... IGNORING the fact that major reconstructions in the home are still bothersome and, in many cases, quite impracticable, this is to tel you what is going on in the world about making homes warmer anc more comfortable at a reasonable cost. The fact is that, in spite of the lingering difficulties, there ar appliances coming along. Some of them are already here, and then is no reason why determined ...

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... p The Q Home Coming p A Short Story n By pi ^Terence Ilorsley THE last fix placed Malin Head 083 degrees 340 miles. In the words of the steward to the only wakeful passenger, the air liner was an hour and a quarter from land and less than two hours from her British base. She was flying at 23,000 ft. in an eighty-knot wind from the nor nor'- west a smooth, rushing wind without a ripple in its ...

... ralniciTifes WHEN I go travelling and people hear me say I have been living in Lisbon, they exclaim: Oh, aren't you lucky, living in that Portuguese para dise! May I just draw you a little picture of Portugal these days? As your plane touches down at Portela and you complete your journey from Northolt in seven hours a distance of 1,020 land miles you have just experienced the only thing that ...

... Lisbon, Paris, Madrid Post-War I mpressions By Harry J* Greenwall Central Portugal are very cold in winter. Por tugal is not a hot country, but like North Africa, it is a cold country with a hot sun. When rationing came in, about two and a half years ago, the Portuguese who could afford to eat in restaurants were hard hit, because the average Portuguese is as fine a trencherman as you will ...

... fl i* '.m II Going down the hill into Dornie, in the County of Ross and A| Cromarty, this beautiful view brings all tourists to a standstill. MM It shows the junction of Loch Duich and Loch Alsh, and in the f| foreground, jutting out into Loch Duich, can be seen the ancient it 1% and historic Eilean Donan Castle, home of the Macraes. y\ ...

... Crystal Gazer Rewarded The special qualities of Phoenix materials and the skilled craft of fashioning them were early regarded as essential to the war effort. Phoenix glass met stern tests in the crucible of war, and with develop ments in research will emerge still fitter to fashion the beautiful clear glass oven-ware so greatly prized by housewives. Here is one young housewife fortunate ...

... 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'd gel a tin of Robinson's 'Patent' Barley they'd make better barley water and save no end of time. It's as easy to make as a pot of tea ...

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... WITH A FAIR ISLE YOKE THE FRONT With main colour wool and No. 12 needles, cast on 100 sts. Rib in k. 1, p. 1 for 3 ins. (inc. 1 st. of the last row only, 101 sts.). Change to No. 10 needles and the following pattern: xst row. Knit brown. 2nd. row. Purl 2 b., 1 main. Repeat from ending 2 b. 3rd row. As 1st row. Work 7 rows main, in stocking stitch (one row knit, one Materials Required 6 ozs. of ...