... The younger daughter of the Earl and Countess of Minto, Lady Willa Elliot, is serving with the Red Cross in North-West Europe. She formerly worked in an aircraft factory so has had experience in two completely different types of war work. Born in 1924 she is the second of Lord and Lady Minto's four children, and has two younger brothers, Viscount Melgund and the Hon. George Elliot. Her elder ...

... Way of the World By Simon Harcourt-Smith Extravagant Nigger, Don't You Dare FROM Oxford, till the war, fast cars were the scourge of my flimsy bank account. These last earless years as I prayed for Queensberry rules in the Tube or tried to snatch taxis from under American noses, I would grimly condemn past fecklessness. Who, I asked myself, would ever want a grand motor again? All one needed ...

... On and Off Duty A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country The Ulster Visit THEIR MAJESTIES' three-days visit to Ulster was an unqualified success, as every Royal visit to the Six Counties, with their traditional loyalty, may expect to be: and this time there was the added interest of Princess Elizabeth, who won the hearts of all Ulstermen and women, meeting her for the first time in their own ...

... Long Frocks and Uniform Lights Up Ball at Grosvenor House The 44 Lights Up Ball at Grosvenor House, which was given in aid of the National Association of Girls* Clubs and Mixed Clubs, was a great success. The chairman was Lady Hamond-Graeme, and patrons were the Duchess of Buccleuch, and Lady Ravensdale and Mrs. Walter Elliot, who were both at the Ball. A very amusing cabaret was provided by ...

... Echoes of Eton More Pictures from This Year's Eton and Harrow Match A mother and son who came down for the match were Lady Bethell and her son, the Hon. Guy Bethell, an old Etonian. Lady Bethell is the wife of Lord Bethell, who succeeded to the barony on the death of his father in May this year Another released P.O. W. was Mr. John Wiggin, Grenadier Guartls, Sir Charles and Lady Wiggin' s only ...

... Officers of an M.T.B. Flotilla Front row Lts. D. D. Owen-Pawson, L. E. Thompson, R.N.V.R., R. Campbell, R.C.N.V.R., P. Mangus, F. M. A. Shore, J. J. F. Aimers, F. P. Standley, R.N.V.R. Middle row Sub. -Lts. M. Frere-Smith, R.N., J. S. Harris, R.N.V.R., R. E. Lang, R.A.N.V.R., Lt. P. D. Watkins, R.N.V.R., Sub.-Lts. M. E. Maslen, U. E. C. Wood, R.N., H. T. E. Fry, R.N.V.R., J. Lungley, A. C. ...

... Getting Married The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Normand Cummin g W Normand R.N., only son of Lord Normand, Lord .slice-General and President of the Court of Session, and pson of Lady Normand, of 27, Moray Place, Edinburgh, rried Miss Ann Elizabeth Camming, only daughter of r. and Mrs. James Gumming, of Coulter Maynes, niter. Lanarkshire, and 27, Cavendish Close, London Yerbury ...

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... . Before the war, the average woman's knowledge of aluminium as a practical metal in the home j was confined to saucepans and their performances. During the war, aluminium j has developed with giant strides l as a metal of all-embracing possibilities in the house. Its outstanding virtues com- j mend themselves. It is light, which means easy to carry about it resists corrosion, which means ...

... STRIPED SWEATER with Matching Stocking Cap r MATERIALS 5 ozs. of red 3-ply La Laine wool 3 ozs. of white 3-ply, one pair of No. 10 and one pair of No. 12 knitting needles 2 buttons. MEASUREMENTS From top of shoulder to lower edge, 19 ins. across back and front under-arms, 17 ins. under-arm of sleeve, 5i ^s. TENSION 7 sts. to I in. THE FRONT With red wool and No. 12 needles cast on 100 sts. Rib ...

... Why Not A Waterway? A C hannel-T o-C hannel Canal Plan For The West By Wilma Buckley WE have been confronted with much hopeful laying of plans for new motoring roads and new airfields; a great deal of discussion and to do about the need for improved rail and bus services. But nothing, or next to nothing, has been heard about one of our traditional means of transport, for passenger and for ...

... %ot GROWN people find high temperature weather either heavenly or very trying. Babies and children react similarly though we are apt to think of them as cool customers, especially when life demands no greater exertion of them than lying in a pram or cot and watching other people work. When babies are fretful in the heat, it is partly because they can take no measures to keep cool. Their diet ...