Although one hears that the tobacco firms are inclined to regret! the day they started the coupon business, at least the British manufacturers who make the goods glad about it all. This it is calculated that as many as 10,000 men and women have been engaged in the making of these gifs, Ninety-five per cent. of them, one is glad to hear, have been made in Great Britain' and the aniount of money spent in, bu; them has amounted to about £3,000, 000. One factory in Sheffield makes. nothing else but these coupon gi The inst popular present of all apparently is a pair of silk stocking and it is estimated that 54 pairs have been given away) during the first ten months of this year. The next most popular gift, in their order of merit are film handbags, cameras and toys. It is interesting to note that none of these things are at all utilitarian but presumably as long as our fa tories are kept busy producing them there can be no real cause of, complaint.
A recent development in the cou-en scheme is to present the smoker with a wireless set and let him pay for it in coupons,
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