... 3 CI Qames and Pastimes j RUGBY FOOTBALL The Harlequins Beat the Navy AFTER the severe defeat which they sustained in their return match with Blackheath on the Saturday of Christmas week it was not expected that the Harlequins would beat the strong side which the Navy put into the field against them at Queen's Club last Wednesday. However, the 'Quins. are not the sort of people to sit down ...

... n Moi6nria)S^)iaMxn IT has come to a pretty nice state of things when motorists are asked to sign their own warrant for the detention of their cash. I don't want to pay special taxes because I use a motor vehicle, and I've never met a motorist who did, and, what is more, why should we? What. is the meaning 01 rne open road. 11 it is not free to all users and why one particular set of roadlers ...

... J|| ^YSTANDER@MMENTS| milftffT L niiMiillwlinn1 iiiiiihiiiiii 111*1 Mil HI'liiil I IHIHHMi (miKiiin imlii At- For this Relief Much Thanks A LUCKY friend of mine who, for years before the War, was a winter habitué of Monte Carlo, and has succeeded in escaping our fogs and rain this year, tells me that the absence of the Germans from the rooms and terraces makes everybody realise how ...

... I F$y Field Stream Covert The Adare Shoot' IN spite of ad vancing years-- he will be seventy nine next month-- Lord Dunraven retains all his keenness for sport, and the shooting-party which he entertained at Adare Manor at Christmas found him as eager as ever for a good bag to be secured. The coverts proved to be well-stoc ed, considering the difficulties of keeping a good head of game which ...

... SOME EARLY VISITORS ON THE PROMENADE DES ANGLAIS Nice is at present in the hands of an army of workmen, builders, decorators, etc. Many of the large hotels, usually patronised by English people, which were used as hospitals, are now in a state of chaos, but in a few weeks all traces of stagnation during the war will have been removed, and Nice will be ready to receive her visitors once more ...

... MISS DOKMA LEIGH Who has a principal part in Mr. de Courville's new revue The Whirligig which Sir Alfred Butt is now presenting at the Palace Photograph Fou/thnm and Ranfteld ...

... Bedroom Scenes-- Off the Stage No, this is not a rehearsal of a new American play-- it's something very much more in touch with real life than that. In fact, they tell us that, in these times, it is quite an everyday sort of scene behind the walls of some of the leading stores. It is simply a few mannequins showing off the dainty perfections of the latest designs in night attire. But if this ...

... Games AND PASTIMES HOCKEY y ARE we a hardier race than we were before the War? If the light-hearted way in which football and hockey are played on frozen grounds in these days is any criterion, I think we must be. For the County Hockey match between Essex and Kent last Wednesday, the ground at Sundridge Park was absolutely as hard as nails; fortunately, it was also beautifully smooth and level ...

... A Bystander Pot-Pourri Doings of the Week in Pictures LADY DOROTHY CAVENDISH The third daughter of the Duke of Devon shire, whose engagement is announced to -CAPTAIN HAROLD MACMILLAN Of the Grenadier Guards, youngest son of Mr. Maurice Macmillan, of the well-known publishing firm MISS OLIVE BONHAM CARTER Who, it is announced, is to marry Captain L. R. V. Prentice, M.C., of Victoria, Australia, ...

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... &CONOMISONS 1============== Mes Amis Économi sons!' every- one says. It is remarkable how everyone says it in the most perfect unison, almost as if they had spent too much at Christmas. The chiefs of our Govern ment say it. Everyone who makes a speech in which he wishes to show that he is a very perfect patriot, though he was an embusqud in the War, says it very loud £conomisons I There are ...

... THESE youngsters are fortunate in being able to learn ski-ing in Swit zerland at such an early age, for in every game or sport it is always an advantage to begin young'' if you can. Some adults find ski-ing ex tremely hard to tackle, but young people almost in variably make apt pupils and soon become proficient, while, of course, they fairly revel in the spills (as shown in the upper of the ...