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Show MAN OF OPTIMISTIC STRAIN Millionaire Bought "Laundry" Instead of "Launch," but He Refuses to Be Discouraged. Millionaires are supposed to lean toward to-ward a philosophic pessimism, but there Is one who is evidently a genuine genu-ine optimist. He met a friend, and said: "Come and see my new steam laundry." The friend was somewhat surprised. sur-prised. "I didn't know you went in for that sort of thing," he said. "I don't, as a rule," replied the millionaire. mil-lionaire. "I bought this one quite by mistake. It was the auctioneer's fault. I hadn't time to get a catalogue, and I thought he said steam launch ! So I nodded, and they landed me with it." That millionaire is going to make that laundry pay ! |