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SIS 5o@9: dc, fanily, S11@11 SO 2 obl; do,
smoked, II 1$6a1 &c r ID; Eastern Lard. tieTces,
| 94@e15c; do, lob tins. 9t@915c; do, 5-i5 tins,
! 91sg3}kc; do, 3-lb Tins, 9t4@91@c; California
Lard. tierces, $40 Sslc: do, kegs. 9Il63 9Jse:
do, lob tins, 10@1014c; do. 5-iD tins, 1o1@c;
do, lob pals, 10s4c; do, Oh pals lie; do,
/ 3-fb pals, 1114c p II.
! WOOI--We quote spring:
Eastern Oregon anu Washington, fsfb- -14@2Oc
saIiey, DO; 2o@23
San Joaquin and southern, free....1o@14
DO deiectiYe.. SG10
northern l6@11
HIDES AND sKINS-ouotabie as follows:
Heavy steers. 81 lbs up, = b. 90 6 "a. &C
Medium Steers, 4o to SO ibs..6 a 4334@-
Medam 5snt e cows 10 sc over Ssi:. Ss.5 O. O. SO SO
Light Cows, under 46 ibs..-...55 O. 34@-
slp kips, s;l, I to 80 lbs ;......-...d @ 9 q
Calf Skins, to 10 ths.........-6 O. 5 O.
Dry Hides, usual selections, &c; Dry Kips. do,
sc 2 h; Calf skins, do, SC; Gun Hides, Rip
Dry Salt Hides, 4c; Pelts, shearlings, 100000
each; do, short, 306o5Oc each; do, medium,
65@ 9oc each; do, long wool, 9oc@51 20 each:
Deer Skins, summer, 371lc; do, good medium,
321a@3 35c; do, thin, 2otd25c z 10; Goat Skins,
4Oa50c apiece for prime and perfect, 25@35c
for medium, and 100000 each for small.
MEAT MARKET-Following are the rates
for whole carcasses from slaughterers to deal
ers Beef-First quality. 6td 61ac; second quail
lty, oCa 51.c; third quality, 412@y5c q n. Veal
Quotable at 5@62c for large and 5ta Sc q b for
small. Mutton-Quotable at S@9c q To-.
thanksgiving, L sc = H. Porll-IIive hogs on
foot, grain fed, heavy, 4156D45sc; light 454@5c;
dressed hogs, 7}aC@Sc 2 D..
Merchandise Market.
BAGS Calcutta Wheat Bags are dull and
nominal. at 61%G65sc.
BROOAlS-Spirai Brace, S:3 80 for No. 1.
S3 % for No. 9. and S3 for No. 8 and Ladies'
Delight; Patent Brass Cap eastern brush)
81 rs, 81 so and 81 . D respectively for Nos.
j, . and 3; Patent Tin Lock, 81, So 70 and
SO 30 for thefhree numbers; Mill and Stable,
ash handles, 81 sc and 81 for the two num-
bers; Ship, So; galvanized bands, soc per
dozen extra; Wisp and Toy Brooms, S2@2 20.
CANDLES-The product of the local Candle
factories is quoted as follows: san Francisco
Crystal Wax, 1919 for 1907. and 1870 for
lie; Eureka, 14-oZ. lie; Eagle, 12-oz., 1oc;
Cincinnati, 12-oz., 9c; Mission Chemical Wax,
14-oz., 12G161lc; do 16-oz., 171sGa1 Sc; Solar
Sperm, 14-oz, I2c; do l6-oz, 14c; Adaman-
tine 1907, lie; Eastern brands vary from
&c to 1754c: Sperm, 25c; Paratine, 11@1l1ac
z h.
CANNED GOODS-Local Gamers quote job
bing lots as follows ApricotS, 50; Plums
81 20: Pears, So 25; Peaches, So 456l2 90;
Cherries, So 80 for Black, and 50 so for
White; Grapes, 81 go; ounces, 81 95; Straw
berries, So so; Raspberries, 50 rs; Tomatoes,
81.
COAL-Puget Sound Goals are quoted from
ship at SO; Coos Bay, 81; Southfield british
Columbia), S12; Wellington british CoiuIn-
..A "a aS
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WINE-French Claret, s62@66 q cask;
Champagne, 81 6@32 g basket; California bulk
descriptions are quoted as follows: Angelica,
8 so; Sherry, 81 Is to 81 a5; White, 45c@
81 80 2 gal.
WOODENWARE-The Pacific Woodenware
and Cooperage Company's price list quotes
three-hoop Painted Pails at SO: vaInished do.
black hoop, SD 20; yarnished do. galvanized
hoop, So rs; white do, galvanized hoop, SO 70
co, and brass bound do, 81 5o19 z dozen.
YEAST POWDERS brands of
full weight, 16-ounce cans, 81 so q dozen, and
other sized cans in proportion.
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UNPRECEDFNTF7D

