What one may call a "civilian sadness" of the war is watching the shutting up, one by one, of crafts and arts which it has taken years for this country to develop. One such is earpet-making- by hand. Quite close to Paddington Station is a house where twenty girls sat, highly trained in the making of handworked carpets, houette but because it gives her gently, in terms of the finest materials, that support which the older woman needs to support her diaphragm and to prevent fatigue lines showing in her face at the end of a day. With that and perfectly fitting shoes, with heels not too high, "the woman" can look fresh and brilliant whatever fatigues she may meet in the bustling life of a city.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.