21 FEBRUARY 1941, page 13

In The Garden There Are At Least Half A Dozen

substitutes for the onion. Of these leeks are, of course, best known, and have been celebrated as a vegetable for centuries. For flavouring, chives have all the taste but none......

The Cinema

44 The Road to Frisco." At Warner's Theatre.--“ The Min I Married." At the New Gallery. To present the opening sequences of a picture against a strong'? realistic background has......

Poultry Rationing A Very Aggrieved Poultry Farmer Reports...

state of affairs under the new poultry-food rationing scheme. After obey- ing the original Government suggestion that poultry-keepers should kill off most of their older laying......

Bird Facts I Cannot Resist A Lucky Dip Into Some

of the facts given for the general reader in Watching Birds. Like flowers, birds interest the most unexpected people; and so " Among those I know are a Prime Minister, a......

Country Life

Bird Watching If anyone should have been surprised to hear that curiosity about birds was something of a modern phenomenon I would advise him to spend sixpence on a new Pelican,......

Courage

Wm) of the eternal future will read Of the dead when they were prepossessed with death Will judge by what they did not what they said The hour the minute the moment the last......