Worked By Flat-Iron

One of the cruel worries of men ho live on isolated islands, and ho pass pleasant hours and earn useful guinea or two writing, is ie maintenance of their type riters. It is often very difficult, not impossible, to get by mad der a typewriter part of the right ecifications.

A Cook Islands resident —a man ingenuity and resource —overcame e collapse of the mainspring of s portable by (a) anchoring the stable to the table and (b) hang g a flat-iron to the typewriter’s rriage by means of a long thin :ing, from which the iron dangled er the end of the table. He says: t works OK, but it represents a •ain on the cog-wheels” and will i please help him by searching in dnev for the necessary spare part.