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THE MANCHESTER TTJESDAY; FEBRUARY 12, 1924. FIFTH NATIONAL. Chocolate and Sweets Exhibition Feb. 12 Feb. 21.

City Hall, Deansatc, Manchester. TABLE WATER BI ITS are not the ordinary water biscuits. Try them ami you will appreciate the difference MAOC ONtY DY CARLISLE Allerton House A CLUB FOR NEW YORK-BUSINESS WOMEN Lady Astor, speaking the other day to tht Women's Pioneer Housing Society, remarked that the Government was not interested in housing single women or convinced- that the matter was urgent. Lady Astor contended that the country at large, teas interested in the question and did consider it pressing. The incident rremindedline my very recent- experiences in her native country.

On foe eve of my return -I tcame across an unusually capable and energetii citizen of New Yoric who happened- to be connected with' the' latest experiment in hostels--Mifis Bessie Drake, manager of Allerton. a new club residence for women. "She 'soon discovered my interest in her and she at once' arranged, or jne Pr.de Rough's work and experiments have produced excellencies in flavour and composition and the dainties rest invitingly in the cushioned splendour of luxurious This exhibition will enlighten "all classes of the public and, by the concentration of the best in chocolate and sweets, give them some conception of the great progress" made oy British manufacturers in preparing and presenting, as food, drink and sweetmeats for ordinary mortals, the derivatives from the cocoa tree the food of the gods." The exhibition has another purpose. It will interest the retailers in the. many sections of the trade.

In addition to the usual facilities of an exhibition for increasing mutual interest between retailers and customers, the organisers, the Provincial Exhibitions, City Hall, Manchester, have arranged, in conjunction with the Manchester and District Retail Confectioners' Association, competitions to Has: for upwards of 70 years bun highly' recommended by the LIGHT BROWN gf If atflkS i jig medical UU fl-iMVCJl WML authorities in the-treatment of 'to lunch witli her and to be personally con I ducted over the whole establishment; Now America, at least during Lady Astor lifetime, has always been a' woman's country. No- town of eight thousand, or upward will be without its women's club: even "one-horse 'towns in, the alfalfa beltr'-cater for women oulside" the home. Tin city clubs allot considerable space for resi But the growing need in large citie of a residential hotel: reserved to business and 'professional, women at Tates which the business, and prof essional can afford strengthen that bond. A new. Consumption.

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ANSAR, HARFORD LTD, 182, GRAYS INN ROAD, LONDON. The importance of chocolate as a food was demonstrated to the British" nation years ago in. dramatic fashion. During: the South "African War a Royal command was given that chocolates should be sent to the soldiers in the field. Chocolates for soldiers! The idea was received by many as curious if not grotesque.

Were soldiers expected to relieve Mafcking, capture Pretoria, win the war by munching chocolates? Elderly people particularly in the North bred to a semi-Spartan standard of hard work and iplain living, derided the notion and were puzzled by it. But Queen Victoria knew better-than, they. Her knowledge and thoughtf ulness were appreciated by thousands on the veldt. -Chocolate became one of the assets in rations, a comfort and sustenance of weary hours, waiting and on the march. Long before that, Royalty in the person of Queen Victoria's Consort had placed its imprimatur on exhibitions.

Prince Albert was one of the pioneers of the exhibition of .1851, which focussed the attention of the British people on that form of commercial enterprise and gradually accustomed them to others being held in different centres for different trades. Now we are all familiar with' chocolates and 'with exhibitions. There is nothing incongruous in their association! Every shopping street has windows showing alluring microcosms for the young and, ranged alongside the delectable samples, are. boiled sweets in great variety. They add to the lightsome-ness of life.

Hence for adults as well as fcr children the Fifth National Chocolate and Sweets Exhibition to be opened at 3 p.m. to-day in the City Hall, off Deansgate, Manchester, has all the attributes of attractiveness. They will see on. an impressive scale what they have already noted in miniature. They will probably be surprised at the magnitude of the industries proclaimed by the stands and the exhibits of manufacturers not only from garden villages whose names are familiar but from towns generally linked up with more severe products.

There is fascination in watching the complex machinery at work and the diverse moulds finely adjusted for special creations to satisfy epicurean tastes and fancies. Art acts as the handmaiden to science. Research venture in that respect is a candy campaign with Mother's Day on Saturday, February 16. Over a million paper bags, to hold chocolates, sweets, have been distributed amongst enterprising retailers and Mr. Candy-Man is going round each district giving away coupons to the value of 2s.

and to those who can produce a candy bag on request. Children get 3d. vouchers. The bags are entry forms for boys' and girls' essay competitions and also half-price admission had not been' by the residential accommodation in the women's clubs themselves. THE WOMEN'S TURN.

