HOW SHE SHOPS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 783, 5 April 1910, Page 3

HOW SHE SHOPS.

The difference between the way men end women shop was brought homo to me_the other day (writes/.'Christina" in •Tho Australasian"). It was at a poulterer's. My friend and I had gone in to buy a pair of ducks. The birds were produced, and Mrs. M— looked them over disparagingly, and then' began to ask the shopman questions innumerable •"When they were killed?" "How old they were? Had they been on ice?" "Were they young?" "Didn't he think they were frightfully dear?" etc. All .these the young , man parried, and parried well. Then sfie turned to me,■• and was truly indignant when I would venture no,opinion, as poultry (other people's poultry) is not my strong point. She felt .hrsf.this bird and then that, raised many, many objections, -and at length was really disturbed in her mind because she couldn't male it up. Should she, after all, get ducks, she wondered aloud. After ,a quarter of an hour or more at the counter, during which the-assistant's patieuce was so nearly exhausted that I thought he pretty soon might be throwing those ducks at my friend, a man came in. "A fowl, please." "Yes, sir. This one four ehilliiigs, sir." "Wrap it..up"—and the man was gone. Mrs. M ; — gazed after the vanishing, customer, amazed. "I'll take those ducks,'' said, she firmly; "wrap them'up!" and luckily we were soon out of that shop, Sunday's supper and all "How was it?" I inquired. "The contrast just flashed upon me," was all she said. •.'•'-. . . ..'.''.

A detachment of the Lady Yeomany • Corps paraded in Hyde Park, London, and afterwards •. went on a' recruiting march through'the west end. Eight ladies answered the roll call,' six on horseback;' and two riding in an ambulance- wagon. Twenty Frontiersmen also vparaded, and rode at the head of the procession. The parade was watched with interest by a large number of people.