The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-05

Meantime the women have their pleasure
No sooner is Ivan off for his thing and
fiocks than .Guila goes out marketing.
over her head a modest shawl is tied, and
under her arm she carries a vast basket
A smart little woman of business is Giula,
and loud of tongue. She has an accurate
knowledge of prices, as well as of the in
dividuality of the shopman. She is out
for bargains Every rascal in the bazaar
is prepared for hagging match with each
aggressive customer, and if our house
wife goes away with purchase obtained
at half price, 1t is only because the vender
more than doubled the price at the outset
Here in the bazars all the necessities of
the kitchen are to be found, spread out
before the housewives eyes, and as all of
the shops are close together, a vigorous
and noisy competition for custom goes
on. In reality every article Of food ex-
cept imported groceries, is very cheap.
Meats. abominably gelatinous, and laid on
the floor, are sold for a song Rye meal,
unbolted, and coarse fruits of all kinds,
eggs, fish and vegetables, cost but trifie
If Giula is content to eschew tea, tobacco
and fine -four she may obtain a full bas-
ket of provisions, say fifty pounds, at
what would be equivalent TO less than
one cent a pound. She would, however, be
very extravagant woman IL she We're TO
expend such a large sum at the market
in single day.
Her marketing over, Giula trots home
as well as she can over the most misera-
bic road ever built. Her house Is low, one
story, and of stone. The outer door opens
into a long corridor. where two or three
pots of cactus are filling the whole place
with an abundant glory in scarlet. This
corridor Is whitewashed. but the rooms
opening off 1t display bare walls, floors
innocent OF carpets. and very little furni-
ture. There are no stoves, but instead
there are hreplaces I'm the hollow walls
Fires lighted in these fireplaces are USE
full, both for heating the house and for
cooking the food. As all OF the rooms are
on one floor, they have doors opening into
each other. one of these Is larger than
any Of the others. Here there are several
high-backcd chairs, a table and a sofa
At one side OF the room there is a gaudy
brass frame, holding a daub OF some saint
OF the Greek church. ana with a candle
burning before It.. This is the eikon, or
household god The candle kept burning
marks the family worship. Its light
catches reflection on the highly-polshed
floor.
Out OF this room opens the dining room
(Which Is properly the living ROOM, the
bed rooms and a store room. There Is,
perhaps, a nursery, but let me pay my
lady friends OF Crete the compliment OF
saying that In two years spent among
them never discovered where IL was, and
never saw a cradle. The children live IN
the back yard. There also Is generally a
dog Or two, and a little box for starllngs.
There Is no garden, ana the earth Is lux
uriant In oranges, lemons and olives.
Returned home from the market. Glula
assisted perhaps by the family crone pro-
ceeds TO get a lunch. This Is for herself
and the children, and amounts 20 little
As soon as the cloth II laid away prepare
ftUna for dinner annuunNuHF The ann IL ts.sf
two hours or more above the horizon
when u Is on the table, and Ivan has
come home. The menu may vary. but In.
yariably Il includes "A soup, an appetizer
Of garlic and raw herring. and boiled
meat. There are no beverages, and the