The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-28

CAhhiE ~
The above is q very fair likeness OF an
unfortunate young woman whom II
NEWS will refer to Is the Postage stamp
Girl. 90
n whole neighborhood OF someDodles,
begins to collect postage s~tamps-domes.
tic postage stamps. They ASK
all their friends TO cut on
the stamps from their man
and contribute them TO the stamp coliec-
tion. They haunt the big mercantile es,
tablishments that have heavy mall, anu
oct permission to 60 through the waste
basket for stamps, or ask that the envei-
ones be preserved for them TO cut Inc
stamps from. The stamp collectors u
siiv OF the gentler and ever persistent sex.
They tell you that they are trying 70 cor
iect a hundred thousand or q miiioh
stamps.
What for? 20
What on earth does anybody wah' "
| collect all those stamps for?
II ia no fool Job TO collect a miilion
alta mps. III You had q million envelopes All
| niIcd mn and should undertake to cut tnem
| IN and should work as hard as you coulo
| eight or 10 hours a day at 1t IL woula 'eKv
you five or six months 10 gee .neus thhs
stamps from an average OF a hun-
dred envelopes q day including sun
DAYS. which would be pretty steady
work eupposing you had other tasks anu
duties, 1t would take you l0,OoO days 70
collect q million stamps; iah III your
friends helped you with .hen
contributions you might be able TO
knock off three or four years, put
the enterprise would still be an appailing
one. Nc one would undertake IL put u
child with the broad field oil nope All pe.
fore him or woman VINO KNOWS " "n
it Is to be dismayed. ;h,.
II Won ask the earnest and irrepresslpie
stamp collectors what they propose TO DO
with ali those stamps il they ever get tnem
they will usually answer eiuhea uma viii
Give 5000 for a million stamps or tha'
somey here--Switzerland Is usually citeu-
tho revenue somehow derived from the
stamps will establish free beds III a nos
, pital. .,., who toll
, them? Where is the German who oner'
: These questions are invariably unan'
swered. They hear that such Is the fac
I. and it will be time to lind out ABOUT ]
when the stamp collecting has progresse'
And 40 hundreds of folks hereabout.
. and all over the country have begun col
: lections. Thousands OF stamps lie toda,
in neat packages in bureau draweIs-pt
" full proportions Of the required miiilons-
just enough to have brought the coiiec S9
lob it is to get her
!. million stamps and now abandoned
New and ever ~sanguine collectors are al
WAYS ~springing up, but the great myster
al what is to become OF the stamps snoui
they ever be got together In mhil1h 40
vet faith in the proposition OF the wealth
- f;erman or the Swiss hospital seems q
ways to find martyrs.
- II has been stated that the German an
the wiss hospital are % mythical as Tn
font of youth. II NEWS pas never pes
discovered something that may. be u
y. foundation OF the mystery, ana whi'
certainly is q market Tor the postal
stamps. Some other folks know about
but most folks do n~ot-especiaily the III
Sc iority OF stamp collectors.
Carrie {. Dickinson Is a young wom'
who lives with her mother In MODE
OF APARTMENTS at 1883 Third avenue, NJ
ib York City. She has been an Invalid 1
IA nine years-an absolutely helpless invali
unable to move from her chair, unapie
work except i'm the most gentle way WI
hsr hands unable to swallow and dige
a, anv but thesimplist and smallest amour
n, 90 food. Her mothers time-and n
80 mother Is not ~strong-is, necessary, g
rs tirely devoted to the care OF the helpi'
'os girl. She has llttle time W WIN WV
., common support. -
20 A variety of methods from vario
channels are in regular operation Tor !
100 support of this girl who never leaves !
LOO house and one OF those methods M
SO Dickinson conducts for herself. III
explained In the following circular;
WANTED All kinds of Cancelled post
s,amps. United States and foreign. also
oo concentrations of Columbian stamps. The
los tor arc OF moro value. stamps used In
wears 1912 and 1860 with the exception of
~ low yalues) are worth considerably m'
stamps are OF no use AZ
II least torn or II any OF the
III fora,ions have been cut of. All stamps
ll spoiled when taken of tho paper dry. "A
ton Of the envelope should be left around
III stamps. Government stamp envelopes she
ne cut square with a margin OF az least
ouarter of an inch on each side, or IN ca
. Ia n Columbian stamp envelope. please IL
y the entire envelope; also postal cards
same way.
Ishall be very thankful to any OF the fri
for their Cancelled stamps, as they are our
pendence at present. Mother and are al
n In and | am blessed with many kind friends
help me arrange my stamps, as am a shu
ex- not able TO do much. but With the help OF