... AUGUST 24, 1949 -jUSTriplcX- atul ke safe fortnightly (Jl ffgHMpHWMtts, ILLUSTRATED sporting and dmmatic news Dublin Horse Show ...

... Australia in July Because Australia seems to have so much food for export, and is preparing to produce so much more, we are in clined to minimise the effort that this production entails. We have all heard of the periodic Australian droughts, but because great losses seem to be made good within a few years, there is an impression that the farmer's lot there must be easier than it is here. As ...

... MESSRS. TATTERSALL are holding their annual morning and evening sales of yearlings at Doncaster in St. Leger week, beginning on the Tuesday, September 6, and closing on Friday, the 9th. There are approximately 383 lots in the catalogue, of which, so far, I have only advance proofs. Buyers will be especially interested in the Duke of Westminster's Ardan and Caracalla colts, in two Dantes (from ...

... o *K>iMu ^Preslon Jlld DOLMAN SWEATER IN FINE WOOL. ALL SHADES. 5 gns. Postage and packing 1/6. o 'K'iMu ^Preslen Jlil* HAND-KNITTED SPORTSWEAR THE GLEN, APPLESIIAW, Near ANDOVER, HANTS ...

... E A KA 1 1 V D I I D but to tbe amusem2nt °f his mother and father, Prince Charles of Edinburgh spurns the formality required i /-\/V\IL I uKUUr by the occasion and instead reaches out to take a good fistful of pearl necklace. This recent photograph, taken at Buckingham Palace, shows the infant Prince at the age of nineteen weeks, when he weighed 16 lb. 2 oz. above the average. Princess ...

... Yachtsmen Get Ready for the Summer at tymington Harbour Although the calms which prevailed at Easter somewhat marrec the Royal Lymington Yacht Club's racing, the sunny weather gavi a great stimulus to preparations for the season. Boats were go, into the water, rigging inspected, trial runs made. And on Eastei Monday night, in celebration, the Club gave a Fitting-Out Dana Four pages of ...

... Pn sc t£&C/ ia I^Vvis The Curtain Went Up at Easter Buffer, eggs and cheese are now off poinfs. Two gallons of petrol can be claimed by every car-owner NEVER since the war was there such a lovely Easter. Everything that is good happened at the same time. A magic wand touched the country side. In town the chestnuts bristled with the waxen tapers of their blossoms like Christmas-trees, the ...

... R. C. Robertson-Glasgow Scoreboard NOT in every city, as you thread your path on guaranteed rubber heels through the urgent multitude, will you see, as I did, a man (escapist to you, Professor Muddle- botham) fishing for trout not more than a stone's throw-- apt phrase-- from the City Police Station and not less than a topped mashie niblick from the Borough Surveyor's Office. It was Perth ...

... Elizabeth Be wens 14 Sarnh Bernhardt: My Grandmother 44 44 Straw to Make Briek In the Green Tree The Queen's Awards'' SARAH BERN- HARDT; MY GRANDMOTHER (Hurst and Blackett); 2 IS.) is a domestic study of a great woman who belonged to the world. The author as the title suggests is the younger of the di vine Sarah's grand daughters, Lysiane Bernhardt an affinity sprang up between these two ...

... It just is not true that all the nicest things in life are bad for us, but there are many small daily habits to which we are all addicted and with which we cai\ dispense without any serious sacrifice. Here are some of them and all guaranteed to make a healthier and more attractive person of you. TO sleep without a window open rather than to breathe a clean atmosphere while you sleep even if it ...

... WE have suffered more than a little from the idea of 'beauty spots' which are easily advertised to the tourist. I must admit that just as there are very few people to whom I would confide the habitat of a rare wild flower or genuine inn, so there are few indeed whom I would take to see the things I really care about in the English countryside. The colour of Cots- woid stone on a sunny ...

... THE Society's 49th Show and Sale was held on a new site, admirably arranged to enable visitors to see the stock. Lincolnshire exhibitors naturally predominated, but stock was also sent from adjoining counties and, in one instance, from Oxfordshire. Visitors came from far and wide and included a party from Texas. The sale realised ^13,316 for 118 bulls and bull calves and ^3,298 for females. Mr ...