19 DECEMBER 1941, page 10

In The Garden In Winter, When Other Salads Are Difficult

to grow without heat, it is a desirable habit, where possible ' to keep a box of cress or mustard and cress by the kitchen door, that the cook may cut what she wants without......

A Weather - Wise Bird I Heard The Other Day From A

farmer a detail of weather- - prophecy that was new to me. His farm, though a good 7o miles from the sea—the North Sea—is very popular with the gulls. Most of them are......

Populous Vermin -

Perhaps because of very open weather, rats and rabbits, both undesirable neighbours, are already breeding. It is a grim calculation that a pair of either species may increase......

The Theatre

" The Morning Star." At the Globe. It is much to Emlyn Williams' credit that he has written and pro- duced the first serious play about the war ; but it is a pity that he has......

Country Life

B.E.N.A. War does not kill British interest in natural history, though it may scotch it. Evidence of this is supplied by the re- emergence of the British Empire Naturalists'......

Fhe Cinema

" Judas Was a Woman." At the London Pavilion.—" Birth of the Blues." At the Plaza. Judas Was a Woman is Jean Renoir's La Bite Humaine with a new and rather stupid title and......