River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-06-21
TWO COSTLY LETTERS.
How a Boston Woman Posted Some Ma
Matter for Her Husband.

How a Boston Woman Posted Some Mail
Matter for Her Husband.
Mr.. A, a State street broker, was leav-
ing town the other day, and his wife drove
with him to the station in a hired cab,
writes Boston correspondent. Just before
taking the train he found in his pocket
couple Of letters he had forgotten to mail,
and handed them TO Mrs. A, saying that
they were of importance, and asked her TO
post them. The lady took them with her
into the cab, and drove away from the sta
ton. Whether she was absent-minded
from excess of grief at parting with her
husband, or from some other cause, Is not
evident, but certain it is that III fit Of alb
stsaction. she quietly slipped both the let
tiers into the crack in the door into which
the glass half slides.
When 1t dawned upon Mrs. A that she
had posted a couple of important business
letters in tho door of q cab and that her
husband was already on his way TO New
York so that he could not rewrite them,
it is to be supposed that she mentally
called herself some uncomphmentary
names. and undoubtedly she was IN the
main not without some excuse for so dong.
She was, however, a woman of expcdients,
and she quickly stopped the carriage TO di-
rect the driver to go TO the nearest shop
where a fish line could be bought They
were not out of the poorer quarters OF the
city, and the shop at which he drew up was
of so doubtful character that the cabman
told Mrs. A. she had better remain out
side while ne went in after the line
As it was, the lady found herself
regarded py the circle of loafers about
with far more interest than was alto
gether pleasant The fishline procured, the
cab drove away, while Mrs A. endeavorcd
to get loop of string down beneath the let
tiers. The driver was ordered to go to
convenient and quiet Back Bay street,
where, much to the mystification OF the
nurse maids on the sidewalk the cab moved
slowly up and down while Mrs. A. contln-
ued her tedious and Intellectual angling. She
varied the performance by procuring sticky
fly paper, which she cut into strips and low
cred into the crack, in the delusive hope
that it might attach itself to the letters, but,
like the salt water which Violet fondly
hoped would turn into butter if it was
churned long enough. it seldom ever did
Mrs. A. also endeavored to persuade the
driver that he could take the cab to the sta
bic, turn il over and shake the letters out
but the scheme did not commend itself &c
his mind Perhaps the fact that the lady
was now paying for the cab by the hour and
not exhsusting his horse by fast driving
may have tended TO reconcile him to the
prolonged suspense which was rapidly
wearing away Mrs. AS patience
The conclusion of the matter was that
Mrs A. had the cab driven to a carriage
makers, where the door was taken from its
hinges and the letters at last shaken from
their place-the cab all the while being paid
for by the hour The bill for six hours use
of the carriage Mrs. A. paid without demur
but she reached homo after her adventure
in a state of WEAKNESS of mind and body
better imagined than DESCRIBED.