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BIaikie.. Barrain i'm Eggs.
How much are those eggs?"
sTWelye and a half cents"


How much are those eggs?"
twelve and a half cents"
Blake gasped, says the Chicago
News. He had stepped into a grocery
in a little town of Eastern Texas,
about a hundred miles north of Hous-
ton. This happened in January, and
the morning was so warm and sum-
merry that to Blake. fresh from the
icebound North, the situation was COW
cred with glamour. AS he gazed at
the beautiful. glistening, clean eggs
spread out before him he reflected that
there wasn't such a thing as a cold
storage warehouse anywhere within
reach of that market-and the thought
went to his head.
Say" he exclaimed, with a sudden
inspiration; what would it cost me to
ship a case homer"
"TwO-tifty a hundred" the grocer
told him, and the next FIVE minutes
were spent in Weighing eggs and fig
uring.
AT $3.50 a hundred pounds" an
nounced Blake, then, "a case of thirty
dozen eggs can be expressed for about
SIPS. At 1872 cents a dozen the eggs
themselves will come to 1915. That's
s. altogether. Thirty dozen eggs at
~ CeillS-lIle DIlC6 we re paying up
North for so-called fresh eggs-would
come to $12, and like as not they would
do it,"
len days later his business trlp end
ed, Blake walked into his own home.
suppose the eggs have come? z"
was one of his first questions. But
they hadn't, and, to Blaikie's disap-
polntment, when he told his story his
wife refused to show any enthusiasm
over the house wifery zeal he had dis
played in Texas. The same thing has
happened to Blake before. In fact.
he never yet made benevolent effort
TO help Mrs. Blake keep house with
out getting a discouraging backset.
But ne always forgives and foreets-
only to have her attitude of reserve in
the matter fill him anew with grieved
surprise.
1T would be rather expensive for
me to take trip to Texas every time
we needed eggs was her chief COM
ment on the egg purchase.
Now, my dear" protested Blake.
please be reasonable. I'm not finding
tault with your method of buying pro-
VISIONS, but this is just little object
lesson. It's an example of the way a
woman could save money for her hus-
band by keeping on the lookout for
chances"
Every night after that-until he was
ashamed to do it again-Blaikie asked
If the eggs had come. He asked seven
times, and meanwhile wrote a letter
to the Texas grocer.
Then, when two days had passed
without the inquiry, Mrs Blaikie said
casually one evening, at dinner: "Oh
those eggs came to-day"
Blake was attentive at once
The eXpressman made Mary take
them all out and count them before
ne left, she continued in even tones
The case was nine dozen short. and
OF the rest, fifty-seven were broken.
Mary had to burn up all the little
pasteboard racks and wash all the
eggs that weren't smashed 1t took
nearly half the day. And the express
charges were $40"
Blake didn't say much at first
While dessert was being brought in he
slipped an envelope out of his pocket
and made some figures on it, Sixteen
dozen and three eggs had been saved
from the wreck. That fact, with the
added express charges, raised the price
dozen.
HIM" he remarked to himself Rut
his brow cleared as he took the first
taste OF his favorite floating island =
Well, my dear he said, cheerful
~ these eggs came a little high.
put we're going to get our money back
IN enjoyment When before have we
mad any egg that would furnish us a
dish like that? You can notice the
difference in a minute"
OH And Mrs. Blaikie showed him
the first springlike smile she had worn
since his return from Texas. This
custard is made of some eggs 1 bought
at the grocery yesterday. The price
dropped last week, you know, and the
strictly fresh are only 35 cents now.
But I'm sorry 1 have any on hand
nice as they are-because, of course
your object lesson eggs are nearly
three weeks older than they were when
you bought them and they really ought
to be used as soon as possible"