Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . h $ Ducks, blackhead, pair 60c Pork, salt, family 14c Eggs, fresh, dozen 25c Butter, creamery, special 41c American Cheese, per pound 22c Celery, per head iic Cabbage, per pound 3c Onions, per pound 3c Potatoes, white, per pound 3c Turnips, per pound 3c Grapefruit, each 4c Oranges, Jamaica, per dozen 12c If, however, the Commissary system reduces lifeto something of a general uniformity and destroysshopping as a subject of conversation, the ladies ofthe Zone still have the eternal servant problem ofwhich to talk. De Amicis, the travel writer,
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . h $ Ducks, blackhead, pair 60c Pork, salt, family 14c Eggs, fresh, dozen 25c Butter, creamery, special 41c American Cheese, per pound 22c Celery, per head iic Cabbage, per pound 3c Onions, per pound 3c Potatoes, white, per pound 3c Turnips, per pound 3c Grapefruit, each 4c Oranges, Jamaica, per dozen 12c If, however, the Commissary system reduces lifeto something of a general uniformity and destroysshopping as a subject of conversation, the ladies ofthe Zone still have the eternal servant problem ofwhich to talk. De Amicis, the travel writer, saidthat servants formed the one universal topic forconversation and that he bid a hasty farewell tohis mother in Naples after a monologue on the sinsof servants, only to find, at his first dinner inAmsterdam, whither he had traveled with all possiblespeed, that the same topic engrossed the mind ofhis hostess there. In Panama the matter is some-what simplified by the fact that only one type ofservant is obtainable, namely the Jamaica THE GRAPE FRUIT OF PANAMA
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