The Archive · 1941

Wisdom Weeklies

Cleaning The New Pepys writes in Truth";—

Wind Window cleaners came this morning and charged me 1s 5d, the extry 5d, they said, being due to the extry cost of living and like to increase proportionately as the-warr goes on, But why I slid have to make good their increasing cost of living out of mine own diminishing income I cannot see, Not the extry 5d, be any great matter of itself, as a matter of principle it gort upp and kept me in @ resent{ull i11.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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