Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-20
QUEER LETTERS TO NGSBYS
Postmaster Thomas is Recipient Of
Some Queer Requests.
SOME WOMEN WANT HUSBANDS
Parents want Ala in search for chill
dren-Au sorts OF Requests
Come from Time 20
Time.

II Postmaster Thomas were TO paste all
OF the freak letters he receives into
scrap book. within the course Of year or
so he would have a most interesting collec-
ton. Perhaps the same may be true Of
any other postoffce, bat just now the
Omaha office seems to be deluged with
letters Of peculiar angle.
It is a rule OF Postmaster Thomas to
never make public the names Of persons
who write such letters. The signatures he
regards as confidential but he sometimes
INDUCES in discussion OF the contents.
The general presumption among a certain
class Of people seems to be that the post
master is a sort OF pooh bah who has
jurisdiction over wide range of city af-
fairs not only matters Of pubic nature
but the conduct and habits Of private in
dviduals as we'll
For instance. a Blair woman has written
Mr. Thomas announcing that her husband
Is I'm receipts Of a chain prayer letter
from a woman in Omaha. She is not sure
but she thinks she knows the name Of the
sender. and while she has no objection in
a general way to the contents of the prayer
she does object 10 IL being sent to her
husband. because she looks upon Il as an
entering wedge to further correspondence.
why can't she Just say her prayers
and cut out the writing?" the woman asks
Nj Thomas not being a prayer expert
is unable to give the information. Perhaps
it would do Just as we'll to say the prayer
instead Of writing It, but that is a matter
over which the postmaster has no juris-
diction However, the woman evidently
thinks he has power to act, for she con-
cludes her letter with a command Il want
you to have this stopped at once"
Woman wants Husband.
Another woman II ON Alliance Neb.,
writes the postmaster asking him to in
form her il he knows of a middle aged
man, widower preferred, who would like to
take a wife with a sheep ranch thrown in
for good measure.
Il am a widow" she writes, 40 years old
generally considered good looking, and as
my sheep ranch is too big a proposition
for me to manage, 1 have decided TO take
a husband, il / can find suitable gent,
and let him take charge of the sheep
am a good cook and 1 will feed the man
well three times a day. / am not seeking
a man with means. I have plenty Of
money, and will pay railroad fare to Al
lance for the right man. All 1 want is a
good, strong, husky man to handle the
pesky sheep. L am so tired or sheep l
never want TO taste lamb chops again. He
need not be an educated man-Tve got ed
ucauon enough for both of us"
Once in a while there comes a letter of
more serious strain-someth.ng to arouse
/ pity in the heart of the reader. Mothers
often write the postmaster in quest OF in
formation concerning wandering sons, and
/ now and then a heart-brolien wife asks
the postmaster to inform her II her missing
| husband is I'm Omaha. One woman even
went so far as to request the postma ster
to search the city for her husband. asslim-
| ing that he could be identified from a de-
! scription enclosed. Most OF these absurd
favors are asked by people living in vii
/ lagos, who do not take into consideration
\ that the postmaster of Omaha Is a busy
man and that however anliable and phil
anthropic he may be, he has no time for
| sleuth work.
AS a general rule, wherever possible, Mr.,
Thomas grants requests, and every letter
OF a respectable nature gets an answer.