The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

Il have solved a perplexing prob
| lem" said the girl who keeps house
for her bachelor brother.
You know, l do all the marketino.
for the house myself. I am of age
but suppose that 1 look inexperienced
in the eyes of the butcher, the markat
man, and the grocer. At any rate
know that until recently l was
dreadfully taken in almost every time
1 bought anything. l paid more than
the market price for groceries and
everything else and did not always get
the best quality at that.
"One of my married friends told ma
that the trades people always looked
at a woman customers hand to see
whether she wore a wedding ring. II
they saw that she did, they presumed
that she knew something about meats
and vegetables and that sort of thing
and were afraid to try to deceive her
1 thought over what she said and the
next time 1 went to market 1 turned
my ring around so that the seal was
on the inside. and the ring looked like
the plain gold band which denotes
matrimOny.
TT worked like a charm. When
was ordering anything I kept my left
hand in such a position that the ring
was prominently displayed before the
eyes of the shoDkeeper. Since I
adopted the plan we have had the
best of everything in the market and at
prices averaging about 10 cents less on
the dollar than 1 had been paying for
inferior merchandise"
You are not the only one who has
found that it is sometimes better to
be mistaken for a married woman"
said the girl who works in an office in
the business district.
1T often happens that my work
keeps me at the office until or 8
o'clock in the evening. This is not al
together unpleasant, for coming home
at that hour / escape the crowds which
make street car riding at the rush
hour a thing to be dreaded, but more
than once / have been selected by
some 'masher' as the object of his de-
cidedly unwelcome intentions.
by preserving stony rigidity Of
demeanor and utterly ignoring the eX-
istence of the 'masher' I am usually
safe from annoyance, but even this
plan does not always work. So now
l keep a book at the office, and when
l am detained 1 read it on the car
turning my ring around until it looks
like wedding ring and holding the
book in my left hand. A woman who
is absorbed in book is a discouraging
proposition to the most persistent
'masher,' and one glance at what he
supposes to be a wedding ring on the
hand which holds the book will COM
plete his discontinue. know several
other girls who have adopted the same
plan and it work beautifully"
Il did not have so good a reason for
resorting to subterfuge as either OF
you two, but my venture worked just
as successfully as yours" chimed IN
the girl who is studying music.
Il was with two other girls on
shopping tour which ended in one of
the big department stores. OF course,
each of use bought any number OF
things that we had no idea of buying
when we started out, and when lunch
time came we counted uD our cash
and found that we had hardly more
than enough money among us to pay
our car fare back home.
You can readily imagine that when
we found that we did not have enough
money for luncheon we Immediately
became desperately hungry. In the
basement of the store they were haV-
ing a demonstration of a new -four
and were cooking the most delicious
looking biscuits. These were served
with tea and honey to the women who
were watching the demonstration, ana
we Immediately concluded that we
would get our luncheon there without
it's costing us anything at ALL
But we saw a sign which stated
that only married women would be
served with the biscuits, honey ana
tea which we SO desired. One OF the
other girls suggested the same plan
that you two adopted and, turning our
rings around. we marched UP boldly
to the counter and were served Win
out question. Perhaps it was hardly
honest but we We're all three hungry.
and the proprietor of the store had
got all of our money for other things
so we did not let that question inter
fere with our enjoyment of the bis
cults and honey"