23 JUNE 2007, Page 19

Bog standard

Sir: Charles Moore's fascination for the past three weeks with lavatory paper prompts me to offer a suggestion as to why two papers might be offered to the discerning — Bronco (or Bromo) and a second paper.

When I was a boy at Stonyhurst during the war paper was scarce, and the usual offices, some 25 yards long, were known as The Common Place. After breakfast at the entrance stood a gaunt stern Jesuit holding in one hand two rolls — one ordinary and soft, the other Bronco, hard and shiny. As the boys entered each would be given two sheets of the one paper and one of the other, with the words 'Two wipe, One polish.'

William Rayrnakers Clitheroe, Lancashire