PREVENT STRETCHING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20509, 29 August 1936, Page 11

PREVENT STRETCHING

When picot edging is required on material that is cut on the cross, to prevent it from stretching, cut a narrow piece of the same material on the straight, and tack along the bias edge, on the wrong side. Have the picoting done on the double material. When the hem-stitching is cut through, this , extra piece of material can be cut and gently pulled away. A BUSY STAFF The lives of scores of women in London have been fundamentally altered by the many international conferences which have taken place recently. They are the typing staffs and secretaries who work in London’s Government buildings—the “hands” of the diplomats—and the charming and ultra-efficient personal secretaries who travel with delegates. Nearly every day during conferences

exhaustive reports on the international situation and naval, military, and other matters have to be typed. These are often amended several times before they are finally passed—and usually each time the tireless “copy room” girls of the Government 'departments do the whole statement over again. Sometimes these reports are so secret that all spare copies have to be destroyed. Even carbon paper is burned if there is the slightest chance of it bearing the imprint of secret statements. Hours cease to count when work of such importance is on hand. In the most critical days of the Rhineland talks, for example, delegates of the foreign Powers were busy long after midnight—and then again before breakfast. Their secretaries had to be ever ready to attend to the dispatch of cables and to type urgent reports for their home governments.