The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-02-03
ORDERING FOOD BY
PHONE SAVES CASH
Detroit Housewife Hands Hard
Knock To Plan of Going To Market
or Stores for Supplies.

group of Detroit hOusekeepers
we're discussing the high price of low
ing and the increased price of house
hold necessities from rolled oats to
squad.
II was reading nm article i'm a mag
aZine the other day wherein the writer
said that ii women would go 60 mar
ket like our mothers and grandInoth
ers used to DO instead Of ordering from
the grocer and the butcher by tele-
phone, housekeeping bills wOulc not
be SO large remarked one during a
pause in az argument between two OF
the group over the assertion of we'll
known cooking authority that In lots
.of cake recipes water is as good as
eggs. Il don't agree with the writer
and / have tried both"
We'll. Why? Tell us about II, for
goodness sake, for | certainly would
like 10 know your secret of always
having a good table, and you have
the reputation OF making a dollar go
farther than most of us" broke in an
other who had been reciting a tale Of
woe about paying the highest price for
the baby's milk and having IL turn souI
three times In one week
"All right. I'll tell all ! know" laugh.
cd the magazine reader pleasantly.
"Well, about a dozen times last sum
mer | got up very early I'm the morn
Ing. and with my oldest boy 10 help
with the basket went 20 the eastern
market for vegetables and fruit From
our house out here In the north end
10 the market is long ride. so II was
noon before we ever got back When
our vegetable peddler came along |
made Ii a point TO ask his price on the
same things | purchased at the mar
ket. and in every instance | found |
paid exactly the same price with lual
ity and freshness I'm favor OF the ped
der. would like 10 remark that our
pedder buys particularly good stuff
and IS such n neat. thrifty young man
that il is a pleasure TO deal with him
Bv the time I added on our 30 cents
carfare | found that ! not only had
spent moro for my stuff at the market.
hut had wasted a whole mornings
timT and tired both myself and my
hoy. Juggling the baskets home Well,
t..an, still bent on economy. / tCiCd go
ing to the central market for meat
with the same result. ! want TO say
very emphatically that | never got a
good piece Of meat in that dirty and
iIl-smelling market that | could not
no right over TO a good. clean butcher
department or store and buy cheaper
ard in more agreeable surroundings.
That ended my going TO market In the
GOOD old.fashioned way | decided life
was too short, when / could have my
supplies delivered right at my door for
the same money.
We'll. then. | thought perhaps
could save still more by going TO the
store myself instead Of ordering by
phone but alas and alack. when | got
to the store and saw a tempting array
of fruits and vegetables and new
breakfast cereals and French chops
and all sorts OF delicious. but expen-
sive things. both in and out Of sea
son, I found ! was adding this and
that TO my order in the most prodigal
manner. OF course none of il was
wasted and thief family enjoyed It, but
there we're lots of articles that we
could have done without had / not
seen them Now, / make out my list
of necessities, go to the phone. ask
tho price and order if think the price
asked is rs cheap as ! could get the
same article in an equally reliable
store. and | want to say that | have
proven 10 my own satisfaction and by
my account hooks that l save money
thereby"
As the little lady stopped for breath
nearly everyone in the group agreed
that when they came to think about
It. her experience had been their own
at one time or another.
81 would like TO say Just one last
word" she resumed. Don't deal at
tho nearest, but at the Cheapest store.
quality considered. | find that il pays,
a hundredfold to watch newspaper adj
vertisements and also to buy -four and
sugar and everything else that one can
I'm quantities, for many a dollar Is
saved in this way"