Show ww e or Wal r 0 A GREAT HELP UT I I SUPPOSE you o do your own A washing maam ma'am inquired the seedy strangers stranger Yes I do although I dont see that Its It's any of your business replied replied replied re re- re- re plied Mrs Curfew with some some warmth I suppose you'll be me that 2 youre you're collecting statistics for a n government mt bureau bureau bureau bu bu- reau or maybe IDI for the state board of or health A It seems that the authorities l are greatly Interested Interested interested Inter Inter- ested In f family i matters mattery that dont don't concern s K them nowadays and every day or two somebody comes asking Impertinent questions ques ques- as to how many children I have and my maiden name before I was married and whether theres there's Insanity In the family Im m sick and tired of answering such questions If my old friends want to dig Into my family history Ill Til give them all aU the Information they want although I may consider their conundrums In vin bad taste but when a perfect stranger comes along and asks me If I do my own washing I feel that the line Une must be drawn somewhere Every jack In In asks questions It Itu u used d to be that the assessor would come to the door politely and Inquire how many dogs we kept and take our estimate of the value of our property property prop prop- erty without looking as though he knew we ought to be prosecuted ted for tor perjury But now he must know the color of your grandfathers grandfather's side whiskers whiskers whis whis- kers and If you tell him that you keep no dogs he goes out and looks under the he house and In the barn and when he Te comes back he warns you that the penalties for giving false Information are severe Mr Curfew says that the next time the assessor comes he Is going to throw him over the back fence and kick him down the alley for tor a distance distance dis- dis tance ance of seven bl blocks ks and I hope hell he'll keep his word I didn't mean to offend you said the he stranger Im Introducing a wash awash wash washIng tag Ing ng powder that saves half halt the labor and dispenses with soap altogether er With this marvelous powder a woman woman can do the weeks week's washing and have her ler clothes hung o on the th line Une Inside of two wo hours Well mister you take a pac package age of your marvelous powder down to the creek and give yourself a n good scrubbing for you look as though you had lad been fishing out of somebody's dustbin Your whiskers are full of sawdust and your our face Is covered with grime If you were Introducing bituminous coal there might be some excuse for far your appearance but a aman aman aman man who Is selling washing powder ought to belike the driven snow or nobody will have confidence In him And I wouldn't have anything to todo todo todo do with your washing powder If you offered to bring me a for twenty cents I make my own soap of lye and grease and although It Isn't indorsed Indorsed by the crowned heads of Europe or by prelates or vice presIdents presidents pres pres- Its It's the best soap ever made and I know the tile Ingredients are wholesome whole- whole so some n even even If It th they Y dont don't comprise barks and buds and healing herbs When I use my own soap I know the things I wash wont won't be any the worse for tor It but the washing powders sold by agents are made of dynamite and lunar caustic and a garment once washed with them will never be fit to use again Last spring I was feeling too poorly poorly poorly poor poor- ly to make the usual batch of soap so I bought a package of washing had his powder lowder from an agent who pockets full tutt of testimonials showing moral char char- that he be was a n man of high that acter It happened that week Curfews Curfew's white shirts were nil n of Mr In the wash Mr Curfew Is e very y particular particular par par- about fits Bis shirts They must be as white as ar arctic Uc snow or t the e way he raves around the tile house Is a dIsgrace disgrace dis dIs- dis- dis grace Wen Well I wish wish- you could have seen those shirts after atter they were washed They l ld id an old gold color and have been getting ever ever since Inc and Mr Curfew never sits down but he speaks about It and makes things uncomfortable I So ou had bad better todd toddle o along you So o you and sell sen your washing powder to some woman who doesn't know how haw t to make good soap |