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Show Found Grocer Was Honest. "Do you know," a pretty hrldo oY thren months said to a friend the other day, "I tV.Ink all these jokes about young wives linvlng so much trouble with butchers and grocers and being cheated ami all that is Just too foolish." "Then I presume you are getting on all right with yours, dear?" her friend Inquired. "Why, of course I am! Anybody would if they would Just deal at a reliable re-liable place," the young wife declared. "Now, there Is my grocer," sho continued. con-tinued. "Ho is just ns obliging and thoughtful as can be. Tho other day I ordered a dozen oranges and when they eamo I found tltero were hMt 11 In the hug, so when I went to the stnro again I told him so. "'Why, yes, nm'nm,' ho sold, 'I know there were. I hud put In n dozen, but I noticed that one of them was spoiled and of course I couldn't send you any hut the best goods, so 1 took It out.' "Now, don't you think that was nice. In him to ho so thoughtful nnd honest?" hon-est?" shu concluded. Harpor's Weekly |