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HOUSING PROGRAMME: Which interprets the Government Housing Policy in a Brief and Practical Form

... BPhOGRAMME A A Which interprets the Government Housing1 Policy in a Brief and Practical Form. FOR the average reader, interest in the Government plan to meet the housing shortage is confined to the wish to extricate a few guiding facts from an avalanche of published information. .Analysis of official publications is a formidable task, but this is a brief summary for those who are more ...

NIGHT AND DAY

... v-- ' 5 A A/E are well served by our diarists VV James Agate, Charles Graves, S J. W. Drawbell, Reginald Pound who S keep journals and make jottings about anybody or anything reflecting the con- I s temporary scene. I know men who are 5 still manoeuvring to get into Ego 45; S on the other hand, there is at least one (j Savage who hopes to go down to S posterity as the only one left out. i S A ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 268 | Page: Page 43 | Tags: Photographs 

Answer to a Home Problem: The Day Nursery System

... Answer to a Home Problem- The Day Nursery System By Wilma Buckley CONTRARY to the popularly accepted sentimental theory, mothercraft, like any other fine art, has to be acquired. Although it is true that some women are gifted with an innate knowledge of what motherhood entails, endowed with the right temperament and fortunate enough to be placed in suitable economic conditions, they are ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 965 | Page: Page 44, 69 | Tags: Photographs 

Germany's Stronghold Of Paganism: In the Brocken Country of the Harz Mountains

... Germany's Stronghold Of Paganism In the Brocken Country of the Harz Mountains By Ferdinand Tuohy IT is eleven at night, April 30th, 1937, and the scene is the huge granite-strewn dome of the Brocken, the highest point of Northern Germany. Ever since evening Nazi enthusiasts, for the most part Hitler Youth and Maidens, have been arriving from the valleys three thousand feet below. At health's ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1573 | Page: Page 18, 54, 56 | Tags: Photographs 

The Pain In Your Back

... C- --'v v^s* r .Jr VI jH/ THE human back is a miracle of balance and strength. It has to be. It supports your head with the atlas and axis cervical vertebrae so that your head can nod and twist and yet be normally erect. It holds the whole body in its upright position. It contains the spinal cord surrounded by a mass of nerves, which conduct impulses to and from the brain, and which are a ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 688 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Photographs 

The Job

... **. Will the Man Back From the Battlefield Want To Pick Up the Job He Left-- Or Break Fresh Ground? War Has Taught Many To Do New Things in New Ways It Has Brought Swift Advancement to the Bold and Enterprising-- But Peace Offers Opportunity and Adventure, Too By C. Patrick Thompson SOON Mars will be letting them go-- five million warriors, maybe ten million war workers; and they'll be coming ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2266 | Page: Page 15, 53, 54 | Tags: Photographs 

The Condition Of England

... THE future of every British man and woman who gets out of uniform after this war depends upon the condition of England. That, at first, seems so obvious that it seems hardly worth saying. But I am speaking of spiritual changes much more than of economic. These spiritual new attitudes which have been silently arrived at by the British during these long weary years of the world's worst war, ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2231 | Page: Page 16, 17, 53 | Tags: Photographs 

Nature Did It First: Some Interesting Parallels To the Inventions of Man

... Nature Did It First Some Interesting Parallels To the Inventions of Man By Frank W. Lane THERE'S scarcely an invention of peace or war which is not paralleled somewhere or other in the world of Nature. Man has undoubtedly the most inventive mind on earth, yet, as I hope to show in this article, his most brilliant discoveries are little more than improvements for his own use of ideas which ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1411 | Page: Page 22, 68 | Tags: Photographs 

Unwelcome Interlopers: The Spread of the Grey Squirrel has become a Serious Menace to the Countryside

... Unwelcome Interlopers The Spread of the Grey Squirrel has become a Serious Menace to the Countryside By B, Melville Nicholas NOT every animal that dwells in the British Isles can claim the distinction of having had its name mentioned in Parliament. Of course, the ever- popular rabbit has been the subject of many a debate there and although for as many years as I can remember every man's hand ...

START WITH A PLAN

... when you assemble a home, slop by step, build up the desired attention to detail and to those Make a blue-print, as it were, then, character and atmosphere, by basic rules wliieh ensure success. MANY couples never have the chance to start making a home from scratch. They have to build up from a foundation of odd bits and pieces, plus the inevitable presentations and inheritances. Which means ...

U-Neck Pullover

... U-]\eck fiflullover f MATERIALS 6 ozs. of Sirdar Super Shetland 3-ply in dark green 4 ozs. in light green 1 pr. of No. 9 and 1 pr. of No. 12 knitting needles 7 buttons. MEASUREMENTS S From the top of shoulder to lower edge, 21 J ins. from top of sleeve to lower edge, 25 ins. across back underarm, 17 ins. B across half front underarm, 9£ ins. B TENSION 7 sts. to 1 in. JHB THE BACK BHk With ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 508 | Page: Page 46, 68 | Tags: Photographs