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Airship That Has Created a Sensation at St. Louis
MAN MUST NOT LINGER
IN SHOPPING DISTRICT.
All of CalninUipi In Store
for the Nervy Man That Does.
From the New York Sun.
"A few days ago I gained anew idea
of the sense and safety of the move-on
policy for male persons living In lit
tle old New York,” said a well groom
ed but wholly unobstrusive man of
thirty-five. “Before I left for the of
fice on that morning my wife direct
ed me to be sure to meet her at a
certain crowded corner in the shop
ping district at 2 o'clock that after
noon, to help her pick out a tailored
suit for herself.
“Clever little plan of my wife's that,
by the way, asking me to help her
select her things, and her professed
reliance upon my Judgment in such
matters no doubt costs me a pretty ex
tra penny on the wardrobe and milli
nery accounts every year. But th’at
hasn’t anything to do -with the neces
sity for a man to keep a-moving when
he's In the shopping district.
“I was on the corner in front of one
of the big department stores on the
minute. My wife, of course, wasn’t.
As I hadn't expected her to be there
promptly I wasn’t much disappointed.
"Aimlessly, to put in the time of wait
ing for her and without really seeing
with the eyes of understanding any
of the details of the garments, I wa#
looking at. I began to gaze into a win
dow cluttered with a billowy array
of muslin, linen and lawn garments,
with trimmings of lace and ribbon
and fluffy stuff.
“I didn’t know th*at I was doing any
thing wrong, you understand, in cast
ing unseeing, nonrubbering glances
over these things. But It seems that
I was.
“X first became aware of my bold and
unblushing impertinence when a group
of three middle aged shopping women
ranged themselves in front of the lin
gerie window—for that, as you may
have surmised, is what it whs—and
began to hurl dagger glances in my
direction.
“ ’Common creature!’ I was amazed
to hear one of them exclaim.
“ ‘X s’pose he imagined he’s a gen
tleman!’ sniffed No. 2.
“ ‘lt’s a wonder he wouldn’t attend
to his own business!’ said the third.
"It was only then that I became
a/ware—distinctly aware, that is—of
the nature of the window display to
ward which I had been directing my
Impudent glances.
“I hurried away from that window.
In my confusion and utterly without
any vicious intent, I halted before the
hosiery window display, in which were
exhibited many seemingly correct
models of the female limb, draped with
fancy stockingst I only shopped
there for the purpose of gathering my
self together and to take a peek at
my watch, and I solemnly asseverate
that I didn't rubber at those hosiery
draped limb models even out of the
tail of my eye.
“But it soon appeared that X had
no right In front of that window, eith
er. I noticed three or four parties
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of shopping women staring pretty
hard at me as they passed—l saw
their stares in the mirror back of the
show window—but I couldn’t make out
what I’d done to earn those stares of
disapproval until three strapping ath
letic girls, with a sort of independent
“co-ed” look about them, lined up at
the window and eyed me with expres
sions of the most sinister dislike.
“I went right away from there. I
made up my mind that if I wanted to
myself from being despised by
the feminine element of the populace
passing that store. I’d better not take
a chance on looking into any more
of the windows.
“So I hiked away from the windows
and took up a position near the curb,
so that I could command a view of the
main entrance to the store, in case
my wife should, after a while, remem
ber that she was standing me up on
an appointment.
“I hadn't been standing there long
before I became vaguely aware that
something was wrong. I observed that
large numbers of men and women
passing by, particularly the women,
scowled at me. With some little alarm,
too, I noticed that the big cop on the
corner was bestowing decidedly vin
dictive glances upon me.
“I took a furtive look over my
clothes to see if everything was all
right, and I found that no placard had
been pinned on me calculated to arouse
the disesteem of the passing folk.
"When I looked up from this inspec
tion I happened to catch a couple of
liveried footmen, standing beside the
doors of their carriages, pointing at
me, and I was mystified to note that
there were sneers on the countenances
of both of them.
“The situation was becoming seri
ous. And I was becoming sore.
"What the dickens have I done or
am I doing, to these people, that they
should appear to detest me so?’ I be
gan grouohlly to inquire of myself.
