The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-20
THE DoINGs OF WOMEN FOLK.
The Marriage Market and the Trusts
Women and Their shoes.

they make, pleaseF
She was a poorly dressed woman, but we'll
,,itbin the bounds of responsibility, with
come of the marks of the small boarding
hopse keeper about her, The butchers man
caused in his hasty wrapping up of the
krovn paper parcel and held its contents
edward for the woman to see. She was
-,o+ fully satisfied with the result of her in
CAV them out just as they would look
IN the meat platter, won't you? Mutton
chops shrink in cooking. too.
The mutton chops were arranged III neat
oval on the meat block and counted ana
qazed at for a minute.
~Tbevll do, | guess" was the mature
dacsion. and the butchers man turned to
/ the next customer.
The woman was at the door with her
hand on the latch when she hesitated, stood
etiIl an instant and then turned about. II
know THEY'RE not enough; cut me just one
more. won't you!' and the butchers man
compiled.
Mutton chops have gone up in price
ehout &c. pound Ordinary mutton chops
for average people have been selling at the
cheaper stands for &c. pound They sell
for &c. or higher, now The leg of mutton
has zone up from 15c. to 10 or II. Stew
ing pieces from the shoulder have advanced
from &c. to s, 9 or sometimes 10c. Beef has
IN some cases suffered a certain sympa-
tbetic affection but has not generally adj
yanced in price. 1t is the same with pork.
New York has been in many respects a
cheap city to live in for the past few years
Even the item of rent has been partially
compensated for by the low rates at which
housekeepers could obtain the daily neces-
Sares of life at the city markets as COM
nsred with the suburban and country
towns. The trusts are changing all that as
regards some articles of constant conSump-
ton, and an hourly protect goes up from
the matronly brigade armed with big Gov
cred baskets which files in and out of
grocery stores and meat shops.
what dye say? Twonty-seven cents for
three pounds and half graduated sugar9
Three and a half pounds is the grocer's
unit for many things i'll New York;. Last
time it was only 21c."
"Sieben und zwanzig cents; yeS'm, sugars
gone up calculates the clerk, who is almost
81 invariably Teuton and is oblige. by the
II nature of his calling to converse in polyglot
~ dialects.
"WelI, give me two eggs instead of three,
and guess quarter of pound of butter
will do, best though, mind you" New
York buys 'the best" pretty regularly,
even when it has to do so in infinitessimal
quantities.
The sugar trust has advanced sugar from
lc. to &c. a pound by the quantity, accord
ing to the grades, this winter. The buyers
Of single pounds are paying &c. more than
three months ago. and the buyers of half
pOunds-a large class in the city-are pay
ing sometimes &c. a pound more than they
used. Sugar ranges from &c. a pound for
the A and B brownish grades to 10c. and
lie for the finer powdered sugars, where it
used to run from SC. or &c. to SC. and &c.
Sales fall off little, not great DEAL"
said grocer who does large business a
day or two since. People must have
sugar but it is hard on women who are try
ing to provide good dinners out of their
husbands days wages. They buy cheaper
grades, and sometimes they get cheap
molasses instead. Some of the tenement
house sewing omen haze 81 ven up sugar
in their tea. l know they must have done
So for had regu or customers who don't
come here any moro Pm sorry, too. for it
was the only luxury they had. Two cents
apound doesn't seem much, but we find out
itmeans good deal to some people,"
From present appearances stock is likely
togo down tri1e in the marriage market
this spring. 1t is not a favorable time to
unite fortunes and set up housekeeping
when the Sheep and Calf Butchers Associa-
uon has forced up mutton, the Milk EX-
change keeps up milk, the Sugar Trust has
acorner in sweetness, and the Oil Cloth and
Furniture Trusts make it hard to obtain the
yherewithal to buy carpets and chairs.
Cupid is practical fellow nowadays, and
be has his eyes on the trusts.
Truly the woman is known by her shoes,
or the heels of them. which are the signifi-
cant feature. Frequently it is easier to
make study of shoes while the woman is
girl and before the skirts have come down
and covered those implements of walking.
People say Miss Waddell, Ellen Terry's
daughter, has large feet. That is because
there is not another girl in New York who
wears such broad, easy, thick and comfort
able shoes. Contrast them with the native
specimens There is Mr.. James Brown
Potter's little daughter. slim, trim, gra g.
iul, with her fathers features and her
mothers coloring. Note the melton cloak,
vide hat, and the long, narrow, daintily
nttlng French shoes, that tilt her forward
as she walks ever so slightly.
Why wouldn't Mildred accept your in
Vltatlon when you suggested turn in the
park this afternoons You know that she is
famous walker, and that her tramps are
the admiration and the envy of the whole
set OF athletic girls Because the fair and
discreet Mildred had gotten herself up for
slaughter and put on for the first time an
uhcommonly swell pair of new shoes. The
GEAR girl looked commonly brilliant, and it
was Just like your masculine stupidity to
Jake her bright eyes, flushed cheeks, and
QUICK inpatient vivacity for signs of cor
respondirgly high spirits and propose that
least innocent bit Of spree. You dull fell
low Her boots pinched, and she was
aching to get rid of you, limp home and
screw the corners of her mouth down with
pam until she was in sight of slippers again.
Mrs. Howard Crosby, the wife of the
S9livlne, is model for sensibly shod women.
que is one of the best walkers in New York,
ana ner shoemaker says that she knows
wat She wants in shoes and has it--foot
wear that is broad enough and low-heeled
enough to be help to locomotion, not
nndrance
Actresses are apt to be sinners in shoe
ieatDer. Emma Juch has spoiled a whole
scene because she was fairly crippled by
suited heels that wouldn't let her walk
across the stage decently, and drew the at
her feet.
Ioslna Vokes knows better. Her feet,
wen they twinkle slowly enough for one to
~ glimpse of them, reveals shoes or
.nppers made expressly for them-neat,
s S,uiy lifting, but low-heeled and com
selma Dolaro used to wear high heels Of a
Wy uncomfortable, Frenchy build. Mrs.
raI1sry sets better example. She is a
aiAer, to keep down tho advances of EN-
ouPolnt, if for no other reason, and she
aS walkers shoes She orders some
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