The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-05

roast, have your butcher remove the
 bone, roll the meat and include a piece l or lat, and deliver You the bone also.
 Your roast will serve for several meals. First warm. then cold, hash, and may | De a few croquets; thu trimmings, with
 the remnants of gravy combined with the bones; 1-cent soup bunch and a can of tomatoes will make a good soup.
 and you have gotten the full worth of your $105.
 If the details of buying and preparing were given more accurate attention we would not feel so mucn the high prices: we could afford to give the better profit to the laborer and still not suffer at home.
 There is more talk among the mass
 or housekeepers abou< the expense of living than a real understanding of how to reduce the amount required. This business of dispensing the family income requires as much intelligence as
 making the living. In fact, the income Is very dependent on the "outgo." There IS poor encouragement 10 keep on mak- ing without the germ o> saving
 Leaving out the financial phaze of if think of the comfort resulting from good
 management. and the time saved. When tfe buying for the day, week or month Is through with and the plans for the day are well decided, you have the foun- dstlon to days work, and the re-
 mainder of the time to meet the de-
 mands of social or less urgent duties. We require from buildings. as from
 men, two kinds of goodness. First, the doing their practical duty well, then that they be graceful and plea asing in doing it, which last is itself another form of duty"
 Birmingham will soon have her sys- tenn of markets. It will be interesting to note just what value 1t will be to the public-like carrying a horse to water and not being able to make him drink. The market Is all right, and in every city 1t is interesting to visit the
 stalls and see just what the local mar kets afford-and 1t Is valuable to com pare prices and qualities of produce Our women have got to be educated to adapting themselves to the market hours to make it a useful community asset, and we sometimes wonder if
 they are going to adjust their system
 to the community sought after. If
 not the market in itself will be a
 failure and those who have something
 to sell will be discouraged.
 Now that the ordinance has been ap- proved and passed it is the duty of the
 housekeeper to prove its worth-not
 only as a matter of convenience and economy to them, but as an investment to our truckers.
 We read a very good story of two vendors who had something to sell. One had Irish potatoes, fresh from the soil, with good part of the dirt clinging to the potato.
 He cried out his prices vigorously and the neighbors peeped in on the stock, but he made no sales. The other followed closely behind. His potatoes were washed and carefully dried, and his stock showed he had prepared them for market and he made quick sales, xxr1, To fba oil 4,.fp good had no idea of the demands of the buyers. So it will be with the mar ket. Much will depend on the pres entation of the stock and the general arrangement of his delivery wagon, in order to make the sales.
 The change from buying over the telephone to seeing before buying has to be gradual and the result of sys- tematic efforts on the part of a few There, too, buying for cash is another radical change in the beginning>-in- convenient, maybe, at first but once accustomed to win be the means of great saving and method of securing better prices. These points will have to be considered before we realize the real value of central market.
 Now that the market is a certainty it must be a success, and 1t is the duty of Birmingham housekeepers to make it so. There must be a habit meet me at the market"--and an ex- change of shopping experiences that will create enthusiasm, and 1t will take enthusiastic interest to reduce expenses, market or no market. Nothing is ever accomplished that is not given the best service that Is minus. Time and tide waits for no man." and plan as we will there will be nothing availed with out push and executive influences,-l whether in building or buying. Things have their laws. as well as men; and things refuse to be trifled with"