Show As Oyekr Openers If women cant make clams neither can they open oysters or at least I wish they wouldnt try There is a pale browhaired little widow who has started a fish market in New York and ladies carriages stop at her door and busy men check their footsteps foot-steps because they pity her with three or seven towheads hanging to the strings and the skirts of her neat white apron And she cleans cod or whitebait slowly but cleans it very clean When one asks for oysters and she takes up the knife her hands look very small and four or six youngsters tumble on the sawdust and the bivalve shuts his tongue behind his teeth with an air of stern resolve She gets the oetter of him but it takes time takes so much of it that all the other oysters in tho basket fall victims to an epidemic of lockjaw When we want Blue Points in a hurry for dinner we send after them day before yesterday for wo are softhearted folks we New Yorkers and who could buy elsewhere when the little widows lips are white and five or two urchins squall |