... THE first month's rugby at the Public Schools has produced several fine games and gives every indication that this season's standard will be a good one in spite of the fact that many sides include only one or two old Colours. One of the most successful schools to date has been Harrow, who have won five of their first six matches, their victims including the Old Harrovians and U.C.S. In D. C. H ...

... A n Historical Retrospect By Col onel Norman MacLeod, D. S.O. THE origin of the Highland dress is lost in the mists of antiquity. It appears as the dress of ancient warriors on sculptured stones dating from some time before Christ. Probably the simple mantle of the Greeks and Romans and the Segum of the Germans developed into the belted plaid of the Highlanders. Magnus Barefoot, according to ...

... WHAT WAS THAT A camera study of a fine set of Labrador Retrievers when this picture was taken they were in the possession of Air. Nigel Colman, M.P. AN EARLY FALL OF SNOW IN ESSEX A camera study by Douglas Went, of Brightlingsea ...

... I Children needing care and protection I because of the War are daily joining I OUR FAMILY OF 5r000 and it is a very hard struggle for us to feed I and clothe them in these critical times. I DO PLEASE HELP US I ...

... MR. EDEN IN THE NEAR EAST The War Minister during his visit to Egypt Mr. Anthony Eden, Secretary for War, has just returned from a four-weeks tour of the Middle East where he has been visiting all the British and Allied units operating in Eoypt, Palestine, the Sudan, and neighbouring territories. During the course of his tour Mr. Eden had talks \m t h Genera! Smuts, Premier of South Africa, ...

... ON the better lands of East Anglia the potato harvest has for more than a month past been the cnief occupation of the rural population and many casual workers, while at the present time, in all parts of the country, the last of the later crops are now being gathered. In East Anglia, where these pictures were taken, both the plough and digger are used. The chief advantage of the digger is that ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country Festivity By Bridget Chetwynd GENERAL and Mrs. Scanlon, new U.S. air representatives, gave a very gay cocktail-party the other day. Their nice modern flat reflects itself backwards and forwards on polite salvers of well-lit mirrors, and the Martinis came gay and often. There was a most successful speciality of the maison: prawns on wooden spikes ...

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... An Enchanting Fantasy By Richard King SAY what you will, most people live in a world of fantasy. I know I do. I like to believe in all kinds of things which my more logical mind realises do not exist. I find the secret game of Let's Pretend very comforting-- silly though it may be if, so to speak, you regard it from the point of view of Monday morning, with the 8.45 train to catch. Put then, ...

... I From Limerick and Kildare Miss Margaret Quinlan, who hunts with the Co. Limerick, was dancing with Mr. Darby M. Kennedy, from Kildare, who is at present on sick leave from the Irish Guards. He is a brother of Viscountess Jocelyn and of the Hon. Mrs. Gerald Wellesley From Waterford Lady Charles Cavendish, whose lovely home, Lismore, is in Co. Waterford, was, of course, at the dance in aid of ...

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... . . Over 100,000 little ones are annually rescued by the Society from unsuitable or neglectful homes. A gift to the Hon. Treasurer, Sir George Wyatt Truscott, Bt., N.S.P.C.C., Victory House, Leicester Square, W.C.2, will help to make the Children's Festival of Christmas a happy one. Helping to defend our freedom are 2703 Barnardo old boys fellows who as children were admitted to the circle of ...