The Archive · 1939

This Tale Won't Wash

LAUNDRY girls in Brooklyn say that bachelors are infinitely to be pr red as chen! married men.

The laundry girls of Brooks The bachelor's their sweet His buttons do not go astray Like husbands' do: h Mos many fewer gr Which need era Thus tis the bachelor who gains Their approbation How shall a married man secure This praise unless his cutie Applies herself to making sure No gravy spots his beauty? And as for buttons, well the wife Must start at once and jo on With joy to make of wedded life Romance and sew on.

—By F. G. H. Salusbury in the "Daily Herald."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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