Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-06
CROWDED LAST NIGHT
FOOD SHOW DRAWS WELL DE-
SPITE THE WEATHER.

Great thing this food show at Convention
Hall-great for young and for old; great
for nail dgesters and dyspeptics; great
for almost everybody who Is victim OF
the eating habit. Last night, despite the
fearfully wet and gloomy weather. the hall
was crowded. The oriental Kin-Hee and
Bowknot coffee makers worked overtime
handing out cups of the steaming aromatic
beverage and in front of the N. Auth Pro-
vision Company's stand the hot sausage
brigade scrambled good naturally from
early until late.
! There is such a lot Of different things to do
at food show. There are so many things
to see and so many things to eat and so
many things to take home for a try-out
later on, and there are some interesting
discoveries to be made, too. A chlef or
division in one of the government depart
ments, man who has been in the govern
ment service for many years and Is well
known in Washington, made one of them
No one would have known of 1t If he hadn't
stopped at the gate going out to talk TO the
man who takes tickets.
Sir" said the division chief. Il must
confide in somebody This Is my happfest
moment in four years
The man who takes tickets isn't paid to
look interested, but he made a bluff at It,
and the government official was encouraged,
and continued:
On Diet Four Years.
1--WE been on a diet for four years;
mighty strict diet, too, my doctor having
mentioned In a casual way number of
times that if I ever licked up a square
meal it would kill me. So for the time
mentioned I've been living on diet of
warm milk make-beieve bread Danish
crackers of the vintage of 92 and lots OF
things like that. Only once during that
time did 1 get gay. Then l ate one oyster
and felt as if I'd been kicked in the chest
by a Georgia mule.
Tonight" the official continued. warm
ing up to his narrative, II came down here
with the family. 1t must have been some
thing in the air, for l sampled a sample at
one booth and then went to the next. Up
to the present time l have tried most of
the fifty-seven varieties, eaten three pieces
of mince pie, two griddle cakes, five cups
of coffee, two packages of floss candy,
more than half dozen hot sausages,
portion of Jell-O, some Mothers Oats and
lot more of assorted food products that |
can't think of right at this minute. Am
dead? Do l look it? AS matter of fact,
l never felt better. I've got serumptlous
appetite for the first time since Eve took
to the fad for figs, and just now I'm bound
for restaurant to get a lobster and some
other fXings. If I'm booked to die I'm 60
ing to die happy and with my eating
clothes on. Goodnight.
And the official licked his chops and
waltzed down the stairs like a two-year
old.
Music by Women's Band.
There are more things than food at the
show, too. During the evening Rounds
Ladies Orchestra kept everybod-'s feet
sort of tinging for a quickstep and over at
t'other end of the hall Prof. Orrin, the hu-
man fish, plays sweet strains a Side
trombone while entirely submerged in
tank of water. This latter excitement
haA nothing In particular to do with pure
foo2, but is interesting, nevertheless. The
professor does the immersion act every few
minutes at so much per immerse. The lady
baritone and number of other attractions
take the mind of the visitor off the food
every now and then. But 1t doesn't stay
OFF VERY long There many appetis-
ing coffee and sausage and other kinds of
smells; so many appetite-creating exhibits,
and SO many neat little prize packages to
take home and open with 1-wonder-what
it-is' air that several hours spent in waltz
ing round and round the hall seem in
reality to be just few moments.
At The Star booth the handy little tele
phone pad attachments are going like the
proverbial hot cakes. Everybody is well
come to one who happens to be a telephone
subscriber. In addition the majority of
folks seem to look upon The Star booth as
a sort of general information booth and
the attendants are busy every minute that
the exposition is open.
Some Attractive Exhibits.
among the attractive exnlDltS nOtlceQ last
night was that of the Columbia Ice Com
pany. Big blocks of ice, with fruit, flowers
and fish. and lots of other good things to
eat and to look at. frozen in them, and
showing in a sort of magnified way through
the clear. glassike sides, lined the front of
the booth, and though there wasn't any
thing at this booth to eat. there was always
a crowd around. just a-looking.
The housewives spent lots of time in
tl1 NanA Lii ooht, iyal
examining the compact artistic pieces of
furniture.
Wish the kitchen of my fiat was big
enough to accommodate one of these full
sized ones" said a well-dressed woman at
one time last night. But that is vain
hope The last cook I had left because she
getting too fat to get into the kitchen
when the stove was there, and as the stove
was stationary and the cook wasn't l had
to let the latter 60" The McDougal cabi-
nets attract a great deal of attention, and
many sales have been made during the
brief period the show has been open for
business.
Baby Show Again.
The Gail Borden booths manager an
nounced last night a revival of last years
baby show, that proved such a success
This will be held next Wednesday, and 1t
is probable from present indications, that
the entries of Eagle brand babies will be
numerous and classy.
Guessing the beans is a favorite diver
sion at the Heinz booth. The Heinz COM
pany makes mighty nice eating bean, too;
but this particular kind are for guessing
purposes only The housewife coming near
est in her calculation to the actual num-
Der of beans in the big jar on the Heinz
stand will get a collection of twenty four
of the fifty-seven varieties" the second
nearest twelve varieties, and so on. Worth
guessing for? Yes?
So the show is booming along this year
and promises to be bigger success than
it a year ago. The officers of the Re-
tail Grocers' Protective Association, under
whose auspices the exposition is being
held. tickled to death, and are getting
the credit for the way things are going.