The suburban citizen., 1902-04-19
THEBRIDE
TRIES TO ARRANGE A COLOR.
SCHEME IN VEGETABLES


mysterious way. The bride, innocent
of household knowledge, who Is sud
denly impelled TO take the helm Of q do
nestle establishment of her own, is
adoat on large sea, with very small
portion Of nautical knowledge The
matter Of provender looms on the hori-
zon, large and immediate problem.
Often, in such a case, the humble
butcher or marketman comes forward
like a god in a drama. He is a life
saver, an unconscious philanthropist,
who rescues many a newly embarked
family from positive starvation.
This is largely in metaphor; hereaf-
ter comes a more simple statement.
1t is a fact that your average market
man breads not flies or the maraud-
ing small boy more than Mrs. Newly
wed, when she comes a-marketing. OF
course some freshly married women
are not unsophsticated in the matter
of table purchasing. But, alas, rnaRy
can scarcely distinguish between a
lima bean and a turnip, when the two
are in crude form. These are the
sweet creatures that invariably wreck
the repose of the marketman's pro-
fession. 1t is their first attempt at
buying a meal, as it were, in the raw,
that is most trying to the nerves of all
concerned in the transaction. Some,
according to marketmen's stories, enter
the shop with naughty air, disdainful
Of suggestions, gradually grow angry
over the betrayal Of their own ignor-
ance, stamp their dainty feet in rage,
denounce the tTadesman in no un-
certain terms, as an unmitigated
scoundrel, cheat and brute, and finally
burst into passionate tears and 90
away in a great huff, threatening to
bring down the husband in vengeance
ON the unfortunate marketman. This
is all over the seemingly simple matter
OF ordering dinner. This class of
young housekeepers, tradesmen say, is
the most difficult to deal with. The
statement is easy of belief.
Other young women approach the
marketing with an air OF great
timidlty The wise tradesman learns
their secret at a glance, and is com.
PEELED to coax them along. Such a
woman is likely to skip the whole game
If she becomes involved in difficulties
and the consequences must inevitably
be a table empty of viands when Mr.
Newlywed returns hungry from busi.
ness in the evening, In such cases
ii is only prompt and most gentle sug
gestions and advice on the part of the
marketman that will prevent the do
mestic famine.
Other young women are equally ig
norant but more exacting, Some OF
them have been known to compel tho
storekeeper to cut off a steak, YEA
outlet and possibly some other pros
pective dish so that they might com
pare the three and decide which was
the most preferable piece de resistance
for the evening repast.
1t will be seen from the above that
the marketman needs as much pa
tieDce and tact as an undertaken or q
baseball umpire. AS matter of fact
they seem to be, for the most part
rotund and gentle class. Their as
sociates are generously proportional
sides of beef, plump poultry, stolid
cabbage heads. The atmosphere of the
market is not that Of worry, hustle
haste and attendant bad temper.
1t was with some degree OF trepida.
ton that Maisie approached the mar,
ket for her trial attempt at the house
wifely occupation of purchasing those
things that would eventually consti
tute the repast of her new lord and
master. She had proclaimed to hel
friends that she intended to look Out
for the marketing herself, considering
1t one Of the primary duties of the
careful housewife. And she had sci
out at the task with great confidence
but as she actually came nearer tho
market growing doubtfulness as tC
the result of the task before her crept
into her mind. During the honey
moon she had observed. when she
thought Of 1t, her husbands tastes il
things edible. She now found, how
ever, that she really could not think
Of anything specific that he might
like for dinner.
Once in the market, a line of pur
chasable possibilities which she had
mentally mapped out, faded into con
fusion. About her were huge raw
shapes, strung up to hooks, with q
fringe Of dark-brown hairy skin left
about what appeared to be the necks
of the beasts. They looked to hel
more like skinned wolves than any
thing else Maisie had never seen O
wolf, except in pictures, but she imag
ined that they might look like thai
skinned. Everything about her hat
such skinned and raw appearance thai
they gave her little silver at first
Man, she thought, was not far re
moved from the cannibals, when he
coull cat such things. 1t was with
some relief that Ler eye turned to 9
row Of frech vegetables, each kind IN
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