... MECCA Goes Modern By Martin Thornhill THREE British firms are taking electricity to the Holy City of Mecca, an undertaking which sets up yet another milestone on the well-trod trails to the most pilgrimaged place in the world. With more shipping available than at any time since 1939, the last Had] brought 350,000 Mohammedans to the sacred places of Islam-- the largest Mos lem pilgrimage since ...

... The Life And Loves Of The Seamstresses Of The World's Fashion Centre By Ferdinand Tuohy FOR an assortment of reasons the twelve-day stoppage by the midinettes was the most popular strike Paris has known. the sewmg-girls who, some tor as little as £2 a week, made the world's most glamorous dresses, might understandably have made demands long before this. When they did, they kept matters gay by ...

... By David Gunston THE growing use of modern radar apparatus to enable shipping to avoid collision with icebergs has focused atten tion recently on to these mysterious, majestic miracles of nature. Most people know that the iceberg seen sticking up out of the sea is only part of the whole; in actual fact only about one-eighth of the total ice mass is visible, the remaining portion being ...

... d ffaudhdt, WHEN funds limit us to a very small wardrobe, we are tempted to think that planning is superfluous. On the contrary, the more limited the wardrobe the more essential it is that it should be planned with all the precision of a blueprint. Co-ordination is the secret of good economics and good appearances, and this can only be achieved by apportioning expenditure nicely between the ...

... NO ornament is more effective than a pretty lamp. It has all the decora tive advantages of other china and glass ornaments and something more, since it adds its special function of leaping into increased focal prominence when it is lit. Modern lamps are attractive and, per haps, indispensable to the strictly modern scheme of furnishing, but they lack the variety of design and often the ...

... AS Autumn conies our minds begin to turn towards foods which are both hot and sustaining. With these first chilly evenings there is no more delicious foundation to the evening meal than a really good soup. They need not be the solid meat or cereal soup which make such good winter fare but the lighter cream and vegetable soups. It is here that we can gain much help by enlisting recipes from ...

... THE bond between road and land does not end with the car and the tractor. Those vast quantities of petrol demanded by the road-user are indirectly making available products vital to agriculture. At the refineries of Shell-Mex and B.P., for example, the crude liquid from the oilfield is made to give much more than motor spirit and lubricating oil. There is the special vaporizing oil for ...

... DRESSAGE, widely practised on the Continent but until recently sadly neglected in this country, is rapidly receiving a wider appreciation among British horsemen and horsewomen. Evi dence of this was provided by the considerable increase in the number of this year's competitors for the British Horse Society's annual dressage championship contests, organised by the British Riding Club, at Henley ...

... Initiative and Achieve nent Lord Lovat Proves His Point A HUNDRED years ago cattle were reared in the Highlands of Scotland in large numbers. Lo d Lovat, breeder and acknowledged judge of beef animals, has strong opinions on the possibility of rearing hill j cattle in Scotland on a big scale to-day, and has already j proved his point, despite the comments of the Secretary j of State for ...

... REMARKABLE SHOOTING: J. Wheater of East Yorks (left), who won the Silver Pheasant Trophy in the Gamekeepers'' Tourna ment at Madingley in the spring, scored 96 out of a possible 100 to win the Lord Chesham Cup for the eighth Skeet Championship organised by the Clay Pigeon Shooting Association at Northolt. W. E. Harris, Gravesend, was second with 91, and F. T. Moore, Hounslow (right), third ...

... T* urkey, one of the Marshall Aid countries, has received vast quantities of goods from the United States, both under E.CA. and the terms of Americas Greco-Turkish Aid Bill. Between April 1948 and March 1949 machinery, equipment and vehicles totalling 11,600,000 dollars were poured into Turkey under Marshall Aid, and the process still goes on. Under the Military Aid Bill, 80,000,000 dollars' ...

... A GOODS TRAIN CRASHES .AT KING'S CROSS GOODS STATION Twelve wagons were derailed at the Goods and Mineral Box catch points on Monday of last week at 9 a.m. The goods train, comprising thirty-seven wagons, was travelling between St. Pancras and King's Cross. Firemen were called as a precautionary measure, because spirit tankers were involved, as may be seen in the picture on the left. The ...