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... , , A nice warm bath and then a rub down with a Morning Joy Towel .'so soft and gentle and so cuddly. No won der she's so happy. V A McAyO N A Father's and Mother's favourite, too and so colourful and decorative in the bathroom. It won't be long now before they are easier to buy. The range of VANTONA household Textiles also includes Court Bedcovers, Blansheets, Down Quilts, Ticks and ...

Published: Sunday 01 July 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 106 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

The Woman In White: A Drama of the Sea

... X X The Woman In x White x A Drama of the Sea By C. Hedley Barker x x THE long line of palms, of mangoes and Tapang-trees was upheld for a moment like a frieze against the glittering sky as the Borneo Prince moved lazily at her anchorage off shore. Mr. Bly, the Company's agent, his eyes protruding desperately under the influence of tropical heat, mopped at his neck with a soaked handkerchief, ...

Published: Sunday 01 July 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6481 | Page: Page 11, 12, 13, 14, 56, 58, 60 | Tags: Photographs 

Going back TO THE OLD LIFE---?: Pleasure Will Widen in all its Aspects until it Merges with the Everyday Life ..

... {/(jrviyr TO THE OLD life-- ?4 r f g r Pleasure Will Widen in^all ris Aspelf until it rf-f. fi r ft Mer,ges with the ,Ever#ay Llie ol m People,^ i JOIw L Patril Thomlon jl£ THE war in Europe over, people dan ced in the streets of London, Paris, Moscow, New York. Even in Berlin, they celebrated. A journalistic colleague of mine who had jeeped on west from Wittenberg, and was prowling around ...

Great Men In Their Leisure Hours

... Great Men In Their^ Leisure Hours By H. T. Kirby IT is a curious thought that many famous men, probably quite excellent in their professional lives, are now remembered-- not by the achievements of their main calling-- but by some leisure-hour employ ment; some hobby probably taken up to dispel the worries arising from the common round and daily task of the workaday world. The matter seems ...

Published: Sunday 01 July 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1759 | Page: Page 22, 54, 56 | Tags: Photographs 

Old Tales Re-told: The Tragic Story of Masinissa, the Numidian King, and the beautiful Sophonisba, Wife of ..

... Old Tales Re-told The Tragic Story of Masinissa, the Numidian King, and the beautiful Sophonisba, IVife of Sy phax and Daughter 0/Hasdrubal Written and Illustrated by F. Matania, r.i. IT was so cool in the cave. Every now and then the snorting of horses interrupted the incessant creak, creak of an inexhaustible grasshopper. The outline of a powerful man appeared at the opening he advanced with ...

Hills And The Sea: Two views of the beauty of the English West Country

... I Hills And The Sea Two views of the beauty of the English West Country Above. Shaftesbury-, Dorset. Looking down 1 Gold Hill. It commands fine views over the 1 Vale of Blackmore and is Shaston of i Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels I Below. Polruan, Cornwall. Looking towards Fowey Harbour. The home of Q. It is built I on a steep hillside and is connected with I Fowey by a ferry ...

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1. The Morning Meal: Sometimes you want something different tor breakfast. Here are a few interesting suggestions

... j. Zfiie Warning Weal Sometimes you want something different tor breakfast. Here are a few interesting suggestions I BREAKFAST PANCAKES Work together 2 oz. of flour, a pinch of salt and 2 oz. of sugar. Beat 2 oz. of margarine, add 2 eggs (shell or powdered), beat together and work in the flour mixture. Beat all together well and pour into small tart tins well greased. Bake in a hot oven for ...

Published: Sunday 01 July 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 534 | Page: Page 46 | Tags: Photographs 

PICNIC HOT DISH

... I P I C N I C HOT DISH It is part of the fun of a picnic in our sort of summer to make a fire and very great fun to have one hot dish. Here is a suitable one to be 1 carried in a stoppered jar and heated up in a saucepan. EMINCES FLORENTINE Cut the meat whatever it is into small 1 pieces, which you roll in flour. Melt a little dripping in the pan and brown an onion (or 1 spring onions). Put in ...

Published: Sunday 01 July 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 170 | Page: Page 47 | Tags: Photographs 

KODAK FILM

... F.2 F.29R Where should the sun be when you snap Try snapping with the sun at your side, as in the diagram, instead of directly behind you. Side light ing gives more natural shadow effects and avoids a flat appearance. Be careful though not to let the sun shine into the lens. By the way avoid loading your camera in bright sunlight. Good film is very sensitive careless loading can easily spoil ...

GLOBE SPOTTING

... HERE are a few guiding lines to direct those women who are thinking of heading away from home as soon as possible after the end of the Japanese war. If you are not a good mixer in your own home town, there is no reason why you should be when you get somewhere else. You will not like all your new neighbours any more than you do your old ones. If you wilt in the summer, make sure that you do not ...

Published: Sunday 01 July 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 598 | Page: Page 50 | Tags: Photographs 

Grow Some Dwarf Trees

... RE-FORESTATION is one of the great jobs to be carried out now that the war is over. But one need not possess broad acres to own a grove of dainty little drawf trees. Anyone can grow them. In the tiniest back garden, or even a flat, provided an outside window ledge or balcony is available, one can grow decorative trees, one foot to eighteen inches high, in pots. These trees are fascinating to ...

Published: Thursday 01 November 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 515 | Page: Page 31, 64 | Tags: Photographs