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... Praise the Small Farmer A Small Family Builds Up a British Friesian Herd MUCH of the limelight of farming publicity goes to the big farms, with model buildings, the most up-to-date machinery, or famous herds of cattle. But half of the land under cultivation in the British Isles is farmed by men with less than a hundred acres. Theirs is the unending daily routine of growing crops and attending ...
... A CENTURY and a half ago the woods of England were stripped of their oaks, cut to build ships to beat off the threatened Napoleonic invasion. But Englishmen knew that there would be other wars, and here and there acorns were planted and the young trees guarded till they could fend for themselves. To-day many of these oaks are being felled, and this is the story of one of them and of an East ...
... Watf rcress Farm I Gro^v een Again Comes True IN July 1939 Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell went to live a 01: Alresford House, Alresford, Hampshire, given b tin nation to Lord Rodney some 160 years ago. It is a It \'eh country of water meadows and trout streams, for her the River Aire begginnith of a great numbre o' fa: Sylver Springes which resorting to a botom make a rea brode lak communely caullid ...
... IT was in 1936, about mid-way through our busy professional golfing programme, that I decided I would give up trying to putt with one particular system and just hit the ball towards the hole and leave it at that. Ever since I began to try to score for a living, it was very clear to me that getting the ball into the hole was the part of the game that counted most, although it was equally clear ...
... Hi ,n i9c |p| The foph lip*' were jSjPi stand In 1943 Brookes are still in the forefront, their entire resources devoted to the national effort. YOUR YACHT AFTER THE WAR? When hostilities cease Brookes will again turn to building still finer yachts with greatly increased resources and capacity, new methods and ideas learnt through stress of war allied to the same craftsmanship you have always ...
... An Autumn Bride Mrs. Simon Asquith Hay Wrightsou On October I. 1942, Miss Vivien Jones married Mr. Simon A. R. Asquith. younger son of the Hon. Herbert and Lady Cynthia Asquith, and a grandson of the first Earl of Oxford and Asquith. Mrs. Asquith is the third daughter of Major Lawrence Evelyn Jones, M.C., and Lady Evelyn Jones, of Cranmer Mali. Norfolk, and she is a granddaughter of Sir ...
... 0 A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Salute to the R.A.F. THE KING was not able to go to Paddington to welcome Mr. Churchill home after his dramatic and historic voyages by air, but he sent his good wishes and congratulations privately to the Prime Minister. Mrs. Churchill and Mrs. Duncan Sandys, the Churchills' eldest daughter, and her son Julian, were the first to greet him as he ...
... The Skin of Our Teeth Thornton Wilder'* Latest Comedy is a Tribute to the Indestructibility of the Human Species Thornton ilder's new play The Skin of Our Teeth. now on Broadway, in described at a dram- i atic bombshell part comedy, part allegory, part sheer uonseusc. part serious thinking in all, the history of man and hit ability to exist by the tkin of hit teeth. The play rovers the ...
... -44 By Sabretache There Isn't One THE rest of this sentence is over the Eight! Although we may never be like you, let us try to be as like you as we are able to be! The Prime Minister, as ever, said the right word at the right moment, and it finds an echo in every heart throughout the length and breadth of this Empire, whether it be a soldier or a civilian heart. The Eighth Army has carved a ...
... By Elizabeth Bowen Curiouser and Curiouser I FIND it hard to explain why Sword of Bone, by Anthony Rhodes (Faber and Faber; 8s. 6d.), should have made me think of Alice in Wonderland. It is Evelyn Waugh, rather than Lewis Carroll, that his publishers say this young writer shows promise of rivalling. On Mr. Rhodes's behalf, I rather regret this statement, which might give careless readers of ...
... lEbRIGINALS Jf Originals JP A loitwrrow will dawn when imagination can have free rein again when colour and loveliness can be added to craftsmanship and quality, to express the exhilaration of peace-fime days. That is the glory to come. TODAY we are making WAUKEEZI ORIGINALS with all the charm and style war-time restrictions permit, still finely made, good- looking shoes. They are obtainable ...
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