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... By David Livingstone-Learmonth /CONDITIONS were perfect when we went to the meet of the Surrey Union at Chaffolds Farm Gate on the road between Newdigate and Rusper. It was warm and soft, and although rain threatened, it did not come. There were several foxes on foot in Jordans and we viewed the first and, I think, the one eventually hunted as fine a specimen as I have seen and equal in size ...
... FLY ON SKIS in the Dolomites with the aid of Jo erb Schuckart's wings, which weigh only 27 lb. SAIL IN AN ICE-YACHT over the lakes of Germany. BICYCLE downhill on ski at St. Moritz. GLIDE from the slopes at Davos. OR JUST WALK on the snow wherever it is. ...
... Modes of the Moment By LORNA CAMERON T70RWARD is the slogan for the new spring hats. Small, flat or slightly hollowed, they are tilted well over the forehead, and, though they look almost too fly away to be practical, are actually securely held by ribbons or nets of veiling. Town models are massed with flowers, swathed with veils or crowned with feathers, but for the country the same lines are ...
... The South African Grand Prix Maseratis Finish First, Second and Third at East London THAT motor-racing is popular in South Africa was evidenced by a crowd of 60,000 that attended the South African Grand Prix on the Prince George Circuit, East London, at the beginning of the month. Italy, making an effort to win the race for the first time, sent over a team of Maseratis, one six-cylinder and ...
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... Rallying to Monte Carlo This Year's Bid by British Motorists By Highwayman SOME 250 motorists from fifteen different nations, all smitten with the annual madness of the Monte Carlo Rally, are now careering across Europe, driving a great deal faster than they would if they could choose their gait, being con tent with the sketchiest sort of meals and going for day after day with a minimum of ...
... Hermits of the Arctic: Traders, Trappers, and Prospectors WTo Choose to Live Lonely Lives in the Frozen North, Most of them Developing a Distinct Aversion to Civilisation The Arctic gets you. YOU can find plenty of white men somewhere in Canada's far north, isolated from the outside world, practically hermits, and some of them living so remotely as to be hermits. Some of them see other white ...
... Feminine Fashio NS AT THE R.A. Exhibition of Scottish Art Some delightful por traits of both beautiful and beauti fully-dressed ladies are to be found amongst the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century paintings in the Scottish Exhibition at Burlington House. It is amazing to contrast the styles of sleeves from one period to another-- the puffed and bouffant sleeves of LADY KATHRINE ERSKINE This ...
... THOS. COOK SON LTD THOS. COOK SON LTD Upon either bank of the Nile is imperish- ably written in pyramid, in tomb and temple the history of ancient Egypt. H t f\ f l/\ P Memphis, with its alabaster Sphinx the strange step Pyramid of Sakkara the in credible temples of Luxor and Karnak the Valley of the Tombs of Kings (circa 1700 n P fi Yf fit B.C.) the tomb of that beauteous wife of Rameses, ...
... Italy: Our Premiers Visit Mr. Chamberlain Received With Great Cordiality in Rome: A Sincere Welcome From the People Although nothing concrete has emergen from Mr. Chamber lain s visit to Rome, it at least gave the opportunity for the frank exchange oj political views and there is no aoubt that this plain speaking has left the head of each Government with the conviction that he knows the ...
... The Farmers' Claim The Future of Our Oldest Industry Has Now Become an Issue of National, Economic, and Political Importance Prices the Crux of the Matter By J. BAKER WHITE WRITING in THE SPHERE in October last on the state of British agriculture I drew attention to the growing discontent in farming districts and said that over all the realm of agriculture a new spirit is stirring, a spirit ...
... FIGHTING ROCK and FLOODWATER to bore THE SAN JACINTO TUNNEL A Hazardous Undertaking Completed in America's Golden West Cutting Thirteen Miles of Aqueduct Beneath a 10,800-ft. Mountain A very remarkable engineering feat has just been accomplished in Southern California with the completion of the thirteen-mile tunnel which, in the face of appalling difficulties, has been bored through 10,800-ft. ...