“There was no making it out. I look
ed around to see if any universally
desperate character happened to be
standing near me. By this time there
was a lump of wrath in my throat,
but I pretended to swing my cane
Jauntily and to hum an air In order to
keep myself from running amuck and
attacking a few of .those folks who ap
peared te hate me without sense or
reason.
“But swinging my cane ahd hum
ming an air didn’t appear to mend
matters any. Passers by appeared to
hate me worse than ever for that, if
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anything. A bunch of five young
chaps strolled by and they all looked
at me, positively, as if they felt like
punching me.
“ ‘Huh, thinks he’s a winner, hey?’
I heard one of the young chaps say to
the others, nodding his head back in
my direction.
“But even then I couldn’t make out
what ailed me. After they passed, the
big corner cop began slowly to edge
over in my direction, regarding me
darkly, and as he drew near to where
} stood he several times opened his
mouth as if to address me. But he
didn’t say anything, contenting him
self with keeping a lowering eye upon
me all the time.
“I was just about to open up and
ask him what the deuce he meant by
staring at me in that queer manner
when three jaunty looking girls swung
by. I had noticed them approaching
from a distance. They had been laugh
ing and chatting merrily, but when
one of them, in passing me, nudged the
others, their faces froze instantly and
they all looked at me with that cutting
maidenly disapproval which sinks so
deep.
“And in passing so close to me that
she could have knocked my hat off
had she wanted to one of these girls
made a remark, obviously intended
for my hearing, that illuminated me
with the great white light.
'The girls here,’ she said, sharply,
’ought to organize an anti-mashers’ so
ciety, like they have in Denver.’
“That explained it! For nearly half
an hour, or ever since I’d got to that
shopping district corner to meet my
wife, all hands had been taking me
for a shopping district masher!
"When this humiliating, not to say
marrow chilling, fact was thoroughly
born in upon me, as it was within an
eighth of a second after that girl's re
mark. I started to leave that corner,
literally at a gallop. Just as I got
under way, however, my wife came
along, with her arms full of bundles,
and annexed me.
“But the next shopping district date
my wife makes with me we’r£ going to
meet under a roof and in some other
place where I am known.
“Almost anywhere and everywhere in
little old New York a fellow has got
to keep a-moving to keep from being
mn over, or, as they say, pinched.
But most particularly as he got to
keep himself in motion when he’s in the
shopping district.
HOW JAPANESE MEET DEATH.
Striking Hei r ism of the Soldiers on
the Kinshlu-Maru.
From the London Telegraph.
Death rather than submission was
the fate which was voluntarily chosen
by the Japanese soldiers and others
who were on board the transport Kin
shiu Maru at Gen San, when the
Russian warships suddenly appeared
on the scene. The Kobe Chronicle re
prints from a native paper a most in
teresting account of this stirring in
cident of the war. It appears that
the men had been ashore scouting, and
had then re-embarked. The escorting
torpedo boat destroyer flotilla put to
sea, and the transport followed, but
soon the vessels were separated in a
tog, and when this lifted the Kinshlu-
Maru found herself close to some war
ships. Capt. Yagi of the Kinshlu-
Maru, thinking the squadron to be
the Japanese, altered her course and
stered toward the warships, when the
signal "Stop,” floating from the main
mast and the firing of a blank shot
across the Kinshlu’s bows brought the
vessel to a standstill. This turn of
events naturally caused surprise and
astonishment on board the transport,
but nothing could be done in the way
of escaping. Lieutenant Commander
Mlzogulchi, who had charge of the
work on the transport, proposed visit
ing the warships and taking such
measures as required by circum
sances. This was agreed to be the
best course, and, having said fare
well to the military officers in com
mand of the troops, and accompanied
by Capt. Yagi, Paymaster Ilda and
and interpreter, Mr. Kondon, the lieu
tenant commander rowed to the near
est warship, whence, as is known, the
Tarty never returned, and are now
prisoners of war at Irkutsk.
On board the Kinshlu-Maru the mili
tary officers assembled in the saloon
and took counsel as to their course of
action. The officers were: Capt. Shlina,
Capt. Hakural, Lieut. Terada, Lieut.
Yokota and Ensign Higaki. After the
conference Capt. Hhilna went into the
’tween decks, where the men had been
ordered to assemble, and gave orders
as to the course to be taken by them.
