... T reasures of our Villages B> M. Loveft Turner THERE is so little to do and see in the country. How often has that remark been made by the town dweller obliged to seek sanctuary in the country; but is that really true? Few villages and market towns are without the stone cross, and the seeking of it may become quite as exciting as the search for the elusive cigarette. It may be hard to find, ...

... I By Clirvsis 0 If y ou leant help with y our beauty troubles or further details of anything mentioned in this article, write to me at Commonwealth House, 1 Neiv Oxford Street. London. W .C.l At last you are having to stand on your own legs without any of the delicate camouflage of silk stockings to help make the legs look slender. Of course there are many women who still have small stocks of ...

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... 0)1 I Gone dyOx? ^Yfl irro rs Most of us think of mirrors merely as something in which to see ourselves. In decoration they are just a convention. We hang them over the mantelpiece or wherever a mirror is con venient; we treat them casually, whereas, quite apart from their decorative uses-- which are many-- they have a psychological factor which no decorator can afford to overlook. Long ago ...

... J^fiELLA No wonder she's smiling Sun's shining and she's wearing Harella's perfect coat for town. Soft boucle, cut with Harella's inspired sense of drape and line, with dashing dolman sleeves, triplet buttoning and gallant pockets. Look before you leap See the Harella collection of coats and suits (not forgetting the astonishing utilities Found in all the best-known stores. In case of ...

... JZlMMsM. Leisure is in short supply. For most of us it has become a rare commodity. There are three phases with things in short supply. The first, before they start disappear ing, when we value them not a jot. Then they become scarce and we desire them above all things. Finally, they slip out of our minds as well as the shops. Will this happen with leisure? Certainly there was the first phase ...

... V7 OU can't get a quart into a pint pot, but, it seems, you can get four sheep into a four-gallon benzine tin. This, at any rate, is the case in New South Wales, whose highly organised meat industry is playing its part in feeding the people of the Allied nations. The problem of saving shipping space hitherto a bogy to the packers is now being solved by dehydration, a process which is nearing ...

... Rain and a bitter East wind made it unpleasant for both man and beast at Lincoln on the day of the Lincolnshire Red Shorthorn Association's 47th Show and sale of bulls. One hun dred and ninety- five pedigree bulls were sold for 15,680 gns. an average of over £84, the high est in the Associa tion's history. THE JUDGES (I. to r.) Major Norman Everett and Mr. W.J. Wright. ROUND THE RING (I. to r. ...

... The Services England versus ScotlarM Rousing Rugby at Wembley RUGBY football history was made at Wembley Stadium when for the first time a Rugby Union International was played on the F.A. Cup Final and Rugby League Cup Final pitch. The occasion was the return Services International between England and Scotland the last of a most successful series in augurated this season. Scotland, captained ...

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