The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-03-30

Ills IS tue uelecldple sedson Nhth
all the spring vegetables are just
about to make their appearance In
The market.
To get directly down to it. Betty
and ! were looking for strawberries
and that is why we arose with the sun
and went amarketing early In the
morning.
SO early was it that the market folk
had scarcely rubbed their eyes and
only here and there an overly indus
trious marketman was laying out his
stock in trade and getting ready for
The day.
And
While the butchers and the vegetable
men were in measure wide awake,
because they have early patrons-peo-
pie who have to go early TO avoid the
rush-they looked like they wished they
might have slept another good hour
and then been able to sleep some more
II they only had the chance.
Some one had suggested that if we
really wanted nice strawberries at this
season we'd have to rise with the early
bird because there were lots of par
ties going on and Strawberries were
tile only uelitdcN HOW lHdl HnlSH Ut
rated as a novelty"
1t was somewhere east of brea l<fast
when we boarded the street car that
carried us to our destination and While
there were few who looked as fresh
as the morning sun We were the only
ones who were sleepy.
Most of our fellow passengers We
gathered from the scraps OF conversa-
ton were people employed in shops
a
The girls were all bright eyed and
spic and span and shiny ana friendly
with each other and the men did't have
"A Crouch
1.-THE early morning crowd is friend
lier,' Betty commented, as she glanced
labout. "One drink OF the morning air
makes the whole world kin. Think
that's it?"
Il had rather come 10 the conclu-
sion that it was the work that was the
bond between them all"
Women who play since play is the
most serious problem of all, never seem
sto establish the friendship that work
ing girls form with one another in less
sihan five minutes time after they've
met
Work is community of interest
Play is an acquired taste and those
who play hardest are generally those
who are too much bored with their
pastimes to discuss them unless it is
absolutely necessary to Justify ones &C.
cupation.
Betty and I Joined woman who
goes to market regularly at an early
hour every single blessed morning of
her life. rain or shine.
1t was She who gave us many char
acter sketches as we mingled With the
strange. assorted crowd.
s.-f, f,.fA cafH ~
and ! halted near the stall of BUTCH
ser who looked exactly like butcher"
Betty was saying.
"All butchers do" said the lady who
was making the personally conducted
tour with us. It's his conversation l
want to hear
lie sold the first customer a soup
bone in English
Next came a perfectly good German
woman who bought roast in Ger
man
Afterward came a perfectly good
Dago and the butcher answered her.
inquiring remarks in the dialect of
his particular quarter and so in turn
seven different customers drifted in in
less than 10 minutes, each speaking
a language that was new to US but
not to the butcher.
ITS ola pedrida," said Betty, all
right, all right But why butcher?
should think llnSulst such as TINS
butcher is would be head master in
some school of languages
One would naturally think so.
Words We're only words to him no
matter what language they came FROM
Apparently he knew them all
In a former incarnation, Betty
speculatively observed. who knows2
lie might have butchered for the tower
of Babel workers"
Whether he did or not he's admir-
ably fitted for the work to make clear
confusion of tongues.
We bought all the strawberries we
wanted and this disposed of, we made
the rounds with our friend whom we'd