Prisoner's Good Use of the Present Day Abomination.“Washing, to-day, is a question of chemicals, not of labor,” said a delegate to the national convention of laundrymen in Philadelphia.He sat down, and there was a burst of applause But Carter McGrath of.Atlanta' said:“It is‘well for us to look to the chemistry of washing and 16 get our labor-sav'^ machines, but there is still another thing for us to look to: Let us try to make clothes washed by us last as long as they used, to do when washed at home.”Mr. McGrath smiled.“A cyric told me a story the other day,” he said, “and it is our duty to knock the bottom out of such yarns, to destroy their reasons for existing.“There was a prisoner in a cell, lamenting Vis lot. He longed for a saw, for a file“Suddenly : the man spied on the floor a package of laundry, that the jailer had just; tossed in. .“‘Saved,’ he cried hysterically, and opened the packet, and taking from it a standcollar, the poor fellow cut his way ewi ftly through the steel win--dow bars to freedom with the saw-like edgV' ” • ■ M'M* • * *• 1 * ^ %• •* • . v* \ « •. •****. **