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It Might Have Been You

... By Margaret Chute A GIRL sat at the counter of a soda fountain, and because she was in that soda fountain on a certain day at a certain hour she is now a film star, hailed as the new Jean Harlow. A girl sold a box of candy over the counter ot a shop 011 Hollywood Boulevard. She sees her name on forty-eight-sheet posters, to-day A young man drove his wife to a studio, one bright afternoon, in ...

New Fabrics

... W ools figure prominently among the new fabrics for spring dresses and suits. Most of them are light in texture, brilliant in colour and amusing in design. Flannel is widely used for dresses and lightweight suits. Durability is an outstanding feature of most of the new fabrics for spring dresses and suits, but colouring and design keep them gay. For summer wear look for printed rayons, ...

They made their beds

... V- A- They Bmd@ w wwM# I am handicapped by an uncertainty as to who was the first man to make his bed and lie on it, so this cannot be a history of beds. To people who now luxuriate upon their modern spring mattresses this may seem of no importance at all, though they must admit that the history of beds is as intriguing, and sometimes more so, than that of the people who have lain on them, ...

SHREDDED WHEAT

... We're an A.1 family now/ ^7 V MoT T/> e,0*TH I SINCE MOTHER BROUGH^V^PP \J HOME TO US THE IMPORTANCE OF T W ra* I fl WITH ITS ftW food Values f *f#r L* m *lpIHG l jm 0 Wives and mothers are today very they are as right as can be. Look at JH much aware of their responsibilities in the chart above. This shows the vital Best Breakfast for the Boys watching the health of husband and Five Food ...

Other

... Striped in Yellow and Browiijj REQUIRED 3 oz. yellow Ramada Super Fingering wool, 3-ply; 2 oz. brown Ramada Super Fingering wool, 3-ply 1 pair each of No. 12 and No. 10 Stratnoid knitting needles. MEASUREMENTS Bust, 34 ins. length from shoulder to hem, 19 ins. TENSION 15 sts. to 2 ins. when pressed. Work into the back of all cast-on sts. BACK Using No. 12 needles and yellow wool cast on 127 ...

Published: Friday 01 March 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 519 | Page: Page 57, 78 | Tags: Other  Photographs 

Lacto-Calamine

... A MEDICAL LIGHT ON YOUR YEW BEAUTY PROBLEMS Whither beauty? Beauty's at the crossroads. Many young women now Twin-purpose. Let look have less time for make-up, and more occasions when they would rather after y°ur skin beauty day and night. Use not look made up at all. Everyone wants to know a new way to look it as a powder base, clinging and absolute- lovely, and very few really know what to ...

Hohenzollern Resurrection?

... T hey lost their throne in the last war. At the end of this one will they regain it? By C. Patrick Thompson THE Hohenzollerns are dead-- long live the Hohen zollerns. Look! The next King of Prussia. It was the girl who had drawn my eye-- a tanned, slim girl with a dancer's walk, blonded hair, and a gay eye. At my companion's remark I withdrew my glance and looked for a thin figure with ...

War Birds of the World

... What the aircraft designers have done to produce better and faster fighting aeroplanes By Kf: Captain H. C. Biard t J r (Test Pilot and Schneider Trophy Winner) FOR the past ten years aircraft designers have been straining every nerve in a race, whose prize is national existence, to produce better and better fighting aeroplanes. The purse-strings of European exchequers have been unloosed for ...

THE PEOPLE'S DISPENSARY FOR SICK ANIMALS

... I owe my life to the P.D.S.A. and the generous people who support this great I animal charity. BOB. THERE ARE COUNTLESS THOUSANDS OF OTHER DOGS, CATS, HORSES, AND ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF ANIMALS, WHO LOOK TO THE P.D.S.A. TO RELIEVE THEIR SUFFERINGS. Every penny subscribed helps to relieve some animal from pain. Please send a donation to Hon Treasurer 14, CLIFFORD STREET, LONDON, W.1 87 ...

Published: Friday 01 March 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 79 | Page: Page 89 | Tags: Photographs 

TANGEE

... nwnus /TO1/ HJITIOU5 L/psnCK Tangee I LIPSTICK f&tfeiiiiti] cnyittif All the nice girls love ! Orange in the stick, this unique, incomparable lipstick changes on the lips to the exact colour needed to make them look their loveliest. Blush rose, coral, carmine which ever shade is called for, gives it according to your type. By enhancing natural loveliness, has banished that garish painted ...

When Big Ships go into Action

... By Noel Mitchell THE Admiral Graf Spee lies broken in the mouth of the River Plate. The U-boats have been defeated by British vigilance. British destroyers speed over the waters of the North Sea convoying our merchant men. The blockade pincers are tightening on Germany. Because of this fact, and because the freedom of the seas is inevitably that nation's who has big capital ships to back up ...

Published: Friday 01 March 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1930 | Page: Page 21, 76 | Tags: Photographs