... IT has long been known that combings from certain breeds of dogs were capable of being spun into yarn and woven into cloth, but not until the present anti-waste campaign began was any serious effort made to find out the real potentialities of the canine species as wool-producers. The Canine Defence League decided to put the provision of Service comforts from dog wool on a practical basis, and ...

... BY crossing small Maltese Jacks with Shetland ponies, Lex Watson, a mule-breeder of Colum bia, Tennessee, has succeeded in breeding a midget mule with an average height of only 40 inches. These little animals are likely to prove popular as domestic pets, for they are cheap to keep, eaSy to feed and good for riding while the possibility of using them for draught work below the surface has been ...

... A FEW months ago I wrote an article on the distance between the elbows during the swing and how on getting into the hitting area the elbows alone could decide how the club head was delivered to the ball. Apropos of this I received an interesting series of photos from a doctor friend and there was one among them which illustrated very clearly how the spreading of the elbows could cause trouble. ...

... Rosslyn Park Fu 1 1 1 eir Promise ROSSLYN PARK who kept the flag flying for rugby players in London last season and finished with the optimistic message, Until next September au revoir, found their hopes justified on Saturday when there was a fine muster of players at the Old Deer Park for the T rial between the Whites and Colours. Indeed, there appears to be more than enough talent for a ...

... Rapier on Racing Doncaster, 1938, and Now St. Leger called off Manchester and Newmarket prospects. ONE wakes up, nowadays, wondering if it is Piccadilly or Tuesday. Will there be racing at Newmarket next week and was it Mahmoud or Blue Peter that was recently sold for America? Thus, a year of war. Little more than twelve months ago Pharis II. had arrived at Folkestone, en route for the ...

... (By Our Flying Correspondent) THE way the air war is going is most curious. It does not strike a positive and direct line; there seems to be no essential back- bone to the tactics of the Germans. We have first the big daylight raids, then the night raids, then more daylight raids of a different kind, then more night raids of a different kind. been such a temptation to the Nazis to indulge ...

... Autumn Coats and Shoes NOW that clothes are tested by the question Is it practical more and more women are choosing reversible coats for the winter. Not all coats face both ways with the same charm, but the model above from Selfridges, Oxford Street, is equally well finished on both sides. Even the pockets can be turned. The hood, too, is especially well designed, so that there is no drag at ...

... J. C. CHERRT, the Oxford Rowing Blue, and Glory Rowe, were married at Cookham Dene Church. Cherry, now a Sub. -Lieutenant, R.. V. 1 .R. was in the 1936-8 crews (he was President of the 0. U.B.C. in 1938 and in the British Olympic crew of 1936. PILOT-OFFICER R. W. G. HOLDSWORTH R.A.F.V.R.. son of Sir William Holdsworth, was married to Mary Z vegintzov at St. Pelers-in-lhe-East, Oxford. ...

... THE Navy wants to add some improvements to the formal battleship christening cere mony. How about a cup to catch that champagne in? Here's one about a Scotsman who drank a gallon of anti-freeze so he wouldn't have to buy a winter overcoat. Sergeant And now you're in the Militia, what would you like to be? Militiaman An ex-Service man, Sergeant. Reporter jl think I'm going to be very rich ...

... By Ashley Courtenay THOUGH I have not as yet visited the United States, I have heard much of the efficiency of American hotels, but I still hold the view that, in spite of all I hear, the most efficiently run hotel in the world is the Savoy, London. World travellers who have stayed at the Savoy encourage me in my belief, and one cannot get away from the fact that the Savoy was the genesis of ...

... I I w V _ I no II tLuwiu UI iiianvAuvi c nuo guai aniccu UJ mc aci upiallco Ul L II (J r ICC I nirnrill The NAVY Sweeps the MEDITERRANEAN Eighteen Hundred Miles Swept Clear of Enemy Craft, During Recent Operations by the Royal J^lavy AIRCRAFT-CARRIERS ASSIST THE ROYAL NAVY IN ITS HUGE SWEEP OF ITALIAN WATERS: in its 1,800 miles sweep just concluded, Britain's Mediterranean Fleet was assisted ...

... BRITAIN TO^ HAVE pHE great Belgian highway, which is one of the remarkable 1 man-made features of the country, is well described by Captain Owen Tweedy in his By Way of the Sahara, a volume in which he describes his journey in a small car from Rejaf to Algiers. The route goes by way of Aba to Buta which is a great central position for African traffic. The Belgians are justly proud, writes ...