... Go to any part of South Wales and the North Country coalfields and at almost any mine, however prosperous, however well-equipped, the surface workings are almost all alike in their utter drabness. Amid the slag heaps and the old iron, the wreckage of disused trams and the paraphernalia of the pits, there rises the familiar winding shaft, and the whole prospect is dreary in the extreme. Not so ...

... The Acid Test Every schoolboy re members that acids turn blue litmus paper red, while alkalis turn red litmus blue. But acid and alkali are not precise words like circular and square'. Of two liquids, one may be much more acid than the other. It is often important to know exactly how acid or alkaline a given liquid is, particularly in canning, brewing, paper-making, sewage-disposal and leather ...

... MACDONALD MUIR LTD. 1 IACDONALD MUIR LTD. 1 Playing card QUEEN series No. 8 i he Queen of Hearts :>as like this in i8j6 ouiae dc la Valliere, favourite of Louis XIV 17, figured as Queen in a pack of 1856 and like this in 1881 In a pack of 1 881 the Queens personified respectively Science, Astronomy, Agriculture and Learning Highland Oueen GRAND LIQUEUR SCOTCH WHISKY never changes Distillers, ...

... 4 ,s i T* WEDDING GROUP AT ROMSEY After the marriage of Lord Brabourne and the Hon. Patricia Mountbatten. Left to right, back row Duchess of Kent, Viscount Mountbatten, Lord Brabourne, H.M. the King, Vis countess Mountbatten and Sqd.-Ldr. St. John. Centre row Doreen Lady Brabourne, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven, the bride, H.M. the Queen, and Agatha Marchioness of Sligo. Front row ...

... YY/ith the Eighth Army's shield at the back of the platform, and Corps and Divisional signs adorning the rest of the Albert Hall, an audience of over 5,000 ex-soldiers, the men vho fought at the decisive, never-to-be-forgotten Battle of Alamein, gathered on the evening of Alamein Day to hear the wartime leaders, Mr. Churchill and Viscount Montgomery, recall the achievements of the past. ...

... imwiWi JVr. Charles Lester Lunt, former Bishop of Ripon, was installed last week at the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Salisbury, as Salisbury's ninety-seventh Bishop. The procession of the clergy through the streets of the city the gathering on Chorister's Green, where the Bishop's Chorister, a diminutive white-robed figure, delivered a Latin speech of welcome the ceremonial ...

... ^r,4,4,44'4'4i4>4i4>4,4,,44,elv4,4,eil'4'4>4'4i' Nine Must 4 4* Die i 4* 4> I A Short Story if I1 By 4- I C. V. Tench 4* 4* THE most astounding factor of all was from whence the corpse had come! At all times a busy thoroughfare, on this hot July afternoon the Avenue Deroulede, Paris, had been teeming with traffic. A red light had halted both hurrying pedestrians and vehicles for a few ...

... MATERIALS 1 1 ozs. of Emu 3-ply main colour (blue) I oz. each of 3-ply white and mauve one pair each of No. 10 and No. 12 needles buttons. MEASUREMENTS From the top of shoulder to lower edge, 21 ins. across the back underarms, 17 ins. across front under arms (with edge), 10 ins. underarm sleeve seam, 17 ins. TENSION For No. 10 needles, 9 sts. to I in. NOTE W. White M. Mauve B. Blue. All Fair ...

... Ijritain Wal Jt THE exhibition which has been running at the Victoria and Albert Museum is a sheer delight to women as a promissory note of the beauty and variety of domestic equipment and decoration to come. At the same time it is existing proof that during the long wearv years of waiting, tangible and practical experiment has been going on with the object of improving our merchandise to such ...

... THE late harvest meant a correspondingly late start for cubbing in most areas, but now, with the opening of the season proper, some 200 hunts in Britain are beginning their activities in earnest. Many of the younger Masters and hunt servants have returned from military service, many new faces are seen in the field and the co-operation of the British farmer without which hunting would be ...

... j i THE sum of 1,000 guineas was paid for a bull, a second prize winner, at the two-day show and sale of Dairy Shorthorns at Reading. Top price for females on the first day was 360 guineas, 59 pedigree females averaging £168 7s. 2d., and three grading register females, £114 2s. Among the many buyers were several from Northern Ireland, including representatives from the Ulster Dairy School and ...

... THE third Annual Show and Sale of Pedigree Shire Foals and Shire Mares and Fillies was held on Haydock Park Racecourse (Lanes.) under the organising body's curious title National Pedigree Shire Foal Produce Stakes. It was an excellent Show, well supported by a large com mittee and backed by sixteen patrons and eighty- three vice-presidents. Twenty-four entries were catalogued in the colt foal ...