... A Sprite Of The Tree Tops Tlte lied Squirrel und its Winter Botnuin By B. Melville Nicholas WHEN the hazels shed their nuts and the leaves of the trees turn golden brown, the red squirrel prepares its winter nest. It is a large, roomy nest of grasses, leaves and twigs, and one afitumn evening, when a chilly mist rested in the valley and the woods through which I wandered hinted of frost, I ...

... THIS is gossip about a village. It isn't a village that you may even have heard of. It has beauty in great measure; its inhabitants are people just like the people of other English villages. To look at it, sprawling softly in a green valley, you would say Yes, a typical English village. The significant point is that, at a glance, you might so easily fail to discover how typical, because this ...

... I 9 Dry Clean At ___ Home Vl 1 1 1 Before using any cleaning agent on a dirty or spotted garment, always try cleaning first with plain cold water. Even if this is not entirely successful, it always helps to loosen the stain before applying a solvent (Right) Woollen garments stained with perspiration should be sponged with a mixture of warm water and vinegar in the proportion of one ...

... H omes in Fiction Written and Illustrated By Arthur Gaunt THE introduction of real places into fiction is an idea that has been adopted by many novelists, and houses and mansions in various parts of Britain have thereby been given literary interest. We can derive additional enjoyment from the works of leading authors, indeed, if we are aware of the real-life settings of the stories. The Bronte ...

... Hard Times for Thickens BACKYARD hens are a fairly simple proposition for the amateur in summer-time, but when the colder months set in, there is quite a lot to learn about the care and comfort of the poultry, if they are to justify their keep. Assuming you have a sturdy variety ot hens Rhode Island Reds are by far the most popular egg yield depends largely upon what arrangements have been ...

... An English I Village When Mrs. Anthony GUlson restored her house at Cornwall in the Cotswolds a few years ago she also completely reconditioned the seventeenth-century hamlet alongside. A model village 1 resulted and instead of a rural slum Cornwell in the Cotswolds 1 now has up-to-date equipment electricity running water and 1 modern drainage. The architect was Mr. Clough Williams 1 Ellis, F ...

... THINGS go on in this war that very few of us know about, or ever will. Sometimes we are deliberately kept in ignorance for reasons of public security, more often we are out of touch with facts which actually concern us very closely because of the habit, which afflicts us all, of taking good things for granted. Nothing has been accepted more casually by the pubhc in nearly four years of war ...

... JVutaajMitiitess Sometimes Mitts Its Nuisance Value IT isn't easy for a mother who has been plagued with a naughty child to concede that even naughtiness has its value, but this is a fact. Before punishing naughtiness, one should consider what the behaviour so described implies and what form of restraint is wise. i So much that is casually interpreted as naughtiness has quite J innocent ...

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