Meanwhile both the transport and the
warships had been lowering boats, and
soon three officers boarded the Klnshlu
and ordered the troops to lay down
their arms and surrender, stating that
1f they did so they would be taken
on board the warships. The soldiers
were given an hour In which to arrive
at a decision, and, having allowed the
crew of the steamer and the passen
gers to take to the boats, the naval
officers returned to the squadron.
It was now past midnight, with a
bright moon and clear sky. A great
silence prevailed on the transport,
which now had only troops on board
and a few blue jackets and coolies.
Capt. Shlina once again inspected his
men, who were found In perfect or
der, some motionless, but other fixing
bayonets or loading their rifles, pre
paring for the end. Sergt. MaJ. Washl
was collecting ths maps, sketches, etc.,
kept bv the officers; Sergt. Okano
gathered In the notebooks of the men
and maps and notebooks were thrown
into the engine room Are. A corporal
ordered the men to take off the num
bers on their shoulder straps, ao that
everything would be destroyed which
would prove of any value to the enemy
afterward.
It was past 1 o'clock on the morning
of April 26 when the Russians dis
charged a torpedo against the fore part
of the transport. On this Capt. fthltns
again went Into Ihe ’tween decks and
treed the men fenm military disci
pline. They were told to take what
course they thought (It, as nothing
could be done to avert disaster. The
inert, anxious to know the fate of their
officers, swarmed up Ihs companion
ways to the saloon, found the doors
loekad and no sound Issuing therefrom.
I Inside were Ihe offioere, who had
agreed to sink with the steamer, Im
nr leaned lit the saloon so that they
should not fall into the hands of the
enemy. Particular and scrupulous to
the last, the officers had persuaded
Capt. S&kural, who did not belong to
their regiment, of the inadvisability of
his dying with them. Sapt. Sakural,
an old experienced officer, regarded
by the general staff as one of the
smartest officers of the army in North
ern Korea, left his comrades, and the
manner of his death Is unknown.
According to report, however. It
seems there was not perfect unan
imity in the manner the officers should
meet their death. It is stated that
Lieut Terada dissented from the com
mand of Capt. Shlina that the officers
should die together, and left the ship,
vowing that he would sell his life to
the enemy, but die fighting. What
became of Lieut. Terada is not known.
The end of the men was equally
tragic. Some minutes after Capt.
Shlina had given his last commands,
which left the soldiers to their own
resources, Sergt Kurisu and Corpl.
Horisaka committed suicide by shoot
ing each other, and many followed
this example. Sergt. Okano went ozi
deck, drew his sword and committed
karl kari, in example we are
told, which was also followed
by some of his men. A rath
er more soldierlike way of spend
ing the last moments of 'their lives
was that of Corpl. Hashimoto and
some sixty men, who from the deck
fired repeatedly at the Russians by
the corporal’s command. The enemy
replied with fatal effect, but the end
of all was now near. Fifty minutes
after the first torpedo was discharged
a second torpedo truck the Kinshui-
Maru, and nearly cut the vessel into
two parts. It sank In thirteen min
utes, but during this time a hot fire
was kept up by the Japanese, who
went down with the ship, cheering
and singing the march song of their
regiment.
The final stage of this chapter of the
the war is well known—how about
sixty of the men succeeded in getting
clear of the ship, either before or aft
er she sank, and reaching the coast,
but there were non-combatants whose
fate is quite uncertain, blue-jackets
and coolies, whom, it is about possi
ble, the Russians may have picked up
afterward. The end of many on board
the Kinshiu-Maru is one more strik
ing example of the heroism with which
men can be inspired when the alter
native to death is surrender and the
sense of military disgrace. $
TIBETAN MANUSCRIPTS.
Rare Treasures of Buddhist Litera
ture Preserved in British Museum.
From the London Globe.
At the present time when the land of
the Lamas is attracting so much at
tention it may ba of Interest to call
attention to some Important manu
scripts which are now on exhibition in
the ethnographical department, of the
British Museum. In 1900 Dr". Marc
Aurel Stein of the Indian educational
service was dispatched on a mission
of exploration to Chinese Turkestan,
and in the region of Khotan he discov
ered the remains of several large cities
and Buddhist temples which were bur
ied In the sand, having been abandon
ed on account of the drying up of the
rivers in the region. The archelogical
results Obtained were most important.