Bachelor men for the last few been able to live in the cities in comfort, even in luxury, in specific bachelor hotels of which the Allerton hotels have been the pioneers. It appears that one Isaac Allei tickets to the exhibition. In pur chasing tiy coupons tne lucky ones are tirced to "remember mother." ton, of Chicago, was president of the firafc tterton Iioit-. hotel company, and built the first Allerton THE MOST UP- TO-DA TE AND MOST EFFICIENT Electric Washing Machine The "LAUNDRY QUEEN Hsk your Electrician, Ironmonger, or Stores for particulars or call at our address for demonstration. THE NORTHERN STEEL HARDWARE CO.

ELECTRICAL 9. SOUTH PARADE MANCHESTER No.S. On Ostrich Feathers -For exhibition the City Hall has the great advantage of being central and thus easily accessible. Moreover, all the exhibits are under one roof and on one level. Luncheon, dining, and tea rooms in the Hall are a great convenience, and music will add charm to an afternoon or evening spent in such a pleasant environment.

The Orchestral Band of the Royal Air Force (Cadet) College, Cranwell, has been engaged for the whole period of the exhibition. Mi Henry Dixon, Sheffield, president of the Federated Confectioners' Associations oT the United Kingdom, will perform the opening ceremony at three o'clock to-day, and the exhibition will afterwards be open daily till Thursday, February 21, from 11 a.m. to 9 30 p.m. A COMPLICATED ORIGIN Some queer creatures are farmed nowadays raccoons in Devonshire and pearl oysters in Japan, silver foxes in Canada, alligators in Florida, rattilesnakes for venom (used in, treating epilepsy), and cobras for the -bounty which the Government of India To-DayS Weather Walmsleys "tSr Umbrellas OF EVERY GRADE FROM THE EMERGENCY at 106 to the PRESENTATION UMBRELLA hotel for single men in Chicagot-the present chairman of the Allerton House Company is his direct From Chicago the 'idea and the organisation spread. There are now three or four Allerton hotels in New York and other large cities a very strong inducement to the American young man to continue, in the bachelor estate.

The first Allerton House for bachelor women is the one in New York into which 'a few months ago I so happily stumbled. I said bachelor women, but. the term is elastic. A married woman is an eligible resident, but not with her husband: women can even arrange for children above the infant stage to share their bedrooms and to use the restaurant floor. Allerton House, at 130, East Fifty-seventh Street, is most conveniently, placed, within easy reach of the various underground and surface routes that connect one part of 'the great city with another.

Central Park and" the Millionaires' Row are only a few blocks west, and the roaring Forties half, dozen' blocks south. The building does not to the 55 storeys of thejWoolworth' Building, but is tall as a cliff dwelling-rsay twenty floors. The spacious 'entrarioe -hall'of that', simple, dignified; architectikre "American office buildingshave by now. accustomed us, contains, in addition to the usual lifts, in pays on each head. But none of these undertakings has the interest and complexity attaching to the rearing of ostriches.

AVhen I rode over to the farm, the crisp, The Family Budget 17s. FOR A 1 NOTE Monday. -When a -woman goes, shopping she does not, as a iul, concern herself much about what business men call the rate of exchange. Instead, she thinks, out for herself what food or cllotliing she. can-get best for her 1 note.

Menfolk who import the things we eat and wear think along similar lines, except that they have to consider what the 1 note will buy in foreign countries. They get more or less goods as the credit of the note is more or less favourable in the country in which they buy. Just now the credit of the note, or the rate of in New York- is less favourable, and the fact comes home to the housewife in that till the food or clothing of American origin which she buys costs her 1 per cent more' money than if the rate' of exchange were normal. Tlis is why our sugar, the supply of which is controlled from New York, has recently become clearer; canned meats and household utensils, a.nd certain lines of clothing of American make all cost more on same account. The shopper's 1 note buys only a Mi ttle, over 17s.

wor'Jh o-goods. Fortunately, it is -worth more than that in goods coming from other countries, Denmark, for example; where much of our food, comes from, else we should have still heavier household bills to meet. BREAD TO COST MORE. London bakers have decided to xaise-the price of the loaf this w-eek from 8d. to.8d., sun-drenched of soon after sun-up on the I held the layman's usual views WORLD'S WINTER SWEETMEATS on origin of the plumes.

