... Sweden's School for Marriage I here Intending Lile rartners are raced V/ith a Very Rigorous Cross Examination Before they Take the Ultimate Step By FERDINAND TUOHY JANUARY 1st, be ing Herbert Day, it is appropriate to take as the text for this article, setting forth how the Swedes essay to ward off dud mar riages, a quotation from Holy Deadlock, the propagandist novel by means of which the ...

... Men of Mark in the SEVENTEENTH CENTURY A Gallery of Notabilities and What They Wore PARAGON OF THE CAVALIERS: Gerard van Honthorst (1590--1656), one of many painters who benefited by the patronage of Charles I, painted this portrait of Prince Rupert, that dashing fighter on land and sea. The artist depicts his distinguished sitter in a broad brimmed hat typical of the period THE EARL OF ...

... MID -SEASON ELABORATION Lelong's charming black wool afternoon dress, very simple in line, has a front elaborately embroidered and cut out to reveal a foundation of clear blue. There is a tie of the same blue at the throat, and the little pointed cap of black tricot is lightly and most frivolously veiled Lelong adds, to a suit of clear beige, a blouse of mousseline de lain de kasha printed in ...

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... Vauxhall have huilt the WINTERPROOF CAR /_ HE warmth of a built-in car heater to welcome ...

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... ggggnpE jiM By Eleanour Sinclair Rohde The cottage or bungalow of your dreams is yours. You are no longer an outsider but a member of that curious tribe of folk who live and move and have their being in the country. You survey your newly-acquired possession with the pride of ownership. The walls are bare and the garden, or rather the bit of land on which the cottage stands, is a howling ...

... 0 14 L CIK L (jV-C Does your heart sink to zero when you catch sight of your face on a cold grey day and find that it looks all gone to ruin and lifeless like the weather? It needed real courage to propel me out to look for restoratives, instead of putting my head in a sack and murmuring: It's all over, which is a feeling that comes over most women mid-winter. Remembering a certain Velva ...

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... flii10 Or V d v.e^is Rv Looking at interior decoration over the last hundred years, perhaps the most striking thing is the resemblance that exists between the fashions of 1838 and 1938. It is true we have passed through many phases. Design, convention in decoration has fluctuated as far and as wide in the past century as in the three or four previous ones together. Yet the furnishing fashions ...

... JHFORT FROM GAS The last argument against the gas fire as a decorative as well as a practical unit in the domestic scheme was vanquished when architects and interior designers began to introduce gas fires into some of their most attractive and important schemes. ine decorative aspect 01 toe gas lire merely Degan with the coloured finishes that are now so well known. Since this innovation they ...