The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-06-10
SUITED | TED The GIANT
oHQl FELLOW FINALLY GOT HAND.
KeRoHlEFs HE LIKED.
Inventive Genius Of Laundrsss
Brought to Bear on Problem That
Had Puzzled the Directors
s Of the Circus.

"You know" said the old circus man.
i'tthe great giant, big as he was. was q
very dainty man; he liked fine, well
made clothes and nice shoes and good
linen, and one thing that he was par
ficular about was his ha%ndkerchiefs.
I "Hm-m. 1t makes me laugh to
think of the giants handkerchiefs.
That's n think we didn't think At
when he first came to US and we
bought him a lot of handkerchiefs Of
the usual mems size. IL
Whats this?' says the giant the
Yrst time he ever tried to carry one
Of them.
"You see. it was so small. ii Proper.
tton that it dropped down into the bot,
tom Of his pocket and he had to reach
In deep and fish around for 1t, and It
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 a 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
1t the headquarters house was a nice
old lady, but a 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 go 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
of handkerchiefs.
"'Al 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, Til
FIX the: giant all right. I'll give him
some handkerchiefs right now
wed just got in a bunch of sup
plies. of n 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 a s%tepladder to get
up to his bureau drawer-and in the
c%orner.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
ne found in the handkerchief corner of
MS top bureau drawer, and when he
had got one ofsthem and shaken it out
he smiled. And then he tucked it in
his outside breast pocket, leaving a
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
sThere,' he says to the old man.
there's a handkerchief that's some-
thing like. Il don't exactly like the
shape ::of It, he says; you see. it's
maze longer than 1t is wide,' and he
held it.up for the old man to see. but
les big enough he says, ANYHOW.
NOW why can't I have a lot of hand
kerchiefs like that, only made
square2" . ~
Why, you can!' says the old man.
certainly. OF course. Why not?' and
ne ordered a lot of 'em right away
made square. and that's the sort Of
nandkerchiefs the giant carried al.
ways after that; at last he had got
a handkerchief that was big. enough
for him."