Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
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If good. plump. sound tomatoes fot
instance. this year. but have not seen
it so stated anywhere. Yet it is a
fact that nowhere in Atlanta, with
perhaps an occasional exception, mas
IL been possible to see the best 81
them on display this season.
The price Of tomatoes In Atlanta
may be the same as the price OF ,
matoes in Nashville, and yet If Nash
willie gets a better tomato for the same
money than Atlanta gets the Atlanta
hOuSekecper Is the loser.
Truck gardeuing seems to have be
come q lost art around and about At
lanta. In the remoter residential sec
lions wagons fresh from the farms
visit households occa siOnally, an
sweet, tender vegetables, fresh eggs,
country butter and the like may De
had but the total sum of this sort OF
shopping in Atlanta is relatively notn-
ing.
Small Store; Big Price.
III a housekecper has to pay even
the downtown price for produce thus
acquired. which she doesn't, she has
saved money. nevertheless. for she
has obtained more wholesome
article of diet more often than not
and she has received 1t fresh from
the farm. besides saving the time
and carfarc of a rip downtown.
she depends upon the neighbor-
hood grocery store for nothing much
more than the small necessities, for
experience has taught her that she
can not expect much more in that
quarter She realizes that the small
.F oil hnThnAI VpuGf
charge a maximum price in order
to live at all She has no possible
quarrel with the neighborhood gro
Cerv-she merely knows it Is not a
particularly inviting place in which
to make her pennies stretch very tar.
What, then. is my remedy? l have
set up numerous objections to shop
ping conditions as they now exist In
Atlanta, and it Is up to me, l sup
pose, to say what | am going TO DO
about IT,
Il can tell you what ! would LlhE
TO do about II, and what | SHOULD
BE able to do about, and the whlch
if | could do about it, could save
myself a pretty sum every month
and get a better quality of food in
my home, moreover!
IT we had in Atlanta big Center
market-or better still, a Center, a
Northern and a Southern marketr-l
could go there and get the best OF
everything the markets AFFORD, ana
get il exactly when. how and after
whatever fashion | desired
In one of these city markets II is
possible TO shop with a maximum or
result. and at a tremendous saving of
time and nerve tissue moreover.
Articles offered for sale in one OF
these markets necessarily are or the
best quality (for the money asked
to be obtained AS kissing goes by
favor. so patronage In big market
where contrasts in displays are I'M
mediately observable, goes to the
most deserving.
'Tt Marketman \ i'm a big market
offers me tomatoes at so much per
dozen or per pound he must make
me the offer in the full and steady
ing knowledge that right next door 10
him, In the neighboring stall, Market
man h also has tomatoes for sale.
Whichever has the best tomatoes for
the price gets my coin!
1t is the same way with cauli-
flower. snapbeans, beats. pickles pre-
serves. cheese and what not over
in the meat and fish stalls the same
rules obtain. Get the point-it is
plain enough
"A shopper can not very well con-
trast the wares of Groceryman a, on
this corner. and Groceryman b, on
yonder corner, two or three blocks
away, for one can not carry things
Of that sort In ones head. But when
they are in a big market side 10y
each as the saying goes, one can tell
mighty quick which is which!
Craftsmanship Inspired.
"A city market inspires and
prompts statesmen to offer only the