Arizona republican., 1919-09-29

they just sit down in their great grim town and the world comes to them carefully making appointments before hand, and they do business, they al ways do business.
 Manchester men are short and thick, with broad hands and solid backs. They dress well, but they have as great distaste for gray and black as Londoners have for mixed tweeds. These northern men are particular about their linen and show consider able originality in ties; their boots are of the best, well cut and good style and one and all they wear soft felt hats. During my whole visit here have never seen a pair of spats. But a buttonhole is no rarity.
 l It is interesting to notice that plays running in Manchester dress for the town. In a modern play the men came on in mixed tWeeds or blue serge without spats and wore colored col lars. The same play in London would
 be done up in severe blue serge or morning coat, spats and top hat.
 Another thing that Manchester men like is jewelry. All the men I noticed wore rings, a solid signet or seal ring and most of them had watch chains and studs. I didn't see any diamonds in pins or studs except in the evening.
 Northern women are just the same
 in this. Their taste for trinkets radi-
 ates from Birmingham, I am told. All
 the women wore one, two or three chain bracelets, sometimes loaded with bangles, bar pins with beautiful stones
 and jeweled hat pins and numbers of
 rings.
 The very first thing I did was to
 make a mistake at the hotel. I reg istered and when the pretty young girl
 said, You telegraphed from London
 for a room?" I truthfully corrected
 her. Then she said decidedly, "There
 is not spare room in the house, ma dam." My porter lowering at my el-
 bow said, "Yer moost ave telegraphed
 for a room, ma'am, if yer wist tel
 sleep f Manchester" So I left the
 Midland, where there is a palm garder
 and every convenience the most exact ing American could demand and a
 the Queens hotel I asked for the room
 I. had wired for. It was apparently
 waiting ready with a neat frilly mait to see that I had everything I needed } The Queens is not a very moderl hotel but they supply in well trained and attentive servants what you migh lack in mechanical devices. The solit , brass beds have high headpieces anC , swinging curtain frames hung witt , bright chintz curtains. The furnitur |, is solid mahogany. The bathrooms ar, really converted bedrooms tiled an, furnished with easy chairs, dressin,
 table and lounge.
 Manchester is Clean
 : And Manchester takes a great dea of pains to be clean. First of all i , has that rarest blessing in Europe, al unlimited supply of soft rain Wate brought from Thirlmere lake in Cum berland by an aqueduct 100 miles lon, . and drained from the Longdendale val ley which covers 36 square miles , Manchester consumes five million gal Ions of water a day. And not th least important uses is the big was , houses which are scattered all over tn
 city where women can do their famil washing and ironing for four cents
 There are also fine public baths a every turn, Turkish baths and was l. troughs for children. One of the typ ical things heard in the street i
 "Cmon, les go wash from one UT , chin to another. It rains constantl l, and street children retreat to the was
 troughs where there are heated pipe 2 and plenty of hot water and soap an
 hot towels to dry and warm them 2 selves, all free.
 . Manchester is mans town Tn The hotels are filled by men. youn a and middle aged, the streets and trol ley cars teem with them. Wome |; seem to come about one in five: at th e restaurants and theaters they are al t ways accompanied by a man, some