... The last day of the season at Naas gave everyone who made the pilgrimage from round and about good value for money, and the big plat in the menu was Lord Talbot de Malahide's Bearer Bond, the Irish Cesarewitch winner, who capped that good performance by perhaps an even better one, for he won the Autumn Plate, giving away lumps of weight all round. He came through his field like a red-hot ...

... By SABRETACHE THE concerted attacks of the German Press certainly boded no good for them [Belgium and Holland], and they may have felt that they were in danger of being forced at the pistol's point to abandon their neutrality. And yet some people continue to ask what it is we are fighting about. It was further conveyed to Belgium that if she concluded any alliance with any other country ...

... The feeling that predominated on the first Poppy Day of the second German war was unquestionably one of severe disappointment that we should have to usher in the second chapter of a horrible story that we hoped had been put behind us. The work done for the Haig Fund was none the less thorough. It would be, naturally, and here are some of the people at some of the principal centres of ...

... This luncheon at the May Fair Hotel, engineered as usual by the amazing Miss Christina Foyle, will go down in history as the greatest collection of secret service people, called by some just spies, in the history of this or any other war. There were some active, some past and some creators of marvellous characters of this coterie in fiction. The guest of honour was Captain von Rintelen, ex ...

... As You Like It. In spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding Sweet lovers love the spring. Between the acres of the rye, With a hey, .and a ho, and a hey nonino These pretty country folk would lie. Arid therefore take the present time, With a hey, and a ho and a hey nonino, For love is crowned with the prime. J. Dixon-Scott, F.R.P-S. ...

... Lady Charles Cavendish (Adele Astaire) Driving a Tractor at Her Irish Home Photos. Frank O'Brien The Irish people are delighted that the American-born Lady Charles Caven dish, sister-in-law of the Duke of Devonshire, has elected to remain in her adopted country in spite of the threat of German invasion and air attack. She is working very hard indeed on the land helping to get the harvest in, ...

... THE LOSS OF THE FACIAL CONTOUR fas shown in this photograph) means tragedy to many women. Thanks to the Hystogen Method the successful modern woman can now keep her looks practically to the end of her days by making use of the latest scientific discoveries at the Hystogen Institute, practised by a famous Swiss specialist, the results of thirty years of careful study and successful practice. ...

... HAVING obtained what we clamoured for, Tres Cher, we no longer desire it. Now that the cafés, theatres and cabarets are permitted to remain open till midnight, we prefer nothing better than to go to bed early. At eleven o'clock we begin to fidget at the theatre, yawn in the face of the waiter who has been surreptitiously stacking unoccupied chairs on unoccupied tables and, at the cinema, ...

... 1 BUBBLE and SQUEAK THINGS were going very badly for a certain married man. His business was on its last legs and money was so scarce that he was compelled to sell up his home. The other day he poured his woes into the ears of a friend. My wife and I, he wailed, fight like cats and dogs. That 's tough, agreed the friend sym pathetically. The husband clenched his teeth. And that 's not all, ...

... JUST the very thing to step into after a strenuous day spent in war work is this house-coat above from Swan and Edgar, Piccadilly. It is equally appropriate for an informal dinner. And although the price is only 6J- guineas it is carried out in spotted shantung and is available in many colours. As will be seen the corsage is arranged on flattering lines the skirt is full, the scheme being ...

... The war has brought the dog into his own again. I have had many letters from people whose relations have been called up, want ing a dog as a com panion. This is his true vocation. Num bers of dogs in kennels are interest ing as a hobby, but the true work of the dog is to be the friend and possibly solace of his owner. All down the ages from the earliest times, man has been accompanied by the ...

... BURBERRYS BURBERRY S W.R.N.S. UNIFORMS made of the best quality materials, skilfully tailored, the embodiment of martial clothes perfection and weather security. HAYMARKET, LONDON, s.w.i Grams: Burberry, Lesquare, London. Phone: WHI 3343 ...