WASHING AND IRONING A SPECIALTY.

NZ Truth, Issue 80, 29 December 1906, Page 5

WASHING AND IRONING A SPECIALTY.

Yours truly, ' ' . .PUN LEE. No doubt, like most advertisers m a newspaper, F,up Lee wanted a puff par and h% certainly got it, ih fact got more puff tha* the "decent" white receives ! when . he makes, his modest request for a par- It is bad enough „ , ,to have jthe Chow, with his diEty, ;\ filthy habits, contaminating' the very . air we breathe, but to' have his good' dirty-clothes-washing qualities boomed m the . columns of a "newspaper is . more than a joke. Indeed, the tendency of New . Zealarid provincial papers to belaud and applaud a "poiular" Chow on every conceivable occasion makes an!p clean-skinned white ashamed of his nationality./ Not a week passes by without some country ' coni-emporary* coining ' out with a puff par on some yellow-skinned son of Confucius, belauding- him to the very skies, and estimating him higher m the eyes ; of a white community than his European neighbor. It is just this . adulation of an -alien race, such as . the Chinese, that makes Lionel Ter- . rvs. who have moi*e method m their madness than is visible to the closely scrutinising -eye of science. As a newspaper "Truth" is heartily ashamed of the "Waimate Times." Of the '•'great Press freedom," as- Russell Lowell has it, nothing more can be said of the "Waimate Times" than ' that it seems to have sold itself to the highest -bidder— who happened this time to he Fun Le,c, the artistic laundryman, expert m the art of washing ■" Waimate's dirty underlinen. In .*• subsequent issue,, viz. Dec. 22, Ihe ''Waimate Times," the yellow ; . journal of the Oanterlbury district, has „ more to say of Mr A". Fon Lee (he has changed his name m two days) .'as a dirty clothes washer. It -is a pearl of a puff, and the brainy staff no doubt collaborated to give- to the world the brilliance of their intellects j m praising a stinking yellow alien laundryman. Here is the "Times" again :— The new laundry is a boon to the Waimate house-wife. Mr A. Fon Lee is now being kept very busy as be knows our needs at this particular season of the year. Who will think of ironing their own linen when it ' can be done to perfection iust outside their own doors for a few pence, and no home-made look • about it either: Clothes made white as snow, with just the gloss no one can obtain but A. Fon Lee. One trial will give every satisfaction, Such brjlliant, journalism as this is as a flower wasting its fragrance on the , dpsert air. Journalism forsootji ! Why it's right-down filthy graft. Many a styliah coat hides a ragged shirt.