Show CHINESE LAUNDRY TICKETS A queer system ot bundle ot Wa the chinese shermen wa have a system of ticketing a bundle of soiled clothes based on the many gods and goddesses of alie laundry though it is complicated the laundryman seldom delivers a bundle of washed clothes to the wrong person furthermore if the ticket is lost the chances are that you will not get your aluen unless you are a particular friend of alie proprietor instances are on record where an american has gone to court to force the chinese to yield up the washing but the judge was not convinced that the case of the white man was a good one the chinese laundryman at the beginning of each week makes out a batch of cheeks in duplicate to be used as wash tickets he selects the nameon some god or goddess or of some object as the sun the moon or the stars to this name he prefixes a number as moon no I 1 moon no 2 and so on in the space between the two legends for the signs are repeated twice he has his own name as for instance wah lee when a customer takes a bundle of washing to the laundry the chinese first tearing a ticket in two in ragged fashion puts one halt on the packet for reference the other half he gives as a receipt to the person who has brought the package of laundry it must be presented when the laundry is demanded and no fears need be entertained that the package of clean clot lies will not be forthcoming for they are scrupulously exact in these mattera |