In spite of the protests of the small cating-house keepers the Mesandra Pract has got to work, and the first of the dining palaces for the poor erected from the fund. started and mainly: support Sir Thomas Lipton was opener Old Street a few days awe. The ave really handsome, walls, collin floors being tile-covered of easy cleansing daily ons the use, and the kitehe top of the building, is really splendidly a pointed. Nothing but foodstuffs of excellent quality are supplied, the meat hein all home-grown, and yet a three-cours dinner—soup, meat ad two vexetibles, and siweets—can be had for fourpence halfpenny. One has to yo to the counter and get it oneself, it is true, for the price does not admit of any extravagance in the matter of service; but the food is wholesome and well cooked, and the three courses make a substantial meal. The Prince and Princess of Wales visited the restaurant the other h tasted, if they did not consume, all the three courses, and pronounced them excellent Sir Thomas Lipton claims that the staurunts will be self-supporting, and will return an_interest of three per cent on the capital. None of the foodstutls, he says, are supplied from Lipton & Co.'s stutes and shops.
16th March.
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