Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

~ good. plump. sound tomatoes, f7
instance. this year, but ] have not seer
il SO stated anywhere. Yet IL is
fact that nowhere in Atlanta, witt
perhaps an occasional exception, ha
IL been possible 10 see the best .
them on display this season.
The price Of tomatoes In Atlanta
may be tho same as the price Of >
mutoos in Nashville, and yet If Nash
willie gets better tomato FOR the SAM
money than Atlanta gets the Atlanls
housekceper iS the loser.
Truck gardening seems to have be-
come lost art around and about At
l4nta. In tho rrmuter residential $50.
tiuna wagons fresh from the farn'
/ visit households ogra SlOnally an
sweet. tender vegetables fresh eggs
country butter and the Ike may Dc
hld-but the total sum OF this sort o.
shopping in Atlanta is relatively nOtn
Ing
Small Store; Big Price.
"If a housckecper has to pay ever
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 IL fresh from
the farm. besides saving the time
and carfarc Of rip downtown.
"Shc depends upon the neighbor-
hood grocery store for nothing much
more than the small necessities, foi
experience has taught her that she
can not expect much more III tina
quarter. she realizes that the SINAI
grocery Of the neighborhood must
s44... .Fsf.s
to live AT all. She has no possible
quarrel with the ueighborhood gro
cery-she merely knows il Is not q
particularly inviting place in which
to make her pennies stretch very far
what, then is my remedy J nav,
set up numerous objections to shop
ping conditions as they now exist IN
Atlanta, and IL is up to me, ! sup
pose, 10 say what ! am going to dc
about IT,
Il can tell you what I would Llk
to do about It, and what | SHOULD
BE able to do about, and the WhicH
if could do about it, could save
myself pretty sum every month
and get a better quality OF 1000 II
my home moreover!
IF we had In Atlanta big Center
marllct-or. better still, Center. q
Northern and Southern market
could go there and get the best OF
everything the markets afford ano
get it exactly when, how ana aitei
whatever fashion | desired.
In one Of these city markets II Is
possible to shop with a maximum oi
result. and at a tremendous saving OF
time and nerve tissue, moreover
Articles offered for sale in one oil
these markets necessarily are OF the
best quality CfOr 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.
IF Marketman A In a big market
offers me tomatoes at SO much per
dozen or per pound, he must make
me the offer i'm the full and steady
ing knowledge that right next door to
him, in the ueiEhboring stall, Market
man Il also has tomatoes for sale
Whichever has the best tomatoes FOR
the price gets my coin!
1T is the same way with Cauli
flower snapbeaus, 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 wen CON
trast the wares of GrOceryman A, on
this corner, and Groceryman Il, on
wonder corner. two or three blocks
away. for one can not carry things
of that sort in ones head. But when
they are in big market, side by
each as the saying goes, one can tel
mighty quick which is which!
SaIesmsnship Inspired.
"A city market inspires and
prompts statesmen to offer only the