Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1910 — The Duke and the Laundress. [ARTICLE]

The Duke and the Laundress.

A pleasant story is told of the Duke of the Abruzzi. There was a laundress at Salsomagigore who had always enjoyed the duke’s patronage whenever he went there. The duke, of course, knew nothing about this matter, which was attended to by his chauf-feur-valet. For some reason the servant had taken a notion tq change laundresses, hence great humiliation on the part of the good little woman who, naturally, prized her great>patron. A writer in McClure’s Magazine tells the rest of the incident. What was she to do? She wanted to get an explanation of the matter, at any rate; so one day she placed herself on the road where the duke whs to pass. When he came up, she said to him, ‘‘Your highness is no longer satisfied with your forffier laundress?” . /■ . "Who said so?” “Why, your highness no longer sends me his linen, and I am very unhappy about it.” ‘‘My poor child,” exclaimed the prince, “I knew nothing about It! Come with me, and we will settle the matter out of hand.” No sooner said than done. The duke ordered his chauffeur to send his linen to his usual laundress in the future, and when she narrated the incident, she added, enthusiastically. “And he isn’t a bit proud, is our duke, for he is the first man who ever lifted his hat to me.”