... I Written by a Civil Defence Worker and approved by Medical Authorities In Civil Defence the eyes are liable to attacks from dirt, dust, germs and gas. Severe additional strains are imposed on the sight by working at night, without lights, under abnormal conditions. HERE ARE A FEW USEFUL HINTS (1) Never rub your eyes when they itch or water. You only aggravate the trouble. (2) When you return ...

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... By Stanley Wilson OLD Tyburn River made a noxious quagmire of the fields that stretched away beyond Whitehall. In that repellent setting James I., with his Scots business sense, tried to establish a national silk industry. The dream faded. But it was the origin of Buckingham Palace. Onlv a few hundred vards nearer Charing Cross a lepers' hospital stood on the edge of another swamp. There to ...

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... Yes if she has the will to help her country! 'Is she clever enough for the A.T.S.?' Yes, of course, why shouldn't she be Everyone secret messages. This is helping the men to win can do at least one thing very well. And probably, the war quickly. if they only knew, better than the next person. That is all the A.T.S. ask. Come and do the L,fe m the AT'S' 15 ful1' actlve and happy' thing you ...

... No- 9 Frederick, Duke of York, 1763-1827 IT was five o'clock in the morning. The broad Mall was deserted. Lon don still slept. Even the roisterers in the gam bling clubs of St. James's Street must have been yawn ing. From a side door of Carlton House, overlooking St. James's Park, crept a portly figure. He had the air of a conspirator and rightly so, for he was in disguise. But there was ...

... Stories of the Kmerican journalists who haffe Raised the. J oh of Foreign Correspondent to a Finnacle of \mportance N eyer h.ttai?ied before. By Ferdinand Tuohy. OF the several great services Mr. Churchill has rendered the nation since his accession to the Premiership, some may rate at the top his handling of America. Un less we could win the sympathy and under standing of the United States, ...

... On On t it By Jane Gordon A.T.S., W.R.N.S., W.A.A.F.S., A.R.P. workers and the girls who work in war factories are doing a grand job of work for the country. They work very hard while on duty and when they are off duty they deserve all the enjoyment they can get. The woman who is taking care of other people's children never gets off duty. She has none of the glamour of uniform end- 1 less ...

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... ►v- Where can The answer the H unt the Escapees go to be Safe to the Oiiestion recedes, like for the Secret of Immortality L By C. Patrick Thompson WELCOME, said my friend, as I came alongside him in the Aviz bar, welcome to the gateway to the moon, 1 he moon f said. The moon, he repeated firmly. I've just been seeing our weekly boat load off. They all think that because she's headed ...

... A Reminiscence of Events in that Month of History SEPTEMBER 1939! Only two years ago, although at times it seems as distant as September 1909. Or even, such is its melancholy fin de siecle flush, the year 1899. Only two years ago Yet, at other X times, it seems much less than that. As if it were yesterday, and what has happened in between merely a bad and highly improbable dream. Tt haH hppn a ...