The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-15

de money end of de job. When me modder
takes in Murphy a partner in de laundry
Duchess goes to wit me, and she says,
"Modder Fadden," she says, leave me see
de bill you Is to send out for all dis fine
hand laundry woik," she says.
So de old lady she shows Duchess de
charges she's made, and Duchess she
laughs, and she asks for a pencil, and she
says, "Modder Fadden," she says, you is
flying in de face of Providence" she says.
How long would desc swell customers you
has got from Miss Fannie stop along wit
you if you make desc charges?" she says.
us dey too much?" asks de old lady,
getting a scare. at charges for de tings I
has to buy and use, and enough for a dollar
a day for Mrs. Murphy and me; dough we
could get along wit half a dollar"
Duchess she didn't say noting, for she
was getting busy wit de pencil and paper.
Pretty soon she shows her figure woik to
de old ladies, and dey near fell in fit.
'Sure, Hortence," says me modder, "dey'd
send me to Jail, if ever made such charges
as dose!'
"we're not selling EN- fine linen, but
laundrying it," says Mrs. Murphy, her eyes
popping at de figures Duchess made.
'Of soitainty,'' says Duchess, you will
not keep desc good customers if you do DER
woik cheap. Charge EN- tree times what
you was going to, and den you will have so
many customers who will hear about de
high prices, dat you'll need help to do de
woik."
Does de swells like for to pay out
money!" says me modder.
NO." says Duchess. "dey hates to. But
dey likes for to be known to have de tings
dat costs money, and dat is all dis firm
needs to know"
Duchess is right on dat layout, too, all
right. A felly / knows what's de usher in
a teeater-say, dat must be a peach of
job-he was telling me dat de mug what is
to give de opray what starts in de middle
of de afternoon, and runs till de morning,
he was UP against 1t how to make de people
come and take a eighteen-hour dose of
music dey didn't know anything about. If
1t was ragtime, and good enough, dey might
make de audience stop all day and all night.
But dis piece was piece dey calls DE Fall
of Percy''-no, dat's not qite it-"Percy-
FALL" dat's it. Nobody I'm little old New
York could be rounded UP who cared five
dollars wort wedder Percy fell or stood up;
and as I was saying. de mugs what had
put up de long green to fetch Percy here
out of de tall timber of Germany, dey was
wondering what ell. Nobody couldn't see
de use of Percy at five per. He might be
nice young man, and fell far and hard, but
why five per, and an all night session for to
see Percy? New York began to get funny
over Percy, and de frost was gaddering
de box Office, where Percy was to fall.
Some one says charge only two-and-a-half
a trow, and see if de lovers of classic music
won't step up to de captains Office. But.
p chez, all de folks what loved classical
music, dey didn't have de price at two
bones and hail. and dey was getting ready
to leave Percy fall into his grave, when a
slick boy, who knew his way around de
town as well as Duchess, he says. go to-"
he says. 'You is playing de scale de wrong
way. Play it up lot down." says dis John
ny-on-de-spot.
'How's dat?" says de hackers, whose feet
was most dreadful cold.
Don't drop from five to half of dat" he
says. Double five. Make it a tenner a
seat to see Percy fall, and send for de
police to help you keep New York from
mobbing de ticket Office. to get seats for
de fall
Say, / needn't tell you what was doing
You seen 1t in de papers as we'll as me. A
mont before Percy was due for fall, your