The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-19

to the best tables because the shippers from out of town have superseded the home growers, finding a more profitable and an easier market than the latter
 A telephone message came this week from one of the youngest housekeepers on the South Highlands. Cant you" she said, suggest something to encour- age the patronage of our market over in the Twenty-eighth street vicinity We have just induced the farmers to send or bring their wagons to the playground over here; it is an excellent location and now Fl we need to make 1t a go Is patronage Some have found it out and are sending their servants as early as 6:S0 in the morn- ing to purchase, others go themselves rearer o'clock, and it is a splendid thing! The vegetables. eggs and fraits are really excellent and prices reasonable. If we can get all the neighbors about here 10 patrorize it l think 1t will prove a tremendous comfort"
 This is a young peoples neighborhood. Most of the houseksepers of Twenty eighth street, as almost every one knows, are brides, very young married folk, and these are the most earnest of all hcusekeepers. So if on your way to town some early morning you should meet Mrs. Joseph Walker or Mrs. Roy Knight, Mrs, Francis Latady Mrs. Louis Underwood, Mrs. Saxton Crawfori-any of these in
 
 locking as fresh and sweet as the morn- iEg-you may know she is on the lookout for something really fresh and tempting for her table, and that she is adding en- eouragement to the truckers.
 In that section is most interesting group of women and they are all enthus- iastic over the market plan. Among them are Mrs. Rivers Carter. Mrs. Winfield Ridley, Mrs. Robert Hemphill, Mrs. Mat thew Murphy, Mrs. Frederick Phillips. Mrs. Norborne Cooke, Mrs. c. P. Beddow, Mrs. G. R. Harsh, Mrs. F. M. Jackson, Mrs. F. M. Joy, Mrs. E. J. McCrossin, Mrs. Henry DeBerdelaben. Mrs. Prentss Reed. Mrs. Maben, Mrs w. F. Montgom- cry, Mrs. Charles Scott and a number of others who are willing to do anything they can to make the market, as one of them called it, "go."
 
 At Five Points the plan has been suc- cessfully followed all summer. People come from blocks around and, in neigh borly fashion, discuss the why and where flores of cantaloupes and corn; assist each other in the selection of chickens and enjoy a fine post-prandial discussion of all sorts of matters irrelevant to foods and consumers.
 A number of men have formed the habit of stopping by to personally assist in the filling of the market basket as
 
 by the chauffeur. It Is becoming a fav- orite wifely attention to walk down as far as Five Points with one's husband and select from the farmers outlay so, with the morning meeting in this fash ion, of people who know each other wall as people do on the Highlands. the mar ket is growing into a sort of morning rendezv.us
 A phy ,ician and suffragist matron were talking'in friendly fashion over her basket the other day when a particularly choice yellow hen which she had pur- chased and was proudly carrying in her basket gave terrified squawk, leaped out of the basket and flew madly away "back to the farm" perhaps. The doctor pursued and after an admirable display of strategy, succeeded in rounding up" the truant He handed it back with a polite bow and wound up his anti-suffra ge argument with the words, Well. if couldn't catch an old yellow hen that has both feet tied together I wouldn't feel competent to cast a vote"
 And violinst whose playing has charmed many music lovers who rhap- sodize over his 'temperant' and ''soul' and all those vague qualities ascribed to really excellent musicians, had stopped by on his way downtown, violin case in hand, and was buying a large bunch of onions for girl who had said she would love to have just one. And as the girl continued her walk carrying the votive offering of the soulful violinist, the marketers heard a bachelor whom she met along the way gaily call to her, Eat an apple day and keep the doctor away; eat an onion day and keep every body away
 So the early inarketers down at Five Points are getting lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of the new venture. just as they are in the other places distributed over the district. Among the number who have been there or sent during the week are Mrs. E. H. R. Flood, Mrs. John L. Raul. Mrs. J. B. Head. Mrs Culpepper Exum. Mrs. John H. Edmonson. Mrs. w. Y.,Qill, Mrs. Enos Stewart. Mrs. F. F. shsdecor. Mrs. Henry Diil. Mrs. Edward