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Courtaulds RAYON

... cj Lf L^VWTyfl KagCr^ifl L VJjV\l^^r The Modern Romantic wears this soft-draped bustle gown of Tested-Quality satin made with Courtaulds Rayon. It's in the new pastel shades and its price is J guineas. MilIĀ£J2 _____ ...

Switch-Back Fortunes of Deauville

... By Ferdinand Tuohy A HECTIC Deauville. Short, sharp, and gay. So, they answered my ques tion, bearing on the season ahead. They-- Parisians, men and women, who flourish commercially and in other ways, or do not, on the strength of three lightning weeks annually at the barometric Norman resort. Barometric because Deauville does serve as an instrument measuring atmospheric pressure in the ...

KEEPERS of the SEA GATE: Gravesend lies between London's throbbing dockland and the ocean highway which leads ..

... keepers of the Sea Gate G ravesend lies between London's throbbing dockland and the ocean highway which leads to the ends of the earth By L. M. Bates SOMETHING about the ancient seaport of Gravesend invites the attention of the artist. He finds stimulus in the stones of ancient wharves sucked smooth by the tides, in rambling old taverns and bluff-bowed bawley boats so near the sprawling ...

SEPTEMBER MORNING

... SĀ£PTEMBER MORNING 1 Don't leap out of bed the moment you j; awake. Blood pressure is low while you sleep, and sudden activity is a shock to the circu- lation, Stretch before you get out of bed. Make haste slowly Yes, lying on your stomach for a wk ā– Klllfcllt while is restful and does help fl8||[ towards keeping your figure if you are not energetic enough to do those morning exercises. Don't ...

HAIR CARE

... By Chrysis Too many scalps to-day never receive any friction, they are not even rubbed dry. Hair is washed, set wet, and plunged under a dryer. Then the wave is left carefully undisturbed, barely combed even, so that the set may last as long as possible. And so it goes on, month in and year out. Small wonder the hair becomes lifeless, and doesn't shine. It is never really exercised. Take hold ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 994 | Page: Page 55, 92 | Tags: Photographs 

All These Are Free: Help yourself from wood and hedgerow

... lAll These Aire Jree i Help yourself from wood and hedgerow i, |N4ixtheseed^^odT^f^^ild^j clematis with beech leaves and !;j a wreath of briony berries in a low bowl s 2 A flat fan arrangement of I ferns and copper beech leaves i in a wall vase s s 3 Tall branches of sycamore look decorative and unusual placed in a short vase s s 4 Beech boughs, a spray or two s of spindle and orange berries s ...

A Popular Light Car in Improved Form: The New Austin Ten

... A Popular Light Car in Improved Form The New Austin uTen By The Earl of Cardigan IT is surely very appropriate that, in a year when 10-h.p. cars are assured of an exceptionally wide sale, the Austin company should have produced a new Ten, or rather a brand new edition of the 10-h.p. model which has for some years figured prominently in the Austin range of cars. The newcomer is distinctive ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 945 | Page: Page 81, 83 | Tags: Photographs 

ESSO ETHYL

... It is good news to learn that increasing numbers of British Motor Manufacturers are recommending the use of Ethyl petrol in their Instruction Books. SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL I agree they run better on Esso Ethyl said the Chauffeur-mechanic - Experience counts Twenty millions of the world's motorists do THE PETROL not run their cars on Ethyl petrol without good reason. Modern THAT STOPS high ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 99 | Page: Page 82 | Tags: Photographs 

Bear Brand Sy-metra TRADE MARK

... Bfi&r Brar\d f Brand ju.oA^i (4 y^^'arsC- AND THIS, MY DEAR, IS THE WHOLE POINT 1 I quite agree that, in the past, I have travelling salesman to the farmer's enthused over the loveliness of certain daughter but it is a relief to find stockings. You know only too well Syunetra such lovely stockings that that I've gone quite crackers over the are really conscientious. wearing qualities of ...

INSIDE KNOWLEDGE

... THERE'S A WEALTH OF ENTERTAINMENT IN A large number of the informative diagrammatic these interesting sectional drawings are repro- drawings, chiefly by that well-known artist G. H. duced as panoramas, EACH MEASURING OVER Davis, which have been published from time to THREE FEET WIDE. They show British warship time in THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, types-a Battleship, a Cruiser, a ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 192 | Page: Page 123 | Tags: Photographs 

The Car Mart Ltd

... IQUprnvtutHwy at !OHp. cost with i the new rfwtw ten i With the new 10 h.p. Austin you have the spaciousness, IJ| comfort and performance usually associated with 12 or 14 h.p. cars. These desirable features are coupled with the more economical running costs of the 10 h.p. car. Call at any Car Mart Showroom and inspect these new 10 h.p. models. Ask for a demonstration run. It will incur no ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 197 | Page: Page 80 | Tags: Photographs 

THE DARK TRAIL

... By Allan Vaughan Elston JULES AUBERT heard them coming-- mounted men galloping through the woods. They are here, Jean! he cried. Although Jules was fifty years old and a hickory- tough courier-de-bois, a boyish excitement now lilted his voice. Jean, his strapping trapper son, came bounding from the cabin. Jean was twenty-five, barrel chested and all knots. We shall preten' to be surprise, ...