The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-17
WOMEN TIRE OF
 HOUSEHOLD HINT
Tell Radio BrOadcasters To Mix In Some Poetry And
 Politics

LONDON, Feb. 16.-(By Associated Press)-American women. radio en- thusiasts who are tired of listening in on cooking recipes, marketing hints and household management may find the courage to demand something less prosaic through the action of the Brit ish women who have written to the broadcasting organizations announcing that they are surfeited with cooking, household and sewing talks and want something along the line of poetry, physcology, politics and literature. Il In response to this new reminine taste the radio stations here have de- cided to introduce during the coming week short talks on legal, medical, musical mad literary subjects for the special benefit of the women listeners. They will also give a series of talks on how the women can make pin money.
 Most of the protests against the cooking recipes, gardeins formulas and domestic economy suggestions came from mature married women with large families and homes to look after. They explain that they were in no mood after a hard days work at the wash board and kitchen stove to listen to academic culinary or household the ories from woman lecturers who de- rived most of their knowledge of cook cry and husbandry from mere books.
 To insure the revised program reach ing the largest number of women pos sible the official British Broadcasting company has installed powerful relay stations at Hull. Livrepool, Edinburgh and Plymouth which, together with the five existing stations, will link up the whole of the British Isles in a great artcrial system of invisible waves.
 Irisl, Products Returning
 Now that Ireland is running through q period of peace, many familiar pro- ducts of the old sod will once more be seen in the shop windows of the world. That Irish handicraft is again finding market is shown by the fact that the export value of manufacture goods in 1923 was double that of the previous year and is steadily increas- ing.
 Peace has meant prosperity to the factory districts. the foremost of which is Shillelagh, where for the first time since the war started huge stocks of Shillelaghs are being manufactured for export. The industry has given employ ment to hundreds of workmen in the district and it is expected that this year a million or more of these oak saplings will be distributed throughout the world.
 Stocks of this knottyjammunition are reappearing in the shop windows of Dublin and London in anticipation that the ,shillelagh will be as popular with the tourists as it was in the old days when every American thought his trip abroad ruined if he was forced to return home without one.
 Exports of the famous Irish home spuns also are rapidly increasing, the looms being busy filling orders while the linen industry of Dublin and north ern Ireland is slowly getting back to the pre-war Jewel. Reports from the industry and commerce departments of both the northern and southern gov ernments anticipate that 1921 will equal 1913 when Ireland reached its maximum exportation.
 Favorable weather for the small Irish farmers this year will place the Emerald Isle on the certain road to national prosperity, and the outlook was never better, according to Joseph McGrath, the Free State Minister of Commrece.