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AND SUGGESTS THAT LAUNDRIES HAVE "SECRET FUNDS."
PROBLEM FOR THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
(By SAMUEL' DASHIELL, United Fress Staff Oorrespondent.]
without shirts, and shirts back without buttons. As for handker chiefs, they don't come back at all.
Communal Olothes.
Panis:—It appears that one of the outstanding problemas after the war, which has not yet been touched by the League of Nations, is what Ee- voraes of handkerchiefs. As sug
The irate Paris journalist who gested by one of the more serious journalists.of Paris, there must be discovered all this hopelessly sug- something sinister in the regular gested that there is only one way disappearance of handkerchiefs into beat the French laundry. "That is, one should always buy two of the French laundries.
everything, a good handkerchief the edgle eye of the Prefecture, and a cheap one; a good shirt and might discover that these handkerzon one, and so forth, keep chiefs are going to a sceret fund in ing in mind that the good one is aid of the Catalonian separatists, for the laundry, and that the cheap or to the inner council of the Com-articles will returned. munist Party where they will all will not go to the various secret be dyed red and waved some day in funds. the Champs Elysees in delance of law and order !
Or, perhaps, Monsieur Chiappe.
Laundries' Little Lapsės.
They
In the little Frehch towns, where there is only one laundry, they say people get quite Leeustomed to Whatever it is, there is something wearing each others' clothes, and frequently will trade shirts on the fundamentally wrong about this farmain street but, in Paris, with so fanted French laundry. It may be much transient traffic, it is differ- a weaknyas in common with laun- dries all over the world. American Indries, as everyone knows, have a secret button fund, were millions of shirt buttons are kept against a rainy day. German laundries have a high collar complex" with
which they are going to some day
build a Chinese wall around Ger many and Italian laundries have "dirty trick of taking the drawing strings out of pyjamas. No one has ever been able to, discover what! Italian Jaundries do with drawing
eat.
The markings of French laun dies are modelled after the inscrip- tions on the Rosetta Stone, and thai is in the British Museum. One of the Napoleonic scholars, for whom
there is a dirty street named in the
Latin Quarter, could read the characters. That, perhaps, is the only solution for the League of
Xations.
Madame Sans Gene.
Someone of Champollian's, ap- strings. But the French laundries,proximate learning might preside od utey have been going in for all kinds of apparel. ...
a
The traditional picture of a French laundry was one time, small. dainty little store where beautifully curled and winsome mademoiselles did my shirts in snowy white daintiness, gaye perz sonal attention to each ruffle and never delivered a gentleman's shirt without all its buttons securely at
tached.
But recently some grim humoüris,
over a laundry marking com mis- sion, and make recommendations to the Assembly that a common "lan guage be used among the various
laundries.
f.
or
They should stick to Assyrian, or Sanscrit, or Hebraic, 12th Dynastry Egyptian, but should not mix them up, for it is apparently too much of a strain on the young and pretty laundresses' minds to learn all those dead languages just
is stalked through the French to read whether or not a certain
¡
Desides the Parisien laundresses have other preoccupations. In the annual elections for the Queen of the Micareme, or for the most" beautiful maiden of the Arrondise-
'ment, it is invariably a little laun- dress who is chosen. It is at these
times that everybody in Paris is probably wearing everyone else's clothes. And moreover, one laun dress became famous as Madame. Sans Gene, but the world has Napoleon's, word that she honest. She was probably not a handkerchief collector.
Was
There is no big laundry trust in Paris like there is, in New York. Each neighbourhood has its own little laundry, and if one has the time, he can pass by several thnes a day and watch his shirts going through the process Sometimes they will hang a particularly pretty shirt in the window, and it is a
serious breach of Parisien etiquette to expect to wear that shirt while it is being displayed.
Wandering "Undies." Moreover, the matter of under- wear is deplorable. Underwear goes
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laundries, and mates rarely come back. It's perhaps due to the lamentable condition of post-war Linorality, that a perfectly strange and hitherto unknown underveet should come back with part of some American B.V.D.'s, but that hapi.
pens regularly.
It's all part of a diabolical sys- tem of embroidering the client's mark on his goods in red cotton. and expecting the Queen of the Micareme to rend it.
Perhaps Doctor Einstein could work out a fifth or laundry dimension, by which all these spare parts could be traced, and thereby assure the peace of the world.
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divided, however, as to whether it is the falling off of the French laundry or the "falling off of the Can-Can that caused the decline of both, for the Can-Can costume, be
Inundries, and sent night shirta stiff collar belongs to Fioncare oring all ruffles, depended largely on hack for pyjamas, buttons back the late Marquis de Champaubert. the efficiency of the laundry,
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To-day.
(December 5.)
St. Stephen's Girls' College: Sala of Work, 11 am.
Helena May Musicale: Music of Childhood." 5.30 p.m.
H.K. Football Referees Associa- tion. French Bank Building, 5.30
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Y.M.C.A. Ladies Night, p.m. Radio Exhibition. City Hall, a p.m.
Samoan Dancers, Star Theatre, 9.15 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: " Coquette "" World Theatre: "Mark of Zorro." Star Theatres, "My Best Girl.” Ten Dances: Hong Kong Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, 5 p.m.
Dinner Dances: Peninsula Hotel, Repulse Bay, and Hong Kong Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
Tides: High, 10.51 p.m.; Low,
6.36 B..
Mails: Ioward: European Europe vid Suez (Rajputana).
Friday. (December 6.)
St. Nicholar,
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Radio Exhibition, City Hall, &
p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Coquette.' World Theatre:"Mark of Zorro." Star Theatre: "My Best Girl." Tea Dances H.K. Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, 5. p.m.
Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel and. Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.in....
Tides: High, 11.27 p.m.; Low, 7.94 2.m.
European Mails Outward: Europe ri4 Siberia (sa. Rajpú- tana), 10.30a.m.
Saturday. (December 7.)
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Radio Exhibition, City Hall, 2
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Queen's Theatre "Coquette." World Theatre: "Mark of Zorro.". Star Theatre: My Best Girl." Tea Dances: Hong Kong Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, 5 p.m
Dinner DanCES: H.K. Hotel, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels, 8.30 p.
European Mails: Outward: Furope via Marseilles (Rawalpindi)
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