... 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 ...

... PROUD as they are of the King's uniform, most women in the Services are glad of the regulation that permits the wearing of civilian clothes for purposes of recreation. There is plenty of scope for the individuality in design and colour of kit so dear to the feminine heart on the lawn tennis court and even on the athletics field. THE A.T.S. had a grand day for their sports at Aldershot. ...

... By LT.-COL. C. B. COSTIN-NIAN, M.C. THE power of Alexander and Caesar, and the success of our own Empire sprang from the tolerance shown for differences. We have not blamed the humble gourd for not bearing melons, nor the plutocratic grape vine for not bearing bastard blackberries. The Nazi doctrine on the other hand, seems deter mined to reduce different complexions and make-ups to one very ...

... VERA ZORINA: Famous Norwegian Dancer in Louisiana Purchase, Broadway's Most Successful Musical Comedy Louisiana Purchase is having a colossal success at the Imperial Theatre, New York, as is also B. G. de Sylva's other production, Dubarry Was a Lady. There is a strong cast which includes Zorina, who plays the part of the most dazzling temp tress, using her wiles to divert a strait-laced ...

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS By PETER TRAILL Reading To-Day IN these days, when many of us, un accustomed to find ourselves con fronted by fundamental issues, have suddenly become aware that there are a great number of people in this world who are trying to raze to the foundations the structure of civilisation which has been built at the price of such human sacrifice, we are drawn irresistibly back to ...

... MAN AND SUPERMAN Three Portraits of Bernard Shaw with Pungent Comments by Himself The criticisms under each of these portraits bear the mark of a hand which has never yet lost its cunning and are as amusing as they are terse. They are published with the great author's permission, and to add one word might savour of trying to gild refined gold. Mr. Bernard Shaw was eighty-four on July 26, and ...

... PETROL VAPOUR By W. G. McMINNIES On Camouflage for Cars THERE is some chit-chat about the possibility of private cars being camouflaged. As I pointed out recently the avowed object is said to be the making of our roads less conspicuous from the air, for it appears that the chromium-plated parts, windscreens, and even the polished cellulose body panels reflect the light and draw airmen's ...