... 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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... HUBBLE SOUK A K Stories from Everywhere AT a course for transport officers in India one subaltern had not paid a great deal of attention to the instruction imparted, and on the last day he was asked by the commandant to step forward and tell the age of a mule. The young officer opened the mule's mouth in gingerly fashion and peered inside inquiringly. Then he said: Well er sir, I don't think ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Civil Air Many moves have been made since I last wrote on the subject of civil aviation. The general out come of them is that I think we can now be said to be getting ready for a real effort. We shall soon have done what can be done to provide the right administrative and organizational structure and the responsibility will pass to the manufacturers and operators. ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES East and West By James Agate WHY does everything Chinese run to such extraordinary length? China's history is one of the longest in the world, her wars never seem to end, her plays take a week to perform, and I am told that when a new Chinese novel appears in six volumes the publishers add a note to the effect that this is only the first instalment. Can it be that the ...

... New Team-Work in Private Lives Kay Hammond and John Clements Re-Live the Roles Created by Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward 0 Just fourteen years after its original presentation at the Phcenix Theatre, Noel Coward's Private Lives is to be revived. The parts of Amanda and Elyot, created so unforgettably by Gertrude Lawrence and the author himself, are to be played by Kay Hammond and John ...

... 0 Cti /)*y A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country A Good Shot IN the restful, luxurious days of pre-1939, when the Royal programme for the year was settled, in broad outline, in advance, and varied but little from one year to another, the King always set aside a week or two in the early autumn for shooting at Sandringham with a party of men friends. Such arrangements are not possible, even ...

... In the Garden Pictures from Here and There Mrs. Peter Kerr and Peter David Mrs. Kerr, formerly Enid Wyard is the only child of Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Wyard. Her husband Major Peter John Kerr, has been serving icith the Monmouthshire Regiment since 1939. Their son Peter David, is nine months old Cox. Bournemouth Mr. and Mrs. Greville Baylis and Their Son Mr. Greville Baylis is in the Irish Guards ...

... Breeders and owners attended in force the recent Yearling Sales at Ballsbridge, Dublin, and at the close of the second day the auc tioneers were able to announce the best sale on record. The top price of 3,300 guineas was paid by Mr. Hubert Hartigan for Colonel Giles Loder's bay filly by Stardust out of Sarita With Mr. M. N. Conway veterinary surgeon the Hon. Mrs. Gerald WeUesley inspected Mr. ...

... I Officers of a Training Squadron of the Fleet Air Arm Front row Lt. (A) S. W. Wright, R.N.V.R., Lt. (A) M. T. Bridgeraan, R N.V.R., Lt.-Cdr. P. Pardoe Matthews, R.N.R. (C.O.), Lt. (A) H. Barrett, RNVR Lt. (A) K. G. Brown, R.N.V'.R. Middle row: S/Lt. (A) E. Richardson, R.N.V.R., S/Lt. (A) R. C. Hunter. R.N.V.R., Lt. (A) J. B. Blakely, R.N.V.R., Lt. (A) W. H. Jackson, R.N.V'.R., S/Lt. (A) W. R. ...

... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere THE following are humorous extracts from letters sent to a Food Office in Buck-- Please send me a form for cheap milk as I'm expecting mother. Please send me a form for cheap milk for having children at reduced prices. Please send me another form for cheap milk as I posted the other form before my child was filled in properly. Will you please send me a ...