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Show fice in a very feverish state of mind. The clerk told me that since women and girls began wearing men's attire work in the lanndries had greatly increased, in-creased, but the profits wereonlyslightly augmented. This was because more timo wa3 consumed in laundering this new fangled women's apparel, and they hoped to induce the ladies to discard it by putting up the prices, on the score of economy, if for nothing else. The laun-drynien laun-drynien did not care to toil gratuitously, even if they were accommodating. New York Herald;. Women's Laondry Work Coats. "Why do yon charge mo twenty-five cents for 'doing up' this shirt wjistr" indignantly in-dignantly inquired a lady of a clerk in a West side laundry. "Because, ma'am, that's what everybody every-body has to pay," he answered. "But. sir. I only give twel e cents for I caving my husband's shirts 'done up.' I and I don't expect to pay more for this work.' Further argument ensried, but the clerk' position fat the inatter was impregnable, im-pregnable, and the lady finally paid th-bin, th-bin, after threatening to have hejT0 derinir done fiwfeere, .She jjgfj I if |