... Homes 01 Famous People 9HBI MBWI-- 1111---- r'TIII-- --B-- IM1BIII 1-- IIHfWWim-- mil 111 IUIMWMI I IIII-- iiiiii-- IIWI-- HIM WHILST we choose to remember famous people by erecting a statue to their memory, how much more satisfying is it to visit the place where they lived and worked. In recent years, the homes of men and women famous in the literary world have been preserved as near as ...

... Since candlelight made its appearance again during last winter's fuel cuts, the beauty of this ancient form of illumination has come home with a fresh emphasis. The magic of candlelight when it is not forced upon us by grave necessity is something the modern decorative scheme has overlooked. Whether or not the situation demands its continued use, it is worth studying for its charm and for ...

... Spotlighting The Yoke THE FRONT With grey wool and No. 12 needles cast on 100 sts. Rib in k. 1, p. 1 for 3 ins. Change to No. 10 needles and the following: Knit one row grey. 1st row. Purl grey. 2nd row. Knit grey. 3rd row. P. 2 grev, *1 coral, 3 grey. Repeat from to last 3 sts. 1 coral, 2 grey. 4th row. Knit grey. Sth row. Purl errev. 6th row. 1 coral, 3 grey, 1 coral. Repeat from to end. ...

... VV; f y\ CKINS need nourishment in winter to prevent 'Jharshness which rejects a smooth make-up. Ay Creams supply those oils which gradually diminish with youth, and give back that smooth- ness and suppleness which are essential for a Ay peach-like bloom. y\ A nourishing cream of one kind or another should be used every night and worked into the Ay face and throat with caressing upward ...

... 3 By G. Bernard Wood WHAT is it that gives Roseland in Cornwall its unique charm? Surely the lovely name has something to do with it, you say. But this seems to be derived from Rosinis, a Celtic word meaning nothing more than the moorland isle or promontory. Anne Boleyn is associated with the more popular theory. Henry VIII had brought her here for their honeymoon and, wondering what the ...

... Joan Craven, Fashion Photographer, Assesses the Qualities which make for Success before the Camera. LIKE boys who want to be engine-drivers and secretly retain the ambition long after they are prepared to confess to it, there are girls who never quite grow out of the conviction that there is a career in their features if only What does it take to be a successful photographic model or to get ...

... IN a world of shortages, the assurance that simplicity is still the essence of good taste smacks somewhat of Job's comfort. All the same, it is a fact, and one from which people harassed with current furnishing problems may well take comfort. There is a snag, of course, because simplicity is easily con fused with austerity abominable word and at its elegant best simplicity in a scheme of ...

... Be Y our Husband's V alet Most women to-day find themselves pressed into valet service for the man of the house. Long life and good appearances for a man's clothes depend upon regular attention. The first step is to keep clothes-brushes meticulously clean, and to remove dust and spots before they have time to set. At the weekly brushing go carefully into turn-ups, under lapels and cuffs. A ...

... IS yours the finicky child who har asses you because he is never hungry, or the one who seems to have swal lowed a wolf and is looking round for more? New comfort awaits the mother of either type from the work of Dr. E. M. Widdowson, whose Study of Individual Children's Diets has recently been pub lished. Dr. Widdowson investigated the diets f over one thousand children between one and ...

... FEBRUARY Fill-Dyke is a danger month for infections. It is the time to start a personal resistance movement against the minor ailments which add so much to the general discomfort of winter's dreariest month. Having tuned up to concert pitch for Christmas and New Year festivities one is left with a feeling of flatness, and a depressing consciousness of the long road to summer. All the more ...

... By Harry J. Greenwall IN out of the way corners of our austerity newspapers, it was an nounced to an unconcerned world that 1947 was the Centenary of the Republic of Liberia. Ho-hum, yawned the world, and so what? Well, it all depends are you perhaps interested in the emancipation of the Negro? If so, then Liberia, 37,000 square miles on the west coast of Africa, is your laboratory, where ...

... By Ferdinand Tuohy SALVAGE work on war wrecks around the coasts of Britain has been given a fillip by the introduction of new methods for the recovery of cargoes and scrap, by the enhanced value of these at a time of acute shortage, and, not least, by the gambling bug that permeates the present day. The attrac tion exerted by sunken riches has never lapsed; the call to adven tures to men and ...