... Skye Folk Jhe Qrofters of the J^tisty 9sle By Richard Perry THE shepherd sitting next to me in the carriage was, like us, bound for a hill sheep farm in the Isle of Skye. His rough plus-fours, the inevitable cap, his thick stockings and tackety boots, were alike symbolic of the future. The old life was ended. The Devon cottage would not know our free ways again. And that evening we stood on ...

... w 1 The house of the future is every woman's topic. We discuss its every aspect, but throughout discussion it is the kitchen which i engages the most .attention. L Here is the very heart of the home, the place where women work and set in motion all A those activities which reflect A themselves in every corner of the house. Whatever the new home may prove to be, the kitchen, we are resolved, ...

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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 Ferdinand Tuoky I HAVE to chance the war being over by the time this article appears. I have got to chance the subject with which it treats being over too: solved. I sincerely hope it will be. But, Nazis being what they are, I very much doubt it. Let us face an unfortunate fact, ror longer than you or I should care to remember, it has been the habit in these wise isles to debate on the ...

... Glimpses of Old May fair Impressions of a Changing Scene By Wilma Buckley LONG after Mayfair-- as we know it-- has ceased to be, the name will survive as the symbol of an idiosyncratic standard of obsolete elegance, the quintessence of careless, glamorous (what other word will serve so well?), fashionable living: everything that is epitomized in the twentieth-century expression West End and ...

... MATERIALS 8 oz. Sirdar Super Shetland 3-ply 4 buttons No. 9 and No. 11 needles. MEASUREMENTS Round bust, 34 ins. length, 20 ins. sleeve seam, 18 ins. TENSION 7 sts. and 9 rows to 1 in. THE BACK AND FRONT Start at join of yoke on No. 9 needles and work downwards, making 2 pieces as follows Cast on 56 sts. Work 4 rows k. 5th row. K. twice into first st. K. to end, ending k. 2 tog. 6th row. P. ...

... Rheumatism is the most commonplace of all chronic complaints in these islands. The actual name, rheuma tism, covers many different types of the disease, including acute rheumatism, which is usually a child's or an old person's serious illness; muscular pains, and joint pains. We are not dealing with the acute type of rheumatism, or' attempting to tell you how to deal with joints that have ...

... MATERIALS 10 oz. Emu Unshrinkable 3-ply wool 6 button moulds No. 9 needles (and No. 11 for buttons). MEASUREMENTS Round bust, 35 ins. sleeve seam, 18 ins. length, 22 ins. TENSION 8 sts. and 10 rows to 1 in. 0 THE BACK Cast on 1 14 sts. Work the following pattern 1st row. K: 2, p. 2 rep. from to end, ending k. 2. 2nd row. P. 2, k. 2 rep. from to end, ending p. 2. Rep. these 2 rows until 6 are ...