Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . n theBritish love of horseflesh is roused withinthem to the highest degree, and they becomeebullient, incoherent, wild with excitementand delight. From a strictly business point of view—an aspect disregarded by the casual visitor—these shows are yearly becoming moreimportant. They are now horse marts, atwhich very many sales are effected. Amongthe exhibitors best customers are foreigners,who attend the Agricultural Hall in force andsnap up the best horses the_\ can obtainwithout overmuch regard to
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . n theBritish love of horseflesh is roused withinthem to the highest degree, and they becomeebullient, incoherent, wild with excitementand delight. From a strictly business point of view—an aspect disregarded by the casual visitor—these shows are yearly becoming moreimportant. They are now horse marts, atwhich very many sales are effected. Amongthe exhibitors best customers are foreigners,who attend the Agricultural Hall in force andsnap up the best horses the_\ can obtainwithout overmuch regard to price. After the horse shows we enter upon a longseries of trade exhibitions. The first is the Salon Culinaire, at the Royal Albert is an exposition of international cookery,and it is as instructive as it is ramble through it is to realise that thechef is indeed an artist. Dishes of all kinds,from foie gras to plain preparations that thedyspeptic can look at with toleration ; largewedding cakes of ornate design, creations alluring enough to stimulate the marriage. PRKPARING FOR A TRADE SHOW. rate; statues, railway engines, and otherobjects in sugar white as snow, with everydetail accurately represented—such are that meet the visitor at every addition, the main confectionery sectioncontains a similarly endless variety of sweetsand cakes. Two admirable features of theshow are a number of demonstrations incookery given by experts, and a competitionin table-la)ing. But the home of trade shows is the Agri-cultural Hall, a building that plays manyparts. From March to December, with theexception of a brief interval in Ma>-, it isgixen up to such exhibitions. The last ofone show is no sooner swept away thananother begins to come on the scene. Thenthe interior is chaos—a wilderness strewnwith packing cases, engines, machiner}-, timber,odds and ends innumerable, and swarmingwith carpenters, fitters, labourers, and silk-hatted supe
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