Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elegant houses along London's Pont Street, one door remains unlocked far into the night. Every once in a while, a chic miss walks in, nods to the matron sitting in the hall, then hurries up to bed. To Londoners, these girls are known as Monkeys-members of what is commonly called the Monkey Club. But such titles are misleading: the girls happen to be students at the most famous and fashionable finishing school in Britain...
...girls, got the idea for her club. "I had always thought," says she, "that there must be some mean between the bluestockings at the universities and the empty-headed young things of the season." The Ellison mean soon proved to be golden. By 1939 the club had three Pont Street houses, a country branch, and a roster of parents with such proud names as Major John Spencer-Churchill, Lord Wavell, and Sir Francis McClean...
Today's 60 Monkeys live much as they always have. Each maintains her own flat in the Pont Street houses, and each is free to follow her own social schedule. She may cook her own meals if she likes, or she may dress in evening clothes and be served in the club dining hall by butlers and maids. But when she goes out at night, she must always have a chaperone-unless Miss Ellison decrees otherwise...
Layered Crust. Though all Monkeys are definitely uppercrust, the crust seems to come in layers. One alumna explains of the Pont Street houses: "We used to call them by their generic names. One was the Commercial House, where all the big-business daughters went. Then there was the Sporting House, where all the girls' fathers owned race horses. Finally, there was the Indian Colonels House, full of rather pale girls who had been brought up in foreign climes...
Soluble Plant Food. In time for spring gardening Du Pont will market a plant food which can be sprayed on to plant leaves or lawns without danger of burning them The solution is absorbed through the foliage, and eliminates the need of drenching the soil to feed to the roots. A 1½-lb. can costs...