There is a band about 1 yd. wide which goes round and round in a large ellipse (one flat side of the ellipse is about 3½ yds. long). Upon this band the sheets of paper are placed by the girls, and by it they are drawn under a row of pens set at the required intervals for the lines. They are then carried up and round by the revolutions of the band--being held in their places by string which revolves with the band--and fall out of the machine with the ink dry. A good many machines are fitted with a second row of pens which rules the underneath side of the paper as well as the upper. The pens are fed by a piece of flannel which is kept soaked by a regular flow of ink from a vessel fitted with a small tap. These machines are worked by power. They used to be worked by hand. (2) _Perforating_ is done by a machine worked by a treadle. A good many foreign and colonial postage stamps are done here. _Numbering_ of loose pages, cheques, receipts, etc., is done by a machine with a handle which has to be pulled down by hand. _Paging_, which is for made-up books, is done by a machine worked by a treadle. REGULARITY.--The summer is a slack season in this trade as a rule. The firm are especially slack just now (August) as there are no orders from South Africa. HEALTH.--The upper floor was exceedingly, almost insupportably, stuffy. The ground floor was fairly airy. The under-forewoman said that working the treadle for paging was very hard work. "It always upset her inside," so she had to give it up. SKILL.--Strength is required for paging. DANGER.--They had just had an accident with the perforating machine. The bands upstairs were dangerous to long hair. One girl had her hair caught and was carried right up to the ceiling. The band was loose and slipped off the wheel, so she was let down again with no great injury. PROSPECTS.--The girls may rise to forewoman; the machine rulers may rise to wet the flannels. 25. _Paper Bag Making in London. Employee's Evidence._ WORK.--(1) Cake bags, (2) tea bags, (3) sugar bags. These are different classes of work and some hands can do only one class. The girls do their own cutting except for the very heavy work, which men do. As a rule, the piece-rate girls make the bag right through from the sheet, _i.e._, cut the paper, lay it out and paste. Tea bags are made on a tin. There were 150 girls working in the room. REGULARITY.--The work is irregular, but if a girl can do all kinds it is better for her. "There is always some work, but sometimes you may sit idle doing needlework most of the day." HEALTH.--"It is very bad for you standing all day long," said my informant. "Girls come in looking lively and healthy, but they soon get run down." The standing and the used-up air are bad, the latter especially in the winter-time when the gas is alight. She herself has lost her health. MACHINERY.--Machinery had not displaced women.