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SCIENCE BLUE-PRINTS: THE POST-WAR WORLD OF WONDERS

... BIUE-PRINTS SffiSS- C. PATRICK THOMPSON I THE scientists are busy-- devising new and more efficient ways of destroying life. Their problems are more complex than those of the first ingenious cave-and tree-dwellers, who found the solution to their problems by sharpening flints, fire-hardening pointed wood stakes, and devising the first slingshot appliance. For the brains have to reach out now ...

Hair Story

... .sOSitifc'* i--> 4 >.l- k I, II v W i ii i h' e I L c w i w It is doubtful if those who are born with naturally beautiful and healthy hair really know how lucky they are. Because of course they are lucky. Beautiful hair is so important that once you have it you are sitting pretty before you have even got around to the matter of skin and teeth and figure. Whatever else is the matter with you, ...

Food and Fuel Economy

... Slow combustion heating has been accepted now for a long time as the best and cheapest of modern methods, in fact a slow combustion cooker gives instant and rapid cooking service at any time of the day or night. Take the A.B. Cooker which we have illustrated. It is a solid fuel which incorporates the very latest scientific cooking developments and, at the same time, ensures day and night hot ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 391 | Page: Page 37 | Tags: Photographs 

Other

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Published: Monday 01 April 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 569 | Page: Page 51, 101 | Tags: Other  Photographs 

FASHIONS

... By JEAN BURNUP Editor Women's Department Ivondon designers, wisely marking time, give us an almost unchanged silhouette in the first Spring collections. We began this w^r dressing soberly, with caution, with eyes to the future, confining our frivolous inclinafions to hats, etceteras. It is still so. The mode stays practical. Day skirts, sixteen to seventeen inches from the ground, are, as ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 358 | Page: Page 53 | Tags: Photographs 

Peggy Sage

... Insist on a PEGGY SAGE SPECIALIST to do your manicure RECOGNIZE HER BY THIS BADGE There are ordinary manicures, and there are manicures given you by an expert hand stylist. Only en trust your hands to a specialist. Her deft flawless work is done according to the method, for she is a certified hand stylist. And she will tend your nails with exquisite products the Nail Polishes for instance ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 132 | Page: Page 80 | Tags: Photographs 

DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES

... YOUR WARTIME OFFERING TO will help to feed, clothe, house, educate and train the ivorld's largest family. THE WAR has burdened us with many additional expenses with a family of 11,250 of whom 8,250 are in the Homes and a further 3,000 partially supported, the future is fraught with difficulties. Money, more money, is our pressing need and special WARTIME GIFTS will be warmly appreciated. 4 A/ ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 104 | Page: Page 89 | Tags: Photographs 

COW & GATE

... VERY true mother can know the bliss of perfect content even if she is unable to feed her baby naturally. COW GATE is the exact substitute science has found for baby's natural food. At every stage in its preparation no trouble or expense has been spared to make it perfect. It is rich in natural sunshine vitamins and bone and teeth and body building elements. Be a true mother and get the world's ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 82 | Page: Page 90 | Tags: Photographs 

Issued by Vantona Textiles Ltd

... Issued by V a n t 0 ti a Textiles Ltd. Not forgetting the windows extra Court bedcovers can be used with advantage to make bedroom schemes com plete. For wide draw curtains they save making-time and labour. --and we were delighted with it The Vantona Court Bedcover has completely changed and re vivified the appearance of the bedroom. The charming design and beautiful colouring are a pleasure ...

LACE

... mis. II IS WINDOW- WISH She wants to emphasize with new curtains at her windows the tremendous relief which lighter days wi 11 h ring. She knows that Lace, with its delicate traceries of pattern and line mesh, will solten stark outlines, dispel the hlack-out gloom and allow the welcome .Spring sunshine to stream in. She 1 mows that Lace is the {nerlect treat ment lor a landing window, often so ...

ONE MINUTE BEAUTY TREATMENT

... You can have an all-in beauty treatment in sixty seconds which will stay for twenty-four hours. The work done by several beauty aids has been telescoped into this one preparation which has a double action. This way while one ingredient clears the skin, another in it pene trates, nourishes and leaves the com plexion exquisitely smooth, ready for sleeo or conditioned to take make-ui). Helena ...

Tell Your Fortune Pretty Baby

... Toff Tom, loll i me -M- ESf An overpowering impulse to hit first and talk afterwards will get you into plenty of trouble unless you curb it. Aggressiveness, well disci plined, is not a bad thing, but it is a serious handi cap unless it is well seasoned with intelligence. A cultivated mind wall put the harness upon your animal spirits and make a better citizen and a happier man of you. You ...