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Show j TREMENDOUSLY AMUSING. 1 A llude who DUcovered That I'eMont Wash for Themselves. While in the office of an uptown hotel recently I chanced to overhear a conversation between two men which proved very amusing from subsequent developements. Both persons In question were attired In the latest style and drawled their words with Murray Hill correctness. They ulso affected that peculiar vacuity of countenance innocently supposed to be fashionable in England, but which in reality exists only in a lunatic asylum or an institution for the care of the weak minded. They were discussing a new book which dealt with some of the rougher sides of life. "It was excruciatingly amusing." remarked one specimen, "to wead how some persons in Boston who made some pwetousions socially were compelled to do their own washing. Anotha family couldn't hiah a servant so they had to do their own cooking." This seemed so "amusing"' that both laughed as loudly as their weak physique and strong conventionality would allow. , The other individual who appeared to be in the last stages of paresis, responded re-sponded with a similar anecdote and tho two wandered out into Broadway. There was an old New Yorker in the lobby who happened to be familiar with the antecedents of both, and he gave me some of their family history. lie of tho "excruciating" amusement amuse-ment formerly lived in tho tenement tene-ment house district, not far from Cherry Hill. His father had been a machinist's helper and earned i7 a week. His mother took in washing to help support the family. Later his father invented a trivial article which brought him considerable money. He invested in real estate and made a fortune. The family deserted Cherry Hill and now live on Madison avenue. That is the. history of the young gentleman who saw so much amusement amuse-ment in people doing their own washing. wash-ing. The worthy parent of the other made several contracts with tho city under the Tweed ring and then retired from business. New York Herald. |