You shut a lot os.triches in a paddock, gave them food and drink, and sheared them when they Umbrellas Re-covered Repaired in 30 ruinates. WALMSLEY SON 1, Victoria Street, Manchester Telephone: City 1303. grew feathers. "What d'you. mean feathers asked the 'tanned young public schoolman who at vplylnteered to.

trot; mo round, spads, POR COLD JOURNEYS second-aftcr-chieks, fancies, natals, black butts, adults'iv yente, chicks, primes, "Quite," I But let's begin at the' beginning;" Where. are the eggs?" IN LOZENGES AND GUMS ESTABLISHED NEARLY HALF A CENTURY. YOU MUST HAVE THEM CREFUSE SUBSTITUTES) The eggs aren't the beginning toy any manner' of means'; Don't forget your eugenics. You've got; to. look well into the quiry, and management counters, the I unusual features of i bookshop and.

an 'order I bureau, where the details of shopping. be. delegated to a proxy. A beautiful I staircase' leads from the' hall to. the first where, opening on a four-sided gallexy, are lounges, in which visitors of-either sex I can be entertained.

The: next floor, with the I cafeteria and. dining-rooms, 'is, similarly open ancestry of your Pedigrees mean as much to us do to NewmaTket. It is economy to pay a good" price." "Which is?" I interrupted! "Anywhere from sixty to a hundred pounds for' a. good' pedigree bird. A dud costs just as much in food and attention.

They kill at once all germs of catarrh and bronchial ailments. I Made to the formula of the A WttV 1 fcy AJ Throat Hospital by 'IVf ''j -Evans Sons Leschcr Wchb. tj I a I Liverpool. Your chemist f. f.rj JT a.

gsx -j rrf- SSj to the public, but this is the upper limit for the other sex. Feminism prevails above. I found the catering eminently satisfac Not a bad investment at that. The 'pluck' See our STAND No. 72 "VICTORY" FACTORIES, NELSON, LANCS.

JXCakcrs of all classes of Chocolates and Confectionery. tory. The food is not below the high average standard of American clubs. Armed with our trays, we very quickly obtained from the toucan break a home counter our varying selections of food, paying as we entered the light and airy dining-room haTd by. My recollection ia that it was a delicious meal and, in reference to but and there is little doubf that-a simialr rise will take'placc in other parts of the country.

Bakers say that they have been forced to take owing" to the steady rise in the price of flour over some months, notwithstanding that official reports show that last year's wheat crop was a bumper. Breakfast dishes arc again cheaper. On rritlay there was another fall in the wholesale prices of bacon, and the reduction was reflected in shop prices to-day, most kinds being Id. a pound lower. Bacon is now cheaper than at any time since the outbreak of war.

English new-laid epsrs are at many shops at 2s. 6d. a dozen, but at some of the big stores they are 3s. threat of a dock strike has led many importers to place quantities of butter in l-i store against emergency, but if, as is antieip.ated, a settlement of the dispute is announced in the next day or two, butter will become cheaper, probably by 2d. A New Zealand agency is packin? butter from that Dominion in Jib.

and lib. cartons marked New Zealand." This butter is being sold in the shops at 2s. 3d. a pound. The experiment should succeed, because the cartons contain the genuine ertiele not New Zealand butter "milled" with other butter less Rood and sold under the generic term colonial." This week Danish butter is marked at 2s.

Devonshire at 2s. 6d and fine fresh Is. lid. Fairly good supplies of cheese are coming in from New Zealand, nnrt are beine sold at Is. a pound.

rLm ami ou Cannot Break Aj the prevalent high cost of living, very HIGH-GRADE of a full-grown bird fetches about 10, and may go on fetching it every year for thirty years or more. Still, they're delicate creatures. You have to be awfully careful with their no drinking out of any old pond or stream as if they were- Their drinking water has to be as clean as yours. There are some youngsters." He waved his riding-whip toward a sandy pen. The newly -hatched little freckled creatures squatting there looked more like big baby partridges than ostriches.

"They have, four kinds of plumage, one after the other," said the farmer. "That's the natal just down. In a fortnight the down will be pushed out by the chick feathers. The first white ones we call spads. They are clipped when the chick is six months old.

Most of the chick plumage is mottled the top of each feather is light brown, you see, and the lower part dark grey. CHOCOLATES frASbLOBE See STAND no. 23 CHOCOLATE AND SWEETS EXHIBITION CITY HALL. DEANSGATE. MANCHESTER Head Ojfice and Factory FIVE WAYS BIRMINGHAM Ask your local dealer or write usforfreeCalalooua Safety Globe C-TifcoHouse MANCHESTER A Contributor on India Readers of the series of articles entitled "An Englishwoman in India" which appeared on this page last year and the year before will hear with regret of the death of Irene Burn (Mrs.