Caay Valley situated in Yolo
Lake Railroad, 21nles
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Br,stttrss Turns.
ARCHITECTS.

MRS MARION STIRLING, II. D.
r ATE LADY PRINCIPAL OF DUFFERIN
i Medical College for Women, and Superin-
tendent of Womens Hospitals and Dispen-
saries in Northern British India. Diseases of
women and children speciality. OFFICE
Room z, Odd Fellows Temple.
II. F. ROOT. ALEX. NELSON. ]. DRISCoI.
ROOT. NEILsGN g. CO.
TNION FOUNDRY-IRON AND BRASS
y Founders and Machinists, Front street,
between n and o. Castings and machinery of
every description made to order.
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321sc: tins, i219c.
TEA-Good medium grades Japan are job
bing at 25@35c.
75c Z ID: Fine Cut Chewing, in foil and pals,
Sc 25@9.
WHISkY-We quote: High proof, 81 95 to
50; low proof, S2@2 SO; various brands of
Bourbon, so 25@5 SO 2 gallon, according to
age.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-10

who like the spice of little hazard,
little mystery, little novelty. Make
believe clopements are no longer con-
sidercd anything but silly, duels are out
OF the question, and the romance of
matrimony might have gone to the dogs
but for the benevolent advent of the
personal" column and the private let
ter box.
The personal" column is not new
institution, but in some of its modern
manifestations it is peculiarly different
from what it ever was before. Years
and years ago, even ON the prosaic con-
tinent of Europe, matrimonial adver-
tisements appeared in the public print,
and in no less n home of the unscnti-
mental than Berlin itself. But these
old advertisements are dry, calculating,
perfunctory. The modern personal
item is beginning to glow with a poetic
fcrvor that rebulkcs the theory that this
is an age unfavorable to sentiment.
The yearning advertiser quotes the
classics, drops into poetry-an cxpcn-
sive luxury at thirty or forty cents q
line-and otherwise exhibits n DISPOSE
ton to surround the business of mar
riagc with nimbus of romance There
arc cynics who say that these adver-
tisements which exhibit the sensitive
personality of Il maiden-it is extreme
ly often maiden" just now-who has
beauty, social position and fortune of
81, 500, and who seeks the hand of a
true man." are not always penned
land paid for) by maidens, but by mis-
chievous young men who want some
fun out of heap of letters But there
would he no picturesqucness left in the
world if these cynical people were to
be believed.
The modern personal is, indeed, a
strange combination of this shrinking,
tender and appealing sentinentality
and monetary strain of curiously
explicit kind. The well-preserved gen
tlcman of forty-eight, who has some
$4,000 in real estate. is looking
for, and explicitly asks a fortune of
like dimensions in the well-preservcd
lady over forty who may answer the
advertisement. People who marry in
the old-fashionedw way, like that bitterly
disappointed pair in "Our Mutual
Friend" might profit by the example
of those people who don't allow them
selves to become interested in faces and
forms until bank matters have been
carefully discussed by letter.
Nobody doubts that scores and hun
drcds of marriages are made every year
by the advertising columns. But prob
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HISTORY OF THE UMBRELLA.
It's Exact Origin Is Unknown, but It Is
Worry Ancient.

