MARKETING

Waipawa Mail, Volume 2, Issue 135, 27 December 1879, Page 3

MARKETING

A correspondent of the Shrewsbury Chronicle writes : —More weekly marketing might be done. The farmers who the markets regularly aggregjfltaft «eaht, the sum o? their yearly rents, when they work in a business way. Much is sold in the markets, that, to a tarry-at-home man or woman, would he little better than waste. It is, however, for the most part, women's work, for they can do a great deal better than men can do. Well-to-do, and unexceptionally respectable farmers’ w ires, frequent hirerpuol markets; but they, sad to say, are of a dying out generation. The new race, the rising race, are •hive retail, and blush at the sight of their mother’s marketing aprons. Mam’selle, to any suggestion of maiketing, quickly replies, 44 Ma, I’ll do housework, hut to be a vendeuse." as our French teacher would say, je ne la serai pas,” which under heavy emphasis on pas, signifies I’ll be -r'll. This is fact, not a farmer who married f a farmer. She deg to market ; but he

and insisted that if his mother and sister had marketed, there could be no good reason why she should not ; and he clinched it by " market you must.” There were sobbings and sighings, and out-bursts of bellering; but to no purpose. To market she must go, and to market ahe went, in a silk dress, and w'ith her hands in tight kids. She was a phenomenon in the stalls, attracted, did well, and at last slid right nicely into her proper place, and into the lasting regard of her husband. This lady’s sister married also. Her man was a flaccid fellow, and she speedily ruined him.