River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-14
THE BUTCHERS BOY KNOWS
When Young Man Wants Informa-
ton About His Girl, Inquire
of Him.

Say, I want your advice" said the
man to the woman old enough to be
his mother, relates the Chicago In
ter Ocean. 'You know I'm thinking
OF asking a certain young woman to
marry me-maybe you didn't know it,
but | am. Although / think great
deal of her, in some ways l don't
know her at ALL She's always nice and
sweet to me, but sometimes I've felt
that she put on her company manners
when I'm around Now, do you sup
pose if | talked with her mother l
could find out more about her real dis
position?"
No, sir" said the woman. eff you
want to know the true nature of your
divinity, just consult the butcher or
the grocer who takes and delivers or
ders at her house. l don't mean the
head of the firm, but the poor clerk
who does the order work. Somehow
women get into the habit of thinking
that the man who appears at the back
door every morning is one Of the fam
lily, and act accordingly. The girl who
appears in the parlor in natty waist
and trim skirt, will SLOUGH out into
the kitchen and appear to the butch
er's boy in spotted kimona and a
skirt that hangs every which way.
She'll scold her mother or sister be-
fore him, she'll talk over private
affairs before him-yes, she may even
talk him down for not bringing what
was ordered in a manner which you
would not consider ladylike.
'I don't mean to say that this par
ticular girl would do all those things,
but that these are the things which
women allow themselves to do when
the order man is in the kitchen. I
know one woman who always met the
vegetable man with her hair stream
ing down her back. He used to come
just as che was dressing, and she never
stopped to arrange her hair before she
saw him. Another woman acquaintance
of mine thinks nothing of tripping
down to give her meat order before
she puts on her dress skirt To be
sure, she wraps herself in short XII
mona, and her petticoats are always
things of beauty, but she is not just
the sort of woman I would want to
marry.
Another thing. Tthose fellows who
come into the kitchen every morning
are very observant, and they can give
you some idea of the disposition of the
women they see daily. They will tell
you that one woman is too familiar
with her cook, and that another is
too unreasonable with the second girl.
They point out that woman is far
from neat, because she is not careful
about her utensils when she cooks.
They know when the young woman OF
the family comes dawdling in to break.
fast every morning, and they prompt
ly put her down as lazy. They notice
how this same young woman does her
little tasks in the kitchen, and have
decided opinion as to whether she is
good housekeeper or not. They tell
by her manner of saying good morn
ing to them whether she is alert, brave
and womanly, or whether she is
slouchy, whining and fussy.
$50 be advised by me, and II you
want to know just what sort of girl
your sweetheart is, get acquainted with
the grocer's or butchers clerk who
takes orders at her house
Sang of Nero.
A school-teacher at Three Rivers
asked her pupils the other day who
Nero was. The only response came
from a little fellow who held up his
hand. Arthur" said the teacher, "do
you know who Nero was?" Yes.
ma'am," he answered, proudly, "he's
the one we sing about in our Sunday