St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-04
+ The Jobsons Dine Ont


IT SAW a perfectly lovely gas range
to-day for SIS" remarked Mrs,
JCbson one evening last week.
.'Silk-lined, with passementerie trim
mings and a V-yoke?" inquired Mr..
Jobson, casting away his paper.
..Wen need a gas range this summer,
you know" said Mrs. Jobson, land this
Gne-"
"I'n bet it's not q marker I o the auto
mobile fellow 1 know was showing
me this afternoon" said Mr.. Jobson.
''Said he'd let me have it for only
$S.GDO."
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, s'what do we want with an
SIS gas range?"
"Well. 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 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 Mr.. Jobson.
severely. s'It would be 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 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 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
you?"
sBut if there are to be no dinners
here, how in the world"
"This," said Mr.. Jobson, with the air
of a man who has got everything all
arranged after long consideration, "is
a 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 ATTITUDES to cook and
eat their dinners in their own houses
during the torrid season. There's no
sense in it. 1t is a wholly uncalled-for
infliction upon the mistress of the es-
tablishment to demand Of her that she
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 LIST of Octo-
bsr."
"Out?" inquired Mrs. Jobson.
.Nhere%'
sAt the restaurants" said Mr.. 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 well return to our cool house.
and there'll be no dish washing and
fooling around a stuffy kitchen or any
ether bother like that for you. It'll be
a good thing in lots of ways. one of
them being that we'll have change of
diet, which everybody needs once in
awhile. We won't have to stick to any
enc 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. It'll
relieve the monotony tremendously.
end the only thing I'm afraid of is that
when we've been doing it until the 1st
ef 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"
"Rut." said Mrs. Jobson, don't you
know how you have always disliked
eating in restaurants, and how it an
ncys you to have to wait N2jttle while
for the waiter to serve you. and how"
"No. Mrs. Jobson, don't know any
thing of the sort," said Mr.. Jobson. de-
cisively. you've got me mixed with
else. You just meet me at
the Office tomorrow at little after
four. and we'n 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
about the arrangement and gone home.
She waited for him to come back, and
he did.
"The new plan escaped your memory,
d,Sn't it?'' said Mrs. Jobson.
~I guess not" said Mr.. Jobson, short
IT, Il went home to get clean hand
that's all. And as didn't find
one and, had to buy one. after all, in
sv;t. of the fact that I've bought some
> oo0 handkerchiefs since the first OF
january, I suppose the cat has eaten
'em all up"
said Mrs. Jobson.
= "A re. hey?" said Mr.. Jobson. "An
found in my drawer were three OF
your wells aud . csuple of pairs OF your