The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-22
A SMALLER STAMP.
Baby Size Urgently Needed on Many Important
 Occasions.
A PLEA MADE FOR THEM
Many Envelopes Are Two Small for the Present Size
 Stamps.

Uncle Sans mail collectors find. every week. hundreds of mailboxes full of little envelopes. These en- velopos contain, usually. two cards, a large one and small one, tied to- gethor with ribbon. The large card may say:
 MT. and Mrs. Studebaker Graves. The small card may read: Rollo Graves.
 ! Sometimes there is also date. The 1 gentle mail gatherpr always smiles | when he finds q swarm of these little mssives hlvcd in a letter-box, though It means extra work for him, for a swarm seldom numbers less than 100. l He smiles and surmises that they | come from the third house down the street. tho ono where tho bell is muf- | fled. This lot makes an even thousand l that he has gathered up and carried 10 the postoitice since Monday, and he ! smiles as he thinks he may have to | apply for a horse and wagon for his route if this sort of thing koops up. | He smiles also because he knows that
 these small additions to his load are | the best evidence in the world of gem
 cral prosperity and confidence in the
 government, which must always be a
 pleasant thought to the patriot in the employ of his country.
 1 These billets are smaller than let ! tors yet real letter would have 10
 be bigger than q billboard to contain as much joy and pride and important ncws as one of these cncloses. They
 are the flakes of pure gold in the huge 1 sacks of social and business dross that
 the postal service drags around the l country at sd much profit to the rail- l ways They set people to laughing, 10 crying for happiness. to shouting the
 news up three flights Of stairs :;Jen-
 nic's got ten-pound boy. IIurrab" i presently issue forth More than that, they command responses. postage i paid of silver and gold and fine linen, and any kind of mail that can make people dig up deserves serious consid-
 cration.
 ] | " llli ~bN'l hiit'llN Nbil pNlS 'iVp' small harbingcrs of new citizens and l ampliiers of the revenue to wear q stamp almost as big as themselves. On the face of ono of these little glad | dcnors q two-cent stamp shows up 1 like an Indian In q Kindergarten. The l Father of His Country put his coun- ! try's youngest son completely in the i background. The two figures , be-
 side MT. WashIngton's face look as l large as the date on a circus poster, ] They give the person receiving the l birth announcement a prcmonton of 1 twins. And the stamp takes up go 1 much room that tho address has to be 1 squeezed in around the edges in q i shamerully disorderly way, which the unfeeling who never have children,
 might construe as tho result of alco-
 holic excitement on the part of Rollos
 papa. Perhaps in the mails the stamp
 crowds the address clear off the letter, | young -cowbird- fashion, and that may
 explain why somc of the people who
 were expected to do handsomely by little llollo never give even sign that
 they have received Rollo's advertise
 ment,
 And sc we ask tho government tc
 listen to a suggestion. Issue a baby stamp Let it be about one fourth the
 size of the regular postage stamp. Lei
 it have a picture of Theodore Roose
 welt in tho middle, surrounded by con
 ventional storks and doctors gigs. Lc it he printed in colors, blue for boys
 pink for girls yellow for twins, rcd
 white and blue for triplcts, etc, tC
 match tho baby ribbon with which tho
 cards inside arc tied. Thus our pa, . tcr1lal government would recognize
 gracefully and justly, ono of it's chic
 sources of income; the gain in ma.
 tional neatness would be immense