But for shopkeeper and shopper it indeed, a case of more than "business as usual" Black-out and general A.R.P. requirements have Another direction in which the initiative of tradesmen is expressing itself is in the happy designs which many are achieving in protecting
"Chins up," "Well done, Poles," their windows with strips of paper. "Keep Smiling" were some of the messages to be seen picked out: in paper on London shop yesterday. At some places paper in red, white, and ike has been used; at others the recommended diagonal placing of the paper has een so carried out as to form the Union Jack. Some shops have used the paper to announce bargain lines, and in Holborn the criss-crossing on one shop window is in the farm of the "noughts and crosses" game.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.