Its Exact Origin Is Unknown, but 1t Is
Worry Ancient.
No one knows whether the umbrella
was originally used as defense against
rain or as n screen from the sun, but il
seems probable that the first umbrellas
were sunshades, says the Irish Times.
In countries where very little clothing
is worn rain does not make much differ
ence, but the sun is power. WHY
shouldn't the palm-leaf be the first sun
shade, with its ribs and handles to or
der? 1t hints at the umbrella as we'll
as the fan.
Travellers among the Amos of Japan
often make temporary sunshades of
gigantic dock leaves, which arc some
times six feet high, large enough for an
account of CULVER. The umbrella has
very great antiquity. The word itself
means little shadow" showing that
it was named for it's protection from
the sun in this case. Horace says:
Among the military standards the
sun bcholds an Egyptian canopy"
On coins and in the rock carvings of
the ancients the umbrella often shows
its familiar form. This goes to prove
that Jonas IIanway did not invent the
umbrella, but he saw the value of the
eastern sunshade, and soon it became
the fashion to carry this article of APP
parel. There must be n great differ
encc between the umbrella of the
eighteenth century and the modern
steel-ribbed, sills-covered, slender arti-
Gle which it is regarded rs misfortune
to get wet.
The Gesideratum atpresent is porta-
bic umbrella. There is fortune for
the man who invents really good UNI
brella which can be slowed in n yalise
or trunk. There is an unpatcnted
Corean umbrella that may fiji the bill
When it begins to rain the picturesque
and stately Corean swell reaches into
his sleeve and produces a folded,
oilcd-paper affair resembling fan.
This is spread and set over the hat like
an cXtinguishcr, and is kept in place by
two strings held under the chin. 1t is
not very large, but anything that will
cover Corean hat will keep the rain
from q Corcan.
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SERVANTS IN AMERICA.
They Arc Restless and Seldom Rcraain
Long In ANY Ono Family

Long In Any Ono rarniiy.
They generally remain but IL few
months in ono situation. Like crcry
one else they arc restless - require
movement, changc-writcs Hamilton
AIDE in the Nineteenth Century. 1t
SUITS the head of the family TO break
up MS establishments when he travels
abroad, or goes to Il fashionable resort
IN MS own country to inhabt II mon
ster hotel. And it equally we'll suits
the establishment" to go to the mon
ster motel and get advanced wages for
inc crowded season. So it comes about
that old servants, except negroes in the
southern states, are unknown. In tho
west the difficulty Of obtaining any but
slatternly Irish girls increases every
year.
Considering the enormous :inmprn-
ton, this is II problem no man can I'M
derstand. In Colorado Il lady said To
me: "Onc does not think of asking for y,
servants character here; she asks for
yours. The first year came could
get no onc-thcy knew nothing about
me. This year they have been kinder"
She then went on tell me that IL parlor
maid living on ranch had come to her
mistress (who told my informant the
story when some visitors were cx-
pected and stipulated that she should
be presented to thcm-or she would de-
part. 1t was IIobson's choice and the
presentation was duly made. In an
other family the advent of the cook was
thus announced in one Of the papers:
Miss Sallic Dexter has arrived from
Denver on visit to Mr.. - in this
city"
a friend of mine says that when a
parlor maid came to be interviewed she
inquired: "Do you do your own stretch
ing?" Upon inquiry she learned that
this meant: do you serve yourselves
1T tablet" Manners in servants of both
sexes arc peculiar, rs indeed they are
in all the lower orders if one may be
allowed such an expression about Amer
lcans) This is the only class that never
addresses you us sir" The hotel
waiter vouchsafes no reply if you ask
him to bring you food. lie fetches it in
silence, and then leans over your chair
listening to your conversation. One
man made Il plunge at my head as en-
tered the coffee room of the hotel at
Pittsburgh. For Il moment thought it
was an assault, till lie bore away my
hat in triumph to hang it on per. lie
meant no incivility; on the contrary, he
believed he was showing his alacrity to
serve me. But he had not been taught
better, nor are his children taught;
therefore for the present l sec no pros
pect of amendment in this respect
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An Expensive nogshead.

