CHAMPION TYPISTE.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS EXPERT. Peace hath her victories no less renowned than warl Mademoiselle udctle Piau, a French girl who types for the League of Nations at Geneva, has just struck her typewriter -iO7B times in live minutes and has won the. European championship for speed for the third year in succession.
If only the League of Nations could copy her speed in inscribing its messages of peace and goodwill on the minds of the peoples of the world. The way in which this speed championship in conducted is interesting. The competitor chooses some sentence sh" can recollect, such as "The worsl and most dangerous way fop a nation lo be rip hi is to imagine all other rations In be wrong." and Ihen type> this ns many limes ever as she ran in Ihe live minutes, Mademoiselle I'iau. if this had been her sentence, wool,] have lyped il rallvr more Ihau i>nn in Ihe five minilles. \n Knglish competitor. Miss Milrliell. lapped her machine iOOO limes with only three hue takes, and took third prize,
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16750, 17 March 1926, Page 5
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