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Show I IV1AYOR GAYNOR'S NEW HOBBY Mayor Gaynor and more than a i"'n.ousiind members of the Housewives Ee-gue, the new organization of market mar-ket basket progressives, took possession posses-sion of Washington market the other da ajid inaugurated the new era by waich it is hoped to show the middle-. middle-. mat he is deriving an unholy profit and to educate the New York housewife house-wife In the domestic science of buy-Vnjr buy-Vnjr first hand. The campaign among the house-wires house-wires has been going on for many weeks, but this gathering marked the dy.t big demonstration that brought tn market almost a thousand women who had never been there before and who were treated to a series of surprises sur-prises in the way of lower prices and , riaoicer cuts. The entire market was in gala dress aid the butchers and green grocers as splc and span as so many bridegrooms. Every man of them had a bloom in the buttonhole of his linen Yv' l ' Jacket, was shaved and powdered and pomaded and wore his hundred candle Do-wer Brulle. For It was really the biggest day in the hundred years since the Wash-gton Wash-gton market was established. It was a greater day than all other days because the Housewives league 15(3,000 strong is establishing a new era for the houaewife and sending her ont to do her own marketing where foodstuff are the cheapest and where . tbre Is a greater variety- to select from. ysijvr Gaynor mingled with the throngs of purchasers, Jollying the stall-"epeTH, stall-"epeTH, asking Innumerable questions and enjoying himself in the thorough I i. Maine Gaynor method. , ' - i' 'r !"!; "iff- )-!: |
