... PETROL VAPOUR By W. G. McMINNIES Baulking the Convoy I ONLY hope the following incident is not typical. A long convoy of military vehicles was labouring up a main road hill on one part of which repairs reduced the available width to one half. At this point an officer very properly held up private cars which were descending the hill. When I saw his signal I naturally stopped but hardly had I ...

... SOCIAL SATIRIST AT HOME BRIDGET CHETWYND, NOVELIST, FOLLOWS TOWN WIFE WITH MONEY TROUBLES Betty Chetwynd, Authoress of Two Clever Novels and a Play Still To Come T utibridge- Sedgwick 44 Money Troubles, which was published by Hutchinson's on June 27, is a clever and very amusing satire upon modern society with one particular recommendation very smartly- written dialogue, a thing of which ...

... RURAL RESPITE LORD AND LADY HOWLAND AT THEIR COUNTRY COTTAGE Pink Cottage, Chalkbouse Green, was a present to Lord and Lady Howland from the Duke of Bedford, intended for use as a week-end cottage, but now the family headquarters. When these pictures were taken, Lord Howland was at home on sick leave from his regiment, the Cold stream Guards, and a better place for it than at his peaceful, old ...

... THE DREAM IN JULY THE OPEN-AIR THEATRE BRAVELY RE-OPENS IN REGENT'S PARK They both speak the beautiful lines most ad mirably and at the time of going to press it has kindly kept fine enough for them to do it with out the aid of umbrellas, but the general con sensus of opinion seems to be that it might always be wiser to pick a date nearer Midsum mer Day. Jn fickle July it might so easily ...

... 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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... The Bystander Goes Round the Canteens No. 25. The Catholic Women's League Canteen, Westminster Near Westminster Cathedral, in the War Memorial Hall built where a canteen stood throughout the last war, is the large canteen and hostel run by the Catholic Women's League, under the direction of Mrs. G. W. Rendel. She represents the League on the Council of Voluntary War Work, the eight ...

... On Overseas Duty Some of the Contingent of Seventy-Nine Trained Nurses from Canada Now Attached to a Military Hospital in England Colonel C. A. Rae, of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, is O.C. No. 15 General Hospital where a contingent of seventy-nine Canadian nurses have now taken up duty Matron in charge of the Canadian nurses is Miss Agnes Neill (left), formerly instructress at the ...