The herald., 1893-06-26
U0ES AWAY WITH COOKS.
TIE DEPENDENCE people PUT IN
DELICACY STORES.
How Man and HIS wife Can Live
Well in Los Angeles on an Ex-
pcnditura OF Five Dol
lars a week.

"Jt ID astonishing how large place
the delicac, stores of Los Angeles are
taking in the q omestie life OF the CITY,
said lady to b ERAi reporter yester-
day.
"Will you kindly ea plain what you
mean" was asked. II lie lady seemed
to think there was consid erable inexcus'
able mental torpor on the part OF her
questioner, and said:
"You know what deli cacy store 49,
don't you2"
"Yes, it is place VIII ere you get
cooked things."
ITO be sure, but you need not be 20
contemptuous in the way you refer to
such establishments"
"You don't mean to say thar people
generally supply their lart iers from these
5. 'aces2'
That is just what do L lesn."
N People who keep hous, regularly Z"
"F xactly. You do not know hall as
much as you think you do. There are
not YER, v many households IL Los Ange-
lea now. which do not on occa SION, avali
themselv. OF the very euper or cooked
food that C. IN be procured at tfA dellcacy
stores. It is vastly cheaper tnan any
one imeeinee Z even Tor houss keepers
who have regular servants, and tor peo-
pIe who do light house-keepilu THESE
stores have become absolutely lna isPen-
"What car, you get that is good, now
you are taking about it2"
81 will give you an illustrate on;
You know my husband ana mya ~
live in rooms on South Main street. "
have pleasant apartments, where we caa \
look ont and sec what is going ont
Sometimes my husband goes to q deli !
caev etore. but not often. although he
likes to talk about how he does do 30.
In a few minutes that it takes to go to
the store | lay in the incest kind OF
cooked meats, potatoes, salads, chickens
and almost any thing you deeire. You
can buy in any Quantity you desire and
for 25 cents can get more than two
people can possibly eat. In the season
eyery different product is handled by
the stores, and in twenty minutes one
can secure Just what they want, put mp
in neat shape and take IL right home
with them.
"This with fruit and coffee. tea on milk,
and comfortable forethought in serving
the food daintily, makes housekeeping
easy, and absolutely discounts ressaur-
ant life. We sit up to our dainty little
breakfasts and dinners which have
taken about ten or fifteen minutes to
prepare, look out at the life passing on
the streets, as If we were in our private
club, and il you think we are not happy
and enjoy ourselves you ought to Btep
in to dinner with us some day.
"You see the economical features
about the system are Just as important
as the freedom from the annoyance of
cooking. BY cooking in large quantities
the stores are able to put their prices
way down below what you can do it for
yourself, and tell you they do much
nicer cooking than two-thirds Of the
housekeepere.
''You would laugh in your usual ag-
gravating style if told you how little it
costs my husband and myself TO live in
this manner and live nicely too. We
have everything we want and it costs
leae than $5 week for both of us."
"And you say people are living in this
charming manner in Los Angeles to any I
great extent?"
"If YOU don't think 80 you ought to,
drop around to delicacy etore during
the morning or afternoon. Sometimes
they cannot wait on all the customers
who come in. There will be quite a line |
incest people in the city are getting ae-
customed to depending on the stores for
the greater portion OF the substantial
things they use. In fact, it is becoming
quite fad to live in this faBhion.
"At first people were inclined to fight
Bhy OF the delicacy stores, or slip in as ii
they were doing something to be
ashamed of, but during the year or so
that they have been gaining foothold
the idea has changed. Wherever first
class cooking is done that store has all
the business it can do"
There are quite number OF these
establishments in Los Angeles now, and
slight investigation showed that the
statements of the lady we're true. Near
ly half Los Angeles lives now more orr
less from the delicacy stores. where
they can get anything from hot soup to
cold turkey. In fact they 60 long way
towards making housekeeping easy, and
lessen the anxieties OF the wives and