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Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13448, 2 June 1914, Page 7

In the window of a small general shop not far from New Cross Station may bo observed a.,,card bearing this inscription: "Workmen called curly in the morning. Terms moderate," Such a notice is rarely to be seen in. London nowadays (says the ""Westminster Gazette"), though the custom is mi old one, and was much in vogue previously to the invention of the cheap alarm-clock. . The individual engaged in the "casing" is known"as n "knock-er-up,"' and & favourite method of awakening, the would-be early riser is by rapping:?on the' bedroom window-pane with a stick or by-throwing up small stones. Iri the North of England the "knocker-\ip" is still a familiar figure.