Show english hii tilling business LONDON dec 19 spa dial figures given out by firms that make a specialty ol 01 genuine english carist maa plain puddings to Britis hers the world oyer show that fully three quarters oi a million puddings have been sent out of the country on special orders since the beginning of november this is the largest total of ehino ments on record the minimum weight has been twenty pounds and the maximum onehundred one hundred pound i hardly a country on the face of the earth has boen in the orders those from the united states and canada aggregating gome twenty five thousand large shipments were made to points as far distant as australia and south africa this particular christmas industry had its origin about a decade ago in a few orders from english folk hying in other countries who from one cause or another found it impossible to success fully produce a christmas pudding such as they had been accustomed to in their youth and it has coy grown to euch immense proportions that for months before christmas the cannier factories are working night and day and thousands of people mostly girls are given temporary employment |