The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-09
A Social Disaster and Invasion of Clothes
Pressers at Suburbanyille.

He came TO one OF Suburbanvilles boarding
| houses which faced the Sound with an air Of
| well-developed responsibility and large.
| heavy trunk. bearing the inscription In stem
| cilled letters one end. &C Rocky Jackson. +"
Now. wonder where he comes FROM" said
Miss Orange. Kinder nice looking and ma
| ture. Guess he's a widower."
From his NAME" said Mrs. Ridgewood. II
should guess that he was some one or another.
Perhaps he writes plays or owns trust. It's
nice to have such interestinR people in the
house. and said to my Lizzie before We came
here. said but that Is OF no interest Miss
Montclair didn't stay to hear 1t. She left the
piazza crowd and walked haughtily to see her
dear friend, Mrs. Jersey. who never boarded,
and who consequently was living In a Suburb
awhile cottage
I'VE have the most interesting man at the
boarding house now" said Miss Montclair to
Mrs. Jersey. land l know he won't find the
crowd congenial thorr. l do wish that you
would give him porch party or something in
formal like that"
Why. who is he ?" asked Mrs. jersey.
He Is {. Rock by Jackson said Miss Mont
clair, with no little pride in her boarding
Dear me. ! wonder what brings him up
%hs d1SsSSs,3 d. sa' ff" Just place him.
Mrs. hidRewood says that he owns trust
The house. Mr. Bonds was Q great disappoi1t.
and @ MORGAN N such a
u s soek he he se
from him for the coor eSp Hail RI Orphan Asylum
Fund He dissoGpessrFed and the papers an.
a bucket shop. never saw anything immoral
about buckets myself. but he must have sold
awful ones for they arrested HIM. l haven
Just suggest to him tomorrow night" said
you, Then when have met him will invite
some OF the other eottagers to come around
people at the boarding house how to do things"
lat 1T happe nai as a, was planned c Rocky
charms. and he said he liked to talk to sensl-
bic women She sounded him on his plays and
he s was OF sunrse
quickly recovered d., and gave evasiye answers
Invited tHi to meet Nj jackson no display
in suburbanville since the election Of n
mayer; Every woman present knew that
Eenin.aiia a rubber;nseE'S Ansxeg. BSeanss
esvns assured jsrsay That " sne had %
II u.
R2okpy, Jackson was simply charming.
her TH M tSraH she hi Sns him all
thropy. Mr.. Jackson seemed to be man OF
leisure, The day following tho reception he
package under his arm. 1t took him two days
70 call on all OF the women whom he had met at
Of Mss hs raid lis 6 at
boarding house and left. saying that he might
come back later in the season. The women on
" he m ySfa rin
in discussing him with ono another Three days
after his disappearance covered wagon made
Jackson's ncqua ntances lived. and left at each
one heavy EEa;SSkage for which he COLLECTED
m ony SONG Each paska new IN
Rocky, automatic clothes presser. which re-
sembled small steamboat. Il was only asa
special favor to hsvery interesting new friends
that Mr.. Jackson had shown them model OF
this laboE-sayng device and given them an
" ees" se s mr. JACKSON had said to each
maxi money q" It. W. RooEhys are sceentris g
Now Just build coke fire in the bottom OF this
and work You can press all sorts Of clothes
with it,, Looks like a, very complicated ma
TIA. a1 %oad Fss and q Rsf
will first sign this subscriPtiop blank III
You have one as sG special favor You needn't
ray Tor it until it is delivered. you know Lord
kooRDy never lorgets a name. ana when you
60 to England send him your card at Rookhy
Hall and he will look you up and do what he
can to make 1t pleasant for YOU.
No Suburbanve woman could resist that.
and G. Rocky Jackson sold his automatic
presser to each. When they tried to kindte
fire In 1t the fire went out The machine Ind
no drnught, and it was as usele ss ton pounds
OF old iron. Suburbanite husbands Ruyed their
wives. and the fact that every woman OF Mr..
Jacksons acquaintance had purchased his
prosser became known
Then some ono suspected that he was merely
n canvasser for those presscrs. The next per-
son repeated this as fact and Suburbanite No.
3 looked up Mr. Jackson's record and found
that II was true. Indignant women went to
Mrs Jersey and told her that she had ruined
herself by introducing q pa tent .presser
canvasser to the best people OF Sub.
urbanville und Mrs. Jersey bitterly assaulted
Miss Montclair for her deception Miss Mont
clair said that Miss Orange had vouched for
him and Miss Orange said she was mean.
spitefui thing. When the women compared
notes II was found that c, Rock by jackson had
told mono Of them that he was writer Of plays.
They had drawn that con cluson from his name.
There are half a hundred patent pressers in
Suburbanyile now which may be bought as
old iron. Mrs. Jersey has given up her cottage
and gone to the mountains and Miss Mont.
clair has returned home. The rise md fall OF
c. Rock by Jackson has ru ned the Midsummer
Bowling Club. disrupted three whist clubs and
postponed the picnic Of the Amity Circle indef-
initely. but it was profitable TO Mr. Jackson.