Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-01-21

wv SOfneDOuN
comes along asking impairment ques-
lions as to how many children I have.
and my maiden name before I was
married. and whether there's insanity
in the family
I'm sick and tired of answering
such questions. If my old friends
want to dig into my family history.
LII give them all the information they
want. although | may consider their
cOnundrumS in bad taste but when n
perfect stranger comes along and asks
me II | do my own washing, | feel that
the line must he drawn somewhere
Every jack in Office asks questions. It
used to he THAT the assessor would
come tn the door politely, and inquire.
how many dogs we kept, and take ou-
estimate of the value of our prom
erty without looking as though he
knew we ought to he prosecuted for
perjury. But now he must know the
color of your grandfathers side whiS-
kerS, and if you tell him that YOU keen
no dogs he goes ont and looks under
the house. and in the barn, and when
Ire comes hack he warns You that the
penalties for giving false information
are severe.
"Mr. CUrfeWi says that the next
time the assessor comes, he is going
to throw him over the back fence and
kick him down the alley for Il dis
lance OF seven blocks, and I hone he'll
keep his word"
81 didn't mean to offend YOU" said
the stranger. I'm introducing q wash
ing powder that saves half the labor.
and diSpenSes with soap altogether.
With this marvellous powder woman
can do the weeks washing and have
her clothes hung on the line, inside OF
two hours"
"Well, mister, you take a package
Of your marvellous powder down to
the creek, and give yourself good
scrubbing, for you look as though you
had been fishing out of somebody's
dustEin. Your whiskers are full of
saWdust, and your face is covered
with Crime. If you were Introducing
bituminouS coal, there might be some |
excuse for your appearance, but Il ,
man who is selling washing powder |
ought to be like the driven snow, or
nobody will have confidence in him.
'And I wouldn't have anything to |
do with your washing powder if you
offered to bring me wagonload for
twenty cents. 1 make my own soap |
of I've and grease, and although 1t !
isn't Endorsed by the crowned heads
of Europe, or by prelateS or vice pres
idents, it's the best soap ever made,
and I know the ingredients are whole
some. even if they don't comprise
banks and buds and healing herbs.
"When 1 use my own soap, I know
the things I wash won't be any the
worse for it, but the washing powders /
sold by agents are made of dynamite
and lunar caustic, and garment once
washed with them will never be fit /
to use again.
Cast spring I was feeling too poor
~ to make the usual batch of soap,
so I bought q package of washing /
powder from an agent who had his i
pockets full OF testimonials showing =,
that he was a man of high moral char
acter 1t happened that week that
all of Mr.. Curfew's white shirts were
in the wash MIR. Curfew is very par
ticular about his shirts. They must 1
he as white as arctic snow, or the way /
he raves around the house is dis
grace. Well, I wish you could have
seen those shirts after they We're
washed They had an old gold color,
and have been getting yellower ever
since, and Mr.. Curfew never sits down
but he speaks about it and makes
things uncomfortable.
$50 you had better tOddle along Il
and sell your washing powder to some
woman who doesn't know how to make
good SOAP"