TS ICET 24 May 2018 Shift 1 Paper

Read the following passage and answer questions 196-200: I had started on life of ease and comfort, but the experiment was short- lived. Although I had furnished the house with care, yet it failed to have any hold on me. So no sooner had I launched forth on that life, than I began to cut down expenses. The washer man’s bill was heavy, and as he was, besides, by no means noted for his punctuality, even two or three dozen shirts and collars proved insufficient for me. Collars had to be changed daily and shirts, if not daily, at least every alternate day. This meant a double expense, which appeared to me unnecessary. So I equipped m yself with a washing outfit to save it. I bought a book on washing, studied the art and taught it also to my wife. This no doubt added to my work, but its novelty made it a pleasure. I shall never forget the first collar that I washed myself. I had used more starch than necessary, the iron had not been made hot enough, and for fear o f burning the collar, I had not pressed it sufficiently. The result was that, though the collar was fairly stiff, the superfluous starch continually dropped o ff it. I went to court with the collar on, thus inviting the ridicule o f brother barristers, but even in those days I could be impervious to ridicule.