A pcnurious old fellow went to u
Maine country grocery store one day
and asked the price of an empty molas-
ses hogshcad. The price was not salts.
factory and long wrangle finally re-
suited in the old man making q very
mean offer, which was Indignantly re-
fused. mo, SIR" said tie grocer, you
cannot steal that hogshcad, but will
give it to you il you earn it by rolling
1t home" II was in the spring and
there was layer of soft snow on the
ground. bnt the challenge was accepted
aud old i'arsimony rolled the hcgshcad
n distance of more than u mile lie was
not strong man. except in will. and /.
COST biz. hts life. for lie never Cd aar
s-sSEs sro4s AMI asEa IA sc=7 -czks.
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ably few people realize how many hun
dreds and thousands more content them
selves with a series Of mail-box flirta-
lions which never result in even meet
ing After making love in the dark, as
1t were. through n more or less candid
correspondence, affinities do finally
meet and matches are made. But these
hirtations people have no intention of a
serious elimination of their entertain
ing correspondence. Young women are
especially given TO the variety of cor
rcspoadencc which has in it no intcn-
ton of last chapter. The young mon
who answer their letters believe, per
haps. that they are in fair way 10 real
ize the ideal of youth, fantastic meet
ing They are often led on by the fair
rpmsncerS. who. when the play seems
~ sre i'esssasinsp DANGER 'sss. .ssof tsle cor
responsiveness t-iaa.srass : ssEs-
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personals is this: mo agents" This
means that the advertiser expressly
does not want the assistance of the
matrimonial agencies, which for a con-
sideration undertake to bring kindred
souls together. These matrimonial
agencies, watching the wants" of the
lonesome with so keen an eye, advertise
good deal on their own account, and
several of them in New Yorl, are now
publishing very neat little bulletins,
containing an extensive array of an
peals from those unmarried who prefer
this fascinating method of changing
their conditions. These bulletins indi-
cate that match making is likely
to become much more of an eX-
act science than it is at present.
Even in this practical channel
the element of sentiment is present in
constantly increasing proportions. The
ingenuity displayed by people with for
tunes Tor ut least with very remarkable
expectations in an effort to make some
body of the opposite sex believe that
they are disinterestedly pining for COM
panionship is often delightful The art
of graceful and persuasive lying is no
where carried to the point of absolute
art with SO much nicely az in these
newspaper and bulletin advertisements.
A New Yorker who is both philoso-
pher and n man of the world, and who
is one because he is the other, said to
me: "YOu must not think of these matri-
monial intricacics as entirely fantastic
There are many kinds of people in the
world, and they have not all the faculty
Of meeting the kind of people they
really need to meet. Thousands of peo-
pie who would otherwise remain single
marry through these advertisements.
Both the timid and the mcrcenary find
it useful medium, and You may mark
my words that some day or other the
pairing of the human race will not be
left so much to chance as it is now
People will deceive each other, of
course, but the matrimonial advertise
mcnt has IL wonderful facility in clear
ing the ground, as it were. have
heard of many II happy marriage as re-
sulting from n personal correspond
cnce." VICrOR SINS
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RAILROADS
N : = J. w HorfoIksWestarnR.R

