... PETROL VAPOUR By JOHN OLIVER Trades-Bicyclists. A S ever at this time of year, when many things are being bought and there is much delivery going on in the streets, I have been impressed by the bicycling bravura of the trades-boys. They are far more than the miracle riders of the music halls, far trickier than the trickiest trick cyclists. Swooping from a side street on the wrong side of the ...

... LmtKi IKfl LmtKi iKy] BACK TO SCHOOL/ and this term she will not continually be losing her stockings and clothing. All her school things have been marked with Name Tapes the sensible, econom ical, clear way of safeguarding school outfits against loss. FROM ALL DRAPERS AND STORES 3 doz. 6 doz. 12 doz. II 9 3/9 51- Send for FREE illustrated booklet Lose Less Orders should be placed Linen. and ...

... WEDDINGS AND ENGAGEMENTS Marrying This Week. Mr. Brian Franks and Miss Zoe Quilter are being married at St. Clement Danes on January 5, and another wedding on that day is that of the Hon. A. H. P. Hore-Ruthven and Miss Pamela Margaret Fletcher. This will take place in Henry VII's Chapel, Westminster Abbey. On the 7th Mr. H. P. Stirling is marrying Miss Marietta Mander at Tong Parish Church. ...

... BUBBLE AND j SQUEAK They had only been married a few months, and were sitting down to their first Christmas dinner in their own home. Will you carve the turkey, dear she asked. Of course, he replied. By the way, what is it stuffed with Oh, 1 didn't stuff it. There was no need it wasn't hollow. the office boy was a X smart lad, and one day, after a particularly bright action, he was summoned ...

... PICKING 'EM? COMMANDER BENTINCK AND MRS. FAWCETT MRS. STANLEY CLARKE MRS. MACPHERSON-LAURIE, SIR PETER GRANT LAWSON AND LORD WESTMORLAND MRS. PETRE (WIFE OF THE HERO OF THE DAY) AND MR. LLEWELLYN LORD AND LADY ASHLEY MR. JOHN C. SIMPSON AND MRS. GERALD WALKER MRS. BARNEBY, SIR ANTHONY PALMER AND MISS DEAN Cheltenham, which so many believe is the very best steeplechase course in all England, ...

... LADY MARY CAMBRIDGE T unbridge, Briiton Street A recent portrait of the only daughter and only child of the Marquess and Marchioness of Cambridge, who has been helping her mother with the arrangements for the annual Peter Pan party, which happens at Claridge's on January 5, in aid of Dr. Barnardo's Homes. The Marchioness of Cambridge is Chairman of the Committee, each member of which has, as ...

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS By RICHARD KING More Looking Back. I DON'T know whether it be by reason of the number of New Year days stretching be hind me, or the fact of the present state of the world politically, economically, socially and morally, but this I do know -my imagina tion scuttles back far more joyfully than it hopefully makes pictures of the future. Years ago it was considered almost a ...

... INCLUDING MRS. CRANCHAW, MISS RAMSAY, MRS. HODGES, MISS HODGES, MR. J. HODGES, FLT. -CADETS HORNER, HODGES AND ARNITSTEAD, AND MR. MOORE FLT. -CADET BREESE, AIR VICE-MARSHAL BALDWIN, CRANWELL'S COMMANDANT. AND MRS. BAT.HWIN AIR MARSHAL SIR ARTHUR LONGMORE AND MISS DAVIS FLIGHT-CADET TAYLOR AND LADY LONGMORE GP.-CAPT. PANTER, MRS. CASSIDY, WING-COM. McCLOUGHRY ON RIGHT MISS D. HIGGS, MISS CARR, ...

... By SABRETACHE AS is only appro priate to this particular season of the year, there is manifested (in my own mail-bag) a revival of interest in bogeys- or, as some call them, ghosts- and one letter in particular intrigues me. It is from the hard- punching little mariner who is Secretary to the Warwickshire Hunt and he lives at Kineton, which, as many may know, is within earshot of where the ...

... By ARTHUR COOKE AFTER two years courting Joan, I was well acquainted with her aversion to losing touch with people and her passion for keeping in with people so it did not surprise me greatly when, within a week of our return from a very enjoyable honeymoon, she announced at breakfast one Sunday morning: Darling, we really must go and have tea with Aunt Mary. I '11 'phone her up now perhaps ...

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... ALL PRICES REDUCED and every Fur available by DEFERRED TERMS During Samuel Soden's SALE TODAY f DAILY A 11 prices are reduced cash prices, and you uiayavailyour- r e 1 f of our M O.VTHLY P A Y M E N T P L A N (n o extra charge) whilst you weur the Fur. FURS SENT ON APPROVAL. SALE CATALOGUE free on request to Dept. T. SAMUEL SODEN I Ltd. 1 142 REGENT ST., W.1 Phone: REQenl fi(i7u Typical S>.lc ...