... Nature's Sentries How Birds and Animals Can Help L.D.V.s MOST Local Defence Volunteers will be on guard in familiar surroundings, but many will not be accustomed to patrol work at night in the country. Others, fresh from town life, will have had no experience of the movement and noises which go on out of doors in the dark hours. If we understand Nature she can help us. But neglect and ...

... THERE was a very good muster of parents and Old Alleynians at Dulwich College for the Founder's Day celebrations, and many of the old boys were in uniform. Large crowds were attracted to the various sporting events and saw the College win the rifle shoot ing match and the Old Alleynians turn the tables in the swimming, in which i M. E. Fidler, the College captain, broke a school record i by ...

... 1 ffr'iUfaViiT vVSRN ,Blfc'lk#>K*TWv f iT H T fUTKT iwr JsrwT- i%Tiwwr IW I w ON a batsman's wicket at Teddington the Buccaneers and St. Mary's Hospital had a hard hitting, high-scoring game, in which nearly 500 runs were scored for the loss of 12 wickets. The Bucca neers declared at 257 for five, and St. Mary's were 218 for seven when stumps were drawn. At Lord's the Royal Engineers (whose ...

... Getting Fit Fourth Week Exercises I Stand erect. Bend the knees and place the palms of the hands on the floor. Stretch one leg backwards, pause and return to second position. Repeat with other leg. Do this 6-8 times with each leg alternately. REMEMBER In third position keep as straight a line as possible between head and heel Count: Out and in, out and in. 2 Stand erect. With an easy rhythmic ...

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... IT is rare for cats to find a place on our pages, but the charm of these kittens seems to us so irresistible that we hope no apology is needed. An entrancing bundle of fur whether awake or asleep. Up the catnip-tree. Charcoal inspects a kitten from the top of the cloth-covered post which serves as an exerciser. The round black patch near the top is a bit of catnip or catmint, which has a ...

... FICKLESHOLE Farm, Chelsham, where these pictures were taken, is only 16 miles from London Bridge. It is a mixed farm but sheep predominate, for Mr. Maurice Papps, the manager, is himself a sheep enthusiast. Considering its situation Fickleshole has achieved remarkable results with its fat stock only a few weeks ago a consignment of £1,100 value was dispatched from the farm. And this at the ...

... OF the many strange creatures that inhabit the seas, one of the most remark able is the fish which lives, like a parasite, upon sharks and other big fish and feeds upon the scraps which fall from the tables of these lords of the ocean. 1 v I V*- Jfl f Je HITCH-HIKING ON A SHARK: The parasite attaches itself to the stomach of the shark through the powerful suction-plate on the underside ...

... By Ashley Courtenay ONE of the fairest sights on earth is to see the sun rising on a summer morning to smile benignly on lichened roofs and twisted chimney pots; to give greeting to crimson roses splashed across garden walls of ancient Cotswold stone. In the little town of Burford, on the Oxfordshire border this is happening every fine day. Her wide village street slopes leisurely down to a ...

... SURGEO N -LIEUT. J 0 H N BESFO RD, R.N.V.R., was married last week at Kensington Church to Pat Leveaux, all-round champion of the Mermaids. Besford is England's out standing back-stroke swimmer. PETER F. COOPER, Rosslyn Park and St. George's Hospital full-back, and Elsa Christie were married at St. Andrew's, Kingswood, Surrey. Best man was D. K- Huxley, last season's Rosslyn Park captain. ...

... TX7TTH the country now aroused to the vital necessity of providing its own food and the steady V V flow on to the iand of men for part-time and whole-time work and of thousands of girls into the Land Army, the public are taking a new and lively interest in the farmer's life. In this issue will be found pictures depicting a day on a farm which were taken at Fickleshole, Chelsham, only five ...

... By B. Bennison THIS time 26 years ago, almost to the day, Freddie Welsh, of Pontypridd, was crowned lightweight champion of the world at Olympia, after outpointing Willie Ritchie, a Californian, of German stock, whose real name was Geary Steffen. Welsh was a strange, aloof man, even counted eccentric. His ideas were at least in the sharpest contradiction to those of any renowned pugilist I can ...