European Housekeeping

To an American, accustomed to the loose methods and wasteful habits of her country and people, there ara few things more interesting and genuinely amazing than the thrift, the economies, the ways of European households, says Lippincott's. Mrs. C, we will say, has taken a furnished house in London. j She considers herself a good manager at home. She is determined not to be cheated abroad. She gets up in the morning and, finding the day chilly, she decides to order coal and kindling. She gives an order accordingly that makes her coal merchant lout low and smile with brown-sugared sweetnesa, while her cook stares, and, if she be an honest woman, cries out: "All that, mem? Where ever shall we put 'em? "What ever shall we do with iem?" She 'ears that she has made a mistake, havïng plenty of American cleverness and adaptabüity. She rescinds half the order. The tradesman's face is a study now. His expression changes wonderfully, and so does his manner. The barometer has stood at "servile" and "obsequious." It drops to "civil disgust" toward her, while he flings a look of hatred at cook as he leaves the room, which interpreted means: "You fooi! You miserable marplot! What da you get by being so idiotie as to have a conscience? Wliy aidn't you let her give a big order and steal nobly and get your commission?" But Mrs. C. does not understand it at all.