The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-30
SUITED THE GIANT
BIG FELLOW FINALLY GOT HAND
KERcHIEFs HE LIKED.
Inventive Genius of Laundress
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
ticulsr about was his handkerchiefs.
Hmm. II makes me laugh to
think of the giants handkerchief
That's one think we didn't think OF
when he first came to US and we
bought him a lot Of handkerchiefs Of
the usual mems size.
whats this?' says the giant the
first time he ever tried to carry one
Of them.
"You see, It was so small In proper
ton that it dropped down into the bot
tom of his pocket and he had to reach
in deep and Ash around for 1t. 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 nice
old lady, but little testy, and what
with the work for the giant and all II
used to keep her pretty busy. and one
day when he went to his bureau the
giant found he had no handkerchief,
and as he was no piker and kicker he
didn't go growing to old lady Mary
that was the launldress-but he did
30 to the old man and say to him
pleasantly that he seemed to be out
Of 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 bunch of sup.
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 go to the storeroom and
get half a 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
coruar IF thic dromar u,baro N, rio
kept his handkerchiefs 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 a
yard of 1t, 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 handkerchief that's some.
thing like. | don't exactly like the
shape of it, he says: you see, it's
made longer than 1t 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 cant 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
a handkerchief that was big enough
for him."