'0nhpoLE IN EFFECT DECEMDER0 9, 1891.
wksrDouND, LEAVE ROANOKE DAILY.
o it nj LOT hadford, Pulaski Bristol: also for
pucnel9, Pocahontas, EikhUrn. Clinch Val
DNisl0n and Louisville via Norton
i. amnan sieopers to Memphis and New Or.
,o.on hc.ns ehu 10 Louisville via Norton
''''' q; ~. LOT haufordand Intermediates station,
.,, NO connection beyond
VIZ T., ~ ior Hnuf0rd, Pulaski Bristol Con.
hcCts at hadford for Blucileld md ISoea
Chattanooga. " "cmphls via
N N.,.s An EAsTBoUHD, LEAVE ROANOKE n,r1v
t uv u. III. Tor Shenandoah; no Connection hcvnnd
Isoo - m Tor liagcrstown. Pullman siee~sr 49, W.
Now ork Via Harrisburg and phj,odcI,,hia w
lAl0 p M Tor Hagcrstown. Pullman siecnnrs 70
washington via SHENANDOAH Junctio, ma 70 -
- ~ New L 0rk via Harrisburg "nu ~
0:'W a. III. for Petersburg and Richmor,
l2'4o p. m. daily for Richmond md NnrSo,L d.,
go man parIor car to Norfolk VI
5:o5 p. III. for Lynchburr: no connsct,o, h
sfr y. ms io W MMlcnmohd and Norfolk Pullman
m meSpcr 10 Norfolk and Lynchburg to Rich
cin Zen valley yision-Leaves Blucncd daily
.uo a. M Tor Norton, and 2a5 D. m for No.
ton, Louisville and points on l.. 81 N, r. ~
North Carolina Divislon-Leave Pulaski, doi,v
.:uO .. M Tor Ivanhoe and 1870 D. M for Ivan.
noe ana Gossan and $40 u. IN. (cxcept SIM.
>, day. for Betty Baker. oun'
Office or to " II III TTiTr tIfeAet
General Passenger Agent, Roanoke, Va.
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INNOCENTS ABROAD.

They Found the Hotel People More Po-
Tito Than the Folks About Home.
They landed into the Central hotel
with wilted look which discouraged
the sheen on the wrinkles of the two
girls suits, says the Pittsburgh Chroni-
Gle. There were four of them, and they
had come to Pittsburgh to see the
sights.
AT 1880 o'clock the quartet entered
the Central hotel, and one young man
approached the counter and said they
would like dinner. Then suddenly, as
though recollecting himself he removed
his hat and murmured an apology. His
male companion instantly jerlled his
hat off also. When they were informed
that dinner would not be ready for half
an hour one of the young women said:
"Wcll, may we sit down there in these
chairs and waltz"
"Why, You had better go to the par
lor," replied the clerk.
"Oh, thank you; but don't open the
parlor on our account" intcrposed the
other young woman. "We'rc only 60
ing to stay for dinner anyhow" she
added.
but, madam, the parlor is open and
at your service. shall send you up on
the elevator" and the clerk smiled.
please don't trouble yourself" cx-
postulated one of the maidens; I'VE can
walk. We're used to It,"
The clerk, however, put them on the
elevator and heard one Of the young
men remark:
well, Mary. they is heap site per-
liter here than at home"
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ERRORS ABOUT SNAKES.
An Expert Points Out Some Mistake
Wat Arc Generalix Accounted

An Expert Points Out Some Mistakes
That Are Generally Accepted.
i've no faith in the fascination of
snakes eyes," says G. Il. OReilly, of
Trinidad. in the New York World
Its the same fear which draws birds
around = hawk or owl, or small bows
around wild bull, that leads little
birds to curiously inspect motionless
snake. Then they get killed for their
curiosity.
''rhe idea that full-grown men are
swallowed by boas | believe to be n
myth. AS for the American boas, I
have seen none that can swallow more
than half-grown goat. An anaconda
over twenty feet long is rare. The
largest snake on record, an Indian
python reticulatus, now in London, is
only twenty-siX feet long 1t weighs
about two hundred and twcnty-four
pounds. Doas do not cover their prey
with saliva before swallowing it. The
saliva merely lubricates the prey dur
ing the process of deglutition.
Young snakes do not take refuge in
their mothers stomach. Snakes suck
ing cows and hoop snakes rolling along
with thciI tails in their mouths are in
vcntions worthy of the author of the
Arabian Nights There's the fable
about whip snakes hanging from trees
in Brazil and flashing the unsuspccting
wayfarcr. Their shape started the
story. They are about half an inch in
diameter Al the thici1sst pa<; and ave
z>ca tas.s-v
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BREVITIES.

