... Upon the Midnight Clear A Christmas Drama of the Sea By Louis Arthur Cunningham LIEUTENANT ROB CLAUSEN, second in command of the Canadian corvette Jaguar, ducked down behind the can vas dodger as part of the Bay of Fundy came thundering down on him, inter rupting his whistled rendition of The First Nowell, but not for a moment driving away the thought of Christmas, now just two days off. For ...

... Trademar k in the Stars Tags which have helped them to Fame and Fortune By Margaret Oiute FROM Charlie Chaplin's famous little moustache, enormous shoes, and perky swagger cane to Dorothy Lamour's celebrated sarong, every star who amounts to anything has a trademark. In most cases no name is needed when a photograph of a star is shown. The well-known trademark does all that is necessary. 'Way ...

... Materials Reauired Small cushion; piece of black or dark sateen or cotton, the same measurements as the cushion, to make the cover, and another piece of the same material 2 in. larger all round to form pocket; white cotton piping cord to go round the pocket and nine strands of the cord to form the handle; layer of wadding a little smaller than the pocket. 10 iviaKe Machine stitch the ends ...

... An UJ i scovered Christmas W L N EG LEY FARSON THE sister-ship of ships at sea is nowhere so obvious as in a convoy. You see them waiting beside each other in some unnamable harbour, or port. You see them, keeping company with each other, in the stormy seas. There was one oil-tanker so close to us that when she careened we could look at her entire deck. The corvettes of our escort were often ...

... Jkft€>r litis II trill thcrv bt> another ami greater turning front 3tonarehg towards Hepuhlieanisnt Bv Ferdinand Tuoliv CROWNED heads took a toss as a result of the last war. I believe there were approximately eleven republics in 1914 and eighteen at the finish. The more notable casualties like the Emperors of Germany, Russia, and Austria, brought down lesser fry with them. The wave of ...

... jcJe&pi SoJtJ/A Pmoj Simplicity is the theme to-day, yet there is need to maintain the festive colouring: of this season, not only in the interests of our own good spirits, but I for those, our visitors, who are seeing: an English Christmas for the first time. It calls for some thoug:ht to devise a Christmas decor with decorum. IIow can we provide the trimmings and not waste either precious ...

... .,essy Wool/- .V VV For Christ MATERIALS. b-oz. Lister s 3-piy Lavenda wool in aarK green cotton to match wool No. 10 an.d No. 11 needles 10 button moulds separate, contrast sequins, or a small piece of sequin trimming unravelled. MEASUREMENTS. Round bust, 34 ins. sleeve seam, 5 ins. length, 20 ins. TENSION. 7 J sts. and 10 rows to 1 in. THE BACK Cast on 98 sts. with No. 11 needles. Work k. 2, ...

... ■HH Wj Touted Jersey k MATERIALS 3 oz. Lister's Lavenda 2-ply wool in mid blue, 4 oz. of same wool in light blue; 4 buttons; No. 10 and No. 12 needles. MEASUREMENTS Round bust, 32 ins. sleeve seam, 18 ins. length, 19 ins. TENSION ■jt 74 sts. and 10 rows to 1 in. THE BACK .y^. With mid blue wool, cast on 98 sts. with No. 10 needles. Work k. 2, p. 2 rib for 7 ins. Now work on first 10 sts. ...

... The feature of the house, is a description often given of a staircase. Certainly it is a feature which frequently strikes one on entering a house for the first time. Whether it is wide, dignified, with easy, shallow treads, or mean, steep and screwy, our eyes are drawn irresistibly to it. Perhaps the fact that night after night we wearily climb stairs excepting of course, the nights we spend ...

... Home made Toys For Christmas 7 Comic IIor.se. Materials required J yard of spotted material. I A half-skein of silk raffia. Turnings 1 allowed on all designs. Making Draw the outline from J the diagram and cut a paper pattern, f Cut the material. Embroider the eyes. Attach the underbody as shown, and join seams on the wrong t side, leaving a slit at the top of the underbody for filling. Stuff ...

... e 1 I WINTER is a season filled with health hazards that nearly all start with the inhalation of germs. If you can keep your nose, mouth and throat free of germs for the long dank months ahead you are headed for a reasonably healthy time. More than that, you are helping the nation to keep fit, depleting the number of germs in the atmosphere, and certainly not breeding them by the thou sands ...

... Gandhi-- And Dictatorship IS v Sir William Barton, K.C.I.E. Who has had a long and distin guished career in the Service of India, and was a member of the Ministry of Supply Mission to India from September 1940 to April 1941 I COULD not understand, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru tells us in his autobiography, how Gandhi could accept the present social order, based as it is on violence and conflict ...