The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-23

II ne q jest gov DAck iIout S'st'n hh VIZ
| Legislator an didn't keer who knowed
II! P%ennsylvany legislstur' at that
THE LAGNDRY.MA AN SPEAKS.
Rou, Of . CustsmrN VINO Was Up 10 Al
the Regular Excuses.
The man with the flaming eyes. the
perspiring forehead and the all het uE
, look stormed into tho Tenderloin laundry
| the other afternoon and started right In tc
unlink a few. .
Say, look a-here. you.' he bawled
| pounding with both fists on the counter
| and endeavoring to impsle tho anemit
, Young man behind the laundry desk with
! his eve, what's the matter with my laun.
dry junk. hey!
.Oh, O are Mr.. Hotooal. aren't you
! and you--- the young man bshiud the
| desk started to say. not realizing that he
was going to be 4 mere feeder for the
caloric monologue.
That's my monaker.' shouted the ma
with the perpiring forehead and things,
! and l want to poke 1t into you here and
now that it isn't going to be worth your
while to try to pump any O. that south
breeze into me. What l demand to
know. and 10 know real quick. Bnb, ID
this: Where Is my laundry gear
Its gotta be done. that's all! There
are no IFS. ands or butts about it. Its
gotta be done. dye get that.
Your DANCED old N horse outfit
promised to have il done and delivered
at 4 O'Clock this afternoon. and i want it,
that's all. No blast furnace boross con.
versation IL going to take the place Of
that lingerie with me. want that linen
dunnsse, swabbed or ~unswabbed. and !
want It right now. Got that
.Sir, your stun is
sOh. I've had that kind OF a spiel pulled
on me about nine million times before
but you're not going TO zephyr me along
with it this time. You're going TO try to
! fan me with the gnome narrative that my
stuf's all swabbed and ironed and ready.
but that 1t isn't sorted out yet--that your
thing while he was at lunch to-day. and
that YOU had to get q slow man to all his
lob. and all like that away.
swell, YOU re not going TO bamboo that
one into me this time. Johnny. I'm do
ing the spotlight part OF this sketch my.
self, aud what | want is my lingerie. and
/ don't care a hang whether it's dripping
with suds right out Of the boiling vat or
not, I'm a-going to tote II away with mo II
1 have 70 lug the works With Il.
so YOU want to get active. Percy. and
dish it out to me, wet or dry. or stand by
to clear SHY. for action, Ket that w
Was delayed in transit-uh.hu huh
I've had that snapped on me q lot Of
previous times. too; but there's going
10 he no such a thing as you greasink by
with that line either TIN. trip. When I
klndei that outfit Of laundry gear over
10 this dump on Wednesday evening l
told you pinheads that ! WAS going away
on Friday evening. which ts right now;
dive see right nowl.
-You famed me along with a consign-
ment Of forced drau ght atmosphere about
having it marked special and having il
all sealed. signed and delivered by 4
o'clock Friday evening which, ! repeat.
say, dye think I'm going to drill out
o. this mans town in q suit Of coal heavens
dungarees, Dye imagine that I'm going
to try to make q three sheet comedy hit
on the main thoroughfare Of the burg
I'm going to attired In a Navajo blanket
and a cocoanut oiled topknot? Dye think
I'm going to stand for 9 pinch by walking
QTOunu VD0 y VI t1uJ
place in baby blue pajamas2
Say. you. gimme my. laundry! l don't
care whether tie doused in bluing or not!
want il, dye git that?'
just at this stage the proprietor OF the
laundry emerged from the back room.
walked around the counter to where the
standins, grabbed him By both lapels OF
his coat. put him under the pinpoint focus
Of his bright hazel yea and remarked
unto him In q tone that vas redolent Of
meaning and business:
Say. Mister Big LunGo. stop that Enash-
ing Of all the enamel od your teeth and
sprinkling the Moor with pumlee stone;
out the x%ylophone work and stake us to
. little Of the saxophone wooze kind, just
Nobody abusing you. Nobody's got
Sou under any gun. Take . reef or "
In your topsl halyards and try and tinkIs
out Of this Turkestan typhoon that you're
reduced to about two quarts OF lubricat-
Eve promised to finish and deliver
YOUR laundry by 4 O'Clock this afternoon,
did wep Well, just you make q rumble
like O, steam roller now and roll away
to your chambers. and youn probably
uullN Wdititk ~ w.
THE wagons were all out and We rang
I'D q messenger boy and sent your stun
to your address just two and one-quarter
minutes before you ~oycloned in here with
your blaze on. My young man has been
trying TO tell you this FOR the ps;t eighteen
your turret batteries to hear him. Now
will YOU be docllef'
sOh, acknowledgements was a
little upstage about It, mildly remarked
the man who had been In the dog days
fume only two minutes before. and then
Of a way and warped ont. -.
well, you've got 70, learn TO pass II
back to EN- Just a they hand II out TO
you Alcwyn, or you'll never Be . knock
out In the laundry business,' obseryed the
proprietor to hi. young man. Then he
added; Say. where the devil II hs