The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-08-11
SUITED THE GIANT
BIG FELLOW FINALLY GOT HAND.
kERchlEES He LIKED.
Inventive Genius Of laundresa
Brought to Bear on Problem That
Had Puzzled the Directors
Of the Circus.

You know" said the old circus man
''the great giant. big as he was. was a
very dainty man: he liked fine. well
made clothes and nice shoes and good
linen. and one thing that he was par.
ticular about was his handkerchiefs.
Hmm. It makes me laugh to
think of the giants handkerchiefs.
That's one think we didn't think OF
when he first came to us and we
bought him lot Of handkerchiefs Of
the usual mems sire.
whats this?' says the giant the
drst time he eyer tried to carry one
Of them.
You see. It was 50 small in proper
ton that It dropped down into the bot.
tom Of his pocket and he had to reach
In deep and fish around for it. and 1t
wasn't much use to him either, and of
course We saw right away that those
handkerchiefs wouldn't do, and so we
had some made for him about three
times the usual size. and those he said
would do. though he always wished
we'd had 'em made little bigger, and
then one winter when the show was
laid up in winter quarters a queer
thing happened.
The laundress we had for washing
at the headquarters house was a nice
old lady, but little testy. and what
with the work for the giant and all it
used to keep her pretty busy. and one
day when he went to his bureau the
giant found he had no handkerchiefs,
and as he was no piker and kicker he
didn't 60 growing to old lady Mary
that was the launldress-but he did
90 to the old man and say to him
pleasantly that he seemed to be out
q handkerchiefs.
"'All right says the old man, I'll
see Mary about IT, and he did, and
Mary didn't say anything back to the
old man. but she says to herself, I'll
fix the giant all right. I'll give him
some handkerchiefs right now
Wed just got in a bunch of SUD
plies of one sort and another for
house use and in this bunch there was
a lot Of new sheets. and what Mary
does was to 60 to the storerOom and
get half dozen of these sheets and
then she gets the stepladder-she al
ways had to use stepladder to get
up to his bureau drawer-and in the
corner of this drawer. where the giant
kept his handkerchief. she laid in
those nicely folded new sheets.
The next morning when the giant
went for a handkerchief that's what
he found in the handkerchief corner of
his top bureau drawer. and when he
had got one of them and shaken it out
he smiled. And then he tucked it in
his outside breast pocket. leaving
yard of it, more or less, sticking out
and then he goes In to see the old
man and yanks it out and shows the
new handkerchief to him. and
There he says to the old man
there's a handkerchief that's some
thing like. l don't exactly like the
shape of it, he says; you see. it's
made longer than it is wide,' and he
held 1t up for the old man to see. but
it's big enough he says. anyhow
Now why can't have a lot of hand
kerchiefs like that. only made
square?"
Why. you CAM says the old man
Certainly. OF course Why not? and |
he ordered a lot of 'em right away
made square. and that's the sort OF |
handkerchiefs the giant carried al. |
ways after that: at last he had got |
q handkerchief that was big enough |
for him."