Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-21

fingers to poke at things. He uses his UNI
brella for that purpose, and he classes the
boothmen among the things to be poked
with it, In his mind, he is no more to be
buncoed by the deep, cunning, conspiring
purveyors of the stalls than lin his mind
is the proprietor of the Keokuk general
store buying autumnally in New York. He
cherishes the idea that all of the people
selling stuff in the market have organized
secret society with the only end and aim
to give him the worst of it, He handles
and dabs everything with the eaborat ton
OF an elderly spinster attending 10 a parrot
cage, or of quite young woman exasber-
atingly adjusting and readjusting, to the
end of time, the tasseled silk draping on a
fancy easel. One pictures him messing
around a kitchen, informing a colored
NANNY of forty years culinary experience
how to boil potatoes The chip he carries
on his shoulder is chip from a California
redwood. F'or the size of such a chip in
quire of some recently returned Christian
Endeavorer).
Il wonder can he work doylies?" muses.
one stallman. watching his receding figure
Kind of man that's always got ham
mer and nails. putting in wire screens end
weather telling, and tinkering around the
house. and experimenting the cooking, and
maxim a general nuisance of hisself,"
muses. another.
The Hotel Steward.
There are several ways of picking the
hotel steward touring the market atsles
First, the majesty of him; second, the re-
spectfulness of his reception by boothmen
upon whom he bestows vagrom word; too
many other ways for enumeration The
hotel steward Is very great man In the
market. The hotel steward knows it. His
patronage means an income in itself to the
staIlkeeper upon whom he casts an approv-
Ing eye. His progress among the stalls Is
slow. but Jove-like.
Fair tomatoes. those" says he conde-
| SCenOfnPlv a hot
getting for them?'
The boothman is getting such-and-such
for them
The steward smiles like a school teacher
reading peculiarly raw essay of a par
ticulariy crude pupil. The steward passes
on smiling.
But" says the boothman. calling after
him. Perhaps the new price catches the
steward. and perhaps it does not
My man. says the hotel steward to an
other boothman Che nearly always saws
my man." as expressing the gulf that
yawns between him and the stallkeeper)
MY man, that was exceedingly poor let
tuce you sent up yesterday; might even
say that 1t was very bum lettuce. Don't
No profusion of apology whatsoever can
square stailkeeper in a scrape like this
He has to undergo his sentence of suspen-
sion at the stewards hands for a week or
so, when, IL he Is in luck, he may regain
the stewards good WILL
Buffers and boarding House Keepcrs.
The buffers of families out of town are
also very naughty on their marketing
| tours. They are only buying for them
selves and few other left-behind servants
at this season. but this fact doesn't out
any estoppal upon the discrimination of
| their buying. The stall men are bland to
the buffers. for prosperity and affluence
repose in the palms Of buffers hands,
Hi 'ad no water crecses for me dinner
yeStiddy, yer DlOCnin cart bow didn't fetch
'em in toime hand Hi made i'm tike 'em
back wen e did," said a beefy butler with
| a porter countenance to a stallkeeper the
other morning. The boothman had to