The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-17
SUNDAYS DINNER PROBLEM SOLVED
 BY MARKET PAGE
New Age-Herald Feature. Gets Marketman and the
 Housewife Acquainted
By JOHN c. MOSES

What shall we have for Sundays s
 dinner?
 Is there home In the big city of Bir-
 mingharn that this question Is not asked
 along toward the tail-end of tine week?
 It is serious proposition to the house.
 wife. Sunday is the day when the fam
 fly generally meets about the table in full
 force On other days of the week, busi-
 ness enters into affairs, and lunch is
 taken downtown at the restaurant or
 hotel by the head of the family. But
 Sundays dinner-that's the dinner which perplexes the whole family.
 Shall we have a roast?" asks mother.
 NO, let's have a roast chicken" speaks up little Willie at the end of the table
 with hankering for the "drumstick' at each carving of fowl. Some other mem Der may suggest another main dish for the meal. At any rate, 1t is all threshed out, and then it's up to mother to make the purchase. Where shall she go? Food stuff is high, and the chances are that it will go still higher If the great strike is pulled off. This question of where to
 look for bargains has been solved. It Is the Saturday market page of The Age Herald. Live merchants, realizing that it Is far easier for the good women of Birmingham to pick up the morning paper ana SCdD Lu6lT CaIuTudy DdTSditlS tlldti IL is to run about downtown seeking bar gains, are advertising their specials in this mornings paper.
 The whole family can read the ad- vertisements, choose what they want in way of vegetables, meats, fish, delicates- l sen and other table delicacies which go | to make up the Sunday meal. It is then an easy matter to step to the phone and
 order what is wanted. The articles off, fered are at bargain prices. The mer- chant wants your trade, and takes this
 mode of getting it.
 In talking with the merchants who ad- vertise from week to week on this Satur- day market page, great satisfaction is expressed as to results. The crowds that are drawn to their different places of business speak for themselves. we are making new customers each week. said a merchant running meat and delicates- sen departments. Women come in with the ads clipped out of the morning paper and ask about the different specials. Others call up over the phone, and are given the same courteous treatment and l just as good values as if they were be- fore the counter picking out choice roast themselves. Our aim is to give honest values and treat all alike And we give | just what we advertise Sometimes we barely come out with profit. But we are making new customers. That's the main point in the advertising game as see it. At any rate we are running a good-sized ad each week, and as long as this page appears on Saturday morning | just so long will you find our ad in it." Some of the vegetable displays are ideal but the prices are high. Don't blame your merchant for this. He is selling just as | low as possible and make a profit. Al
 most every green vegetable now on the market is shipped from great distance The express on these shipments amounts to almost the price such commodities sell for in normal times. Remember, these