... Looking Ahead-- to th e B o on t int o II r Ferdinand Tuoln SOMEBODY told me I needed another hobby, so I've started collecting boons. The idea came one grey day as I read of another Benign Thing To Come. Of course! Now was the proper season, the latter part of wartime, that intent looking-ahead period. One could scarcely help seeing boons ahead. My opening entry chanced to be Traverse Machine ...

... Pictorial Politics,, Our Air Service. LORD Montagu of Beaulieu's speech at Birmingham last week confirmed in the most explicit manner the incompetence of our air service at the present moment to grapple with the dangers from enemy aircraft, which appears to be largely the outcome of con fusion between the Government and the sister services. The problem seems in reality easy to solve. The Navy ...

... Pictorial Politics*, Woman's Work. LORD SELBORNE'S appeal to the women of England comes at a very interesting and opportune moment. Now that we are all answering the questions of the national register, it is as well for the women of this country to take a wide view of the channels in which their services may be useful. Agriculture, as Lord Selborne states, pro vides a sphere in which women's ...

... Pretoria]! Politics. Welcome Sympathy. THE allied nations received with deep feelings of gratitude the message of sympathy which was addressed to them last week by 500 of the leading citizens of the United States. The signa tories were remarkable alike for their position and their repre sentative character, and their judgment, based very largely on a study of German docu ments and German ...

... The Open Sore. ALL good luck to the Govern ment in their new attempt to settle the Irish problem. Certainly if a proper atmo sphere in the House of Commons could have settled it, it would have been accomplished, as English and Scottish members are, regardless of party, anxious to get rid of the most harassing and perplexing of all our political problems. At the same time, this atmosphere of ...

... incomparable! Officers on Active Service who have had the opportunity of testing many different makes of Waterproofs are unanimous in the opinion that the only coatthat has proved thoroughly reliable is the Aquascutum. My own Son in German East Africa, South-west corner, writes this week as follows We are constantly having Tropical Rains, which wet one through in about two minutes. You will ...

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... Charles Lee Son Charles Lee Son J The Royal Specialists, I'M 98, 100, 102, WIGMORE ST. CECIL. EVA. Useful boudoir wrap in wool-back satin Pretty Tea Frock in Crepe de Chine with finished at the edge with white swans- dainty collar of fine cream net with narrow down. Nice deep pocket. In CQ /C kilted frills hemstitched on. Full skirt fin- Pale Pink and Pale Blue only u ished at waist with ...

... By Sabretaclhe. A PROMINENT member of the elbows and legs division, who is also a dragon officer, writes to me saying that he supposes hunting is stopped. He is quite right, and with the temperature about 200 deg. below Ciro, and everyone trying to think of ginger, it would be strange indeed if hounds could hunt. Skating is more likely to carry on than anything in the way of pashin' ...

... The Letters I of Eve 200, Curzon Street, Mayfair. MY DEAR BETTY,-- In a war-time world full of rumours of rations, exhortations to economy, meatless dinners, butterless breakfasts, and other trials, it has much intrigued me reading the new Wheels-- which is, as of course you know, what a critic has called the war impulse towards poetry of the young 'intellectuals' of society. (^Vf the ...