Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21
The Jobsons Dine Out |

SAW perfectly loNeiy quo rahBe
to-day for s1s," remarked Mrs.
Jobson one evening last week.
"Silk-lined, with passementeriet trim
mings and a V-yoke?" inquired Mr..
Jobson, casting away his paper.
"We'll need gas range this summer,
YOU know" said Mrs. Jobson, "and this
one"
"I'll bet Us not marker to the auto
mobile a fellow / know WAS showing
me this afternoon" said Mr.. Jobson.
"said he'd let me have 1t for only,
S3,600."
Mr.. Jobson waited for Mrs. Jobson TO
make some reply to this sarcaeIn, 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
S1s gas ranger"
"well, we've been needing one for
good many summers past" said Mrs.
Jobson. They're so convenient and
30 much cooler than coal ranges, and
during the hot weather the house
would be so much more endurable after
dinner ib-"
"Oh," interrupted Mr.. Jobson, II
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 list 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 n dismal fail"
Never you mind about the schemes
that i tried last year, Mrs. Jobson-
this is another year." said Mr.. Jobson,
severely. at would be mighty good
scheme all around II 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 do not
J 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 II 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, "is
! a matter that I've had in mind for a
good many years, and now I'm going to
put ii into practice. Mrs. Jobson, II is
barbarous and unnecessary for people
living in these ATTITUDES to cook ard
eat their Ginrers in their own hous, s
during the torrid season. There's no
sense in it. II is wholly uncalled-for
infliction upon the mistress of the es-
tablishment TO demand of her that she
stand over 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 LIST Of Octo-
ber."
"Out?" inquired Mrs. Jobson.
"Where?'
AT the restaurants" said Mr.. job
son. You can meet me downtown
every afternoon after Office hours, and
we Gun go to some restaurant of our
mutual selection and get our dinner.
Then we'll return to our cool house,
and there'll be no dish washing and
fooling around a stuffy kitchen or any
other bother like that for you. tn be
n good thing in lots of ways, one of
them being that Well have n 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. piqunnt to have
dinner around Mt different places and
amid different scenes every day. tn
relieve the monotony 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 ennmored 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, don't you
know how you have always disliked
eating in restaurants, and how II an
noys you to have to walt little while
for the waiter to serve you, and how"
mo, Mrs. Jobson, don't know any
thing OF the Sort" said Mr.. Jobson, de-
cisiyely. you've got me mixed with
somebody else. You just meet me at
the Office tomorrow ut little after
four, and We'll 60 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.