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girls, with healthy, happy faces, rolling out marzipan 

 and stamping it into pretty shapes with miniature 

 cutting moulds; more white-coated men pouring jelly 

 into multiple moulds and running the moulds into 

 cooling and cutting machines. 



The centres are covered with chocolate in an adjoin- 

 ing series of rooms, where all the operators are women 

 and girls. Some of the fancy chocolates made at the 

 Bristol factory are covered by " enrobing machines." 

 Naked and unadorned centres are fed on trays to these 

 wonderful machines, and in passing over a vessel filled 

 with liquid chocolate they are clothed in a chocolate 

 coat. This coat is ornamented with lines by little tools, 

 cleverly manipulated by girls skilled at the work, or 

 with raised patterns formed by trickling liquid chocolate 

 through a funnel. Some of the centres are hand covered 

 as well as hand ornamented, each being balanced on a 

 special fork and separately dipped in a bowl of liquid 

 chocolate. All fancy chocolates, whether hand dipped 

 or enrobed by machinery, are put on trays and taken 

 to a cooling room, so that their coats may set to their 

 figures before they are packed. 



In this House of Fry there are workshops for making 

 all the tins, boxes and packing cases used in the packing 

 rooms. There are, too, dining rooms, rest rooms, a 

 surgery, dental room, and club rooms, for in the policy 

 that has piloted the House to its honourable and suc- 

 cessful position the social welfare of the workers is 

 regarded as a matter of primary importance. 



Our " Happy Day at Bristol " brings our cocoa- 

 tour to an end. Here we must part company, to 

 journey to our respective homes and take up the round 

 of our daily life, I hope we shall meet again soon 



