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Dunstan Times, Issue 3139, 16 October 1922, Page 8

Is Westminster Abbey I" heroine ;i ’.i Jutewashed sepulchre P The <|uostion arises from experiments which have recently been earned out on certain parts of tlm walls of Ihe Henry Vll Chapel, on which a chemical preservative was first used, followed hy a coating of limewasli. The effect of I lie clear white has shocked some critics ami pleased others. Jf the tests are satisfactory the whole of the Abbey may lie treated. To detect forest fires and stamp them out, before they have done much da inane the Tinted States (iovernment emplays a larne staff of watchers. One of the most efficient of tiiese is a lady. Miss Helen Dowe. who takes up a position in a watch-tower in the Pike National Forest, with an instrument that enables; her to decide how far away a lire may lie.