F. E. Wilkins), some whose Indian experiences were embodied in the sketches. She died at Lucknow on February 3 after undergoing an operation for mastoid trouble. A native of Liverpool, she was educated at the University College there and took an honours degree in classics.

After a spell of teaching at Eastbourne she married the late F. E. Wilkins, then editor of the "Civil and Military Gazette," Lahore, who was afterwards assistant editor of the Allahabad Pioneer and who died suddenly in London while on sick leave about six years ago. Returning to India in 1920 to keep house for a widowed brother in the I.C.S., Mrs. Wilkins resumed her interrupted association with Indian journalism and contributed regularly to almost every English daily in the country.

She had previously published one or two novels with India as a back reasonable. THE BEDROOMS. With Miss Drake as guide I saw the different grades of bedrooms, and was impressed with the good taste and workmanship of American furniture. It was a relief to discover that the extravagant notion of one man one bath had here been superseded. A resident can have a bathroom a deux, or can share it with the corridor; extra must be paid for the individual bathroom.

There are four to five hundred bedrooms. One entire floor had been let to Vassal- College, so that graduates visiting in New York could book a room in advance and make sure of a room and meals in a club of their own when up for their class reunions. Working women, Teluctant to take on the heavy responsibility of a home away from the parental home, find that in Allerton House they have practically eliminated domestio toil while reducing domestio expenses to the minimum. I believe that room supplied as it is with the combined conveniences of a club and an up-to-date hotel does not cost more than eight dollars a week for New York a very low rate indeed. Allerton House has added to the mechani.

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The quality i3 good. Gorgonzola is down to Is but Enclish cheese, both Cheshire and Cheddar, is still Is. 8d. MEAT, POULTRY, AND FISH. Most kinds of meat are cheaper this week on heavy supplies, the exception being spring lamb.

Some joints of pork are 2d. a pound less, and others Id. Home-killed beef is Id. less, and imported beef 2d. New season's Canterbury lamb ranges rojrn lOd.

a pound for fore-end. to Is. 5d. for legs, while small Highland mutton costs from Is. 3d.

for targets to Is. 9d. for legs and loin. The English salmon season has opened, and fairly good supplies are reaching the shons. Prices ranee from 4s.

6d. to 5s. 6d. MANCHESTER'S CANDY CAMPAIGN a pound according to cut. Other kinds of fish are in good supply and prices are unchanged.

Turkeys are "still the prominent feature at the poulterer's, and plump, well-finished birds can be got at Is. 4d. a pound, and imported turkeys at Is. There is not cal perfection of modern hotels by the book Gin you See Distant Objects Clearly? and shopping agencies 1 described above, In connection with the FIFTH NATIONAL- while the services of resident workers, mucn oemana lor poultry, ana prices are slightly easier this week. NEW SEASON'S MARMALADE.

notably dressmakers and needlewomen, available at an hour's notice are another ground. Her knowledge of India was remarkably wide and close for one so young. She knew the official and social side of the British Raj as few Englishwomen know it, and, what is rarer still, she was on terms of intimate friendship with many Indian vomen and could speak to them fluently in their own language. Of all the friends at home and in India who will grieve for her untimely death, one may- be sure that none will grieve for her 'more than the curtain sitting folk whom she loved and admired so much, whom she understood so well, and of whose ways and thoughts and manner of speech, she wrote with such, sympathy, humour, and charm, very real advantage to the working woman on her own in New York. With women in Housewives who like to make their own marmalade are perplexed this, year about prices.

The sour oranges at Is. a dozen-are reasonable enough, but the sugar is still rising in price, and there is no indication that it will be cheaper for some little time. If. in addition to this, account is taken of the cost of boiling (to say nothing of the labour), it would seem that DO YOU THINK YOU READ EASILY? You cannot be certain thai you do these as well -as you should. You may unconsciously be straining your sight.

Iearn if you need eye aid, consult CASARTELLI SON 18, BROWN MARKET ST. MANCHESTER W- industry, women in the professions, women in politics, -end women in Parliament, an Allerton House, with modifications to suit the national genius, would be a most encouraging phenomenon in London to-day. K. M. Ratcliffe.

