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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 

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 

BRITISH HEAT-RESISTING GLASS COMPANY LTD

... f 'Just what my 1 PHOENIX collection needs' J 'My family always joke about our Sunday joint looking lost on the meat dish! This new small-size Phoenix platter will put 'paid' to their remarks. It'll make a lovely base for my Phoenix pudding basin and pie dish, too somewhere to put the spoon!' PHOENIX PLATE PL-510 Grill your bacon, sausage or tomato on this Phoenix plate and take it piping hot ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 163 | Page: Page 64 | Tags: Illustrations 

R. J. REUTER COMPANY LTD

... , Made in England by I The four-seven-eleven moment a fresh touch to make-up Never let it be said, at your journey's end, I My dear, you look worn-out! But hiding i tiredness behind make-up isn't enough. What your inner self needs is the refreshing Ja lift that '471 1' Eau de Cologne immediately gives. Inhale its fragrant vapour from cupped hands use its freshness freely on the forehead, ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 176 | Page: Page 65 | Tags: Illustrations 

GLEN-HAR LTD

... THE FINEST SKIRTS MADE With the colours of the Highlands blended into Fashion If: The Leading Fashion Houses sell Glen-Har Suits Coals and Skirts. 65 ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 25 | Page: Page 67 | Tags: Illustrations 

ALLEN & HANBURYS LIMITED

... ALLEN HANBURYS LIMITEI l66I ALLEN HANBURYS LIMI TED l66m Jake j JLixen THE GOOD-NATURED LAXATIVE m LIQUID FORM 2/5J, 4/4 LOZENGES IN BOTTLES 2/2 FROM CHEMISTS ONLY ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 27 | Page: Page 68 | Tags: Illustrations 

THORNTON & ROSS LTD

... ftfitL!''* f. THORNTON ROSS LTD. THORNTON ROSS LTD. HYf tifteh, the. p&httj- The stale odour of tobacco fumes is quickly /fcS dispelled by Zoflora a refreshing antiseptic, AS* pleasantly perfumed. Zoflora contains D.D.T., so that regular use protects curtains and upholstery from moth. NgSy Zoflora fpMuneJ DISINFECTANT p 27- per Bottle: or complete spraying outfit 10'- Ik from your Chemist or ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 70 | Page: Page 71 | Tags: Illustrations