... 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 ...

... Londoners crowded to see the aircraft at North Weald near Epping one of the principal bases during the Battle. They are here watching a Meteor which is having its jet engines opened up Mr. Arthur Henderson Secretary of State for Air talking to Air Vice- Marshal G. Har court- Smith and the station C.O. W/Cdr. Barnard at Neivton, Nottinghamshire At the R.A.F. station Uxbridge Air Commodore 0. K. ...

... 4ssistant Section Officer I. Marshall, Liaison Officer, with F/Lt. D. R. Wiseman who organized the At Home'''' Air Cdre. G. R. C. Spencer, A.O.C. Gibraltar, Mrs. Spencer and F/Lt. Shand, the A.O.C.'s Personal Assistant, making a tour of the entertainments which the staff of this Coastal Command station had laid out on their aerodrome at the foot of the Rock. Fighter Command co-operated by ...

... THE FIRST NIGHT OF IVOR NOVELLO'S BRILLIANT NEW RIRITANIAN SPECTACLE KING'S RHAPSODY Vanessa Lee in her dressing-room at the Palace Theatre after her great success playing opposite Ivor Novello in the role of Princess Christiane. Twenty-three years old, she is a new name in the West End, and her career will be followed with great interest Mr. Peter Daubeny, the theatrical manager, and Mrs. ...

... THE KING'S REGIMENT (LIVERPOOL) HAS A REGIMENTAL WEEK A Cricket Match, an At Home and a Ball Were Among the Entertainments The Earl of Derby, who commands a Battalion of the Regiment, talking to Lt.-Gen. Sir Frank Simpson, G.O.C.-in-C. Western Command One of the parties at the At Home included Major M. II. McL. Dynes, Mrs. S. J. Hannaford, Major-Gen. H. D. Ward (Colonel of the Regiment), ...

... THEY WERE HARRIED The Tatler's Review Bankes- Jones Rendle Mr. Roger Myddleton Bankes- J ones, elder son of the Rev. and Mrs. Bankes- Jones, of the Vicarage, Bagshot, Surrey, was married at St. Paul's Church, Yelverton, Devon, to Miss Patricia Mary (Molly) Russel Rendle, elder daughter of the late Mr. H. C. R. Rendle, Malayan Civil Service, and of Mrs. Rendle, of Greystones, Yelverton ...

... ENGAGEMENTS The ^Tatler's Register of The Hon Elizabeth Hardinge and Capt. John Frederick Dame Johnston M.C., Grenadier Guards, iclio are to be married soon. The Hon. E. Hardinge is the younger daughter of Lord and Lady Hardinge of Penshur st, Clock House, Rutland Gate, S.W.7, and Capt. Johnston is the son of the late Mr. F. II. Johnston and of Mrs. Johnston, of Fairways Ferndown, Dorset ...

... By Our Motoring Correspondent TIME was and it was not so very long ago when the farmer had his trans port for nothing, or next to nothing. The trap and harness might well have been in the family for generations for what magnificent workmanship and knowledge of materials was combined in horse-drawn vehicles and equipment the pony was probably bred on the farm, its food was certainly grown there ...

... I TOP price, for the Reserve Champion, was 170 guineas at the British Percheron Horse Society's Annual Show and Sale of pure-bred and half-bred horses at Histon. Entries totalled 115, the strongest class being that for half-bred geldings, of which there were twenty-seven, and at the sale thirty-four pure-bred mares and fillies averaged £66 14s. 9d., eighteen geldings^62, four colt foals {25 ...

... Suffolks at Ipswicli THERE was a fair demand for good animals at the autumn show and sale of Suffolk horses at Ipswich, but some of the lots offered were not up to the high stan dard set by the breed society. Mr. George Colson's second prizewinning mare, Rowhedge Clarabel, made no guineas to Mr. C. A. Rogers, of Fifeshire. Several other lots went to the same Scottish county and three were sold ...

... THAT dreary catch-phrase, no stone unturned, mouthed by politicians in every tongue, suddenly, for us, came to life at the great on-the- job demonstration of Fordson Major tractors at Cranham, Essex. Besides the farmers, principals and others from many agricultural colleges, officials of the Farmers' Union and famous British manufacturers, there were Government agricultural representatives ...

... By H. Howes (Assistant Director, National Institute of Poultry Husbandry) IN a previous article I alluded very briefly to autumn hatch ing. Now it is time to take the matter a step further, and in response to the requests of two interested breeders, I am giving more information on the subject. During the past few years, and more particularly during the 1939- 49 period, many poultry farmers and ...