The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-28
WASHING A CRASH SUIT.
This One Stretched Enough 10 Last the
Family IA Year.

Family Year.
"Oh, yes" said Simpson, I'm buy me.a
crash suit again, five or six OF them' MT;
The one I've got Is enough for me ana
more too"
"Are they going out of style that you're
so set against them, old fellow
III dunno, and what's more to the point,
! don't care. Mines been whole circus
to me, and ones enough"
"You see 1t was this way: didn't buy
very expensive one, and don't know
that II would have made any difference
In the long run anyway, After / had
worn 1t for few days It had TO be wash
ed. and l took 1t to a laundry"
whats the bill, l said, when ] called
for ~"
said In cool way"
You're off your trolley,y young woman.
That suit only cost a dollar an half In
the first place. Do you think I'm goin'
to pay half the cost for the laundrying,
Just once"
"'That's the tariff, and 1t would have
been the same II the suit had cost fifteen
dollars
"All right said, but that's the last
job this laundry gets from me, II live to
be hundred years old. was In hopes
the thing had shrunk few Inches 20
that could have gotten even with the
robher. but when took II home the
thing was about three sizes too big for
me, and hung like a shirt on bean pole,
wore 1t down to the laundry office just
| to get an excuse to do q little Kicking"
See here young woman, this suit
amt my suit at all. This belongs to the
fat man in the museum, and you'd bet
ter send II around to him, for he can't
wear mine, sure"
"'Oh. that's your suit, said the girl.
Those suits always stretch like that.
| Why, we had a man for Il customer that
| bought a suit for his boy, and after the
| boy had worn II two or three times the
next older brother wore 1t, and 1t fit him
first rate. Then he gave 1t to his father
| and the old man wore II for few weeks,
and at last he had TO have his wife cut II
down, and she got enough goods out of 1t
to make the youngest sul:. II II keeps
on that way, the lady Of the house says
| she'll get enough crash out OF the thing
10 make towels for the kitchen to last
| for year or two.
well, what the devil Is fellow to do
who hasn't got whole raft Of relations
and kitchens and towels and such things
| TO work suit into?"
"'oh, that's easy, said the girl.
There was dude like you, and he got
mad at us for spelling his suit, and he
| told us afterward Just to wash 1t again.
Then he came in and said to wash 1t
again. and so on. After he had done that
four or five times he sent the suit around
to Seventh street tailor and had him
make the one suit into two He was
quite schemer. tell YOU"
Say, Annie" I said to her. you're
pretty slick. tell you what I'll do for
you, and 1t won't cost much, either. You
work the old laundry to wash these
these trousers two or three times more
and You take one leg for skirt. and I'll
take the other leg and have myself new
| pair OF trousers made for myself. What
do you say?"
"'Might do that" she said, but I'm
afraid the skirt would be too skinny
You know they're wearing 'em full
now, and It wouldn't do for me to be out
OF style. You wash 'em again, then I'll
try pattern on 'em, and see how the
thlngll come out. Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette.