The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-15
THEY DON'T TELL ALL.
Postofice Employees Who Learn q
Great Deal of the Sity's Sly Ways.


Postofice Employees Who Learn
Great Deal of the Sity's Sly Ways.
From the Philadelphia Record.
If the postofiice employees who have,
charge of the private lock-boxes should tell
all they see and hear they could unravel
tales of fact as strange and as interesting as
any fiction. A man of more than the usual
amount of curiosity was disposed to linger
the other day around the private lock-
to study human nature, as 1t revealed it
self in a very bizarre style among the lady
renters of these mail receptacleS. The in
quisitive man, by a process of study and
reasoning found that may of these ladies
were married, ana yet received letters ad-
| dressed i'll their maiden or in fictitious
names.
ROMANCE, TRAGEDY AND COMEDY.
Besides these epistolary mysteries, around
| which there must have beel web of ro-
nance, there were numerous ladies, inter
ested in charitable matters, who dropped in
! and extracted from the boxes letters and
packages of all sizes and descriptions There
| is a hint given that one of these charitable
| fair faces is very sweet on parson, from
whom she daily receives homily, in the
| shap of letter, on charity of the heart as
well as of the purse. There were more
tragedies, comedies, serio-comic plays and
r6ilglOuS episodes eDdCLSu NlJulu Une con-
| fines of the main corridor, s. the curiosO
states, thai the ordinary unsuspicious and
busy mortal would naturally imagine.
READING BETWEEN THE LINES.
Some of the faces wore looks of unre-
Quilted love. those Of others beamed under
a load OF suppressed joy, while few were
absorbed in deep thought, trying to read
by the aid of the sphinx between the lines.
One lady was particularly noticed for her
beauty and figure as she walked up to a
private box, carefully looking up and down
the corridor to see if 8 e we're watched.
Then showing a small gloved hand hastily
into her dress pocket, the lady drew forth
key and unlocked the box, from which she
drew a fragrantly scented letter.
SWEETS OF STOLEN PLEASURES.
One glance at the epistle and her face was
wreathed in smiles. 1t was a billet-doux
addressed in her maiden name.
She was married to a gentlema high in
the social scale. whom she never loved, and
history Of ten years of unhappiness and
self-abnegation centered around the bic sed-
ness of having secret epistolary CORE
spondence with her real lover.
AT THE GENERAL DELIVERY WINDOW.
Meanwhile the general delivery window
was besiegei by a motley array, from
bright social lights to the flashily dressed
demlmonde. Despite the fact that the num-
Der of lady callers aG the general delivery
window mas been greatly reduced, and only
transient ones are allowed the privilege of
this much-abu,ed means of correpo deace,
a wav of circumventing the rest lotion has
been found. Il sti has all the glamour Of
trysting spot, whore the Gemi-monde
reigns easily queen.
LOVE BIDS FAREWELL TO PRUDENCE.
An attractive lady about 2S years old,
attired in dress that was simply dream,
was seen to alig 1t from her carriage yester-
day and enter the postoffice corridor. Col q
up to the ladies' window of the general de-
livery department she gave an assumed
| name The clerk handed her a letter, which
she eagerly clutched. Turning toward the
wall with beaming countenance she IN
sealed the letter and read the
contents. Before entering the car
| riage she tore up the billet
| doux and scattered the fragments in the
street. She was the wife of an aged
wealthy gentleman and member of
church in the western part of the city. The
letter which she received was from a friend
of her hui sband, whom she secretly loved.
| Some of tie scattered fragments of the bill
| let doux were arranged, revealing like a
solved puzzle the following Hateful lines
written in French:
Love, love, when we feel your magic spell,
To prudence straight we bid farewell.