... 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 ...

... WHEN THE GREAT SHIPS WALLOW IN THE MAIN 7S lew Pictures of that Far-off Line of Storm-beaten Ships on which the Comity of the British Empire Depends I II L I. For consider these ships, so vast in themselves, yet so small, so easily lost to sight on the surface of the waters .on them, as zee conceived, floated the might, majesty, dominion, and power of the British Empire. All our long history, ...

... EARLY STARTING IN THE COLD Unfriendly Engines which Refuse to Fire By A. PERCY BRADLEY, M.I.A.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. Clerk of (he Course, Brooklgnds MOTORISTS who re-licensed their cars at the beginning of the year have been experiencing all the troubles and tribulations of wintry weather, such as one imagines could only descend on Finland. With Arctic temperatures reigning, many people, I am ...

... Personalities at the Paddington Covered Green pHE Paddington I club has the largest covered green in the country, the floor having nine inks one way, and eigh, the other. It has been opened four y ars, daily, including un- days, when not less then sixty players use it. In previous wi; ers the floor had its 'ull capacity of 72 pla :rs regularly. Once expe ts thought that indoor bowls practice ...

... AT the Harringay Arena last week two units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force showed how ice hockey is played in Canada. The game under the English Rules is lively enough for some people they would have found this match hectic, for under Canadian rules body-checking is allowed when a man is not on the puck and players can be substituted while the game is in progress. UNLIMITED CHECKING Non ...

... HOLDER OF THE OPEN: Byron Nelson who won the American Open last June after a double play-off with Densmore Shute, demonstrates his driving prowess. This was at the open house held in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, when the leading players paraded their golfing art for the general public. PITCHING INTO THE TIN Lawson Little set the Los Angeles Country Club course on fire by shooting a 65 (5 ...

... By SABRETACHE THE ex-Kaiser of Germany says, under date Feb. 2: The belligerents should stop fighting and join their forcès to help the Finns. They should fight in one line to rid the world and civilisation of Bolshevism. In these notes published in The Tatler of Dec. 13 the gentleman to whom it was more discreet to refer as The Prophet said: The Powers engaged upon the Western deadlock ...

... TRÈS CHER-- I wonder if you got my last letter, written from a base hospital Somewhere in the Vosges. Given that it still takes at' least four days to send a letter from Paris to London, it is quite possible that my war-zone missive may have done a bit of loitering-without-intent betwixt Never-You-Mind-Where-on-the-Snow-and- Ice and Hazelwood-Now-on-the-Slush! The world is rapidly melting as I ...

... UNFADING ELEGANCE WITH ELIZABETH ARDEN'S ESSENTIAL PREPARATIONS Sophistication and simplicity may walk hand in hand To-day the world's loveliest and wisest women leaders of fashion wherever they go realise that though their beauty regime must be thorough, it need not be elaborate or expensive. Night and morning they Cleanse, Tone, Nourish with 's famous Essential Preparations her Cleansing ...

... By C. E. W. MACKINTOSH THERE was an irrepressible look of victory in Tony's blue eyes as his climbing-boots clattered up the village street towards the Gasthaus in Bergbach. With Lugi, his guide, he had succeeded in scaling the north face of the Blauberg. Tradition had said that the north face was sacred to the mountain gods, and that no human being could trespass there without paying for his ...

... WEDDINGS ENGAGEMENTS Saturday's Weddings. The marriage will take place on Saturday at St. Mary's Church, Ashwell, between Sub- Lieutenant Reay Parkinson, R.N., and Miss Vivien (Robin) Eustace Hill. The marriage will also take place on Satur day at St. Mary's Church, Frensham, between Mr. John H. Arkell, The Queen's Westminsters, K.R.R.C., and Miss Helen Birgit Huitfeldt. Forth coming Wedding. ...