Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
LETTERS STOPPED IN TIME.
People who Arc Saved by tho Postmaster
From tho Result of Hasty Action.

People who Arc saved by tho Postmaster
From tho Result of Hasty Action.
"The tears were streaming from her
eyes like spray from the Ierkes foun-
tain" said clerk in the inquiry divi-
sion of the postoilice, laughing ut the
memory OF the stout, tlorid woman who
rushed in one hot afternoon with tho
plaintive wall, stop my letter; give mo
my letter to the old country!
THAT letter" the man went on.
"was dropped somewhere within tho
city limits, aud was mixed in with
some 1000, 900 other letters, yet she
wanted us to get ii for her quick 49,
seemed TO think that | would bounce
ont of my chair like rubber ball out
OF tennis racquet, snatch up that
particular epistle, and come running
back breathless and hand it to her.
Now, the facts are that the govern
ment does not permit the stopping of
letter that has left the writer's hands
unless it is important thatit should be
done. II makes an enormous amount
OF extra work. There is blank that
must be filled out, stating tue box III
which the letter was dropped, the
time, the address and the reason why
the request for the recovery is made.
That reason sometimes discloses some
very interesting and romantic facts,
but, of course, most OF the letters are
stopped for the business houses about
town. When we asked the redfaced
Niobe what her reason was, she boo
hooed, "Me an my man had some
troubles, N wrote to my fader for
moneys to go home, but my man and
me have made up and would not have
that letter go for a tousand dollar
We got that letter for her.
"rhere was another, young
woman, who rushed in here during the
opera season, and when she had caught
little breath she said she wanted a
letter she had addressed TO Peoria,
Ill.-there were some IS opera tickets
in it tn It she wanted to use that night.
She Md had letter written to her
family, and, thinking there might be
a postscript to add, had not sealed it.
She bought her seats to 'Tannhauser'
and left the window with her purse,
her letter and her tickets in her hand.
The open envelope was 80 inviting n
place for the'tickets that she thought
she would carry them there, but just
~ soon as she saw q letter-box it was
like red rag to a bull. She sealed
the envelope and posted it, tickets
and all, and il was hours before she
remembered what she had done, and
then came down TO us for help. We
got her tickets, too.
young women who have recon
sidered' q proposal or who regret a
hasty note, like the men, blushingly
confde their troubles TO us, and we
have prevented more than one broken
agomsEImes the lsEss7s lave lett orr
hands and we have TO telegraph to
catch them, which is done at the per-
sons expense. We have more than
once cabled to Berlin and st. Peters
burg to head of billet-doux or some
request from an impatient and petu-
liant son for check. A scion Of
noble German house came in here to
implore us to prevent the delivery OF q
demand for money, written, / fancy,
in tone that. in the light Of recent
remittances, would endanger his in
heritance. There is some mighty in
teresting reading among the blanks
requesting letters stopped, all Of which
are sent on to Washington. Chicago
Inter Ocean.