... By Negley Farson VIENNA is a city that makes you forgive many things of the Austrians. The mere sound of its name arouses emotions of romance, good music, good talk, good food, in fact of all the fine arts of a cultured life. Vienna is a receptacle for the culture of Europe. And so soft and mellow are the associations that we connect with the name Vienna that even that incredible act of the ...

... By C. Bernard Wood EVER since tracks were first trodden into the chalk or clay of England there has been a spell upon the land. Here and there the spell might have lost its power, through man's forgetful ness and his growing preoccupation with mundane affairs of city and borough. But the countryman remembers; the roads he knows are still roads that have a thousand tales to tell. Roman roads we ...

... I. In 1940, after years of research, a team of scien tists succeeded in pro ducing the anti-bacterial substance known to the world as Penicillin. Steps are now being taken to produce it synthetically and the search goes on with every hope of suc cess. These laboratory workers are helping in the experiments. 2. The quest for means of combating, venereal disease has been unremit ting in the past ...

... S1G WOOLLY IIDIES 1 MATERIALS REQUIRED. 8 ozs. Nursery Viyella 3-ply blue No. 10 and 12 needles 3^ yards bias binding 6 buttons ribbon for straps. MEASURE MENTS. VEST. Round bust, 34 ins. length, 16 ins. PANTIES. Length, 16 ins. hips, 38 ins. TENSION. 7 st. and xo rows to 1 in. THE VEST Cast on 100 st. with No. 12 needles and work k. x, p. 1, rib for 11 ins. Change to No. 10 needles and m. I ...

... FRILLED JERSEY 1 MATERIALS REQUIRED. 7 ozs. La Laine 3-ply yellow 1 oz. Contrast for frill No. 10 needles 3 hooks and eyes. MEASUREMENTS. Round bust, 34 ins. length, 20 ins. Sleeve seam, 4 ins. TENSION. 8 st. and 10 rows to 1 in. THE BACK Cast on no st. in yellow. Work k. 1, j>. 1, rib for i£ ins. Change to the following pattern xst row. K. 2, p. 2, repeat from to end of row, ending k. 2. 2nd ...

... 1 difficult Child DIFFICULT children, like their elders, can be divided into two groups. Those whose nervous make-up is of a genuinely delicate kind and those who have never made the acquaintance of self-discipline. Working in a day nursery has consolidated my opinion that few so-called difficult children cannot, with discipline and understanding, be converted rapidly from problem children ...

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... The Last of the Nazis The Men Who May Stick To Hitler To The End By Ferdinand Tuohy SPECULATION as to what Hitler and his leading gang sters will do in that hour when the Allied armies move rapidly over Ger many and to Berlin develops along two main lines. One inclines to the belief that the Nazi high- ups will smuggle them selves across to Sweden and Switzerland, take off in powerful planes ...

... The non- Nazis (or lukewarm Nazis) who may try Kr to pull Germany out of the desperate Consequences By C. Patrick Thompson SOLINGEN, the steel city, basked quietly under the hot blue August sky. I leaned against P-13, pet tank of my pack, and talked to a pretty girl in a summery frock. Three more young women adorned our tank park on the eastern slope-- officers' wives from the Cologne garrison ...

... Jin Eastern T^omance AW Man, Empress of The Mogul Empire of India Written and Illustrated by F. Matania, r.i. CHAJA AIASS had fought tooth and nail so that his marriage to a girl of humble station would be accepted by his parents, but the nobility of this old Tartar family considered that love was a minor factor weighed against the observance of tradi tion, and the fact that unfortunate ...

... By M. Lovett Turner AS children we learnt that Julius Cæsa invaded Britain in 55 and 54-B.C. but made little headway, for it was not until the following century that the conquest of Britain became established. Judging by the time it took before the country was at peace within itself, we were not the painted savages Lawson Wood and his contemporary humorists delighted to sketch. Even Cassar, ...

... t e a n U REPAIRS and breakdowns which come along in the ordinary course of deterioration would seem to be enough for women to handle on their own. Now damage by bomb blast has come back to harass many and to tax our skill in making running repairs. Dirt and damage caused by blast are formidable to contemplate, but experience proves that rooms and furniture which seem at first to have been ...