The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-12
'T.IhES-HERALD
! EXHIBITING
N SHOW
Booth Is One of Attractive
Features Among Display of
Food Purveyors.

The washington Times and Her.
aid booth at the National Food
Show and Household Exposition at
Convention Han is attracting much
attention. t Is the only newspaper
booth st the show.
Midday. Home, PAX and Green
editions of The Times and the regu-
lar editions OF The Herald are on
ale. and an agent is on hand to re.
ceife subscriptions to both papers.
Souvenir calendars, copies OF "The
Washington Times March," and
copies Of the second annual Inter-
national Kookery Book and House
holdhold and Electric Guide. which
was distributed with yesterdays
Times-Herald. are being given away
free. FOOD for Thought" is the
legend across the top OF the booth.
The international Kookery Book,
issued by The Timee-Hefald in con-
nection with the food show, is an
invaluable book for every house.
wife. 1T contains scores OF tempt
ing recipes offered by culinary ex-
perts. Oriental. Italian, and Hun
garian dishes are included. There
are many helpful hints for the
housewife. and there are interesting
advertisements Of pure food prod
ucts and household appliances.
Soap II Given Away.
One thousand cakes of soap are
being given away free each day at
the show. which today begins It's
ARecond week.
Every housewife who attends
movie showing how the ingredients
OF d cake Of soap are gathered from
the four corners OF the country re-
ceives q free cake. Two employees
are kept busy all afternoon and
evening handing out cakes. Ten or
twelve of these movie shows are
given each day, attended by. 125 or
$50 each time. Men don't get free
soap unless they admit they do the
family washing.
A free entertainment OF high
quality: Is offered any organization
with which any patron OF the
show may be connected. The en-
teEtainment. which lasts over two
hours, includes feature films, Clean
q brief. industrial reel. Nearly 5000
feet of film are employed. The in
dustrial3 reel shows how soap is
MANUFACTURED
How would yeu like to do moth
ing else but blow mp balloons all
day long? That's the. pleasant job
Iof one OF the men at the food
show. He blows up between 5000
and 1000 every day for free dis
. tribution at one OF the booths.
last week $1,000 were given away.
Blew Up 5000 RalIeeaa-
The man who blow& them up got
mis- training at Coney Islana.s But
he doesn't blow thenN up with his
mouth. = He uses compressed air. He
=puts the end OF the balloon over a
spipe connected to a compressed air
tank; then turns on q stop cock until
the balloon Is sufficiently fun. Next
he tiesfa knot in the rubber end of
the balloon and inserts q bamboo
stick that serves as q handle. He
ran do II all I'm twinkIfng.
A special feature at the show at
o'clock tonight win be vocal con-.
BERT by Mrs. Mary Sherrier Bowie,
bne of the city,s foremost soprano
Boloists.s She will sing under dfrec-
lion OF the OIL. DeMoll & Co. booth,
and will be accompanied solely by a
Duo Art automatic pIayer-piano. Be-
tween her numbers there will be Duo
Art piano solos.
Four hundred members of the I'LL.
nois State Society win be special
quests of the grocers at the show