... How Teachers are Trained ir Household Arts and Science THE DRESSMAKING-ROOM The demonstrator Miss Railton, is watching a student who is engaged in the delicate work of 44 cutting out a dress which will be made and fitted by the class. Dressmaking is a very skilled art. THE MODEL'S PLATFORM where garm> -its are measured and fitted. The students make all the required adjustments. NEEDLEWORK AND ...

... By A. Croxton Smith Dogs ofTo-Day IN my last article some aspects of the working of a dog's mind were discussed, but they merely touched the fringe of a subject that is of interest to most people. In certain respects dogs are more observant than we are, probably because their impressions are less complex than ours; they have fewer matters with which to distract their attention, in stead of ...

... r\.cthle^. cm Should We Abolish The Oaks? THE recently-published Fixture List (first half) comes fairly well up to expecta tions, except that classic and other important open races arc scheduled to be run at New market, and not at Ascot. Readers of these notes were not encouraged to hope that Ascot would be chosen for the Derby or other big races, although the suggestion that it should be was ...

... THE recommencement of air attack on London in a degree reminiscent of blitzing days falls into line with a phenomenon general throughout the Continent: anxiety mounting to anguish in the capitals of Europe as to how they will fare in the climax. Will they get through entire What additional scars, destruction, tragedy, upheaval, may be reserved tor them Europe's capitals, even the oldest, have ...

... FLYING FROM A CARRIER DECK Heavy seas nearly spellj disaster for Lt. Julius R. Brownstein, an American Navy P He was attempting to take off from the deck of a U when he made his near-fatal plunge into the s North Atlantic THE NORMANDIE SAILS AGAIN: The most recent picture of the former luxury liner (now the U.S.S. Lafayette) as she was being towed by a fleet of tugs to her repair berth at ...

... battle-cruiser which forced her baclt into the dry-docks. Early in June 1941 the Gneisenau and the Schamhorst ^ftcr their forays as commerce-raiders in the Atlantic, the Schamhorst and the Gneisenau took refuge in the jPt'ng of 1941 in the Atlantic port of Brest. On April 5, y4l. the Gneisenau emerged from the dry-dock there, ■ft the following day a torpedo hit was obtained on the were joined ...

... After the Germans had been driven from Mte. Camino and Mte. Maggiore, it seemed that the Fifth Army was getting a foothold on the Road to Rome. In front of the Allied forces, however, there towered a natural fortress, tier upon tier, the hills being arranged like a triple-walled medi eval castle. Could some of its lower bastions be outflanked by a movement from the north? This was attempted ...

... I COTSWOLD MARKET HALL PURCHASED BY THE NATIONAL TRUST This famous building at Chip- ping Campden is of Jacobean date it is supported by open stone arcades resting on a cobbled floor and has a richly timbered roof. The hall was the centre of the wool trade that made Chipping Campden so wealthy a place until the late seventeenth century. It stands in the High Street of the beautiful Cotswold ...

... HAMLET WITH HIS OPHELIA at the New Theatre. Mr. Robert Helpmann and Miss Pamela Brown. Mr. Robert Helpmann's Hamlet at the New Theatre is still exciting the liveliest controversy. This latest interpretation of Shakespeare's drama has been produced by Mr. Tyrone Guthrie and Mr. Michael Benthail the decor is by Mr. Leslie Urry, and the music by Mr. Constant Lambert LAERTES (Mr. Geoffrey Toone) ...

... A FEW HOURS AFTER THE R.A.F. BOMBER COMMAND ATTACK on industrially important Stuttgart on the night of February 20-21, 1944. Smoke is pouring from many buildings in the plants of Robert Bosch (magnetos and ignition equipment top right), Leichmetalibau G.M.B.H. (sheet metal) and Wurtemburgische Elektrizitats (electrical equipment bottom left) Trie SAME AREA AS THE ABOVE, photographed by R.A.F. ...

... Crochet FASCINATOR MATERIALS 3 ozs. Emu pure Botany fingering a fine bone crochet-hook. (Ch. chain dc double crochet.) Start by working 142 ch. turn, into 6th ch. away, put 1 dc. 4 ch. Into 4th ch. away put 1 dc. Repeat from to end of row. Turn. 2nd row. 4 ch. Into the hole below put 1 dc. Repeat from all along row. Repeat this 2nd row, keeping same number of holes, for 46 ins. Fasten off. Now ...

... The Country I Cottage By C. Lovett Turner THE attraction of a country cottage lies more in its asso ciation and environment than in reality-- at least, that is the verdict of many who have trekked to the country from bomb-harassed towns. Wasps and beetles, the ubiquitous sparrow that chatters at dawn, and the things that go bump in the night, are only a few of its drawbacks. In the country ...