... IT has long been known that combings from certain breeds of dogs were capable of being spun into yarn and woven into cloth, but not until the present anti-waste campaign began was any serious effort made to find out the real potentialities of the canine species as wool-producers. The Canine Defence League decided to put the provision of Service comforts from dog wool on a practical basis, and ...

... BY crossing small Maltese Jacks with Shetland ponies, Lex Watson, a mule-breeder of Colum bia, Tennessee, has succeeded in breeding a midget mule with an average height of only 40 inches. These little animals are likely to prove popular as domestic pets, for they are cheap to keep, eaSy to feed and good for riding while the possibility of using them for draught work below the surface has been ...

... A FEW months ago I wrote an article on the distance between the elbows during the swing and how on getting into the hitting area the elbows alone could decide how the club head was delivered to the ball. Apropos of this I received an interesting series of photos from a doctor friend and there was one among them which illustrated very clearly how the spreading of the elbows could cause trouble. ...

... Rosslyn Park Fu 1 1 1 eir Promise ROSSLYN PARK who kept the flag flying for rugby players in London last season and finished with the optimistic message, Until next September au revoir, found their hopes justified on Saturday when there was a fine muster of players at the Old Deer Park for the T rial between the Whites and Colours. Indeed, there appears to be more than enough talent for a ...

... Rapier on Racing Doncaster, 1938, and Now St. Leger called off Manchester and Newmarket prospects. ONE wakes up, nowadays, wondering if it is Piccadilly or Tuesday. Will there be racing at Newmarket next week and was it Mahmoud or Blue Peter that was recently sold for America? Thus, a year of war. Little more than twelve months ago Pharis II. had arrived at Folkestone, en route for the ...

... (By Our Flying Correspondent) THE way the air war is going is most curious. It does not strike a positive and direct line; there seems to be no essential back- bone to the tactics of the Germans. We have first the big daylight raids, then the night raids, then more daylight raids of a different kind, then more night raids of a different kind. been such a temptation to the Nazis to indulge ...

... Autumn Coats and Shoes NOW that clothes are tested by the question Is it practical more and more women are choosing reversible coats for the winter. Not all coats face both ways with the same charm, but the model above from Selfridges, Oxford Street, is equally well finished on both sides. Even the pockets can be turned. The hood, too, is especially well designed, so that there is no drag at ...

... J. C. CHERRT, the Oxford Rowing Blue, and Glory Rowe, were married at Cookham Dene Church. Cherry, now a Sub. -Lieutenant, R.. V. 1 .R. was in the 1936-8 crews (he was President of the 0. U.B.C. in 1938 and in the British Olympic crew of 1936. PILOT-OFFICER R. W. G. HOLDSWORTH R.A.F.V.R.. son of Sir William Holdsworth, was married to Mary Z vegintzov at St. Pelers-in-lhe-East, Oxford. ...

... A GAME OF SKILL is the work of these Folkestone schoolboys who are making stone walls in districts of the Black Mountains. No mortar is used in their building work, which has already been warmly praised. A FORWARD HARVEST, near Ross-on-Wye, meets its match. The corn, already cut, is being- threshed and the straw made into bales by this elaborate but highly efficient machine. DEEDS OF NEW ...

... Training Women as Horticulturists A Visit to the Waterperry School By our Horticultural Expert THAT gardening offers an interesting and healthy career for women is gradually being more widely recognised, and the longer the war continues the greater will be the scope for their employment in private and commercial horticulture. The training of women for this highly skilled profession is, ...

... THE Richmond Public Schools Fortnight's key match the North v. South ended magnificently. Set to get 41 in 25 minutes, the South lost their first wicket for three runs, then M. J. Turner got going and, hitting 29 in about ten minutes, bore his side on to a nine wickets victory. The final scores were The North, 236 and 136 South, 332 for 6 declared and 41 for one. A. L. Evans and A. J. Pickard, ...

... Big Guns at Aldershot New Zealanders in Action [\|EW ZEALAND troops have been playing a good deal of cricket since their arrival at Aldershot, and last week-end they met a side raised by the Aldershot Command which included several well-known county players. Though the game was drawn it was a very bright and breezy affair, characterised by big hit ting by both teams. The Com mand declared at ...