... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- Are you tired? As you are basking on a boat-deck somewhere you ought not to be, but you probably are, because everybody I know is terribly tired. They started on V-Day, and continued with a sort of mounting fatigue until VJ-Day, when they flung themselves on their beds and lay there with closed eyes, refusing to join in any form of celebration and only getting ...

... R.A.F. PILOTS OF THE pj VICTORY BELLS APPEAL. r I *HIS is Victory Year, and every house must have a Victory H y- -L Bell The big Appeal for a mammoth sale of these Bells (cast from the metal of German aircraft shot down over this S s country), in aid of the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund, was launched at I a 44 Victory Bells dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. James Frew, at which Battle of Britain pilots ...

... iwm RealScotch Kn itwe ar. MOHAIR TWIN SET Non-Utility Twin Set in Brushed Mohair Suitable for town and country wear in the following charming colours Kashmir Beige, Pastel Blue, Jade Green, Scarlet and Tan. McCLURE MclNTOSH Ltd. GLASGOW, C.5 Obtainable from all good Stores We cannot supply the Public direct Leave at last! Father !s home again and this time, not only his wife but their child ...

... DOG S body: By JOHN DELLBRIDGE. ARTHUR KALEHAM did not look like a criminal. His jaw was square but not prognathous, his brow was broad but did not beetle, his nose was aquiline and not flat, his ears, eyes and mouth were rather fine. None of his fellow-passengers in the 10.49 from Maidstone would have guessed that he had just been discharged from the prison there, after serving a sentence of ...

... Twelfth Day Eve An old Devon shire custom still kept up in some parts is the toasting of the apple trees. The farmer, attended by his workpeople and accompanied by an enormous pitcher of cider, goes to the orchard and encircling one of the trees recites Here's to thee, old apple tree Whence thou mays I bud, and whence thou mayst blow f And whence thou mayst bear apples enow Hats full Caps full ...

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... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Approach ing These Islands. That unbroken succession of trials, outrages, exasperations and frustrations which, in the British Isles, goes by the name of weather is undoubtedly responsible for the tough qualities of the English character which win wars and may even have a shot at winning the peace. I am writing this at the seaside, whither I have been driven by ...

... . J^OR seventeen years SIR MAX BEERBOHM has not touched a pencil, yet the appeal of his witty cartoons with their clean, assured line and and colouring is as fresh as ever. The Leicester Galleries are showing 4 caricatures from the collection of the late Mr. Philip Guedalla they cover lRooW^°^e Max Beerbohm's activities in this form of art from 92-1928. Mrs. Guedalla offered the choice of the ...

... f(uueJmvMd By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- Summer has come at last. St. Martin's, St. Luke's, Michaelmas, what you will, but Summer, and everybody who had settled down to a winter of gloom, fatigue and worry about the atomic bomb, coal and influenza, has sud denly perked up and begun smiling. Nearly all Charles's Patients were quite good about not being ill last Sunday, and he got his dinghy ...

... H.R.H. LITTLE BOY BLUE. 1 his Little Boy Blue who at any moment may blow his horn is none other than H.R.H. PRINCE WILLIAM OF GLOUCESTER, three-year-old elder son of the Duke of Gloucester, Governor-General of Australia. The portrait was recently painted by Dora Toovey in Australia, and under the title H.R.H. Little Boy Blue was exhibited in the 1945 Exhibition of the Royal Art Society in Sydney. ...

... BRIGHTENING UP THE B.A.O.R. AN EYEFUL OF MURALS AT AN OSTEND CANTEEN. A snappy Welcome greets men and women of the B.A.O.R. who visit the Naafi cafe at Ostend. There are rich suggestions of food and drink in Rudolph Haybrook'' s mural over the door of the Information Bureau. Here With a Flask of Wine at the Time of the Three Moons. Ceremonial tea and pipes in the Chinese manner. The dancer ...

... Peggy Sage suggests that hands thai have worked hard to achieve victory deserve a little gaiety. Peggy Sage polishes will become available again in small quantities as essential ingredients are demobilised* from their war sen-ice. In the meantime the Peggy Sage Salon continues to serve its many clients. FINGER-TIP SPECIALIST SALONS: LONDON: 130 NEW BOND STREET, W.I (Corner 0/ Crone nor Street. ...