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'Rufflette'

... All you need is a change of curtains' New curtains will transform your home and add new colour and warmth in the winter days. See some of the heavier materials which are available again and make your new curtains (or have them made up profession ally) with Rufflette Brand curtain tape, also hooks or rings, so that they hang in those deep lovely folds. Hooks and rings need no stitching a ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 123 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

MINTY

... BOOKCASES Now that we can once again obtain the right materials, we can offer the Minty Sectional Bookcases and at prices free of purchase tax. The Bookcases are as handsome as ever and compare favourably in every way with the prewar standard which made the name of Minty pre-eminent in this field. Made in Oak or Mahogany, the Bookcases are available as illustrated and in many combinations ...

Dual CSA Freeze

... I r Freezer and normal J refrigerator in one unit 1 llp^ Here at last, housed in one magnificent cabinet, a really ||p, capacious refrigerator and a roomy family size Deep- 'Jm dm. Freeze locker. Now you can enjoy out-of-season deli- yS cacies in your own home. The two units are housed in 'A separate compartments, thus the Deep-Freeze foods are 'A lip: kept fresh and tasty for as long as you ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 253 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

Put That In Your Pipe: Men Are Like Tobacco--You Can't Eradicate The Bad Things In Their Mixture

... Put That In Your Pipe Men Are Like Tobacco-- You Can't Eradicate The Bad Things In Their Mixture By Ray Sonin EDGAR MANCRUSE lolled in a vast chair that was like a throne and looked across the large, overheated study at his uncle's house. To the world at large, Uncle Mancruse was the tobacco magnate-- the same Jno. Seymr Mancruse whose signature sprawls across millions of packets of cigarettes ...

The Loved One

... f fL* Jr The W Loved One by Victor Edwards ANTOINE LEMAÎTRE went to the homes of the other five village growers and invited them to taste his new wine. And the next evening he put on his frock coat which he had not worn since the liberation and sat down in the cellar to wait for his guests. tug bellowed Madame Lemaitre aown tne stairs at mm. uiod Cabbage Not even the courtesy to invite their ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2635 | Page: Page 28, 64, 66, 68 | Tags: Illustrations 

Building On To A Cottage

... j JL By Cecil Corey m MY diary says that on a Saturday in February, 1949, our architect came to see us about plans, but I am sure that was not his first visit. Late in 1948 we made up our minds to build on. W We wanted our new room on the ground floor, and we iaA 4 f wanted to extend the existing brick shed and join it to the cottage, so that coals could be fetched under cover and a SsB much ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1852 | Page: Page 30, 83, 84 | Tags: Illustrations 

Show a Leg: According to fashion, skirts are to show still more leg; so here are a few points on the subject of ..

... £tlOb) Gt, Cef According to fashion, skirts are to show still more leg; so here are a few points on the subject of enhancing and improving your understandings TIGHTER, briefer skirts bring legs into greater prominence, but, fashion apart, leg beauty is something that women aim for. The allure of the nylon is proof enough of this. Can less than perfect legs be improved? Yes, they can. if you ...

Who Brings The Morning Tea?

... In our grandparents' time, the Book of Etiquette for the new rich was deservedly popular. But other times, other manners. CHRISTOPHER BETHELL suggests a few useful points of behaviour for to-day's taxation victims, the nouveaux pauvres IF the nouveaux riches had to learn how to live in a big way, the New Poor must study to endure the small. It is not how to handle the servants, but how to ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 874 | Page: Page 54 | Tags: Illustrations 

Auction Sale

... Pitfalls are part of the fun in the saleroom, but if you are on the way to being an auction addict be prepared for them IN small towns, plastered on brick walls or filling the advertisement spaces of the local news sheets, you will have seen the announcement that, on a given date, high-class antique and modern furni ture, carpets and household effects are to be offered for sale at The Gables ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 664 | Page: Page 55 | Tags: Illustrations 

What Makes A Good Cook?

... We tend to suppose that it depends upon an exact judgment of the in gredients of a dish, or on a light hand with pastry, but does it? Here are some further qualities which contribute towards culinary skill THE best cook I ever knew was a white-bearded old Mohammedan named Abdul. When I knew him he was seventy years old, straight as a ramrod and his curries-- a dozen spiced dishes mingling into ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 841 | Page: Page 58 | Tags: Illustrations