... PUNNING THE RESTORATION OF A PANEL Mr. Richard Buck, Conservator of the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University and a leading authority on the restoration of paintings and the conservation of wood panels, demonstrates a chart showing the extent to which a picture can be cut and scraped to Mr. N. S. Bromelle, of the National Gallery restoration staff. Microscopic examinations are made before the ...

... OVER 300 ratings in H.M.S. Triumph have volun teered to recommission in her, although she has only just returned after two years abroad. Which shows that she is a happy ship, in spite of the inevitable heat engendered by the vast expanse of flying-deck in hot weather, however much it is hosed during the summer in the Near East; and in spite of the automatic risk of friction between two totally ...

... C IOTA'S BY APPOINTMENT M Gin Distillers to H.M King George V! W DISTILLERIES LIMITED DRY GIN S^' MAXIMUM PRICES: 32/4 PER BOTTLE: HALF BOTTLE 86/1 i (U.K. ONLY) THE ONLY GIN THAT HOLDS THE BLUE SEAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE \N A ...

... PARIS this Spring has produced few fashion surprises. The basic silhouette is narrow, with floating panels, asymmetrical draperies, apronlike overskirts and a multiplicity of jackets, giving an illusion of width to the natural form. At the same time there are more simple wearable clothes than ever before. Typical examples are (left) Paquin's black after noon gown with a pointed shoulder-line, ...

... yftte&icC' to Summer Prepare to face the summer sunlight knowing that your skin and com plexion have a flower petal texture and the pearly translucence of an ivory 1 miniature. At 's salon in Berkeley Square individually it devised treatments are given for every type of skin. Plastic Treatment resculptures a drooping contour. Oxylation Treatment brings new lightness and brightness to dull, ...

... WHITBREAD IN ENGLISH HISTORY conversation expressed a wish to see these l$P£V*a]W among the things for himself. One Satur- \mFJ population of day morning he duly arrived sb London in 1787 with his Queen and three a favourite topic was the little Princesses and spent wondrous new mechanical two hours going over the devices installed in Brewery. When the crowd Mr. Whitbread's Brewery in which ...

... THE Red Poll Society report increasing interest in their Reading Shows. The recent Spring Show attracted many buyers and sellers from the West and South, where the Red Poll is popular because of its suitability for the bail system of milking. One hundred and two head (76 females and 26 bulls) of attested cattle averaged £152 3s. 4d. Vendors included Lady Palmer, whose husband, the late Sir ...

... I Lakeland a! i Eastertide THE majority of holiday-makers are obliged to wait until summer for their annual vacations. The fells in spring are very lovely for those mostly from the North and Midlands who are able to walk through the hills and dales of this unspoiled corner of England. It is a wonderful country for young people, and happy indeed are those groups, such as our young Austrian ...

... Oil Long Hitting EVERY golfer, whatever his actual standing in the world of golf, would be untruthful if he did not admit that he gets a real kick out of hitting an extra good one one off the meat, or, as they say in America, one on the nose. How far it goes depends on one's own timing, limited directly by the amount of speed one can impart to the club-head, and that is dependent on the ...

... BY keeping pigs in harness. Brigadier E. G. Warren, C.B.E., of the Northampton- shire Regiment (retired), plans on his eleven-acre County Limerick holding to show how more bacon can be produced. Pigs, he says, do not gain enough weight when they wander where they like they damage fences and time is lost rounding them up. The remedv A harness. This is made of two straps. One fits over the pig ...

... THESE eight Jersey calves were flown from St. Peter Airport, Jersey, to Nakuru in Kenya, calling at Blackbushe on the way to collect another fourteen calves of various breeds for the same destination. The Jersey consignment consisted of animals sent by Mr. H. W. Jean, Mr. E. F. Vibert, Mr. P. H. Brideaux, Messrs. Van de Vliet Bros., Mr. A. Barette, Mr. G. R. Le Masurier, Mr. C. D. Poignand and ...

... THE PARADE: Lord Bicester1 s Roimond (Aubrey Brabazon) teas undoubtedly the class horse of the field. He is foUotced by Miss Paget' s handsome Happy Home Cloncarrig and the favourite, Lord Mild may's Cromwell with his intrepid owner in the saddle RUSSIAN HERO, bred and owned by a Cheshire farmer, Mr. W. F. Williamson, and brilliantly ridden by L. McMorrow, won the coveted Aintree trophy in ...