... MARSHALL SNELGROVE. MARSHALL SNELGROVE. FROM BIRMINGHAM, SHEFFIELD AND HARROGATI AND ALSO FROM WILLIAMS AND HOPKINS OF BOURNEMOUTH THERE'S FIGURE FLATTERY in every line of this cleverly draped Mup& model ...

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... euceNe euceNe FOR CHRISTMAS YOU'LL FEEL ALL THE BETTER FOR IT Treat yourself to a Eugene Permanent Wave and look your loveliest this Christmas. It en sures you a natural, shapely, easy-to-do head of hair charming under cap or helmet, beautiful when leisure permits a pretty frock. And why not give a present of a Eugene Wave to one of your special friends THERE IS A EUGENE /^\SACHET SUITABLE FOR ...

... DON'T LET THE WAR HARM THE CHILDREN! BARNARDO'S ARE CARRYING ON Headquarters staff -still at Stepney Children safely evacuated Family as large as ever 8,250 Fresh admissions every day CHRISTMAS GIFTS towards the upkeep of this National work will be heartily welcomed TO-DAY'S CHILDREN ARE TOMORROW'S CITIZENS! Cheques, etc. (crossed) should be made payable to Dr. Barnardo's Homes and sent to 319 ...

... CoifteiJP I Ik /f jll WECEMfJl s Eat, Drink and Be Merry by C Patrick Thompson Decoration by J. Nicolson 4--5 and 100 Rockets to the Moon by Walter Shepherd 10-1 1 and 70 Old Tales Re-told The Christmas Ad ventures of Carlo Goldoni. Written and illustrated by F. Matania, R.I. 21-24 and 70 Gold Bullets Win Wars by Christopher Howse 25 and 97 Taglioni Another Maid of Perth by Harry J. Green- ...

... ii i^I !6 MERRY CHRISTMAS. Peaceand goodwill have been several times mislaid round about Christmas, but never so thoroughly as in the Seventeenth Century when the genial Puritan government of the day decided to abolish it entirely. Reason was based upon tricky interpretation of divine scriptures wherein the festival is referred to as Anti-Christ's Masse. Thus it became a pagan festival and ...

... 7ru.it Q)cktail 7Hm. Ah /Now fhos id what call e/c Hi ng u Gay glamorous tempting J A he very thing to brighten winter meals Del Monte Fruit Cocktail a feast of glowing colour, of exciting flavours. Easy and economical to serve. And even more important, this mouth-water ing blend of five luscious Del Monte fruits, cut into dainty cubes and slices, offers you a rich variety of fruit sugars, ...

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... John Bull's Sea War It is waged to keep open Britain's sea communications and close the enemy's By C. Patrick Thompson SCUDDING clouds over the grey channel made the observation bal loon look as if it were darting and diving, like a silver trout after flies. Behind sandbagged posts, steel-helmeted French artillerymen were alert at action stations. More units of the British Expeditionary Force ...

... Youth in the Spotlight Hollywood's T een-Age Gang By Margaret Chute YOUTH stands alert in the spotlight to-day. Youth-- in the air, behind the camouflaged guns, in the trenches, on and under the sea, protecting us. Youth-- on the film screens of the war-saddened world, entertaining us, helping us to forget. A letter from a friend in Hollywood had a sentence that gripped my attention. There is ...

... 4i ji January is the danger period. Vitality has just been drained to a low ebb by the darkest days of December, and January follows with days that are generally more intensely cold and just as dreary. February brings little relief-- it is a dead month anyway-- so that at the moment when our bodies can offer least resistance, they are called on to bear the longest strain. Even so, if January ...

... |4 I 'ii i\ 1151 nrs We can dispense with a discussion about the need for economy because it is only too painfully obvious that we have all now got to practise it. So accepting facts as they are, the next step is to see how much excitement can be got out of something that isn't supposed to be exciting at all. At least there is interest and satisfaction in doing a job well if it's only doing a ...