The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-07-12
! The Jobsons Dine Out ]


SAW a perfectly lovely gas range
to-day for $1s," remarked Mrs.
Jobson one evening last week.
"Silk-lined, with passementerie trim
mings and a V-yoke?" inquired Mr..
Jobson, casting away his paper.
We'll need a gas range this summer,
you know" said Mrs. Jobson, "and this
rne-"
'I'll bet it's not marker to the auto
mobile a fellow I know was showing
me this afternoon" said Mr.. Jobson.
"Said he'd let me have it for only
$780,"
Mr.. 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 Mr.. Jobson, see
ing that Mrs. Jobson didn't feel like
arguing, what do we want with an
$1s gas range?"
''Well, we've been needing one for a
good many m 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 if"
"Oh," interrupted Mr.. Jobson, 81
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 a puzzled look. "Mr. Jobson,
I hope you are not going back to any
of those vegetarian or n~on-eating
schemes that you tried last year and
made such a dismal fail"
"Never you mind about the schemes
that I tried last year, Mrs. Jobson-
this is another year." said Mr.. Jobson,
severely. sit would be a mighty good
scheme all around if you could elm
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 I do not
mean that we're not going to 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 MI. Jobson, with the air
of a man who has got everything all
arranged after long consideration, sis
a matter that I've had in mind for a
good many years, and nowT'm going to
put it into practice. Mrs. Jobson, it is
barbarous and unnecessary for people
living in these ATTITUDES to cook and
eat their dinners in their own houses
during the torrid season. There's nc
sense in it. It is a wholly uncalled-fo1
infection upon the mistress of the es.
Enlistment to demand of her that she
stand I'VE a cook andIwatch her when
the mercury is kissing 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?"
SAT the restaurants" said Mr.. Job.
o "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 a stuffy kitchen or any
other bother like that for you. It'll be
q 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 to any
one restaurant, but we'll give 'em all a
try, and it'll be sort o. piquant to have
dinner around at different places and
amid different scenes every day. It'll
relieve the monotony tremendously,
and the only thing I'm afraid of is that
when we've been doing it until the LIST
of October you'll be so enamored of
the scheme that you'll feel like break
ing up housekeeping and living the
Bedouin life, from~the eating point of
view, altogether"
"But," said Mrs. Jobson, s'don't you
know how you have always disliked
eating in restaurants, and how it an
noys you to have to wait a little while
for the waiter to serve you, and how
mo, Mrs. Jobson, I don't know any
thing of the sort" said Mr.. Jobson, de-
cfsively. you've got me mixed with
somebody else. You just meet me at
the Office tomorrow at a little after
four, and we'll go and have our first
dinuer under the new plan. and you'll
thank me then for suggesting thu
scheme to you"
Mrs. Jobson did go to Mr.. job
sons Office on schedule time on the fol-
lowing afternoon, but he kindergarten
aboutthe arrangement and gone home.
She waited for him to come back, and
ae did.
"The new plan escaped your memory,
didn't it," said Mrs. Jobson.
81 guess not" said Mr.. Jobson, short
". st went home to get a clean hand
kerchief, that's all. And as I didn't find
one and had to buy one, after all, in
spite of the fact that I've bought some
1000 handkerchiefs since the first of
January, I suppose the cat has eaten
EN- all up"
There are at least two dozen in your
drawer" said Mrs. Jobson.
care, hey?" said Mr.. Jobson. "All I
found in my drawer were three of
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