Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-12

of us. What we get out OF him we pro-
coed to demonstrate.
For one thing the economical lady gets
tin pail in addition to her basket. That is
TO put her butter in. Then n small. thin.
pale-faced little boy is to the front begging
to carry out baskets. lie asks five cents
apiece but we are such conscientious. eco
Romical domestic ladies. very properly
beat him down to carrying both for Ave
cents. and OF we go. the poor little boy tug
ging ahead, n huge basket on either small
lean arm.
Buying the Vegetables.
we must go outside for our vegetables"
the economical lady declares, and thither
we push our way. out among the mass of
hucksters and greedy. grabbing women
that crowd the street in the rear of the
market. Byron couldn't love a woman II he
saw her eat. / wonder how he would have
feltto see her economically marketing We
press in with creatures rocking with garlic
cabbage-crammed baskets grind against us
on one side and piles of potatoes rub us on
the other We snatch corn. cucumbers and
Deans from hard. horny hands, some black
ana some blacker; we punch soft spots in
tomatoes. and throw them back: we bite an
apple, and don't pay for IL: we catch up
squawking live chickens by the heels and
pummel their palpitating flesh to see II
thelr breast bone is Timber as becomes A
pird Tor boiling: we climb we claw we
ciash, all to save half a cent on a quarter
cent on half dozen ears of corn. and v-e
emerge from the fray cross disheveled. our
iresh cotton frocks crushed and soiIed We
nave spent nearly an hour and Voc ba,.a
saved a total of something like aeven c1.,,s
have charged ""Ni"
And this saving is not net There is car
rare and the two and one-half cen,q ~,
paying TO the small boy who is nearly Az
Ing under the load of my basket However
TINS Is being economical as becomes a nice
uohesuc lady, so L smother the profanity
accommodating in my soul. snub my great
logical mind working rebelliously within
me. and keep at IT.
We go back to the butchers and we work
one OF his men five minutes or more stow
ing away our green stuff I'm the box with
the paitry few cents worth of meat NE
have purchased. We stand like hawks
over him, seeing he doesn't by any wicked
schemihg mash a tomato or lose a single
Dean We have struggled so hard to pos
sess. We make such fuss and keen the
man so long that catch the butcher kick
ing his sons shins under the counter This
Is regular practice with butchers at Cen
Ter market and / can't blame them. though
IL Is hard on help. When women drive a
butcher to the point where he's so mad he
wants to kill his whole lady patronage to
keep himself from the crime he has TO
turn around and kick some of the men who
are working for him. II you'll notice
butchers assistants I'm Center market they
all walk kind OF lame. This is beca Use
tAiCii shiiis art diWdNS pls4Ck ana DiuP from
being kicked by the butcher to relieve him
self from the depravity of ladies' domestic
economy.
After we had emptied our baskets we go
tor butter, eggs cream, fruit and flowers.
Then with these We return TO the butchers
once more and we make him put the cream
en- Ice, we swear him into not letting The
eggs get broken. threaten him with the
law If he does. and we count the peaches,
piums and grapes under his eyes to let him
see that we know exactly how many we
have and thus shall hold him to account If
single one is missing. At last We are
done. We look at the clock-there is just
time to go up on F street for the soda,
water. a yard of lace and a spool of silk
and get home to luncheon. We have spent
the morning, spent our patience and
strength for the day and de6uctinE car fare
and hoy hire / have saved a total Of IL
cents. In other words, / have practically
put in a days work Um so hot and tired
can't do anything but go to bed when
get home), ard ] have earned for my days
labor as much as a scrub woman does in an
hour.
Such is the boosted economy of nice do
mestic ladies reduced to a science of num-
bers. which may be all that's necessary for
perfectly lovely housekeepers of the CAD
grab-and-gabble sort. though II would bring
to ruin a simple business woman keeping
house and working as does
PAULINE PRY.