... Strife Without End The Struggle Against Sett Encrouehment Itr Laurel Pascal IN wartime as in peace time, there is one great sea battle that goes on without hope of an armistice-- the battle of man to save the coastlines of the world from further encroachment by the sea. Many great victories have been wrested from the implacable and immortal foe, but records of de feats and disasters are beyond ...

... By Margaret Chute WARTIME Hollywood is an upside-down sort of place. Stars are scooting to the studios on motor bicycles or real scooters. Clothes that once cost £50 per suit are made from cloth that adds less than 5s. to the budget cost of the picture. Film lovelies are deserting their dazzling careers for the sake of soldier-husbands in one or other of the Services. The smartest spot in the ...

... Most women face the ordeal of being interviewed for a job with a certain amount of diffidence. The interview --that is, for a job in the service of the country-- is even more to be anticipated with care, because so much more depends upon the issues than upon those of ordinary employment. Interviewers are selected by tne Ministry ot .Labour tor tne qualifications most essential to this work. ...

... s C^ct0' -\v*a vpVP**'^^ ■\V Ctct^' -\V*a More women than ever are stitching happily in their rare hours of leisure. For tired minds and tired limbs there is no greater relaxation than to sew at something beautiful and colourful. Needlework has always been an escapist pastime. Now more than ever. Many women miss the pleasures of embroi dery because fine sewing seems difficult. Petit point is ...

... Mothers Must lie Fathers Louisa Ka^ The war has brought a lot of day-to-day problems to women, not all of them big ones, but together they make life an exacting business. One of these is the special bugbear of mothers who are deprived by the war of the steadying masculine influence of a father. Some women have such an easy talent for control. In any case, not all children are hard to handle, ...

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... England, Home and that Schoolgirl Complexion Now, more than ever, a lovely woman is a gladsome sight especially to war-weary men. Use Palmolive every time you wash, every time you bath. You find its rich, velvety, olive-oil lather beautifies as it cleanses keeps you schoolgirl complexion all over. j pALMO|_jyg IP 3£d. Including Tax ^-4 ...

... pocket defiance1 /fieac/ Design AWN. /a 3 9 6 7t tJ 9 70 9\ r c=> V V K v Scientific To give yourself a spot -of confidence try standing around with one hand in a hip pocket, just like a man. And make it a ZWOW the pocket placket that doesen't gape and has no buttons or other fasteners to spoil the symmetry of your hip line. GOR-RAY Skirts have this new fashion feature. Ill the better with ...

... V Son The Story of Chiang Kai-shek and his Wife, who acts as his Foreign Minister, Chief Propagandist and Personal Envoy By C. Patrick Thompson PASS thy wisdom on: inspire my children, grunted the old dragon in Tseng Kuo-fan's ear; and on the sun-dried mulberry parchment the ashen-yellow hand wrote: One must be persistent, and also: Fight to create your own world empty handed, for that is ...

... La a y WitI, A Lamp HEROISM has bloomed in many places in this war, but nowhere more gloriously than among the women who are serving their country and humanity in the nursing services. Every branch of the women's Services has had its share of praise. Women in uniform have been blazoned across the front pages of the world and rightly- but the nursing service goes quietly on, unrivalled in its ...

... - W\ I ji w/ Bx W i n i f r e d Lewis HOUSEWIVES arc peaceable people and revolution seems a drastic term to use in connection with them, yet revolution is exactly what is brewing among the peaceable fraternity of home makers. domestic revolution. Women everywhere have been separated from their homes they have been pitch forked out of their humdrum environ ments, endowed with new ...

... Can Animals Reason By Frank II Lane FEW aspects of natural history are more fasci nating than the study of the psychology of animals. To find where instinct ends and reasoning begins; to test an individual animal's ability to solve a problem it has never met in its normal life; to class the various species of animals in order of their general intelli gence; these are some of the problems which ...