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THREE MILLION MEN to knit for
INE knitting for One peopic-our own fighting
the women's knitting army this winter. Navy, Army. Air Force and Home Guard, which of the three million men are you planning to knit for?
They are already azling for socks stockings pullovers, hel mets mittens and body-5213, Scarves and gloves may be added also to the list of comforts which enger nagers and clicking knit- ting-needles can soon produce.
But, whatever we decide to make, let us take trouble over it, using good wool, a practical pat tern and careful workmanship; for one well-made garment gives more satisfaction than in a dozen botched-up, amateur-look- ink affairs.
Bealues, wool is far too valuable and hard to come by these days for an inch to be wasted.
First and foremost, it is im portant to remember that it isn't always the thickest and heaviest garments that give the most warmth
Light & Cosy
A well-shaped garment knitted on fine needles in good quality three-ply wool has more elasticity and will be much warmer and will retain its shape longer than a heavier moro inferior wool knit- ted on coarso needles.
Those will keep them
Warm.
with
Then, out
your tape measure and knit up a short piece to see that your tension is right. If you are a locno knitter then work with finer pinsa tight kaliter can have a size larger. Keep It Clean
Be sure to buy sumclent to finish the garment and keep the wool clean and fresh. Some women I know make a paper cup to hold the ball of wool.
That rolling about of the wool on the floor for the kitten to play with may entertain the children, but it gives Ülo garment a shabby look before it is worn.
If you are making a pullover, don't go in for fancy stitches and extras. They won't be appre clated and they take far longer to do. A good wide rib is as prae- tical as anything. It has plenty of elasticity and it is easy to follow.
LIFT-BOY
CLIMBS FIFTH COLUMN
Further, no Service man s any storage space to spare and the cosy garment that doesn't take up much room in his kit bag or under his tunic is the one that will appeal to him most.
fine knitting takes I know double the time to do, but, surely, to us who can only stand by ant knit, our time is a minor malies if we con produce the right goodal And we can! And we are going to!
The boy had been an employee_of_ Here are a few practical ̄hints"
the newspaper for 18 months. When which may be of use to you, First
the Germans came into Paris he of all, buy a good wool with D branded name that you know and opened the doors of the office to them choose Instructions
with that have
the announcement that the been worked out for that ply wool.
presses were ready to start.
The Greek liner Nea Hellas (for merly Tuscania) arrived in New York recently with 500 passengers from Lisbon, among whom was Georges Kessel, a former member of the staff of Paris Soir, who said that the Germans had made the liftboy in the office that newspaper its
of director as a
reward for his fifth columri activities.
EXPLORER OF THE
NEXT WORLD
ONVINCED that his death At the turn of the century an
would prove beyond dispute American woinan medium put him on
to send messages from beyond the
grave. the famous scientist, Sir Oliver Lodge, dled.
death of his son Raymond in the last war gave him a definlie objective in these researches,
He left behind him a sealed messago His book, "Raymond," which every by means of which he was certain that body read, contained accounts of his he could prove his survival in another conversations with his dead son and world.
widely known
'I have left o`sign," he said.." No one mado
him
but myself knows whint it is. It is only` Spiritualist explorer,
a little thing."
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In the last years of his life he wrote
Sir Oliver must have allpped out of many articles in response to the desire life easily. He was in his 90th year, of n large section of the pubile to be the sturdy descendant of a grandfather assured that death has no sling and who had 25 children and of a father grave no victory. (n railway cashier) who had eight,
He himself had 13 children.
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Ble Oliver
largely his waa
own
and
Ho bulit up his reputation in A teacher. He left school at 14, rend padded cell, for the laboratory in which Samuel Smiles' "Self Help" with he made his main contributions to avidity and apparent profit
years before he was physical science, was a converted mad- struggled for house in Liverpool.
allowed to leave his father's business and become a scientific student,
Here he popularised the lightning conductor and made pioneer expert- ments, the dotalis of which no pub Kahed promptly and generously, making available the later perfection of wireless.
Throughout his life he seemed con- tent to now.scode; leaving the harvest to others.
His persistence was justifled. "A few years after escaping from a business career he was walking about the streets of Liverpool listening with, enrphones to wireless messages tapped out from the city's university.
One of his fast messagen was: "I do not know whether scekern for messages Hla own radio experiments were from me when I am dead will have tho developed and exploited by such meh as power to bother me. If they have Hertz and Marconi
thas will be a nuisancol"
9. F.
Saturday,
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"The authors of these two booka
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The photo- graphs thät stabilise her text do hot so much illustrate it ng
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they aro cords have both colour and clan. Mrs. Bigland. antidote to some sickening ex- went into China to fulfil a con- periences. tract with a publisher and to
Mr. Woon's autobiography discover for herself the celestial secret of serenity. She fulfilled covers his youth from emigra- her contract generously; and tion to Canada in the early though the celestial secret may years of George V. to his return eludo her readers, she gives to England in the early years pertinent data from which they of George VI. Moving swiftly may make plausible deductions, up and down the Americas, first as a jack of all trades, then as Her journey from Rangoon, master of one, he saw and did via the Burma Road, to Chung- so much that a catalogue of the king was made by ammunition things he left undone and the convoy in native company; and as her lively prose retraces it, places he did not visit would be briefer than the positive list. one feels that the inflexible He began as a tramp, he became cases of ammunition and rifles
a journalist. among which she was packed were to be erivied. As compen- His story is headline stuff, sation for the journey's physical and is so reported. He quickly and climatic rigours, the local acquired an American outlook aqualour and final tragedy, she and idiom, and the reporter's had the companionship of a notebook would seem to have cultured. Chinese girl with a nourished his present text. His genius for sleep, a sterling coolie narrative darts, as he himself lorry driver, and the Chinese darted, from adventure to ad- landscape, that series of celestial venture, from pillar to post transformation scenes punctuat- with the slick fecundity of an ing an infernal route.
anecdotal kaleidoscope.
She saw the soul of China A certain monotony of style inured to torment, its bodies veils his intrinsic versatility. torn asunder by Japanese bombs. He is an expert journalist, and Yet humour, even high spirits, his method leaves little room keep breaking into a record that for reflection. His wife, whom is both sickening and sublime. he met in Hollywood, contributes Mrs. Bigland's eye for the sordid a preface that helps to round as well as for the beauty in this off a portrait that his abound- strange land is as keen as her ing text leaves somewhat flat. zest for travel.
-Horace Horsnell
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FIND a natural "frame" for your picturo subjects-and as a rule, you'll get plotures that are more in tereating. This is especially true when the subject, is a landscapo, scenic view, a building, street scone, or similar material with qulfo a bit of detail.
After you choose a subject, look about and see if there is not some sultable framing device at band. Often it will not be evident at one
but it is usually worth a search. A silhouetted frame, or one dark in tone, generally gives the best of- fect. To insero sbarpness, use a anlal lons openfag in taking the Your frame can' bo a doorway, a plature, especially if the framing window, an arch, a garden gatoway material is quite near the camore. aurinounted by a trellis, or any You'll and that framing adda a other opening of suitable sizo. It lót to the pictorial value of your need not always be complato; for outdoor and scenic shole, and helps example, a tres framing.ona sido make this part of your collection and the top of a scenic vior may more interesting to all who view it. be numelont.
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