... By Ashley Courtenay IN pre-war days to describe a place as at the back o' beyond was to sound a little derogatory. Nowadays the opposite is the case. To be able to enjoy quietude in Britain at the moment is a rarity, and an hotel that can provide this and lovely surroundings as well, has an asset, not a liability, to offer. What more attractive sanctuary than the subject of this week's ...

... Don't Waste Your Fruit-- Can It IN 1938, the last complete year of peace, we imported, according to the Ministry of Food's figures, approximately £9,000,000 worth of tinned fruit. Even if it were possible nowadays to import such an amount it would not be necessary, for up and down the country housewives who previously have either given away the fruit from their gardens, or sold it for ...

... THIRTEEN thousand people were at Lord's on Saturday for the return match between London Counties and M produced a day of perfect cricket and ended within five minutes of time with the defeat of the London CouniB by 104 runs. It was their first this season. The Empire XI declaring at 308 for 4, dismissed their opponents for 255 B of Northants and Cambridge, gave the Empire XI a flying start ...

... Bahram for U.S.A. Juvenile Stayers Races Sir Abe Bailey, Patriot and Sportsman THE Aga Khan's much-discussed Bahram has really been sold at last. The deal became operative at 6 p.m. on Thursday the 8th, although he was reported to have been sold many times previously to that date. The buyers were a syndicate of young American breeders whose names I, at any rate, am not permitted at the time of ...

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... I DON'T suppose you know what to do with yourself these days, said my friend D.O.R.A., with some relish, with all the night clubs closed. Sorry to disappoint her, but, while sparing a tear for the Paradise, Boogie-Woogie, etc. (and registering a silent prayer for the success of their appeals there are still many clubs a thousand, they say, in the square mile round Piccadilly Circus where ...

... Vegetables Pinch out the tops of runner bean plants when they have reached the top of the stakes. Corn salad (an excellent vegetable for autumn and winter use) can be sown now in drills 6 in. apart. Continue sowings of lettuce, radish and winter spinach. Don't neglect the mint bed-- cut down the old coarse growth and so secure a fine lot of young shoots for later use. Above all, don't forget ...

... WHATEVER song the sirens sing, this suit, from Bur berry's in the Haymarket, is ready for anything. It is made in a very fine angora material, soft and extra ordinarily warm, cut like a ski-ing outfit to shut out draughts at wrists and ankles. There is a pocket for chocolate, handkerchiefs, first-aid outfit, and the suit can be slipped on in a moment. They have it for 79 16 in lovely colours ...

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... Maureen Ruttle Makes a Big Impression ONE often hears about women who hit a golf ball like a man, but when you come to see them play you know that your informant, if he has seen the players in action, has judged them by his own game or by comparing them with a male player who in the same game possibly has been pressing in order not to be out driven by a woman. Last week I played with a ...

... Producing the Egg-Layer The Work On a First-Class Breeding Farm Later an assistant releases the hen and collects the eggs noting the number on the leg- band and writing this on each egg. Trap nests are used as shown in the photograph. When a hen enters the laying nest a catch is released. The door drops down and so imprisons the hen. Some of the specially pedigreed birds have to be hatched in ...

... CONGRATULATIONS to Mr. Percy Green, of Coleshill, Birmingham, on his slogan: More waste means less waist. Fines and costs imposed on farmers who have not complied with the Ministry's orders amount to £1,621 8s. 9d. There were 49 prosecutions. In Germany it would have meant 49 executions. Children at Penistone St. John's Council School claim to have pulled up 270,000 weeds. A near-by rival ...