There are two ways of marketing or buying groceries in vogue, both of which have ardent advocates. By the one, and this is largely practised by the women of Mexico and France, the housekeeper buys just what is needed for the day, no more, no less, and when night comes her store room is as bare as that of the historic Mother Hubbard on a certain occasion. The other might be called the American way, though it follows it pretty closely the fashion set by our English cousins. A housekeeper, who believes in this way of marketing, buys her provisions almost at wholesale - that is, sugar and flour by the barrel, butter by the firkin, and canned goods by the dozen.

The Mexican woman brings home her food supplies, of all kinds for the day, in a small gourd cup holding less than a quart. The French woman buys the wings and perhaps the second joints of a fowl. The English or American woman, of the same class, would be unwilling to ask for less than a pair of fowl, and very likely would add a ham or a pickled tongue. Without doubt, the former is the more economical method of procedure; still there is a satisfaction in the consciousness that one's larder is supplied for an emergency, which will compensate for the extra outlay, if that outlay be conmensurate with one's income. But the purchase of supplies for a family, if it be wisely done, whether the family be large or small, is no very simple matter. It cannot be prescribed for every class and condition of housewives. But, whether one buy by wholesale or after the French fashion, serve yourself, if you would be well served. Go in person and see what you purchase.