... ff7 ise fiords Your EXTREMITIES are your bugbear in winter, icy fingers and numb toes. If you can manage to keep your circulation pumping briskly right down into fingers and toes you will avoid many little shivers. Wear socks on your toes if they are stationary and if you are in the damp or out in bad weather, try to get socks made of the greasy wool such as is used for seamen's stockings. ...

... I JVhere The H eart n\ The world is full of sentimentalists. Even the toughest people have their vulnerable spots. Some of us are sentimental about dogs others about moonlight on a lake. We have our differences of opinion about these things, but there is one point at which opinion converges, and that is upon the sentimental appeal of Home. Christmas has its own peculiar stimulus in this sense. ...

... Qhristmas giving s NEVER before in our lifetime has Christmas depended so utterly on the individual effort. You can have a real Christmas-hater's season with every excuse in the world; or with a little ingenuity and work you can still make it as thrilling and loving and giving as usual. Forget those accumu lative instincts that the war has fostered, and, if you are a town-dweller, send some of ...

... ji THESE are hard times for present-giving and gifts for children are a severe tax on the imagination. At the same time, good may come of it if the extra thought that giving demands just now should make an end of those haphazard gifts with which we were all afflicted once and from which children most particularly suffered. If we look back upon the times when, at Christmas, children were ...

... k %^&A)irvaS 1 ^JvuS/tmaA 'SxmhmoA I loIihiS/tMAjf) |j^i AND THIS IS HOW TO DO IT Get beautifully coloured J National Savings Stamp Gift Cards from your Savings Group, Post Office, Trustee Savings Bank or War Savings Centre. They are free to purchasers \f of Savings Stamps. You can stamp them with 6d., 2/6 and 5/- Stamps. In r/^ addition there are Gift Tokens sold in units of 15/- up to any ...

... Eight o'Clock in the Morning(^| ,A Trian/fle Mtramu of Youth, it t>t m t tf out/ i'Jspi tut offf By Laurence Meynell OFF for a walk? Chiltern Fossdyke nodded. Solo? Another nod of the dark, handsome head. Where to? Inwardly Chiltern cursed the padre for being altogether too damned inquisitive, but his soft voice answered evenly enough Marlingham. 'The Black Dog,' eh? What's your E.T.A. ...

... w I Chunky Jersey A New, Interesting Design Hierli-lifi-lits this Cnsv Sweater MATERIALS 9 oz. Copley Smith's 3-ply Excelsior wool; Nos. 9 and 11 needles; 4 buttons; a spare needle. MEASUREMENTS Round bust, 34 in. length, 21 in. sleeve seam, 18 in. TENSION A 8 st. and 10 rows to i in. (The first 7 in. of work should measure about 13 in. across.) if THE BACK Cast on no st. with No. 11 needles. ...

... fainter Health Hud Looks WINTER does its best to pinch our cheeks, chap our hands and tweek our noses, but with care you can keep his evil frolics at bay. The most important thing for sensitive skins is a make-up which is a protection. Whether in town or country, whether glamour or outdoor type, you must-- if you have a fine skin-- wear a good foundation under your powder. Try to alternate ...

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