... 'PATENT' BARLEY I may look old-fashioned says OLD H ETHERS but I'm all for modern methods yes, even when it comes to making barley water You don't imagine I use the old-fashioned pearl barley, do you, when there's a tin of Robinson's 'Patent' Barley in the shop round the corner? Not me, madam. There's no stewing and straining with Robinson's it's so fine- ground. Just follow the simple ...

... Jarevueli ri/)i llionaired The Exchequer Has Mitked The Rich Of £629,599,000 In The Past Seven Years In Death Duties Alone By L W. Phelps-Orion FAREWELL, a long farewell, to the sterling millionaire. The really rich are fading fast from the English scene. Before the war 1,024 people in Britain could comfortably count their assets as at least a million. To-day this wealthy class has dwindled-- ...

... Old Tales Re-told The Cjreat Trediction Of The Tragic rDestiny Of The Empress Josephine Written and Illustrated by F. J\latania R.I. IN everyone's imagination the heroine of this tale stands out in all the glory of her lofty position, a radiant figure of a woman as brilliant in natural gifts as the diamonds which sparkled in the imperial crown she wore and the precious stones of her bejewelled ...

... (SirciAiation ^Jrovilies I THE body's circulation is its life. Because the heart pumps the blood through the body it has been acknowledged as the most vital organ in the human body, but it is the flow of the blood to the furthermost parts of the body which is important. Once the circulation stops tissues die. the oxygen content of your blood is very important that is why deep breathing is P ...

... Ceme-Jhack WITH one of her sudden unpredic table turns of tempera ment Fashion has brought back the cameo on a wave of popularity. For months past women have been sorting over family treasure chests and hunting in likely holes and cor ners for specimens of these delicate orna ments which, for the last half century, have seen so little light. fWl Cameos large and small and cameos of yWI varying ...

... Big Results from small JoifltS BEFORE the war housewives and cooks who took the trouble to make food go as far as possible were often labelled mean, but economy differs from stinginess and one may take pride in it. These last years have taught us all the meaning of the word economy, if not financially, certainly gastronomically. If it is not so much that a £1 note has to do the work of two, ...

... Dried Fruit Dishes By Harriet Muir .M/f'i* FIG FLAN Soak 4 oz. of dried figs overnight, then cut them into halves and mix them with a custard made with two reconstituted eggs, 1 gill of milk, 1 teaspoonful of flour, sugar and flavouring to taste. Line a flan case with the following pastry rub 2 oz. of margarine in 4 oz. of ilour. Mix in 1 oz. of sugar, half a recon stituted egg and a pinch of ...

... INTO Gevle, on the romantic Gulf of Bothnia, into Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm, recently sailed a ten-ton boat, Wagen, with a grey-haired, sharp featured, deeply tanned holiday-maker, accompanied by an elderly helmsman. It was his first return to the indented coasts for six or seven years, and he warmed gratefully to the sun, to the gently lapping waters, the picturesque birches and firs ...

... Mrs. Birling sublimely unaware that she is to be drawn into the vortex of self -revelation, treats the forthcoming examination by the Inspector very lightly Julien Mitchell Margaret Leighton, Marian Spencer and Ralph Richardson) ...

... One of the most promising of the new generation of film stars, Barbara White first decided to become an actress when, as a little girl, she visited her aunt's school of dramatic art at Southend-on-Sea. Her first important part was that of Miranda in The Tempest at the Stratford-on-Avon Memorial Theatre, but she had her first real chance understudying Glynis Johns in Esther McCracken's Quiet ...

... M.D. LYON, who has just had a new Resident Magistrate's Court opened for him at Nyeri, Kenya Colony, might, with a little more of je ne sais quoi, have been another Jack Hulbert. He had melody, wit the light fantastic in toe, touch, and tongue. But, like most of the too vari ously brilliant, he had a demon of restlessness. He sipped each flower and changed every hour. Nor could he suffer a ...

... The King and Queen recently visited the exhibition of their own pictures from the Royal Palaces probably the greatest private collection in the world at the Royal Academy under ideal conditions of display. The Queen is seen admiring 44 The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Jacopo Bassano, with Tintoretto's 44 Portrait of a Dominican near by. Her companion is Sir Alfred Munnings, R.A., President ...