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are causing serious inconvenience throughout the 

 country at the present moment — the match and 

 paper. 



Could any one of us have imagined that a great 

 war in Europe would result in the almost total disap- 

 pearance of the match from the household ? Could 

 any housewife in the wildest flights of her imagina- 

 tion have ever conceived it possible that in hex 

 daily or weekly itinerary of the household suppUes, 

 the match or its procuring would have to be exalted 

 into a place of chief prominence ? Could the average 

 smoker have ever envisaged a future in which the 

 match would disappear from his clubs, or that he 

 would have to refrain from asking for the loan of 

 a match from a friend or even a passer-by ? 



Paper again. It was long, the war had dragged 

 through some two and a haM years, before it dawned 

 on the country that their old lavish use and waste 

 of paper would have to be abruptly stopped. Many 

 of us will probably long remember the week which 

 saw the withdrawal of the famiUar newspaper 

 poster from the street and railway stations. It 

 brought home the war to the pubhc of the towns 

 as probably nothing else had done. The increase 

 in price of the news-sheet, bobks of all degree, and 

 writing-paper was another result. And nowadays 

 'he housewife treasures and hoards up in secret 

 places the paper wrappers of the parcels she receives, 

 and finds herself in serious difficulties in providing 

 sufficient paper for a purpose which had never 

 previously entered into her conception as one of 

 the essential household provisions — to wit, the 



