The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1897-11-30
Steps Along the Path That Leads
to Housekeeping.
The Labor In Looking Around n Little
Problems of Glass Pitchers-EIisap-
prehensions OF u Truck Load
OF Packages.

or PACKAGES.
The husband begged her TO buy pro-
yisiopal utensils, SO that they could
move into their house certainly IN an
other day. 1t was in trembling hope
that he returned home on the following
evening. He found his wife lying upon
the bed.
sI've such a headache!" she sighed
YEARLY
The husband looked around the room.
Upon the mantelpiece he saw the two
glass pitchers of the day before, and
at their side u vinegar cruet. lie eyed
the cruet hard.
"Humph!" he grunted, with strong
disapproval in his tone.
His wife's eyes had followed his. AT
this reproach she arose proudly from
her bed, took him by the arm, and leu
him to the window. There was 10 be
seen heavily laden truck, from which
men and boys were busily engaged in
carrying packages of all shapes ana
sizes into the house. She pointed TO
it.
"There," she said, with reproach and
n headache and forgiveness and unree-
ognized merit all mingled, those are
kitchen things"
With the unreasonableness of men,
he bounded from one extreme to the
other.
"Great Caesar!" heexclaimed, you re
bankrupting me-"
The patience of the woman, though
tried sorely, was not upset for mo-
ment She displayed large roll OF
bills.
"You misjudge me-" she said, tapping
him affectionately upon the cheek
.sYou have not yet learned to know your
wife. There are OF different packages
there. and for them have spent less
than So, few cost ten cents apiece, ana
the others cost five cents. So she add
ed, with a little pride, ''you see am not
so extravagant as you thought"
pardon me, dear said the husband,
both penitently and anxiously. "Thcn
the kitchen is furnished and we can
move in tomorrow?
"No-o-o," replied the wife, mot quite
vet. You see, these things are only
some of the things we need. Pots and
kettles and pans" she added, with u
sweet smile, "cost more than five OF ten
cents"
The husband sighed and resigned
himself to the boarding house for an
other week. The history of what has
occurred since then is not worth giving
in detail. You can see the wife in the
stores any day at this time. She is still
patient, Industrious and sweet natured.
The husband sometimes accompanies
her. He began going with her while he
still retained the impression that man
w decision could hasten the slow, tor
tuous process of shopping. He still is
her companion nowadays at times, be-
cause he is possessed of the notion
that il may some time be possible for
him to discover how she spends her
time at the stores, but he knows that il
is best that he should not accompany
her. The two natures of the male and
the female CRATE. The man cannot grasp
the subtle distinctions that are seized
by intuition by the finer sense of the
woman. For instance, one day she
showed him four-quart saucepan.
"The price of this" she said, sis 40
cents. Now in the other store we can
get a saucepan like it for AZ cents. Now,
which one ought we to buy"
'The other" said the husband,
promptly.
"But," objected the wife, "they are
different, and 1 don't know which is
the best"
"Buy both" said the husband,
promptly.
"But," objected the wife, 1--WE need
only one of them"
Flip a cent" said the husband.
promptly.
"And perhaps get the worst of it,"
said the wife.
''Then don't buy either" said the
man, promptly.
or course the proper solution of the
difficulty was to go to third store and
find third saucepan of q third price