... THE Derby Luncheon at the London Press Club was held again on Monday, I for the first time since 1939. Lord Derby was unable to be present to reply to the toast To the Pious Memory of the Founder of the Derby Stakes, but his grandson, Lord Stanley, contributed in an amusing speech to the success of the occasion. Lord Stanley and Lord Derby's jockey, Harry Wragg, made little attempt to conceal ...

... VICTORY DAY will be celebrated in the country in much the same way that our forefathers have celebrated victories in the past. The rural community will rejoice with other communities whose activities are more highly organised--but in its own fashion. The milking sheds must not be left unattended; the essential work on the farms will go on. Yet, while the drums beat in the cities, while ten ...

... Vital Days for the Farmer The Fight for' Sufficient Winter Keep WITH famine stalking through Europe and little more than subsistence rations at home, there can be no respite for the farmer, who has the twofold task of feeding the people and his livestock also. Contrary to all hopes, the outlook for next winter is grim, and the recent reduction of rations for pigs and poultry to one-twelfth the ...

... THE TEDDER, or Kicker, used immediately after the mower, will lighten the swaths and hasten the drying. The shaken crop should be gathered together again before the night dew falls. Drying must not be overdone, in case the leaf becomes brittle and breaks off in the field. GRASS-DRYING Removing the dried material from a Kaloril drying plant. The crop here is at its maximum feeding value, the ...

... QUEEN MARY ENTERS ON HER EIGHTIETH YEAR-- LEAVING WESTMINSTER ABBEY AFTER ATTENDING MORNING SERVICE ON HER SEVENTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY The Queen Mother seen with Canon A. C. Don, the new Dean of Westminster Queen Mary was born at Kensington Palace on May 26, 1867, the eldest child and only daughter of the Duke of Teck and a great-grand- daifghter of George III. On Sunday last the Queen Mother ...

... The little Bedfordshire village of Elstow, famed as the birthplace of John Bunyan, was en fete last week for its annual May Festival which this year was combined with the village s victory celebrations. During the day thirteen- year-old June Thompson, the newly-crowned Queen of the May, drove round the green in her flower- bedecked car and at the same time the other children of the village ...

... mm I illjV The De Havilland Dove, its trials complete and its specification finalised, is now beginning to flow off the production line, and already purchasers from fifteen countries have come forward to place orders for this £14,000 machine brought out by the De Havilland Company. The Dove is a light feeder-line aircraft incorporating many of the features normally associated with big air ...

... When Bruce Woodcock, the British heavyweight champion, flew back to Britain after his defeat by Tami Mauriello, the accompanying pictures came with him. They depict the closing stages of his fight at Madison Square Garden when, after leading on points and appearing to be heading for a comfortable victory, he was knocked out by a right hook from his hard-hitting opponent. Woodcock is now ...

... Here's to Finger-tips by HERE'S TO THE RETURN very soon of her exquisite nail polishes. The control of the special ingredients required for their manufacture is gradually being lifted. hopes that they will arrive in the shops before very long. Meanwhile the nail polishes are available for manicure treatment only, in the salon which continues to give its clients every possible attention. ...

... 'PATENT BARLEY 'PATENT BARLEY If you* 1 1 forgive me saying so says OLD HETHERS there's a right and a wrong way of doing every mortal thing! Now, I know a lot of people who still use pearl barley for their barley water. Believe me, they're just making work for themselves. If only they'c get a tin of Robinson's 'Patent V Barley they'd make better barley water and save no end of time. It's as ...

... VI COW GATE LTP Kr ]M COW&GATELTD Q J l(rw&t e{ -Hcx'olineM x ^^lowing with the beauty that is the hall-mark Q of perfect health clear skin, sparkling eyes, !v- C firm sturdy limbs she is a delight to behold. Y j* Her proud mother gave her the food of Royal J babies Cow Gate Milk Food. GUILDFORD SURREY fePvil The nfa' Abridged Edition of 3763 MOTHERHOOD is now avail \Vta able. Send 6 d. in ...

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