Homewards

Instances abound of the homing instinct of various animals, of dogs, cats and even horses. As a boy I rode a pony that would always take me straight home if the hunt left me......

Country Life

MOST country people have felt satiric on the subject of imported eggs —much bragged about—and the starving of home-bred poultry ; but the worst of the matter has hardly been......

Red Light From Coal

Sia,—The red light as it affects us nationally is in all conscience suffi- ciently depressing ; when seen internationally it may well be alarming. The less our coal, the greater......

How To Fall Out Of A Window

Sia,—It would appear that the answer given to the question in your general knowledge test, concerning the " defenestration " of Prague is misleading in one respect. Although the......

A Room At An Inn

Snt,—Readers of your challenging article, No Room at the Inn, may be interested to know that in Liverpool a piece of the "creative work" for which Michael Gedge is longing is......

Straying Animals Sir, —as It Is Possible That Janus's...

upon this matter in your issue of December zoth may mislead the unwary, I venture to point out that while, as decided by the House of Lords, the owner of the horse in question......

Sir,—i Enjoyed Your General Knowledge Competition, And It...

great regret that I have to take you to task for having murdered the two ministers whose defenestration opened the tragedy of the Thirty Years War. In fact the two gentlemen,......

Finch Fidelity

How faithful year after year are certain birds to certain places ! Last week a very earnest observer of birds called on me and said that he had been watching a small group of......

Bristol's P.r.o.

SIR, —It is a pity that Janus, before condemning so severely the deci- sion of Bristol City Council to appoint a Public Relations Officer, did not turn up the files—for there he......

In The Garden

Many of those who grow strawberries for pleasure or profit will, I think, agree with a farmer correspondent of mine—he is incidentally ninety years old and so of some......

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