There few, too, who, under the old "dry-clean shop" regime, have not had the experience of losing some garment—usually rather a cherished one—or of having (it returned washed and shrunk instead of dry-cleaned. And then comes the fatiguing campaign for recovery either of garment or value. Things being as they are in Shanghai the battle will be one of single-combat between you and your adversary. He will. (1) deny that you ever sent him. the garment; (2) assert that the stranger he has returned to you is actually yours; (3) offer you $2.50 for the replacement of your lost or shrunk or otherwise ruined pair of flannel trousers or your best organdy frock.
In any case you won't be able to do a hope is if you are one immoral people who have a long-unpaid account outstanding. In this se you joyfully seize the opportunity to "You no pay.me my trouser" whatever it may be—"T no pay you bill! But the vast majority of the readers of these columns áre of the virtuous regular payer type. For them there is naught to be done in such circumstances but, with an aching heart, to remove their custom from one and give it to another who will serve them the same trick, given sufficient time. However, these dark experiences are now things of the past for all but the most inert, as the following paragraphs will narrate.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.