Two or three months after that clipping we pull out the spad quills. You don't pull 'em out of the bird's flesh, you know, as a horrified old aunt of mine imagined. When, they are ripe "ready to moult, that is they come out of the feather socket easily, without hurting the bird a bit It is the same sort of business, in-a as currying the falling hair of a horse. Then come the juvenal feathers those are juvenals over there, the drab-coloured chaps. THE FULL-CROWN BIROS.

We crossed a sparkling stream flanked with mimosa scrub, and entered a low sandy valley. Here were the full-fledged birds. One was struck by the contrast in plumage. Both had white wing quills; but the cock's body feathers were black and the hen's drab. Such is Nature's device to protect the mother of the race.

Those birds are two, now. Ready to yield second-after-chicks at their best. Why do we call 'em 'second- af ter-chick3 Oh, inspired by some of those snappy time-saving American contractions, I suppose, like 'elevator for 'lift' and 'apartment' for our effete Juvenals are fiist-af though we don't often call them that. And adults might be called first-after-juvenals but aren't. wing plumes are now pure white in the cock bird they're primes, and tinged with grey or black in the hen -they're 'feminas.

But toward the end of the wing quills three or four cock plumes are black and white. They are valuable. We call them byocks or 'fancies. The hen has her 'jfancieB, tco white and grey. Then there are the blac butts, particoloured intermediate tail feathers.

Back, near thev storage sheds, I 'saw a couple of wooden- contrivances that recalled memories of the vaulting-horse over which we used to nine ourselves, with more or less grace and verve, in the school gym. But in front they had a kind of upside-down V. Those are the plncking-boxes, said my companion. We hood the bird with-an old sock leaving hole for the beak and lead him in fox 'the A Kaffir stands behind -him in case of trouble, which we don't often have. 'half an inch of stub left after we have clipped the wing plumes.

We leave'those under the wing and beyond the 'elbow "for warmth, It is-a long way from" herna plain sailing though, this" feather game. The plumes vary a lot in value, for reasons-that, strike you and me as purely silly. You value "conventions," though in all" these baubles of the wealthy furs and Tjearls and Old. Masters and: first editions, tfor one of these- plumes to make top -price' the quill itself has to be mediant, if it fe too 'stiff it fetches a lot less. Same if rt droope from money can be saved toy buying marmalade instead of making it.

CHOCOLATE SWEETS EXHIBITION February 1 2th to 2 1st at the CITY HALL, 'DEANSGATE This exhibition demonstrates in a practical way the value -of SWEETS AS FOOD arid will immediately impress one, if a visit is paid, of the importance of this industry. Competi Hons fo fBoys an iris are being held and a Stand Judging Competition for visitors to the Exhibition. Jlsk for the Exhibition Candy when onying your Chocolates or Sweets. This bag to the Exhibition at Half Price (Sixpence) and Free entry to the' Competitions. 3AND of the ROYAL AIR FORCE (CADET) COLLEGE, CRANWELL." the tip a shade too much for some Court dressmaker's lady's liking.

When we hit on a good type of plume we inbreed for more of it. Queer fowl the ostrich. Legs can kick like a Nasmyth haraer, or snap like glass. I've known 'em kick a lion dead and break a lee on a' Regular old Mormon the 5 The very egressions on the feces of your femily as they eat this delightful Sponge Cake will show how much they enjoy this tea-tune dainty. So easy to make with cock bird.

Never-content with less than four wives, and frequently -has -eight or nine. They, all lay in the same nest, which keeps him busy, as he has to sit on the lot, all night and part of the day. He's a fighting card, and deals faithfully by the jackals that sneak up, with 7 egg-robbing -in view, during the night. Queerest sight you cxiuld think of, coming on a bunch 'of wild ostrich bathing in the lakes. They.

walk right in. AU you see is a head and a bit of neck, way out. "Pon.my Open Dally: 11 a.m. to SO jn. the nrst Dancn itiw i took iot some of those necky prehistoric Nothing on earth can run like a wild ostrich.

But he-is a bom fooL He runs in circles, so a few mounted Hottentot can, soon Admission 1- (fnclnding'Tax). cut across his diameters. And when a Organisers: PROVINCIAL EXHIBITIONS, LTD. SEND FOR RECIPE BOOKLET and ft, p. eolara of an tntereating RECIPE COMPETITION.

I Chocolate or I H. J. GWSS ft CO, ITD, BEIBHKai' Raspberry fijvonrsi1 Hottentot gets inside a dead bird skin; the bunch let bim stalk riffht up amonn to fire a poisoned arrow, -without xeaiaixut that Waif 1 tntf -Iegs of the new-comer' BA3f OVW".