... 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. ...

... By A. Croxton Smith SOMEWHERE in the Forsyet Saga John Galsworthy re- marks that a strange life is a dog's. The only four-footer with the rudiments of altruism and a sense of God. Dogs are not purely Forsytes, they love something outside themselves. Those of us who have studied the mentality of dogs as well as their physical charac teristics will give an approving word to this sentiment ...

... THE MAIDENHEAD MOUNTIES Berkshire farmers and members of the Garth have formed a mounted unit of the Home Guard with Maidenhead as its H.Q. In this picture some of the members are out for a canter. FT I 1 V. L.D.V. OR HOME GUARD? Mr. Horace Smith, the well- known riding master and horseman. ALTERNATIVE TO ENEMY: To be picked up by Home Guards or knocked down by a light tank. m QStrtf 1 -S -tT ...

... SO far as London is concerned, the theatre is at the present moment, through no fault of its own, at the lowest ebb in the whole course of its history. At the time of writing-- it is impossible to dodge the phrase in these days of swift change-- the Windmill is the only theatre remaining open in the Metropolitan area. Aptly does it label its show non-stop. The Criterion carried on for a bit, ...

... French Gardening in England Over £1,100 from Half an Acre in Half a Year. By Our Horticultural Correspondent. WHEN you see large quantities of fresh young lettuces, radish and other salads and vegetables in your greengrocer's shop very early in the Spring-- almost before you've realized it's time to start the season's gardening-- do you ever wonder how such out-of-season produce is obtained? ...