The art showed distinct traces of
Greek influence, as did the Greco-In
dian remains found by the late Dr.
Leltner in Dardistan.
More Important than the artistic
relics were the numerous fragments of
manuscripts and wooden tablets, many
of them bearing Inscriptions In a lit
tle known language, to which the name
Kharosthi has been given. The ma
jority of the tablets and leather rolls,
some of which are Indorsed In sealed
envelopes, are government orders, per
mits for safe conduct, and legal deeds,
which, from Chinese sources may be
assigned to about 269 A. D. Still more
important, however, are two leaves of
a holy book written in Tibetan char
acters. The manuscripts were discov
ered in a Buddhist shrine at Endere,
the separate leaves being found before
sacred images, being placed on the
plinths of the statues; a mode which
clearly indicates that they were placed
there as votive offerings. It is clear
that the person who deposited them
there had cut the book up so as to lay
a page before as many of the divini
ties as possible. The texts have been
examined by Dr. D. L. Barnett of the
British Museum, who finds them to be
of great literary Importance. They
form part of a very early Tibetan ver
sion of a Buddhist philosophical work
entitled the “Salistambstura,” a work
hitherto only known to scholars from
quotations in other Sanscrit works.
The Importance of the find is very
great, for some leaves are undoubted
ly the oldest known specimens of Tib
etan writing, and they also gain ad
ditional Importance from the historical
and political associations with their
discovery in this remote sphere of
Tibetan influence. From Chinese and
Tibetan graffite on the walls of the
temple the date of these manuscripts
cannot be placed later than the sec
ond half of the eighth century of our
era, the period when the rule of these
provinces was passing from the Chi
nese to the Tibetans. They have, how
ever, an additional Importance as
showing how quickly Buddhism had
established Itself in Tibet. Buddha
died about 477 B. C., and the Buddhist
creed was Introduced Into Tibet in A.
D. 638; the great temple of Lahssa be
ing burnt in A. D. 651. So that these
scattered leaves prove that in less
than a century and a half after the
Introduction of the new creed Sanscrit
philosophical works were being trans
lated into Tibetan. The fact is Im
portant as showing that the former
estimate of the illiterate and barbarous
state of this country must be consid
erably revised. The Increase of the
Tibetan power and the decay of the
Chinese influence at this period, now
confirmed by these finds, calls atten
tion to a very interesting Inscribed
stone tablet outside the great mon
astery at Lhnssa.
This tablet bears upon It the bilin
gual text In Tibetan and Chinese of a
treaty of peace and alliance between
the two nations, which wbb drawn up
In the year A. D. 822, and some of the
clauses are particularly apposite at the
present time—when our own mission is
extracting a similar treaty from the
unwilling Lamas. After a very ver
bose prologue we come to thb pith of
the document. The first Important
clause reads: “That the Chineses shall
have the T’ang as sovereign, and the
country of the western race shall have
ths Grevt Fan ns ruler. From this
time henceforth both shall put up
weapons and armor, forget their dif
ferences and old grievances, and re
spect the honored kinship of their -sov
ereigns and the ancient bonds of mu
tual aid.” The clause as to suspected
persons Is of especial Interest In re
frard to the recent action of the Ttbe
ans toward the traders of Sikkim: “If
any persons are suspected they shall
be taken alive, and their business In
quired Into, then they shall be sent
back to their own country.” This In
teresting document of such grant an
tiquity should materially aid In es
tablishing a precedent for the new
treaty'now being concluded. The dis
covery of these Important manuscripts
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proof of the belief long held by schol
ars that many treasures will be found
in the libraries of the monasteries of
Lhaesa, which will throw light not
only on thp early development of Budd
hism, but also restore to us lost chap
ters of the history of China, Tibet and
Central Asia.
CARDS AS KPIHITUAL GUIDE.
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Curlom* Book Describes How a Sol
dier Emphasised Truth of Religion.
From the Galveston Daily News.
Joseph Devey of No. 8 Floral court
has in his possession a book about two
inches square which he brought from
England many years ago and has car
ried in his pocket twenty years. Te
work is entitled “Soldier’s Prayer
Book, or Pack of Cards Spiritualized;
Also the Railway to Perdition and the
Remedy. T. Good, 30 Aylesbury Street,
Clerkenwell.”
