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Title: Panama and the canal in picture and prose ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis John, 1863-1934. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) Pub. in English and Spanish by Syndicate publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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sitor was, I think, most im-pressed by those who frankly used the trimmings of the tropics for their chief decorations. The orchid-lined porches of Mrs. M. H. Thatcher, wife of thecivil commissioner, or Mrs. H. H. Rousseau, wife ofthe naval representative on the Commission, were averitable fairyland when the swift tropic night hadfallen and the colored lights began to glow among therustling palms and delicately tinted orchids. Nomore beautiful apartment could possibly be imagined.t Housekeeping is vastly simplified by the Com-missary. When there is but one place to shop, andonly one quality of goods to select from—namelythe best, for that is all the Commissary carries—theshopping tasks of the housekeeper are reduced to aminimum. Nevertheless they grumble—perhaps be-cause women like to shop, more probably becausethis situation creates a dull and monotonous same-ness amongst the families. Whats the good ofgiving a dinner party, asked a hostess plaintively, 334 PANAMA AND THE CANAL
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NOT FROM JAMAICA BUT THE Y. M. C. A. when your guests all know exactly what everythingon your table costs, and they can guess just whatyou are going to serve? They say, I wish shedbought lamb at the Commissary, it costs just thesame as turkey. Or theCommissary had new aspara-gus today. Wonder why shetook cauliflower? They getthe Commissary list just asI do and know exactly towhat I am limited, as wecan only buy at the Com-missary. There is no chancefor the little surprises thatmake an interesting dinnerparty. That is perhaps a trifledisquieting to the adventuroushousekeeper, but, except forthe purpose of entertaining,the Commissary must be agreat boon. Its selection ofhousehold necessities is suf-ficiently varied to meet everyneed; the quality the best andits prices are tmiformly lowerthan in the United States. This comparative cheapness inprices is, of course, due to theelimination of the middlemen,the buying by the com-missary in large quantitiesand the disregard of profit asan elem

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