... ENGLAND in the GRIP of W% mier So severe was the frost that the Leeds and Liverpool Canal was frozen over and barges were com missioned to break the ice, which, however, re-formed very quickly': An unusual sight. The River Seriont, which flows past Carnar von Castle, has been icebound during the hardest frost Wales has experienced for many years. It is twenty years since the Thames was last ...

... PITFALLS for the INVESTOR. Recommendations and Get-Rich-Quickly Suggestions that should be avoided. By A. G. Walsh. WHEN I referred last week to the epidemic of share-tipping I had no idea that this financial pestilence was so widespread. Readers from all parts of the country have written to tell me how they have been pes tered with telegrams and letters from entire strangers strongly urging ...

... Treasure House of the World's Diamonds Where And How The Rough Stones Are Graded And Sold By L. W. Phelps-Orion THERE'S nothing unusual about No. 32 Holborn Viaduct, except perhaps the cleanliness of its windows in a blitzed zone of London. It is a craggy, old-fashioned office building, its cornices chipped by bomb fragments and its chimney-pots set askew. Yet if you happen to own just a ...

... AJ MATERIALS 10 ozs. of 3-ply Copley's Excelsior Wool. One pair of No. 6 knitting needles. One pair of No. 11. MEASUREMENTS From the top of shoulder to lower edge 23 in. Across the back and front underarm, 23 in. Underarm of sleeve seam, 18 in. TENSION: 11 sts. to 1 in. THE FRONT. With No. 6 needles cast on 148 stitches. Rib in k. I, p. I, for 3 in. Change to the following main rib: 1st row: k ...

... The comments of the general public, overheard in the theatre, are often strangely at variance with the judgments formulated by the professional critics. By Maitland Davidson THERE is sometimes much illum ination for the mere critic in the verdicts of the general public on the plays he goes to see. As, for instance, when I was at a performance of The Circle of Chalk at the New Theatre and ...

... w&Mciy By W. Teignmouth Shore Some of the finest lemons come from Messina where dark- skinned. Sicilians are employed in splitting and removing the pulp from the fruit. FEW of us are sufficiently grateful to the admirable lemon for the aid he so frequently renders us, or avail ourselves fully of his assist ance. Eve was a wise woman, for not only did she appreciate the apple, but, also, so it ...

... w oman s Rigkt to W ork In the issue of Britannia of March 8//z, Afm Ethel Mannin declared z the course of an article on The Married Woman Worker that every married woman who works when it is not necessary to do so is keeping an un married woman or man out of a job and is in consequence guilty of antisocial conduct. In the following article Miss Mannin s point of view is contested. By Mrs. ...

... When the Waratahs visited this country a few seasons ago they ■were greatly impressed hy the hospitality accorded to them and a Report on their visit emphasises this. By John Orchard I AM indebted to Mr. Cecil Dixon, the well-known member of the Rugby Union Committee, for what is one of the few copies of the Waratahs' Report that has so far reached this country. To us, as hosts, the report ...

... By C. Pette iRiscorr At 79 years of age our contributor is amazingly fit and continues to instruct modern youth in the strenuous delights of golf. badminton and tennis. Try out his Golf Hints over Easter. MY teaching is very simple. I do not conduct you backwards from the drive to the putt, but I start with the latter and work up to the former. You will be surprised to find that with ...

... c Modern T rade s Tendencies How Regeneration of British Industry Must be Carried Out. MARSHAL FOCH, the first soldier of France, was the greatest general since Napoleon. The history now busy about his supreme achievements, coupling his name with others, will find at last the proper perspective, and in due time it will be recorded that, despite all other claims, Marshal Foch was the one man ...

... This Is England Thv Iteuuty Of The flu mi Countryside Written and Photographed By Will F. Taylor WITH all the present stress and urge of war there must be some thought spent on plans for the world to come after. The countryside has its share of attention certainly, but what part will village life take in the general plan? The village is a unit small enough to be included in a single estate and ...

... Old Tales Re-told Attila King of the Hu ns Written and Illustrated By F. Matania. r.i. ON a fateful morning many centuries ago there was brought to the court of Attila, King of the Huns, a poor herdsman carrying an ancient, rust-covered sword. He fell on his knees in terror and confusion before the fearsome gaze of the ruler of his country. As soon as he had recovered his composure, he began ...