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Show DIDN'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. Woman Wat Satisfied with "Lamb" Chops That Coat Little. "We don't know what wo are eating eat-ing nowadays," said the New York woman plaintively. "Last Saturday I was in my butcher's getting the Sunday Sun-day roaBt, and the woman who aat beside be-side me was buying Iamb chops: delicious, de-licious, tender-looking ones, at only 16 cents a pound. Now my husband never oats lamb, and I never buy It in consequence; conse-quence; but I knew that thai was an unheard-of price for such chops as those. After tho woman had departed I said to the man who was serving mo: , "How on earth can you afford to sell lamb chops at 16 cents a pound?" "I suppose if I had been a customer who frequently invested In lamb I might still be in Ignoraace of the truth; but as the butchor knew I never bought that variety of meat he was frank about it. "'That isn't lamb,' he said. That's goat.' " |