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A ROLEX OYSTER WRIST WATCH FOR

$70.00

Less 10% Cash Discount.

variety With good precision movement in stainless steel case, fitted with unbreakable glass. 15 jewelled, non-magnetić »lever movement, with a dials from which to choose.

THE “JUNIOR SPORT"

GUARANTEED: Waterproof, Perspiration Proof, Dustproof

Sole Agents: LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

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INVISIBLE IMPORTS

Anything to declare, "Sir

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There's nothing you bought at all?

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ishly last night?

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There is no duty, Si, on hangover obtained abroad." 2:

"Twish there was. I'd refuse to and Then you'd'have to confiscate

I'm sorry we can't help you, Sir. But might I suggest in future the. advantages of a long glass of Rose's Ldine Juice to wind up late nights ? Rose's possehsee therspeutic; pro¬ perties which neutralise the morning after."

Thin Bancrevally-kills-off" gvery # Hane they any in the

"Plenty, Sir- Hi, Sir, come back

i've forgotten your bag.

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Obviously, thenr it was a village

comm enterprise. Equal- lys it, was a village of no blemish. If it had had the richness or mel- lownes of the Cotswold villages not so away, it would have had Beauty-Spot status forced upon it: its merit is a rather stark simplicity, a negative good taste.

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mobor Spot and: coaches to unload It is, indeed, not noticeably beautiful, if by that is meant striking to the eye. ventionally picturesque. It is grey stone village-not a brick be seen-built on a ridge of Mid- land country which is for the must have been built by com- paratively poor men who had no greater part of the year as grey money to elaborate another Broad- vay or Chipping Campden. So it as it is now green. The road through it one of the ancient rides the surging_ridgeland and

behaves as to its station ridgeways of England; farther on which is a great virtue in villages. a proper it leads past a midget Stonehenge. To one thinking of with a megalithic circle and a long word for so proper a place there barrow; these imply the existence occurred a quite new adjective for of the track for nearly four a very old thing.” The village' is thousand years, and there has streamlined. It flows with its site; settle it is a crest of stone upon a wave probably been a village or ment of some kind there during of land. This, modern and modish all that period.

NO AMBITION

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The present buildings date, at a 1930, The guess, from 1600 to latter year is represented by the inevitable Council Houses. Since England we cannot, nowadays in 1

work the contrive or afford to stone a foot or so beneath us, the stone which in so many shires our

epithet "streamlined,” which was visit the m the bodies of lish capitals fathers proved to be the fittest and

early applied to comeliest of all housing stuff, the motor cars, has now been submitted the surrour council had to choose something to the usual overwork and attached barrows. else, and mercifully they used by the glib, ingenious salesmen to greyish rought-cast, and grey tiles

every article of women's wardrobe Gents sport for the coverlet of the new cottage: un

from a hat to a shoe. so they sink, in a mannerly way, ing outfits attract it also. The into the general tint and pattern

more demonstrative haberdashers of that hamlet on the hillside.

would send us streamlined to the first tee

The village evidently has no am- bition to be visited. The inn, which has not been bullied by the brewers of beer into boycotting-the-excel- lent and local drink of draught cider, was shut, although, permitted hours had arrived. The innkeeper, a suitably grey man, who had had the house, I was told, a mere forty- six years, was putting the interests of hungry pigs and chickens before those thirsty humans, Minutes door

matter hereabouts, Though the village was fairly large and ranged the ridgeway for some dis- tance, there was not visible, a single house or cottage which made the usual, brief, brusque summons to partake of TEAS, There was mot one of those now so common stand- ardised signą, which announce brand of bread or cake or tex lext; no placard bedizened the village shop; there was not even a petrol two pump. Yet, only a mile or away, with no village between, was

monument a megalithic

number of

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Returning the ancients the modern their modes

- desire to l strangers a the gleamin motor-cars had deemed the ancient to smear They were C.P.R.E.; †

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It was odd, therefore, to discover that the word most dear to ad- vertisers perfectly suited a place in which, no, single sort of advertise-

of test. How ment appeared. The village did nowadays i lage and f indeed resemble a stream

and how r stone upon a stream of land.” great stone cart-house stood farmers ancient wagons, a per- fection of streamlined carpentry.

The La The shafts were shaped to the loveliest curving rhythm, and the wooden waves of the bodies mount C.P.R.E. ed to the drivers' seats with the Preston h ace of a well-graven and eye a the der tó rev marine

row. Presumably nobody, in village regards those wagons, as re- ters are

he people have been bridges: a mark vell used to such elegance. have, not just recently disco the merits of this str trick. The makers of knew all years ago.

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