Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-14
Their eyes drop and they walk away as If
load had been put on their shoulders

Their eyes drop and they walk away as II
a load had been put on their shoulders.
Il had a little fun here the other night.
She opened it and read 1t. Then she said
to me, I must let you in on this. 1t is too
good for me to enjoy alone I dropped in
on fortune teller tonight and she told me
I would get letter here and that I would
have q money order in it. Here is the
money order
Fortune tellers, however, do not strike
1t right every time, for time and time again
people are sent here by them and they get
our nothing only in return for their trou-
BILE.
Another lady, remember, let me in on
a letter. After standing over there and
reading it she came to the window, and
handing me the envelope, she asked: Look
at the handwriting and tell me what you
think of It, Does it indicate honesty Of
purpose? ask she said. because he has
made me proposal of marriage I ex-
planned to her that while I was somewhat
acquainted with handwriting, I was not an
expert on chirography, and that If she per-
TO See the postmaster. who decided all
questions relating to letters. and who was
specially GOOD on marriage matters.
How People Act.
When people reply. what, nothing?
why, that is strange we instinctively
know that they did not expect to get a
letter. When they use bad words, as some
occasionally do. by the same reasoning we
know that they did. Lots of our callers
are foreigners who cannot speak a word of
t,nsllsh, but somehow we are able to serve
them II we have anything for them. To
help them out We call in the services of
other callers and our own translators and
Interpreters
We know the faces of the regulars, and
after they have called two or three times
We rarely have to ask for the names. Now
and then we slip up. but not often.
Drummers and travelling men generally
nave OF necessity to call here for letters.
NO" ana then they are two or three days
ahead of their mail, but they generally cal
culate and arrange that their mail is due
ABOUT the day they arrive. When they
Gpn connect, they raise rumpus. George
Wasningeoa. Andrew Jackson, Daniel Web
ster. Abraham Lincoln, Geo. B. Mcclellan.
Ben1 Franklin, r. B. Hayes, Phil. Sheri-
Dan, Jne. A. Logan and hosts of other men
VINO are supposed to have departed long
SINCE continue to come here regularly
Daughter Looking for Her Mother.
mad a peculiar case here recently
young woman, a Norwegian, who had
just arrived from Chicago, came here. lock-
ing for her mothers city address. There
was no such name in our directory and
never had been. Yet the woman insist.
mat she had written to her mother reen
larly IoS three years from Chicago and had
Always Promptly received answers. asked
he er 70 write the exact address she put on
nor ietters 10 her mother. She did So After
the name came Yesler Washington u q
suspected then Immediately where the
Ire uple was. ana. locking into the Postal
Gu-oe saw that Yesler was in the state of
washington. AS the letters arrived here
our people struck off the d. c. and remailed
them 10 the state Of Washington TIE
Souns woman was almost heartbroken
Wnen told her that she was 5000 miles
OUT or the way, and to reach her mother
she would have to return to Chicago and
tnen cross the continent to the state of
Wasnlngton She had spent all her savings
IN coming to this city from Chicago ami
now Is at work in one of the hotels hare
!ryEhs 70 get money enough to pay her
transportation across the continent.
me other night had a caller who is
oue Oh numerous class who INQUIRE for
ietters IN the advertised list. The lady
gave me her name and 1 handed her LET
Ter addressed to that name She opened if
ana handed it back to me- saving that II
was not intended for her. Then turning on
me sEe denounced me severely. 4 think it
IS Is Shame. downright shame she said.
III Snu 10 prlns me all the way here from
tne navy Yard this cold night, when YOU
might have known the letter was not for
me- 1t was no use for me to exDIain ami
she went off hopping mad
mere Is class of people who are Just as
particular 10 mail every important letter
enst wire as others are to receive it at
mTst hands instead of through the Carriers
1hey are not satisfied to drop il in the cor
hef boxes, but come here regularly and
nan their letters in the receiving window
IEey then so away with a feeling of salts
laGton that the letter will go more care
we do not try to do so. Likewise Others
think the stamps bought here are better
than those bought elsewhere, and they
come long dists nces for them"