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Schweppes

... ochweppes* Ochweppes* is probable that the ceremonial drinking of healths is derived from the Greco-Roman custom of pouring libations to the gods. A more sophisticated age introduced the drinking to living personages. But it must not be supposed that in classical days it was the gods alone who enjoyed themselves. Horace found it necessary to chide the over indulgent with Hush friends, 0 cease ...

THE LANCHESTER MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED

... WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE THAT POST-WAR CAR OF 19 Ii must embody running cost. Il must give maximum comfort. The all those striking advances in technical achievement post-war LANCHESTER will offer all this and soine- which will result from wartime research and ex perience. It must showa newperfection of design and workmanship. It must be absolutely reli able, while combining higher speed with lower ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 109 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Illustrations 

A GREAT DAY HAS DAWNED

... . With our hearts filled with thankfulness for victory, let us make this great resolve Let us continue in our striv ing for a land free from anxiety and want-- thai the sacrifices of war may not have been in vain GIVE THANKS BY SAVING ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 54 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

FLIT

... COUPONS :?uo n **222? I Moths murder fabrics Moths make meals of clothes, curtains, carpets Get on their track with clear the house to-day. Coupons saved are coupons gained kills moths ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 34 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

'Celanese'

... War has stripped fashion of frills and furbelows But war cannot take away from women their love of beautiful things. Happily this desire for beauty can still be satisfied by Lingerie in Celanese'. F\ For, though restrictions ban lace and embroidery, the Fabrics 'ff are still very lovely. /7 ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 50 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Illustrations 

POTTER'S

... /POTTERS \CImIwici Idemedy J a-2° /POTTERS \CUt(una Idemedy J A-20 I Nobody can that's why so ft many wise folk rely on POTTERS ASTHMA REMEDY for INSTANT RELIEF. Wonderful in Bronchitis, Catarrh, Whooping Cough, Hay Fever. All Chemists, Herbalists and Stores, 2'2. POTTER CLARK LTD., Artillery Lane, London, E.t ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 49 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

Cross-Channel Cavalcade

... By Ferdinand Tuohy THE solitary cross- Channel steamer which reopened passenger traffic between England and France after a total stop page of fifty-five months may be likened to a marine pathfinder Alone she sails (at this writing, still zigzags) as if pioneer ing for the new-style ships, planes and ferries which, with the gradual advent of normality, should provide a trans formation as ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2620 | Page: Page 18, 70 | Tags: Illustrations 

I Liked My Home Town: A Londoner's Reminiscences of the 1890s

... I Liked My Home Town A Londoner's Reminiscences of the 1890s By Harry J. Greenwall I AM a Londoner, but what I call my home town is just a section of London, a quartier that used to lie on the edge of St. John's Wood, a triangle of territory which as time ebbs becomes as dear to me as memory's apron strings can make Why is it, I wonder, that the summer days of the dull nineties (not naughty, ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1574 | Page: Page 22, 58 | Tags: Illustrations 

Way Of Salvation: Only Our Children Can Fully Create and Uphold the New Future

... Way Of Salvation UnLy Uur Lrn.Ld.ren Can Fully Create and Uphold the New Future By L. Luard THEY'RE waiting, sir, said the Controller. Wing Commander Storey closed the door and looked through the sliding glass screen separating him from the Operations Room. He saw his air crews seated on benches .in front of the situation map covering the eastern part of the North Atlantic. His were the last ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3660 | Page: Page 28, 29, 30, 63, 64 | Tags: Illustrations 

Profit And Loss Account: Debit

... Profit And Loss A c c o u nL_-- v* _ 1 Hilll Debit. The threat of sudden death has been walking at our heels. Six years of suspense and, sometimes, of stark fear, have been our daily companions. For many there has been no escape and no security. A perpetual nightmare has threaded its way through the daily routine. Women will remember wartime shop ping as one of the greater responsibilities of ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 922 | Page: Page 45 | Tags: Illustrations