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EYES AND EYEBROWS

... Lack-lustre eves This is a sure sign of ill-health. If due to anaemia, the eyes will be heavy-lidded with shadows underneath; if to kidneys, there will be puffiness or pouches; if to liver, the eyeball will be slightly blood-shot and yellow. As herbs are more than usually healing during spring, give yourself a plentiful diet of freshly-pressed juice of raw carrots for anaemia scrape and boil ...

THE BATHROOM...: Its Decoration And Equipment

... THE BATHROOM' Its Decoration And Equipment When personal cleanliness was still a social duty tardily performed, bathrooms were drab affairs. They had a surgical appearance that, in itself, made the necessity of steeping oneself in water a painful operation. One almost expected to smell ether. But since we learned to enjoy our ablutions, the face of the bathroom is changed. It is a sociable, ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1937
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1004 | Page: Page 90, 91 | Tags: Photographs 

When A Few People Drop In: GOOD SERVICE

... A part from the many organised festivities and carefully planned entertainments of this season, there will be, I think, a great many impromptu got-up-at- the-last-minute affairs. You had better be prepared for all sorts of unex pected guests. Look up your recipe books and make a little plan of campaign, earmarking a few good recipes for quickly made dishes which you might cook yourself. A ...

Nature's Fairest Valley

... is the Yosemite California s crowning glory. Its mixture of wonders is really awe-inspiring to the most seasoned traveller By Harold J. Shepstone THE biggest-ever complex of our American cousins is apt to irritate many of us-- especially when we are not so sure that it is. But when they commence talking of the wonders of Yose mite Valley we must sit back patiently and give them best. For ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1937
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2276 | Page: Page 111, 113, 115, 116 | Tags: Photographs 

I VISIT PAPWORTH: Now A Thousand Strong--and Getting Stronger

... 'I Visit Papworth J\[oiv A Thousand Strong and Getting Stronger V/ ife.. I i v UNTIL I visited Papworth last week I had thought erroneously that it was a disabled ex-service men's institution. On inspection it turns out to be an admirably organised place where over 1,000 people who suffer from tuberculosis or-- in the case of children, whose parents suffer from it --live, work, and have a ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1931 | Page: Page 32, 36 | Tags: Photographs 

The Fate of America's Desert Steed: No Longer in Large-Scale Demand

... The Fafe of America's Desert Steed No Longer in Large-Scale Demand Horse-breeding has practically disappeared from the United States as a major industry, accord ing to John Mullins who still breeds horses on the Arizona border. Mullins has managed seven annual rodeos at Madison Square Garden, New York City, and rodeos at the Philadelphia sesqui centennial exposition, and in Calgary, Canada. He ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 457 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Photographs 

SEVEN DAYS OF HISTORY

... SiĀ„iM Pays @F HDSIORY THE CLOSING OF THE JEWEL HOUSE: A Yeoman warder pinning up the Lord Chamberlain's notice on the Wakefield Tower in the Tower of London, announcing that owing to the removal of the Regalia the place will be closed until May 17. The jewels, which were taken away on Monday under a strong police escort, are now at the premises of Messrs Garrard, the jewellers, where they are ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 527 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LONDON: A MIGHTY CORONATION CAMP

... LONDON: A MlGHTy Coronation Camp ADVANCE GUARD: A busy scene in one of the camp kitchens in Kensington Gardens where last week the first tents were pitched in what will eventually be a vast camp accommodating many of the 32.500 troops who will be employed in London for the Coronation. This force is really a composite army of the Empire, every unit in the Commonwealth being represented by at ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 354 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

KANGRA and KULU: A Veritable Sportsman's Paradise in the Far North of the Punjab on the Kashmir Borderland

... L A n A J I I I I I i A Veritable Sportsman's Paradise in the Far North IXAINUKA QTld fx LJ L LJ i of the Punjab on the Kashmir Borderland A MIRACLE may be wrought by the reek of a fire of garden rubbish and pine clip pings. Thus, on a recent autumn afternoon, this reek conjured up a vivid picture. Fifty years ago a young officer, after three years' strenuous work in Baluchistan, obtained ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1054 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... 32-34 St. Bride Street, E.C.4. Wednesday, April 2S, 1937. CORONATION NEWS. Right or wrong, my intention is to keep away from Coronation items for one full week before the great day. I may be wrong-- human beings (even journalists) are as often wrong as right. I don't disguise my personal opinion that people in England nowadays too often kill the thing they love by running it to death. We ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2852 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Photographs 

St. James's Park--A FLOODLIT FAIRYLAND: With Gas Lamps of Immense Candle Power

... St. James's Park A FLOODLIT FAIRYLAND With Gas Lamps of Immense Candle Power LIGHTS THAT DO MISLEAD THE MORN Above and above on right Two impressions of the wonderful lighting system that has been installed in St. James's Park by the Gas Light and Coke Co. and which will be one of the outstanding features of London's Coronation illuminations to be held from 9 p.m. to midnight on the n'ghts ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 202 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs