Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-21
MARKETING IN PARIS.
People Buy i'm Homeopathic Quantf-
ties in Many Different Places.
in

People Buy i'm Homeopathic Quantf-
ties in Many Different Places.
Pauline Cushing in Zion's Herald.
AS it is more and more the tendency
among Americans to select some specially
of profession, the same proclivity is dis
played here in a rude way among provi-
SION dealers. The butcher sells only beef.
mutton and lamb. The tripier has sole
claim to the head, brains, liver, heart, feet,
etc. If one wishes fowl, he must go to the
frutier, and there are others who have the
monopoly of game. If two men hire a
store IN the same building the goods of one
cannot be like those of his neighbor. With
this brief suggestion of the divisions II is
easy to see that marketing becomes some
thing more than giving an order over a
telephone wire.
The streets in the morning are quite
filled with women making their daily pur-
chases. Nearly every woman carries a
basket or net bag. Since fruit and vege-
tables seldom have paper the latter dis
closes much of her bill of fare. Being
Obliged to go to each store she generally
carries her groceries. But they may be
delivered by a boy who balances a fiat
basket on his head and often reads news
paper on his way. He would make a good
messenger boy. The greater part of trad
ing is done outside the store at low coun-
ters or with street vendors. To their carts
is attached a harness which either mon
sieur or madame slips over the shoulders.
The women's voices, they call their
wares, are fearfully vibrant and heavy.
Those must have been terrible sounds
given by the starving market women when
they aSsailed the palace at Versailles. The
loud cry of one, advertising her goods,
makes the stranger shudder.
Other women, in contrast to these, are
those who sell fish in the great wholesale
markets. They are rich. They wear a
bonnet with real lace, and true diamonds
glitter on their unclean, odorous hands.
Their dress is of excellent material COW
cred with white apron.
The baker. with a suit of white. is pat
ronized for bread, at least by nearly every
family in Paris. 1t is found in all shapes
and varieties. Just before 1t is taken from
the oven steam is turned in upon it, giving
a very brown crust. 1t Is said that France
has been famed for its bread since the
seventeenth century. 1t seems very posi-
ble II one We're to judge the date of the
make from the hardness of its crust! The
French breakfast consists of q roll and a
cup of coffee These were our first senti-
ments about the custom:
Young sister Pauline
Went to the cuisine
To get her poor self some food.
But when she got there
The cuisine was bare,
study, as 'twere, in the nude!
The workmen, who have twelve hours a
day of labor, take a roll or two for the
second meal as well. with supplement at
1.-The seller of Wines" Children at play
eat bread as young America" eats candy
and chews gum. Passers-by carry bread,
without wrapping, under the arm or in
work aprons, or child measures his
partial loaf has often with it one thick
slice added to make the weight exact
But it must be fastidious person who in
sists on having his bread done up in paper!