St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-13
WOMEN AT THE PosToFFIoE.
Which the FAIR Creatures

Experience i'm Mailing N Letter.
The woman who goes TO the pOst0fhce al
ways ignores the fact that there are two
doors side by side, and that people who are
go ing in from the street are expected TO
take the door to the right. She insists on
tTy wing to 90 through the door on the left.
There may be stream of people hurrying
out of the door on the left-peOple enough,
at least, to make the occasional thick
headed man who wants TO 90 in that way
get tired of waiting and rush OFF 10 the door
on the right, which he should have sought
at first. But the woman never gets tired of
waiting for a chance TO go through the door
on the left. IL necessary she will wait sew
eral minutes until there is lull In the out
bound procession, and then she will rush
frantically through and collide with some
body who is coming out in hurry. Then
the somebody will utter an ungallant re-
mark about people who haven't got sense
enough to turn to the right, and she will
walk serenely up the corridor, with an ex-
preston that says she does not need any
horrid man to tell her which is the ladies'
entrance TO the postoffice.
She generally wants TO buy a money or
der or postal note or to register a letter.
If it is mohey order she will spoil several
blanks before she gets the application made
out 10 suit her. Then she marches straight
for the window. i'm utter contempt of the
men who are standing in line waiting their
turns and to the maddening evaporation
of the man who is just getting a money or
der and who is counting his change. OF
course the clerk tells her her application Is
wrong and she goes back to the writing shelf
to go through the labor of making another.
| When that is done she regards her right to
push ahead of the man at the head of the
waiting line as holding over. and she pushes
in, hurls the application before the clerk
| eyes as he is counting pennies and asks him
lis that right?" The clerk, with pardon
able desire TO get rid Of her as soon as pos
slble does not remind her of the propriety
| of standing in line, but asks her for her
money. Then she deliberately hunts for
her purse and opens it in the good old slow
way for which her charming sex is noted.
Finally the money is handed over, the
order is made out and given TO her, and she
begins to crumple it up and put it in her
purse, to be filed away with her husbands
receipts. Then she tells the clerk to make
sure and see that the payee gets the money.
and the clerk has to call her back and tell
her to mail the order in her letter.
Now she wants a stamp. If she does
not go to the wholesale window to buy IL
she makes a dash for some other wrong
window and is directed 10 number some
thing else. After she has gone few feet
in the wrong direction she retraces her
steps and again goes through her great act
OF getting her work in ahead of the i'll
natured-looking men standing in line.
After paying for her stamp with a silver
dollar and counting the change on the shell
she puts the stamp on the letter. looks at il
critically and decides to post it. Then she
looks over the list Of Southern states in
search of New Jersey, and finally drop:
the missive into the box labelled Foreign
Letters" 1t is real fun to watch the
woman at the postofice-that Is. II yoJ
haven't anything else to do.-Philadelphis
Times