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... T 1 AIMMt I V I VTIO V S 1 K. Knit; P.=Purl; M. Make '|1 S.= Slip Sts. Stitches Tog. HI --Together; Beg.-- Beginning. i ai-- i MATERIALS 11 oz. of Patons and Baldwin's Super Boucle in green mist 1 pair of No. 10 needles 7 buttons 4 yds. black braid. MEASUREMENTS Round bust, 34 ins. length, 22 ins. hips (6 ins. below waist), 32 ins., gripping firmly sleeve seam, 18 ins. TENSION 6 sts. and 9 ...

... The Thane T radition Which Needed [most Courage the Obeying or Disobeying of By Ursula Bloom IT was like Roger to insist that Jean should visit his aunt at the family mansion at precisely this moment. She stood in the austere bedroom, where at least five generations of Thane grandmothers must have died, and she glanced out at the ruined castle on the hill. She had not wanted to come, and she ...

... Hands delicate as lilies, feet as butterflies they *re rare, but are still to be seen and admired. Jloreorer, and this is curious, they usually belonjj to quite capable women even to some who do their own housework. The secret is that these women put themselves out to grive their extremities extra care. They know that the hall-mark of perfection lies in a happy ending-. They know that a ...

... Yesterday and To-day By Margaret Chute BACK in the distant days of silent films, when the dawn came to mark a happy ending for hero and heroine, while old man villain chewed his moustache in frenzy as he rode away into the prairie, foiled again, I knew a girl with red hair, many freckles, green- blue eyes and a tip-tilted nose Her name was Myrna Loy. It is still Myrna Loy for business purposes ...

... I d Do >l> Bit If I Could Find a Bit To Do Women, busy women with homes to run or jobs to do have been saying for months past, I'd do my bit if I could find a bit to do. They can't give full time, but they want to give all spare time. As I write this article, one after another of the factories and organisations are coming alive to the vast, almost untapped, woman-power of the spare-time ...

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... Export Trade i f ||WI By Captain Frank H. Shaw Britain's Wealth, streams out to all the World-- Submarines or not IT requires a personal, open-eyed visit to dockland to understand how Britain's export trade is flourishing. Apart from the defensive guns ornamenting every freighter's stern, and the strongly protected navigation bridges, the Merchant Navy of war days differs, to out ward ...

... Women still dream of owning beautiful old furniture. The time for acquiring it may not be now or tomorrow, but it will come. Meanwhile here are some interesting facts about the furniture and the decoration of the past. Old English covers the period before the 1700s, before homes became the comfortable and elegant places they now seem, in comparison, to be. There is no style so widely loved or ...