The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-15
Man's Wanner Of Supplying Larder
 AmuSIng When He Goes A-DHarketlng
Just Buys Everything In Sight-Bacheor Quarters Womans Work Rather Hard
 to Accomplish
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

, the others who kept house before this
 one,n the tclerk said. "The first one came | in every morning and ordered nothing but vegetables The second week the housekeeper ordered all sorts of fruit
 and nearly starved the others to death.
 This one evidently does not care for | either of those things, but is daffy about
 meats-and so that Is the way it goes i About two hours from now the cook will come back with half of that meat and exchange It for pepper and salt. and but ter and such things that men house.
 Keepers never think of. When I go home 1 at night and tell my wife about it she l nearly dies laughing"
 Finishing my order I started out of the grocery store and meeting a woman | friend of mine immediately retaied the | incident to 'her-being a perfectly good | gossip-and of course this brought on more talk. My friend said laughingly: Speaking of men marketing and keep l ing house, l recall an episode that oc- cured in the menage of very dear friend of mine Her husband was forever boast | ing of how easy it was to keep house. | nothing, in fact, easier than playing tid- l dly-winks or parchesi-and how much
 more economically he could do it if he 1 just wasn't the breadwnner and could give his attention to it'
 Doesn't that sound exactly like a | man?" I questioned. "I hope he had it | to do some day and bankrupted himself
 and everything connected with him." Tt was almost as bad as that laugh ingly replied my friend. "The wife of his 1 heart lay sick of fever shortly after ] this, and as his children were all too | small to do the housekeeping MT. Smarty
 had the mantle to descend upon his shoul- ! ders.
 "Go on; I'm dying to hear the end of it." l said, enthusiastically.
 Well you may be-" continued my | friend. For 1t was sad regime and | a strenuous one, and nine cooks resigned
 during his reign. "rd stay" said one of | the dusky damsels, "but MT. John he ! don't buy me nothin' to cook wid, sch
 as lemons and spices and butter and all | dem things what adds to seasonngs. But l he jes' buys stacks of meat and tomatoes | lease Mr John, he likes dat kin of eat ings. The husband set out bravely l enough at first, the wife told me, when l she recovered but before his time was | out she could hardly live on the place with him. When the poor soul got well
 she actually had a relapse trying to
 straighten out her household affairs, not l to speak of her bills.'
 | "I think it served him exactly right 1 I said vociferously, flor being such a 1 Miss Nancy as to wanc to keep house. 1 It's no place for man, anyway. 1 That's what the next cook told my l friend when she took charge of her house.
 keeping again." said the lady who had l been telling the story. Tn fact she said l she was almost disrespectful, and cer- 1 tainly had a Bernard Shaw sense of hu- 1 nor when she said:
 "'Y's, I'll take de place providin' de l gemmun of de house don't never come l in de kitchen. Hits no place for men | folks, no way. In fac, dey Is like trash | sweep 'em out in de mawnin and don't | let 'em come back till night | And"
 l My friend took her advice and they lived happily ever afterwards, as they l say in the story books