New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-31
THEIR SPIRITS RETURN.
What the Laundry School Does for
Discouraged Women.

In the Office Of the laundry school OF the Charity
Organization Society. at No. BIS West twenty
eighth-st the telephone IS ringing hurr-rr II goes
Burr-rr-rr The tall young negress with the large
golden hoops in the cars looks up from the
centrepiece OF Rattenburs she is ironing on a
flannel pad and says something 10 the middle aged
Hungarian at her left. who il pattng and SMOOTH
ing the guimpe OF childs white fTock INTO shape
with wet rag. 49,.
When the manager gets 70 the receiver this Is
what the telephone is saying in It's niputian. ell
fin voice:
This is Mrs Smith OF Cleveland-yes-Cleve-
land Ohio I expect TO leave home Monday Tor
Atlantic City ard want you to have my laundry
az the - Hotel by the time I arrive there Tues
day night You say you can't get It done IN time?
Then send on the blue and white striped Iimona'
three pairs Of stockings and those two skirts with
the 'val" rufies oh. yes-and that nightdress with
the monogram inclOsed in drawnwork-ycu Know
IJave them meet me-Tuesday night. Goodoy.
The manager hangs up the receiver. start al
once on the hamper from Mrs Smith ~ CieVelahu
she says to n girl who is bending over pie OF
soiled linen separating fannels, handkerchieIs'
socks stocks. table napkins and collars md Guns
into little heaps. "Give Mrs. Harrity the white
skirts 70 begin on and set Minnie to work on the
strlped kinona-the blue and white one. mean
A CHICAGO PATRON.
From, Cleveland TO New-York seems tidy dis
lance to send the weeks wash but there Is
man in CHICAGO who can't reconcile himself TO
using n pocket handkerchief or drawing on pair
OF socks unless they have first been Numbered at
the laundry school OF the Charity Organization IN
Nav,-yorl, Sometimes this spends his sum-
nncrs at Cape Cod and in that event the trains
that doze through the pinewoods OF Southern
Massachusetts, carry back and forth his hamper
Of laundry Just the same His friends In the WINDY
CITY grid at him for old maid.
'ryvelI I know they'll do my things Just right
and won't lost any Of them he retorts by way
of excuse for his eccentricity. They don't chew
nv collars up or bone my best shirts, and a pair
Of cuffs that starts out with blue stripes on II
goes TO its grave blue and striped. II that doesn't
afford reason for sending my wash to KAN
chatka II II were necessary, 1 should Ike to SEQ
a better.
II is considerations Of this kind doubtless. that
lead Mrs. Smith, OF Cleveland-who is real
hesh-and-bIood woman. although her name is
mythical-to keep in touch with the Charity Organ
izations laundry whether she is wintering in Flor
ida or summering In New-England or spending
the autumn in the Adirondacks.
From Washington a number OF hampers and
trunks OF soiled linen are forwarded every week.
n United States Senator being among tho patrons
of the establishment West Twenty-eighth-st.
And so firmly does this eminent statesman be-
lleve in the theory and practice set forth by the
laundry school that even when his family Is at
home on It's native heath their laundry is sent on
Just the same.
FOR UNSKILLED WOMEN.
The women who do up" Mrs. Smiths elegant
fripperes belong as a rule to OF three ciassea
They are widows. deserted wives or else
women with sick husbands large majority have
little children dependent on them. and they all
belong TO the great army OF unskilled laborers-