The Washington times., 1901-07-28
LAUNDRY TRUST.
One Girl Has This PortentOus
Scheme I'm View.

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The two girl fiat dwellers looked at each
other across the breakfast table, which
gave no hint of the temporary pecuniary
depression that hung over the small es-
| tablishment. IL was round table of
green oak, drawn up by the latticed win
dow of the studio, and it was spread with
lace doylies, upon which green crosses
mixed with glistening ice, ripe berries in
their hulls and eggs and biscuits shone
| tcmptingly upon the blue and white china.
The man left a bill for the cream to-
day" said the girl in the kimona; the
| idea of a bill on the 9th in the middle of
summer! Wen pay no attention to it,
Perhaps he wont leave any more
cream" suggested the other, somewhat
timorously.
Not he! In summer time? All his Gus
toners are out of town. He wouldn't
dare
Then the man for the rent called the
day before yesterday" suggested the
| timid one.
| Such impudence," said the girl in the
| kimona. Il shall write him today that we
contemplate giving up our apartment for
| the summer while we go to Newport.
That will quiet him, l guess. The sum-
| mer is the only time we can get even
with such people. Half the flats in town
| are vacant and the agents become so mild
| and soft-spoken that they don't seem like
the same persons AS for bills, why, no
one expects to collec. bills In summer.
| Everybody is out of town.
Except the very poor, like u.s." said
| the other.
There are only two classes in the sum-
mer time" said she in the kimona, who
was a girl of ideas; "the very poor and
the very rich. At the summer resorts ev-
eryone spends iavishly. In the city no
one has any money and no one pays bills"
Everything stops in the summeri All
the milliners go out of town; even the
shops close up early. Everyone rushes
away to the mountains and the shore
Except u.s. said the other girl.
We'll. we have a hard summer to look
forward to- said the girl in the kimona.
You can't get any posters to do and l
can't sell any poems. The magazines stop
buying literature in the summer just as
though ii were coal and wood"
Next summer shall launch my idea
for laundry trust" said the poster girl;
there's a fortune in it,''
"A trust?" asked the girl in the kimona
Il shall create laundry trust said
the poster girl; Il have all my plans |
made
you are not going to take in washing, |
1 hope?" said her friend anxiously.
mo, but l have made a careful view of |
the summer resort situation in relation to |
the laundry and ] find that from the |
ocean-swept shores of Long Island and |
along the sandy Jersey beaches the wild |
waves are singing one sad song. l have |
discovered that they are calling in cho-
rus for good washerwomen TO take the |
place of the summer Cinnamon and the |
hotel laundry. Everywhere ii is the same
Ill ,. - dow hnta tEa
IS a week farmhouse the cry is going up
for a good washerwoman. Why, the sit
uation is desperate. Every Monday you
see fathers and husbands returning to |
town bearing impressive-lookings suit cas-
es and grips. These invariably contain
the weekly wash being brought home to
the city laundress for doing up,
why. all the hotels have laundries?
And everybody knows what they are
like II anything. / think the very best
hotels have the very worst and highest
sorts of mechanical devices for-the wash
ing of clothes that completely ruin fine
linen and lace. Every woman who has
ever sent such things to a hotel laundry
has wept at the state in which they came
back 1t is a case in which people are
worked up to a state of protest that will
carry my plan along on the very wave of
success.
'.Why, the hotel guests can get wash
can't they?''
Haven't you noticed at hotels, the lit
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no washing shall be done in the rooms?
Fancy people paving IS to so a day for a
room who would attempt to do washing
In It, But they do. because this question
Of laundry work is becoming one of the
most unpleasant problems that ever con-
fronted summer girl
What do you propose to do, fol in
stance?" Il
why. I shall select as vantage
ground the Jersey coast as being the
most popuious and convenient to begin I
operations Upon. l shall send out circu-
ars gotten up in unique poster style. and ,
shall explain the advantages OF hand
aundry work done at a moderate price. |
Then l shall plan some pretty little
wagon or perhaps an automobile that |
will be an advertisement in itself; make
tour of the cottage colonies and hotels
vice week. collecting ana distributing
work. Everything will be daintily done
ip in little Japanese crepe bags of blue l
md white, babies clothes tied up with |
.ibbon: the womans hand evident in ,