Lieutenant D. c. Shanks, of the
Eighteenth Regiment, U. S. Army, sta
toned at Fort Clark, Texas, is in town
visiting his father, Col. d. c. Shanks,
on his way to New York for batch of
recruits for his regiment. The lien.
tenant is single, weighs 21O pounds. and
is a regular ''chip of the old block"
The many friends here of Mr.. John
Chalmers, of Evans e Chalmers. feel
extremely anxious about his condition
which is said to be critical Several of
his relatives left Salem yesterday to be
with him.
Since Browns hardware store has
been moved to Main street, Longs
music store on College avenue has been
made station for the sale of dummy
tickets.
Miss Mary Cox, who was recently
paralyzed, died Wednesday at her home
about two-and-a-half miles west of
Salem.
Robert Haislip, on Wednesday morn.
ing killed a wild turkey weighing
twelve and "a half pounds, within mile
of town.
The Salem Carriage Works have lust
sold several vehicles of their own man.
ufacture to people in Rocky Mount
Franklin county.
Mrs. A. L. Parrish and daughter, of
Roanoke, and Mrs. Morton, of Wash
ington, d. c., niece of Vice President
Morton, spent the day in Salem as
guests of Mr.. w. II. Tinsley. In the
morning Col. A. M. Bowman drsye
them in his carriage around town and
they were favorably impressed with
what they saw.
One morning recently Mr.. J. C. Fuell
killed gray fox under house on
Union street, where it had taken refuge
from some dogs. He thought it was
wild, but afterwards discovered that it
was tame fox belonging to party in
West Salem.
The TRY Band" Missionary Society,
OF the Presbyterian Church, will have
sale of ready-dressed Christmas dolls
from to p M, on the 18th and 18th
instant, at the residence of Mrs. F.. G..
Burdette, on Broad street. for the bene-
fit of their society.
The funeral services of the late Mrs.
A. q. Huff will take place from the
Presbyterian Church this afternoon at
o'clock.
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Sometimes the young ladies who play

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with fire in this way have their fingers
burnt. Their rural letter box ia
watched perhaps by hireling of the
young man, or their private letter box
IN the heart of the city fails to hold its
secret. If the young man is not often
sive the hunted one is lucky.
On the other hand there are n legion
Oh lnSlnccrc men who not only watch
the personal and matrimonial columns
but look through the "situations
wanted for an opportunity to get an
interview with some unsuspecting girl.
The other day Il girl who was advertis-
ing for Il position as lady's companion
received wcll-writtcn letter from n
man who asked her to meet him ON n
certain avenue ut n certain hour. '"That
we may recognize each other" said the
fool' let us each carry folded news
paper i'll our left hand" The Young
lady had u big cousin who went and met
the author of this ingenious device.
The big cousin doomed over the dude
who lowered about the appointed corner
with the folded newspaper in his left
hand, confronted and confused him
hiled him with terror, slapped him in
Gn0Gn n
tcrview with n kick.
That the private letter box industry
should grow as it has may offer some
indication of the extent to which ex
trcmcly private correspondence has
grown Uncle Sam gives pretty good
opportunity for privacy, but he is not
only expensive but in a measure public
Private letter boxes are set up in all
sorts of odd corners in New York. but
chiefly i'll secondhand book stores and
stationery shops. These agencies of
confidential correspondence generally
have little side room containing Sc
ries of numbered pigcon-holes and a
number of lock-boXes. If you have a
pigcon-holc-at say fifty cents a month
your mall is handed out to YOU by the
proprietor. If you have n lock-box
(Which will cost you dollar monthly
you push open the swinging door of the
eplstolary sanctum and unlock your
box. a glimpse of some of the people
who patronize this system suggests that
widely varied class are represented.
but that in particular mice people" are
the chief customers. Among them are
many women. The shopkeeper under
stands the commercial value of Winding
his own business, and, moreover, of
not allowing his letter-box customers
to jostlc against each other. The pres
cnce of collateral business in books.
etc, makes it easy to blind an inouisi-
tive transient"
For lovers with argus-eyed parents.
or sinister married aunts, the private
letter boxes arc ever popular 1t is un-
fortunately true that the boxes are
used good deal by married ladies who
have correspondents whose letters nrc
not intended for the husbands eye. 1t
is urged that this misuse of the system
does not condemn it, for is not poor
Uncle Sam imposed upon without
thought of abolishing his benevolent
services?
One of the most frequently reiterated
passages in the modern matrimonial