The booklet is illustrated on the left
hand pages with pictures of soldiers
playing cards and railway trains. The
preface is as follow’s:
“The Soldier’s Prayer Book: Show
ing how’ one Richard Middleton was
taken before the Mayor of the CRy he
was in for using Cards in Church dur
ing Divine Service; being a droll, mer
ry and humorous account of an odd
affair that happened to a Private Sol
dier in the Sixty-Sixth Regiment of
Foot." The story runs thus:
“The sergeant commanded his party
to the church, and when the parson
had ended his prayer he took his text,
and all of them that had a Bible pulled
it out to find the text, but this sol
dier had neither Bible, almanack nor
common prayer book, but he put his
hand in his pocket and pulled out a
pack of cards and spread them before
him. So he set and while the parson
was preaching he first kept looking
at one card and then at another. The
sergeant of the company saw him and
said: ‘Richard, put up your cards, for
this is no place for them.’ ‘Never mind
that,’ said the soldier, ‘for you have
no business with me here.’
“Now the parson had ended his ser
mon and all was over, the soldiers re
paired to the church yard, and the
commanding officer gave the word of
command to fall in. which they did.
The sergeant of the city came and
took the man prisoner. ‘Man, you are
my prisoner.’ said he.
“ ‘Sir,’ said the soldier, ‘what have I
done that I am your prisoner?.’
“ ‘You have played a game of cards
in the church.’
“ ‘No,’ said the soldier, ‘I have not
played a game, for I only looked at
the pack.’
*' ’No matter for that, you are my
prisoner.’
“ ‘Where must we go?’ said the sol
dier.
" ’You must go before the Mayor,’
said the sergeant.
“So he took him before the Mayor,
and when they came to the Mayor’s
house he was at dinner. When he had
dined he came to them and said:
“ ‘Well, sergeant, what do you wan‘
with me?’
*' ‘I have brought a soldier before
your honor for playing at cards in
the church.’
“ ‘What! That soldier?’
“ ’Yes.’
‘Well, soldier, what have you to
say for yourself?’
'"Much, sir, I hop#.’
‘“Well and good; but if you have
not, you shall be punished the worst
that ever man was.'
" 'Sir,' said the soldier. I have been
five weeks upon the march, and have
but little to subsist upon, and am
without either Bible, almanack or
Common, Prayer Book, or anything
but a pack of cards. I hope to satis
fy your honor of the purity of my in
tention.’
“When the soldier pulled out of his
pocket the puck of cards, which he
spread before the Mayor, and then be
gan with the ace.
“ 'When X see the aee,’ said he. ‘it
puts me In mind that there is one
God only; when I see the deuce it
puts me In mind of the Father and
the Son; when I aee the trey it puts
me In mind of the Father, Son and
Holy Ghost; when X see the four It
puts me in mind of the four evange
lists that preached the gospel, viz.,
Matthew, Mark. Luke and John; when
1 see the five it puts me in mind of
the live wise virgins that trimmed
their lamps; there were ten. but five
were foolish, who were shut out: when
I see the six it puts me in mind that
in six days the Lord mode heaven and
earth; when I see the seven it puts
me in mind that on the seventh day
God rested from all the works which
he had crested, wherefore the
blessed the seventh day and hallowed
It; when I see the eight It puts men
In mind of the eight righteous persons
that were saved when God drowned
the world, vis., Noah, his wife, his
three sons and their wives; when T
see the nine it puts me In mind of
the nine lepards (lepers) that were
cleansed hy our Kavlour; there were
ten, but nine never returned God
thanks; when I see the ten It puts me
In mind of the Ten Commandments
that God gave Moses on Mount Sinai
on the tables of stone,'
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"He took the . knave and laid it
aside.
“ ‘'When I see the queen it puts me
in mind of the Queen of Sheba, who
came from the furthermost parts of
the world to hear the wisdom of King
Solomon, for she was as wise a. wom
an as he was a man. for she had
brought fifty boys and fifty girls, all
clothed in boys’ apparel, to show be
fore King Solomon for him to tell
which were boys and W’hich were girls;
but he could not, a>nd he called for
water for them to wash themselves,
the girls washed up to their elbows,
and the boys only up to their wrist, so
King Solomon told by that. And when
I see the king it puts me in mind
of the great King of Heaven and
Earth, which is God Almighty, -and His
Majesty King George, to pray for him.’
