... THE PINAFORE IDEA AX AMERICAN FASHIOX MARES ITS DEBIT IX THE BRITISH SPRIXG COLLECTIONS For evening the pinafore is of black, worn over a shot lame blouse also with dolman sleeves, but with a plain neckline. The advantage of this fashion is that the pinafore can be worn over different blouses, achieving the effect of a new outfit with each change. This model is at Harvey Nichols. The design is ...

... (London Office) 17-18 OLD BONDST.AViJ If your feet are beginning Do they tit? Yes as closely to notice your birthdays, and smoothly as a thimble, then it means a very great The styles have just the deal. Comfort, to begin right fashionable touch for with because Arch Preser- to-day. Make shre of the ver shoes brace the wearying name; not every shoe that arch and support your claims to preserve ...

... Probably no class of vessel of the Navy has put in more continuous hard work since the war broke out than have the minesweepers. Theirs is a non-stop job, and it would hardly be an exaggeration to say that if they were to cease work for twenty-four hours every shipping movement around our coasts would quickly have to come to a standstill. Broadly speaking, our sweepers fall into two categories ...

... C„ CJ Ou /)-*y A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Yugoslav Exhibition THERE was almost a peacetime private view- day atmosphere about Burlington House at the opening of the Yugoslav Exhibition the other day by Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, and among the guests who accepted invitations from the British Council Were many well-known, familiar faces. Queen Marie was wearing the dark-blue uniform ...

... MariloCr^v,WvSAOTCain0r ad his wife were photographed at their home near Stamnore. Air Chief Marshal Leigh- W.-11 k y A.U.C.-m-C. tighter Command, was appointed Allied Air Commander-in-Chief in December and under fv„ i.-- „i,,. 1 bc comm d Qf a„ tho Bril.9h and Amcr.can a.r strcngth tQ be us ...

... An American Wedding in London Lt. -Colonel Doddridge and Miss E. R. Shaw Married at St. Mark's, North Audley Street The marriage of Lt.-Col. David E. Doddridge, U.S. Army, of Utica, AW York, and Miss Eleanor Rose Shaw, of San Francisco, California, look place at St. Mark's, North Audley Street. The bride is a niece of Sir Hugo and Lady Cunliffe-Owen, of Sunning- dale Park, Berks., and has ...

... On Active Servicc Officers of an R.A.F. Station in Yorkshire Front row S/O. Z. Davies, F/Lt. S. Mander, F/O. J. Whitham, S/Ldr. G. Sturgess, VV/Cdr. S. J. Palmer S/Ldrs. J. Reid, H. Biggs, F/Lt. T. B. McMillan' S/O. M. Vaqghan. Second row: F/Lt. S. Hollond S,0. I). Sampson, F/Lt. H. Brooks, S/O. S. Warren] F/O. Holmstead, S/O. E. Maidment, F/Lt. D. Younge, S/O. S. Sharpies, F/O. Rhodes, F/Lt. ...

... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere IKE was in financial trouble, and he went to his old friend Benjamin for help. I want you to lend me a thousand pounds. said Ike. No, was the reply Benjamin made. Definitely no. But Ben, protested Ike, when Wall Street crashed in 1929, who lent you five thousand pounds to keep you going? You did, admitted Ben. And later, when your wife had that ...

... A n American Armoured Unit in this country recently carried out an exercise under real battle conditions. Artillery, tanks, howitzers and assault guns all firing live ammunition supported the infantry. The picture reproduced above shows one of the effective weapons used during the exer cise. This 75-mm. gun, mounted on an M-5 tank chassis and resembling a mortar rather than an artillery piece, ...

... THE effect of Allied bombing, both area and precision, has been exposed to the limelight respectively by eminent Churchmen and by Kessel ring's ability to bring large forces on the scene round Nettuno. With respect to the city-by-city blasting of Germanv. several observations suggest themselves. That the time to protest was when the bombing Dolicv was laid down in 1040, since air-building ...

... LAND drainage in Great Britain is not a new discovery. In the days of the manor, the need for drainage was well understood although the system employed was the ditch or open drain carrying off water to the nearest stream. Walter, of Henley, writing on agriculture in the thirteenth century, stated that to free land from too much water, marshy ground should be ridged and the water made to run. ...

... Mr. Chase Mr. Gardener 77, The Grange, Chertsey. FEBRUARY. Dear Mr. GARDENER, If you live in the South I expect you did most of your sowing last month; northern gardeners should put in their carrots, peas, broad beans, onions, lettuce and brassica seeds under cloches as soon as the weather is favourable. If you mean to invest in more cloches, j do be wise and order at once, for not only is ...