"Imagine! Last Thanksgiving she bought white grapes by the keg," interrupted Mrs. Larry; "sixty pounds at eight cents a pound, when all retailers were asking us eighteen and twenty cents. Just listen:
"'At the end of each year the secretary makes her report, showing approximately how much the members of the club have saved. The difference is between the wholesale and retail prices of food supplies. Last year's report showed a saving of nearly sixty per cent. That was our banner year, but we have never run below forty per cent. At first I counted on saving forty per cent.; now we think it safe to say we save fifty-five per cent.'
"Now, Teresa, isn't that great?"
"It is, my dear—too great to be practical or to last. I investigated the Brooklyn Market Club when it was first started several years ago, and found it was practically only for Mrs. Bangs and her particular little group. In that group were her own married daughters and a very few intimate, tried friends, who understood one another and worked out the plan systematically. Then, for months Mrs. Bangs gave
