The St. Johns herald., 1900-08-25
, The Jobsens Dine Out
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 Jobson one evening last week.
 "Silk-lined, with passementerie trim
 nnings and a v-yoke?" inquired Mir.
 yobson, casting away his paper.
 "We1l need gas range this summer,
 you know" said Mrs. Jobson, "and this Sne-"
 "Tll bet it's not marker 10 the auto-
 mobile a fellow know was showing
 me this afternoon" said MT. Jobson. Said he'd let me have it for only
 s3,eoO."
 Mfr. Jobson waited for Mrs. Jobson to
 make some reply to this sarcasm, but she seemed to be very busy with her Honiton lacework.
 By the way" said Mir. Jobson, see ing that Mrs. Jobson didn't feel like arguing, "what do we want with an
 SIS gas range?"
 Well, we've been needing one for good many summers past" said Mrs. Jobson. They're so convenient and so much cooler than coal ranges, and during the hot weather the house would be so much more endurable after dinner i6-"
 "0h," interrupted MT. Jobson, 'I knew I had something to mention to you There are not going to be any more dinners in this house after to-day until the 1st of October"
 "No more dinners?" said Mrs. Job son, with puzzled look. ''Mr Jobson, hope you are not going back to any of those vegetarian or non-eating schemes that you tried last year and made such dismal fail"
 ''Never you mind about the schemes that l tried last year, Mrs. Jobson- this is another year." said MT. Jobson, severely. "It would be mighty good scheme all around if you could elim- mate that little habit you've got of casting up things that happened in the icthyosaurian period. When I say that there are going to be no more dinners served in this household after to-day until the 1st day of October 1 do not mean that we're not going 10 have any dinners. I suppose you'll at least do me the justice to admit that you've got enough to eat all these years, won't you?"
 But if there are to be no dinners here, how in the world"
 ''This," said MT. Jobson, with the air sf a man who has got everything all arranged after long consideration, ''is q matter that I've had in mind for a good many years, and now I'm going to put it into practice. Mrs. Jobson, it is Darbarous and unnecessary for people living in these attitudes to cook and eat their dinners in their own houses during the torrid season. There's no sense in it. It is wholly uncalled-for infiction upon the mistress of the es- tablishment to demand of her that she stand over a cook andiwatch her when the mercury is hissing in the bulb, and it's not going to happen around here any more. We're going to take our dinners out until the 1st of Octo- ber."
 "Out?" inquired Mrs. Jobson. %Where%'
 "At the restaurants" said MT. Job son. "You can meet me downtown every afternoon after office hours, and we can go to some restaurant of our mutual selection and get our dinner. Then we'll return to our cool house, and there'l be no dish washing and fooling around stuffy kitchen CT any other bother like that for you. It'll be a good thing in lots of ways, one of them being that we'll have a change of diet, which everybody needs once in awhile. We won't have to stick 10 any one restaurant, but we'll give 'em all try, and it'll be sort O piquant to have dinner around at different places and amid different scenes every day. It1l relieve the moRotony tremendously, and the only thing I'm afraid of is that when we've been doing it until the 1st of October you'll be so enamored of the scheme that you1l feel like break ing up housekeeping and living the Bedouin life, frgm the eating point of view, altogether"
 But" said Mrs. Jobson, ''don't you know how you have always disliked eating in restaurants, and how it an- noys you to have to wait little while for the waiter to serve you, and how"
 "No, Mrs. JobSon, don't know any thing of the sort" said Mir. Jobson, de- sisively. "You'Ee got me mixed with somebody else You just meet me at the office tomorrow at little after four, and we'll go and have our first linner under the new plan. and you'll thank me then for suggesting the scheme to you"
 Mrs. Jobson did go to Mir. Job 'on's office on schedule time on the fol- owing afternoon, but he had forgotten shont the arrangement and gone home.