| Show u A TALE OF A iS SHIRT What Cumo of Quo Ono to n J Friend Of Ot course you OU have heard the tale talc of ot tho the shirt of ot the time tall tail of or which grew shorter horter and shorter with every eVer wash but this is itt a 11 tale talc of a 1 shirt that has caused mo nO to 10 make no end oi ot o ex cx explanations remarked a 11 gentleman Vonra OPA nil mv Tilt h lit v m m v n a Chinaman who was as the best l washer man I over ever knew kno My I linen came homb spotlessly clean and anti laundered and Ind that Chinaman was a 11 treasure in ill his hi line Out One night a friend passed the till night with me I 1 loaned him hima a 1 night and when hen he got ot up the next morning I put out one on of ot my shirts for hull him He lie wore It leaving hits his soiled garments In ill Its Ita place to 10 go out with my m wash The Chinaman failed to call coli fur for the tho soiled clothes as US was Mas his custom and anti upon sending to lila his place his ilis laun dry was wa found round closed mId and no one knew where the time had gone one I sent ent the bundle of ot sailed nailed linen to a 0 stoma steam laundry and anti when my In clothes wet were sent E nt homo every ery garment was vas nl marked with the Initials of or the friend who halt had parsed the night with me mo and who shirt I had sent to the tIme laundry with mine Up lii to that time 1010 not hot a n spot ot ou Indelible talc Ink had appeared on any or ot orm ormy my m clothes do not mark clothes but butUSO use USO different colored strings to keep the clothes of o their customers customer separate Dut But In steam everything Is III marked In Iu Indelible ink mit and as n tho the shirt of or my friend was the only garment marked his Initials wore were put on every ever piece I I hail ud sent Rent to the wash notwithstanding my own oln name was Ivas on the tho laundry sj SUI and amid my initials tore tete nothing like those on Oil the one marked shirt Sine SilIca that I I time I 1 have never neer been able to escape ilc the tile Initials of ot my Ill former friend Go 00 where I may those Initials still stick to my clothes and anut every ocr ml gar garment ment I own to tills this day Is hi marked markt d with wit my toy III friends Initials Since the day da ills his went to the laundry In III in my bundle I 1 suppose SUPPORt I J have hat bought a n hundred shirts s half bait ns as many suits of or underwent and a twice as nil many pairs of socks col cal lars i nure and end neckties and amt Invariably they have h ave been marked with that hint mans muns Initials I no un matter in what part of or the tile country c I r may be I 1 am all strongly tc tempted empted t to give away avay na all nil the wash clothes lothes c I possess just juat to 10 get tt rid of ot the Initials i of o my m friend which have so SOong long l ong stuck to me I know no other way to 10 t o rid myself of ot this laundry mark mork As Au long l ong as those Initials stick to me I am Im In III i n danger of being Identified as some other ther o man should I be knocked ble blo b lo In the street streel be ho b the victim of or foot tOOl pads nn r or meet met sudden New ew Or leans Jeans l eans |
