The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-05

- NAAN bANkEE 50 AAu u A4ds " DNe
al the Ioods and whatever he can save
out Of that he keeps but that PLAZA
"oqIdh I do Tor. an American.
u IS one OF the sights Of the country 10
go down 10 market with the butler some
morning, lie doesn't care much TO have
you go with him. because he is looking
out Tor MS little profits. The market PEG
PIE VIII all sell To him cheaper than they
Would sen 70 you; and by the time he has
added on his own account a few cents to
tne price OF each article he has enough TO
DIVIDE with the cook No white woman
ever goes 10 market down there; that IS
no native white woman. So when your
wlIe takes II into her head to 60 as she is
pretty sure TO do, she makes a sensation
ne market Is right along the water
front always, and divided into three sec
lions. Inone section they sell meat, in
another fish, and in the third fruits and
vegetables. The meat market is a queer
pace. Beef Is generally imported from
thls country alive and butchered on the
spot. But no West Indian butcher knows
anything about cutting up a beef. They
slice the carcass into slabs without any
reference to the different parts, and sell
u all at the same price n cents pound.
no matter whether you get tenderloln or
soup bone, the price is the same. The
odd bits that are sliced of are gathered
up into little heaps about the size of your
INST and sold TO the colored folks-3 cents
a heap.
In the vegetable market everything is
sold IN the same way divided into little
heaps. Three cents they call a check,
or a big copper and little one, and the
price OF each heap is either a check or
siXpence. You find big tray filled with
very small tomatoes and ask the woman
how she sells them.
Check heap sab, she answers.
Wei, but how much for the lot}'
you ask; there are perhaps a peck of
them in all.
Cant Just say, sab, she replies, till
measure EN-, and she Immediately be-
gins TO pile them into heaps, to see how
much they would bring that way.
You are surprised. of course, to see
how many of the vegetables are imported
from America. All the white potatoes,
all the onions, all the cabbages, and many
more garden products are imported into
countries where they could easily be
raised at any time of the year But YOU
don't buy your potatoes by the peck or
bushel. You buy them by the heap,
check heap. And cabbages Well, sir,
1t would make you weep to see how they
sell the cabbages. A whole head would
be too much fer family 10 handle. so
they cut. them into four or six wedge
shaped Slices, just like a pie, and sell
them for check a slice. | have even seen
them sell large onions sliced in the same
way One good thing they have that have
never seen in New York markets. That
Is what they call a soup lot'-two or
three small potatoes, a couple of tiny on
ions, some sage and thyme, and perhaps
a young turnip, done up in a bunch, for
havoring soups.
when yofI go-to market you must not
fail to take basket for they do not wrap
your purchases up unless they are small
enough to be rolled in green leaf If
you buy anything and ask to have it done
up they will send boy out to the nearest
store with small copper to buy a sheet
OF paper There IS never any paper in
the market. | suppose you know what
they near by small copper. A big cop
per IS an English penny, worth two cents
IN our money A small copper is a half
penny, worth one cent. There is no such
coin, OF course, as q check. They mako
1t up with big copper and little one
This is the buffers chief work, going to
market early in the morning buying the
days provisions, and getting them home.
You may wonder that an American will
stand this way of buying things in such
small quantities and buying them every
day Well, to some extent he has to
stand it, Things that win keep he soon
buys by wholesale, but most things won't
keep, and have to be bought every day.
Even flour, rice and h0miny, three great
staples down there, are not safe to keen
long If the weather is damp YOU are
soon likely to find the barrels full of mag
gOts. Another draw back to keeping
too much on hand is the bother of keeping
everything locked up. There must be a
storeroom, and it must be kept locked,
and the mistress of the house must not
let the key go out of her own hands. If
she does her provisions Will walk off
When one of the servants has to go TO the
storeroom she must go with him.
"Of course the butler has other things
TO do besides the marketing. He sets the
table, and waits on it, if there is no other
waiter. But about the house his princi-
pal duty is to keep the other servants at
work. II you set eneof them at lob he
will do it, if it doesn't take too long, and
then go OFF in the shade and go to sleep
They have no idea of doing a thing with
out being told. Every morning after
breakfast the butler gathers up all the
silver, hands 1t to one of the boys, and
tells him TO take it out and clean it, He
goes out under tree with it and begins
TO scour, and few minutes later he is
fast asleep, and the butler has to go out
and wake him up. The boys are great
sleepers. When you want one you must
generally call often and loud enough to
wake him, for he will be under the dining
table, unuer sofa, out under the trees,
or wherever he can hide himself in the
shade. George! George! you call and
presently George comes in rubbing his
eyes.
What are you doing, George2 you
ask
~ was just aqwine to fetch some
watah, sah,' he answers
9 4 didn't ask what you were just going
to do. What were you doing when
called yout'
'Nothiu, sab, Sleep sah.'
They always tell you what they were
Just agwiDe to do, and that is sure evil
dence that they were doing nothing. BY
the middle of the afternoon they are all
in state of repose; the cook is asleep on
the kitchen table, the kitchen girl (who
may be anywhere from Is to 75l is smok-
ing her pipe on the bench outside the
kitchen door, the butler is asleep under a
tree in the orchard, the gardener is be-
hind wall somewhere, the cham her
maid has disappeared, and you can hear
SHORES of the two boys. The laundress is
the only one left on duty; her pound
pound, pound goes on increasingly, and
the monotony Of il puts you to sleep too.
THE chambermaid is sure TO drive
your wife to distraction at first She
complains, 10 begin with, that she has to
take care of the parlor as well as the
sleeping rooms, and suggests that she has
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