... PATONS BALDWINS LTD knit this cardigan for yourself Send 3d. to Dept.B.E. for Booklet 957 ImMmitrnk Made by ALLOA, SCOTLAND HALIFAX, ENGLAND J q>7 28 PATONS BALDWINS LTD ...

... II t/ T. S. Douglas THE world historian of a thousand years hence describing the middle of the twentieth century may well ignore wars, revolutions and economic disasters and state that the period saw the dawn of the Age of Plastics. To him the second World War and the great political changes will seem, perhaps, insignificant beside the introduction of a new basic material destined to ...

... 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 ...

... Qungle Jtarvest IN driving across Africa on the good red roads that run from the gorilla country around Mt. Ruwenzori to that smart little metropolis of Stanleyville in the Belgian Congo, your course lies for a couple of hundred miles, through the Ituri Forest, the home of the pygmies. This forest is of trees about 150 to 200 feet high, with a dense wall of lower vegetation which hems you in ...

... Written and Illustrated by Laurel Pascal ALL wartime food crops make inter national news, of course, for upon the success of our home and empire harvest, tremendous issues depend. Big battles are already being fought-- and won-- in the small rich fields of England; battles against time, labour shortage and the weather; battles fought with great good humour in an atmosphere of rural peace that ...

... White Whirls On Grey MATERIALS 4 oz. Emu 3-ply in camel I oz. in bottle-green No. 13 needles. MEASUREMENTS To fit a 34-in. bust and 36-in. hip measurement. TENSION 8 sts. and 12 rows to 1 in. THE PANTS Cast on 100 sts. at back waist in camel. Work following pattern istrow. K. 2nd row. P. 3rd row. K. 4th row. -K. 5th row. P. 6th row. P. 7th row. K. 8th row. P. 9th row. P. 10th row. K. Side ...

... Old Jewellery, a beautiful pet, exquisite handwork, a practical task each offers relief from the stress of war Cage birds are companionable and decorative things, and have the advantage in wartime that their care and feeding are less difficult than for other pets. Budgerigars are a colourful asset to any scheme of decoration, and are infinitely trainable if the instruction begins young enough. ...

... By J. B. Bobinson ENGLAND possesses some very small churches; quaint little places of very unusual styles of architec ture which are a delight to all to behold. Yorkshire is proud of the tmy httle structure near Saltburn, known as Uplea- tham Church, which is reputed to be one of the smallest in the country. It stands in a tiny God's Acre where generations are laid to rest. It is a very quaint ...