St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-07-28
I The Jobsons Dine Out ]

81 saw perfectly lovely gas range
to-day for $1S," remarked Mrs.
Jobson one evening last week.
sSilk-lined, with passementerie triml-
uings and 70 V-yoke?" inquired Mr..
Jobson, casting away his paper.
"We'n need gas range this summer,
YOU know said Mrs. Jobson, "and this
one-"
"I'll bet i4'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
$3,6oo."
Mr.. Jobson waited for Mrs. Jobson to
make some reply to this sarcasm, but
she seemed to be very busy with her
Honiton 1acework.
BY the way" said Mr.. Jobson, see
ing that Mrs. Jobson didn't feel like
arguing, 'swhat do we want with an
SIS gas range?''
'sWell, we've been needing one for a
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 if"
"Oh," interrupted Mr.. Jobson, 81
knew / 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,
I 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 / tried last year, Mrs: Jobson--
this is another year," said Mr.. Jobson,
severely. Tt would be mighty good
scheme all around if you could elm
mate that little habit you've got of
casting up things that happe1ed in the
icthyosaurian period. Whe1T say that
there are going to be no m{re dinners
served IN this household after to-day
until the 1st day of October / do not
mean that we're not going to have any
dinners. suppose you'll at least do
me the justice to admit that you've
got enough to eat all these years, won't
youS'
''But if there are to- be no dinners
here, how in the world"
"This,'' said. Mr.. Jobson, with the air
of man who has got everything all
arranged after long consideration, sis
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
barbarous and unnecessary for people
living in these latitudes to cook and
eat their dinners in their own houses
during the torrid season. There's no
sense III it. Tt is aewholly uncalled-for
infliction upon the mistress of the es-
tablishment to demand of her thatsshe
stand over "a cook, and watch 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.
s'Whereg'
"At the restaurants" said Mr.. job
son. "You can meet me downtown
every afternoon after officeShours, 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'lI be no dish Wishing and
fooling around stuffy kitchen or any
other bother like that for you. It'll be
a good thing in lots of ways, one of
them being that Well have a change Of
diet, which everybody needs once in
awhile We won t have to stick to any
one restaurant. but wen give 'em all a
try, and it'l1be sort O. 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 enainored 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. salu tMTss Jopsons aoh YOU
know how you have always disliked
eating in restaurants, and how it an
noys you to have to wait alittle while
for the waiter to serve you. .and how
s'No, Mrs. Jobson, ] don't know any
thing of the sort, said Mr.. Jobson, de-
cisively. You've got me mixed with
somebody else. You just meet me at
the office tomorrow at a little after
four, and wen go and have our first
dinner under the new plan. and you'll
thank me then for suggesting the
scheme to you.'
Mrs. Jobson did go TO Mr.. Job
sons Office on schedule time on the fol
lowing afternoon, but he had forgotten
aboutthearrang ement and gone home.