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... Smallholder You Can't Make a Living off Four Acres, but you can Live for Almost Nothing By Arthur Mills WE are nearing our third autumn as smallholders. So many people have said that they would like to do just what we are doing, that some account of what the life is like may be of interest. The best picture of a professional smallholder is given by that able farmer-broadcaster Mr. Ralph ...

... Ups and Downs of London's Opera House --The Story of Covent Garden By Laurel Pascal AFTER many ignominious years as a dance hall 1945 will bring a revival of the old glories of the Royal Opera House-- world conditions permitting. Boosey and Hawkes, the music publishers, have acquired the lease of the famous theatre in the Garden and will assume control in association with Mr. Harold Holt, ...

... Jjjr' WHAT WILL YOl! D d AFTER WAR? By WISitFHEII iPfS WE know that the collective problems of peace will call for co-operative effort of will, of which the shape can as yet be only dimly seen. We shall deal with those in the right time. But personal problems of adjustment demand attention now. Common sense insists that every moment is valuable in planning for the future, which, for so many, ...

... w e e t e 6 t o r e v By Louisa Kay SLEEP, more than any other thing, is a blessing, the full value of which one only appreciates when it is har'd to get. Sleep is a preoccupation with many who have never before suffered the nerve-racking experience of insomnia. Enemy activity, night duty, the condition of over-tiredness which years of war work, queueing, waiting, strain and sustained anxiety ...

... By Q. Ji. Christian NO one can for long observe the behaviour of birds without wondering whether they do not possess some mysterious senses unknown to us. Consideration of bird migration, for instance, leaves the mind clouded with a dozen different enigmas. In what strange manner do birds realize that the time has come to make the perilous journey over strange lands and seas to some fresh ...

... FOR HOUSEWIVES ABOUT CLEANING, REPAIRING AND KEEPING PACE WITH COMFORT AND EFFICIENCY 1. When rubber hot-water bottles give out and there is nothing else to replace them, put a brick in the oven to warm and wrap it up in a piece of blanket. 2. Precious coal supplies go further if the scuttle is sprinkled with a solu tion made from a half- teaspoonful of saltpetre in half a pint of water. 3. ...

... SHE ESED TO CATCH COLO S SHE NEVER CATCHES COLO because she keeps her body toxin-free. She is mentally and physically alert and never sags. Neither does her circu lation, she always gives it a good brisk cold-towel rub down after her bath. She avoids the more concealing type of heavy woollies and gives her skin a chance to breathe and make its own adjustment to changes in temperature. ...

... GLAMOROUS J. JtJf IF you are one of the women who can get to London or one of the big provincial towns we can give you addresses of some salons specializing in individual mask treatments. If not, here are some excellent specialized home treatments for .face and neck. The vitamin mask home treatment consists of a bottle of Rosa Lotion, which is a facial shampoo that clears every vestige of dirt ...

... Second Course MUTTON RAGOUT Cut the fat off as many mutton chops as you have; dice it and melt in a frying pan. Remove the pieces by straining into a clean pan, fry the chops in the fat until lightly browned on both sides, remove to a saucepan. In the same fat fry 1 cupful of diced carrots, 1 of sliced onions, and 1 of chopped celery heart. When the onions turn golden, add the vegetables to ...

... jS tep mother cJove NO child, presented to her stepmother for the first time, could have been more panic-stricken than I was at meeting the little girl who was to become my stepdaughter. She was six, but she must have heard much less of the iniquitous characteristics of stepmothers than I had done because of the two of us she was far the more self-possessed, and her conversational opening ...

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