| German laundry could not have acquired
this perfect ignorance of how to do up a shirt without able instruction--one
easily sees England in it. Your collar is like a horse-collar; your shirt
can stand alone and when you get into it you feel ready for crime. It is
a wonder they do not have more crime here, but it is increasing as adoption
of clean shirts spreads among the social democrats. - Mark Twain's Notebook |
 AI image created by R. Kent Rasmussen |
 Ad for Lux soap from The Designer magazine, April 1925 signed by Ralph Ashcroft. |
| For
more on Twain's association with Ralph Ashcroft, see Karen Lystra's DANGEROUS
INTIMACY (University of California Press, 2004). |
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