furnishings of a house.” The royal couple discovered their dream house two years ago, driving down a winding road from Paris. The old mill, consisting of four buildings, had been the resi- dence of the painter Drian, who had done a portrait of the Duchess |before the war. The Duke had been talking of buying “a little place in the country” while the Duchess was holding out for a house in Paris. But she lost her heart to the old stone mill. The re- modeling presented many pro- | blems, as she explains: “Stone walls.two feet thick and hand-hewn beams a foot square aren’t easy to alter. We wanted |to make one larger hall out of | the entry and sitting-room on the first floor of the mill building. . . Of course, plumbing is a problem in any old house and we had work- ed over and over our plans to fit into the tiny space the ‘bathrooms we needed.” After getting a builder started on the major architectural changes, the Duchess left for New York, and a shopping spree. She writes: IT's MEW! ora Right Over | ounty New Bake ste Only one in Monroe § 5 factory* tees you # ; : seh Pale Job that 16 asi asl jn looks, dural . _ , ee and price + +* Yes, hours service: Special! Siar dionieed Tite Only Ford Windshield Washers — $4.50 Installed, $7.50 Monroe Motors, « Your-Friendly Ford Dealer a 1117 White Street -* “That began years ago when Ij “I adore to shop. All my friends was a Navy wife. Wherever I| know I'd rather shop than eat. |I could hardly wait to get to New York to look for wallpapers and fabries for the mill.” In its present finished state, the house is a charming blend of the old and the new, with every room filled with treasures from the romantic past of the famous couple. The Duchess has gone in for a great deal of color throughout the house, but her favorite room ap- pears to be her bedroom, which she describes thus: “My bedroom is long and narrow with sloping beams, a little like a tent—so I decided to emphasize this by draping the old beams with striped antique taffeta. The colors in the curtains are repeated in the harlequin bedcover—a present érom my husband on my last birthday. Its pieces are put together by hand like a patchwark quilt—I had de- cided it would be too expensive but the Duke ordered it for me anyway as a surprise.” Explaining her theory of decora- tion, the Duchess says: “I think every house should have a theme in decoration—even if the theme is as simple as the one I chose for the mill—fruit and flowers. Then the decoration becomes something like a musical composition, each room carries the theme but with variations of mood and pace.” To Help Needy OKLAHOMA CITY wp—Dan Vin- son, who has played Santa Claus | with donated toys to millions. of | children the past five years, says that he is fi tively packing jaway his beard and red suit in |favor of another philanthropic | project. Uncle Dan, as the 70-year-old asphalt salesman is affectionately known, has been making a little |brighter the Christmases of chil- dren who would otherwise be for- | gotten. } | Most of his efforts have been de- voted to children of convicts who | | are unable to send presents home. ; “I wasn’t going to have any- | thing to do with toys this year. be- cause I wanted to concentrate on a new summer camp,” Vinson said | | today. “However, letters already | |have come in so I am going to | | send materials to prison chaplains and to police departments. They can carry on from there if they wish.” When Uncle Dan talks abcut | his summer camp he gets a gleam | | in his eye. He has leased an old | Indian boarding school and 150 | acres of land at Colony in eastern Oklahoma. This year, he enter- | tained about 500. underprivileged | children. | Their reactions were so reward- | ing that next year Vinson expects | | to have about 5,000 from different | |parts of the country. There is no | | charge. Reds Pull Back TOKYO (P—North Korea’s Py- jongyang radio announced today | | that 87,894 Red Chinese soldiers— | | who made up the seven divisions | of ‘‘volunteers” in the Korean | | War—have now been pylled back | into China. ;. The Red broadcast, monitored | |here, said the last troops crossed | | into Manchuria Oct. 3. | Along with the troops went 24 | tanks and 2,262 guns of all types, | |the radio said. There are two million handicap- ped children in the United States, the National Education Assn. es- timates, Thursday, October 7, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 9 Let's Talk About Service If you’re headin’ for other parts, or just crusin’ around town... our “A-1” service always keeps your car road-ready and rarin’ to go! All meehanical details carefully checked . . . service work always reasonable. Drive up! 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