The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-05-30
NEW YORK LETTER.
An Ebony Gibson GIrl-Ths New York
Shop Girl "a Type-The Department.
gtoreS--A 4s Cent Banquet
for Twos

gtores--A 4S Cent Banquet
for Twos
New York. N. ". May %. 1908.
Special Correspondence of The Chief.
= genuine old southern ''mammy"
who halls from Virginia and has
somehow drifted into New York and
the kitchen Of Gotham boarding
house. enjoys the distinction OF hav'
ing been the original OF one of Glib
sons famous darky pictures. It may
be remarked in passing shat the real
thing IN the way Of an oid-time negro
OF Ghe south is as rare q specimen
IL New York as Well-ipformed po-
licemao is in New Orleans.
"Yot all sho' am fun de souf,
honeyi'' dubbed the Old nanny when
d recent guest in the house who was
indeed a southerner had occasion to
speak to her and addressed her as
Haunty;'' a. tain nobody in dis yere
place ever call yo' 'aunty. Yo's a
'gal' no matter how ole yo' is-des a
hired gall.
Another "Gibson Girl" Turns Up
"Yo' all ever heah tell o. dem Glib
song gals, honey?" she pursued,
squirting her eyes at her interested
southerner listener. swell, dwelling
with pride-''I's one of 'em, yes sir
rec, is! [ done went down tub Mr..
| Gibsong's stoojo an MIR. Gibsong
hisself done compose ma picture; be
| sho' did,"
"My goodness, aunty!" exclaimed
her listener, heroically restraining
the impulse to laugh, ''there was
great honor for you in that"
'@Dey sho' was, honey, and dey was
a dollah in it fun me, too; yes, Stree,
dey was, case Mr.. Gibsong done gin
me dat dollah hisselfl''
The New York Shop Girl.
The colossal ignorance of some OF
the salesgirls in the big department
stores is little short of appalling,
One of them-a pretty child of abou,
II or Is years with a roseleaf COM
plexion and soulful eyes-gave this
answer to lady who was inquirine
in the basement for some household
necessity:
''We don't keep none OF them nc
more; we amt never had no calls much
for that line of goods, and SO we done
away with it,
''But one of the girls on the main
floor told me I should positively find
it in the BASEMENT frowned the
would purchaser, annoy ance in her
tone.
"Well, she shouldn's OF did it,'
snapped the rose-complected one, "and
you oughter went to the foor-walker
in the first place."
| Department. Stores Educating and Saving
Foremost among the many wonder.
full institutions in this wonderful city
are the big departments stores. Il
would seem that they carry everything
from tooth picks to automobiles, and
to go through one OF them is liberal
| education on human requirements.
| Suppose your immediate need is a
hamburger steak or q new-fangled
health food for tomorrow's breakfast,
or a sack of candy made while you wait:
Into a department store for yours,
and up 80 the nth floor. There you
| will find a regular market with white.
aproned, white-capped butchers busy
as bees in a hive and filing orders as
rapidly as their big cleavers and saws
and knives can go; there you will find
delicatessen, and a pastry shop, and
a grocery. and confectionery, and a
/ fruit stand, while every purchase is
to he had a few cents cheaper than
you could get it at any of these sepa-
rate places outside OF q department
stores
! Solves the Servant G2rl":"
AS for the delicatessen proposition
/ it is the one solution of the servant
problem. The most delicious and ap-
petizing edibles all cooked and pre-
| pared for serving, are temptingly
displayed along counter, and the
servantless housewife reviews them
carefully and shops for her dinner
just as she would for her ribbons or
her handkerchiefs or her spring suit.
| A 48 Cent Feast for Two.
The following menu, amply supply
ing two people, would entail an actual
expenditure of 48 cents:
Stuffed crabs
Roast beef
Italian spaghetti Potato salad
Cup custard.
The crabs would cost cents each; the
| roast beef 10 cents for a big, generous
slice; the little pan of spaghetti, deli
cately Drowned and crusted with
| grated cheese, 6 cents; small bowl of
potato salad holding more than suf1i-
cient for two, 8 cents; and the cup GUS
tard cents per cup, making total of
48 cents. Furthermore, everything is
daintily and attractiYely put up, prop
erly cooked and seasoned, and pleas
ing to the eye as we'll as the palate.
A Forest Camp in City's Heart.
On one floor of a leading department
store certain space has been por-
toned off for the display of necessi-