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Fast Work: HEALTH AND BEAUTY

... Jad itfkl HEALTH AND BEAUTY B Y C H R y S I s If you want help with your beauty troubles or Jurther details of anything mentioned in these articles write to me at Britannia and Eve, Commonwealth House 1, New Oxford Street, London, W.C.I MOST women look upon fasting as a figure or beauty treatment, but its true virtue is as a health measure. Certainly it will clear away surplus fatty tissues, ...

An English Village

... 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 ...

WOMEN IN WHITE

... 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 ...

Naughtiness Sometimes Has Its Nuisance Value..

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1943
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 755 | Page: Page 50 | Tags: Photographs 

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... o QOteis I N I L A-- J --v M I C A T A L* uoicis cu u its are lueai iui aiLcr- duty hours. They are not only extremely smart and gay but the extra support given by the wedge ensures the greatest degree of comfort Iflf/t- is 6 Snot, Stovi in u/tvt/ €aSe)t-iew ...

SMITH & WELLSTOOD LTD

... SMITH WELLSTOOD LTD, SMITH WELLSTOOD LTD. W MORE HEAT FROM J |L LESS FUEL B esse PATENT STOVES mlj|bpi^^ An ESSE stove ensures continuous regular heat at an unequalled fuel economy. Re quires refuelling Qnly twice in 24 hours and due to the closed fire can be left with complete safety. BONNYBRIDGE, SCOTLAND Estd. I8S4. London: 11 LUDGATE CIRCUS, E.C.4 63 CONDUIT STREET, W.l also at LIVERPOOL ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1943
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 69 | Page: Page 61 | Tags: Photographs 

DESTROYERS and CORVETTES of the ROYAL NAVY And their Fine Work throughout the Seven Seas

... The Hunt class destroyer Tanatside has taken part in several exciting actions, but her crew think their most thrilling escape was in the Mediterranean recently, when the look out reported Two torpedoes approaching starboard, Sir. everybody was at action stations, and when he heard the warning, the Commanding Officer immediately swung round, but to everyone's amazement, the torpedoes turned ...

Published: Saturday 11 September 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1013 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Photographs 

ATTACK AT SEA--The Story of a British Convey in the Bay of Biscay

... ATTACK AT SEA-- The Story of a British Convey in the Bay of Biscay Attacked by U-boats and Aircraft, the Enemy was Beaten Off without Loss to any of Our Ships We have often read descriptions of actions at sea between our convoys and their escorts, and the enemy aircraft and submarines which seek to destroy them. Here is a series of pictures secured by a photographer during one such battle in ...

Published: Saturday 11 September 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 808 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Photographs 

WARTIME ACTIVITIES AT HOME AND ABROAD

... THE ARRIVAL OF THE HOSPITAL SHIPS AT MALTA. During the all-night voyage from Sicily, twenty-one operations were carried out. Owing to the intense heat, the surgeons worked stripped to the waist. The hospital carrier St. David had the distinction of being the first hospital ship to arrive in Sicily during her subsequent overnight passage from there to Malta with the first wounded aboard, twenty ...

Published: Saturday 11 September 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 440 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs