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... They Ire No i Longer Helpless WAR has swept away many fusty old notions. It has also made many revelations. One is that the helpless-husband tradition is just a big ramp run by men. If you want proof of this, think of all the men you knew before the war who, however successful in other spheres, were afflicted with a high degree of mental deficiency when it came to lending a little first aid in ...

... Essentially English Our Heritage of Georgian Architecture By Wilma Buckley IET lovers of the Elizabethan, the half- timbered, black-and-white house saywhat they will; nothing is so represent ative, so characteristic of England, as Georgian architecture. Half-timbered houses, of a type which many imagine to be peculiar to this island, are seen in Normandy, where, indeed, they are just as much ...

... you u ^JJer Vo i; r-' vjirou) I; I I Up I J ijeaut ■if J, By LOUISA KAY A WOMAN friend once said to me, speaking of her small daughter: She isn't beautiful, but I intend to tell her she is and you will see what it does. I did see, because already this small girl had grace and the beginnings of a poise which older and greater beauties might have envied. Feminine beauty is, after all, so much ...

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... i\/ By C. Patrick Thompson Even before the Fire, Fog and War have cleared, Women are fiercely, their Wish to Return i v Thunder of showing frankly, even to Luxury and Glamour X ARIS, mid- January, 1945. Long queues shiver outside the bakers shops, waiting for a scant bread ration. In house and hotel alike, people shiver in unwarmed rooms. The electricity supply has failed for lack of coal, ...

... By Gordon Beckles ALL the world knows of the heroism and losses suffered by the British merchant seaman; now the world is being given the material side of the picture. Recently th# Admiralty has, by fits and starts, lifted the veil on the losses of the ships the merchant seaman has served. One after another the great shipping lines have been allowed to disclose their war records to date. It is ...

... HEIR OAPPARENI THE approach to motherhood has entirely changed. Farewell to the eat- enough-for-two story, which generally meant that the mother-to-be ate far too many heavy, starchy foods lacking vitamins and mineral salts. Farewell to cosseting and lazing around in a semi-invalid state for the entire pre-natal period. Use your intelligence from the start and you should be healthy, happy ...

... There is a spot of earth supremely blest A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.' outside the wind has cried itself women make homes. In the quiet wel- to sleep. The brief winter twilight is come of this peaceful room how easy to fading into night and in the deepening forget you're in a house, and only know dusk the lighted street lamps bloom like that you're at home. And how much giant ...