“ ‘Well,’ said the Mayor, ‘you have
given a very good description of all
the cards, except one, which Is lack
ing.’
“ ‘Which Is that?’ said the soldier,
" ‘The knave,’ said the Mayor.
" ‘Oh, I can give your hphor a good
description of that, If your honor won’t
be angry.’
“ ‘No, I will not,’ said the Mayor, ‘if
you will not term me to be the knave.’
“ ‘Well,’ said the soldier, ‘the greatest
that I know Is the sergeant of the city,
that brought me here.’
“ ‘I don’t know,’ said the Mayor, ‘that
he is the greatest knave, but I am sure
he Is the greatest fool.’
The back of the book oontains a
poem of questionable merit from a lit
erary standpoint, entitled, "Railway
to Perdition; This Line begins in the
Brewery and runs through all Public-
Houses, Dram Shops and Jerry Shops,
In a zigzag direction, until it leads to
the Kingdom of Perdition.”
COSTLY SHAMPOOING.
Mrs. Jack Gardner Pays f]s a Week
to Have Her Hair Cared For.
From the Boston Cor. New York
American.
Ten dollars every three days Is the
price that Mrs. Jack Gardner pays for
fragrant, soft, clean hair. Of this sum
$3 goes to the barber shop of the fash
ionable Hotel Touraine, and the re
mainder goes to the journeyman who
performs the ablution for her. Not
that she has any surplus of woman's
crowning glory, but she oonsiders that
what she has Is well worth paying
for, so far as preservation is con
cerned.
Her shampoo concotion is very sim
ple-being nothing , more or less than
the whites of fifteen strictly fresh
eggs, from her country estate at
Brookline.
This is tjje story of Angelo Carra
ri, upon who she has settled as her
court barber:
Mrs. Gardner was In the Touraine
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one day all covered with dusc from a
long ride over the dry July roads. Her
hair was somewhat tossed and she
was very much fatigued. She went
down stairs to the Dutch room and
passed the little shop where seven of
us are kept busy trimming the hair of
the guests.
“The very Idea,” I heard her say,
and the next minute she had entered
the shop.
Addressing the foreman she said:
"I wish you would send out your best
man to Fenway Court prepared to
shampoo my hair. My maid does not
know how to fix it properly. A
French barber whom I engaged once
In Paris performed the only really
satisfactory shampoo that ever I en
joyed.”
The foreman turned to me and said,
“Angelo, go out with Mrs. Gardner.”
I was somewhat confused, but put
on my coat and went upstairs with
her after she had refreshed at the
Dutch room, and climbed upon the box
alongside her coachman.
When she saw me she told me to
come down at once, that I was an art
ist, and that she preferred that I ride
with her so she could Instruct me on
the way out.
When we reached the Fenway I hes
itated. I did not seem quite properly
attired, but she laughed and Invited
me in.
She had a deep chair brought in, and
a maid. With a high stool beside me,
on which I rested my kit, I began to
prepare. I had only opened a package
of shampoo fluid when she gave a
gasp. "Heavens, man, don’t use that
stuff: here, Marie!”
The girl brought over a deep dish,
and a basket. In the basket were eggs
—nothing but eggs. The girl quickly
broke them open, discarding the yolks,
and soon had beaten the whites Into
a slight foam.
“There,” said Mr. Gardner, “that's
what, I want you to use.”
I began under her directions to satu
rate, as well as I could, her hair with
beaten whites of the eggs, and then
added a little lukewarm water. So on
her head was a mass of foam.
“Ah, that feels good,” she exclaimed,
as I rubbed It in firmly as I dared.
“Rub harder.” X obeyed, and for a
half hour kept kneading and rubbing
her hair.
Then she ordered me to wash It out
carefully. A fresh bowl of warm water
and towels were brought In and tho
rinsing began. I don’t know how she
stood It. It must have hurt her, but
she called for pressure, and I —well, I
obeyed orders.
Soon I had It all wiped dry, carefully,
and she asked me to brush it out.
which I did, completing my work In
Just two hours from the time I en
tered her house. I worked at the Tou
raine for eight months after that, and
twice every week was sent out. And
each time she would pass me a >lO bill,
telling me to keep the change.