Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1874-11-16
Going 10 Market-Hovv the WOmen


You will notice they are guided by rules and
fixed laws First and foremost, they attend the |
meat market. There is not woman in all the |
assemblage who would hear to the sugges- |
ton that she purchase her vegetables first. 1t
may be that on her way to the meat-stalls the
attractions Of poultry-stand will catch her eye
and obliterate from her mind all preconceived
notions Of a roast But il she succeed in pass
ing the poultry, you will find her prodding her
fingers into the various Grounds" upon the
block, and until che has driven that particular
proprietor half Wild nothing can seduce her at
| tention from him and his wares.
| Loudly and long does she comment upon the
class OF matter he presents for her contempla-
| ton. Over and again she turns to her compsn-
| ion, and points out some defect in the breyet
steak or the embryo chop, convincing herself
and every other woman around her, that cent
| pound lees Is really all the thing Is worth
under the sun. 1t matters nothing how
many varieties are shown her, nor what their
intrinsic value may be- the value Of their defects
| is always a cent pound, and modern Hagsr
| in wilderness OF beef, she refuses comfort on
any other basis. II, peradyeDttlre, she conyinc-
eth the dealer by lamentation and inducement
that she hath offered all its worth, and IT. per-
| chance, he be willing to confide unto her the
custody of the Wand for so many shekels or
scrip as she may offer, then we discover she has
secured an elegant bargain, and so cheap, too
you know
The question OF potatoes next thrills her SOUL
| There breatheE not under the broad canopy OF
high heayena woman who will sandwich any pur-
chase between her meat and her potatoes. BY
every instinct Of her nature and every element
OF her education, potatoes follow meat, as nat
tuTally as one goose follows another, when they
seek their homes in the heightened shadows Of
the twilight But to her mind there is a vast
difference between tile meat man and the potato
man. She would no more attempt upon the lat
ter the wilcs she practices upon the former, than
she would Of stuifng her potatoes and mashlng
her meat
Unto him of the murphies she comes like the
ghost Of the Dane, whose ear proved his death
and hints AZ darkly. 1t avails him nothing thai
! he asseyerates that 'rhem is the cheapest perta
tiers in the MARKET" she knows man, an indeh
mite man, who keeps around the corner, as sucl
men always do, and who sells much better arti
Gle Of potatoes at much cheaper rates. He il
skeptical as to the existence Of any such man
I but she solemnly AYERS she s'seen him a mini
agoue," aud of goes nickel from the price for
merly charge. Butter next, and then the res
OF the melange of a well-ordered dinner.
n One after another they come, each with Tia
same views that harassed her predecessor, an
all with the same idea Of cheapening down All
~, securing good bargains. And why should "
y laugh at them 10 these people cent apoun
on meat or butter, nickel on few potatoes
" amounts 10 something. To them every nick'
=, has its meaning and its value, every cent II
" place in the grand whole Of their domestic ecoI
ID omy and well will they fight and work to say
nv more they suffer in the want Of something the
:, really need.
IL And now they come down one side and up IL
tn ether. AT each stall they stop TO inspect, and
in every one they inquire the price of somethin
:; You see them purchasing odds and ends til
u you, dear friend would never dream Of, bl
" these people have some good use for them
70, they would never carry them away. You fiji
w. them thick about fruit stands, but they seldo
y, purchase. You find them thick before stal
VT whose articles are clear beyond their pecur
g. airy reach, but it seems some satisfaction
a them TO look around and inquire the value
- they do nothing that repays the huckster I
~ his time IN answering their questions.
Ike But here comes a representative Of anoth
W class. Fresh, young, lately married, and wi
as exalted views of her capacity az housekeepe
- one of those nice little girls, who always buy
-"- pocket-book with the first money they get al
tut then make up their minds to be economics
lev Evidently she intends to live chcaply, for q
H. has passed the poultry stand with firmly cor
40 pressed lips and eyes askance, and she march
10, upon the meat stalls in good order. Quickly
be measure taken and most numerically is 4
IN feeced by the bowling butcher, who sharges i
all he has lost by previous sales, and sells h
something he could sell no one else at a price
, a one else would pay for the best he can exhih
II. And from one stall to another she go,
'"' swindled at all, buying forty cent butter a
IN paying nifty cents, and everything else OH t
same principle, comforting herself poor lit
~ innocent soul, with the reflection that she i
Va done remarkably well, and hasn't spent one
the necessary nickel. Never mind, it il better
md be pretty and inexperienced than old and hal
in ened, and who wouldn't pay more for the pr
lege OF being young married woman who il
en up to the villainies Of the world, than ancif
its, and mildly beautiful dame who knows it ALL
| Louis GlOlp.