Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . -, timber,odds and ends innumerable, and swarmingwith carpenters, fitters, labourers, and silk-hatted superintendents ; then, everythinghaving b)- superhuman effoits been reducedto order, the public flocks in b)^ the thousand ;then chaos again ; and so on, till the \AorldsFair opens at Christmas. The Automobile Clubs Exhibition, whichsucceeds the Furnishing Trades Exhibitionand is the second of the trade shows atIslington, is miles away from the horse shows. 224 LIVING Gone the stalls ; g
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . -, timber,odds and ends innumerable, and swarmingwith carpenters, fitters, labourers, and silk-hatted superintendents ; then, everythinghaving b)- superhuman effoits been reducedto order, the public flocks in b)^ the thousand ;then chaos again ; and so on, till the \AorldsFair opens at Christmas. The Automobile Clubs Exhibition, whichsucceeds the Furnishing Trades Exhibitionand is the second of the trade shows atIslington, is miles away from the horse shows. 224 LIVING Gone the stalls ; gone the aroma of the stable ;gone the beefy Britons from the country andthe horsey London visitors. Instead of theneigh of the steed there is the continuousrattle and grind—the steady, interminableger-er-er—of the throbbing, panting motorcar, while the air is charged with the too-familiar petrol. Mechanics take the placeof grooms ; and the visitors are mostly-fashionable people and business men. Very interesting, also, is the Laundry Ex-hibition, notwithstanding that its atmosphereis suggestive of soapsuds. The many labour-saving inventions—the glorified washtubs,the ingenious centrifugal driers, the machinesfor getting-up, lineal descendants of thecommon or domestic flat-iron, though therelationship is not at all obvious—are \er_\impressive singly, and much more so in themass. For the show contains machinery,working and still, weighing nearly i,ooo tonsand worth about ^^50,000. And this isrepresentative of the industry of the wash-tub ! A couple of decades
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