... cmcf 2^otvn THE well-known firm of Messrs. Cooper, McDougall & Robertson held their centenary anniversary meeting a few days ago. Sir Richard Cooper the Managing Director, gave a brief resume of the history and development of the firm. He pointed out that it was the invention of the first sheep- dipping powder by William Cooper a hun dred years ago that made it possible for the great wool and ...

... AT the present time wood for post- and-rail work or wire with metal supports is unobtainable even after a vast expenditure of time in filling up forms. But it is good to know that one type of fencing can still be purchased. It is possible to obtain split chestnut palings even in war time. For many years the manufacture of this material has been carried out in Sussex and other districts where ...

... ■TTTHRiVM Til Li k I I m IJ II 1 I 1 I I ,TI i WH xl 1 1 1 1 !l k l I ||H 1J II 1 I 1 I I f u m M m* Aww J H.M.KING GEORGE VI. j isisi ae 1 1 ,i i i 1 MI:I ONE MAN ONE MOTOR^CUT^ OPERATING COSTS NO TRACTOR REQUIRED One man can operate the Massey-Harris No. 21 Self Propelled Combine (Grain Tank Model). One economical heavy-duty motor propels the Combine and drives the threshing mechanism. Made ...

... By A. Croxton Smith UNTOLD centuries have passed since dogs and sheep became associated together, since men, then in advance of their age, realised that dogs could be useful in guarding the flocks from wolves and other predatory animals. The discovery of this fact marked one of those stages in human progress that have had considerable consequences in succes sive generations. Statisticians have ...

... THE mole is a serious nuisance on arable fields and also on newly planted forest land. Farmers wage unceasing war on this little pest with traps or poison and the pelts help to pay for the cost of the work. The rabbiter often in cludes mole catching as one of his activities, or the farm hands set traps in their spare time and receive a small sum for each animal captured. The stockman shown in ...

... Mrs. Sloan Colt wife of Mr. S. Sloan Colt, President of the Bankers* Trust, Neiv York, is now working in London. Mrs. Sloan Colt is Director of Staff Wel fare in the American Red Cross, of which she has been a member for twenty-five years Hay Wrightson Lady Violet Astor is County President of the Kent Nursing Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. She is a daughter of the fourth Earl of ...

... THE HIGHWAY OF KAMI l()Y BY H. e. BROOKE Never has there been a time when there have been more becoming variations on the time-honoured blouse theme, all of which look well with a good black skirt. To Debenham and Freebody, Wigmore Street, must be given the credit of the trio portrayed on this page. The model with a coatee effect on the left is a study in black and white carried out in a ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Three Films By James Agate WILL somebody please tell me who is Mr. William Saroyan and what he has written? The author of a recently published book on the American critic George Jean Nathan remarks: Nathan has dis covered or has been among the first to lend impetus to the reception of such widely different dramatists as Eugene O'Neill, Sean O'Casey, the earlier Paul ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Difficult Scot I WAS glad to meet in the forefront of this month's new books my old friend-- and yours, perhaps?-- Humphry Clinker. This novel having been first published in 1771, you may wonder how it can possibly rank as new. The thing is, that here is old wine in a sound new bottle: Humphry Clinker is the latest fiction addition to Everyman's Library (J. M. Dent; 3s. ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Lack Page U. Roy Henry Lack, R.N.V.R., son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Lack, of Chads-worth Cock- fosters Herts., married Pauline Page, only daughter of Mr. A. W. Page and the late Mrs. F. Page of West Point, Luton, Beds. Butler-Henderson Clarke P/0. Patrick Butler-Henderson, R.A.F.V.R., second son of Hon. Eric and the Hon. Mrs. Butler- Henderson, of ...

... *^4 By Sabretache /In Illustrious Amphibian I BELIEVE I am the only First Lord to have done this! In my humble submission, m'lud, not quite! Your lordship has omitted to remember Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., who, as may be recalled, rose to the giddy eminence of his office by so diligently polishing up the brass knobs on his employer's big front door. Of course, your lordship's achievement in ...

... What happens when an irresistible force meets a not-too-resisting object The mocking seduction scene on the sofa in Noel Coward's Present Laughter supplies the answer. Judy Campbell is the conquering siren, Noel Coward the amenable actor and amorist. This flippant, witty comedy alternates at the Haymarket with This Happy Breed, a study of suburban life and humours, in which Judy Campbell casts ...