How A Woman Mails A Letter

Somc crnsty curmndgeon thus tells how il womntl gooft ín work to mail a Icller. It is a libel on the sex. Some of the girls wil] make it red hot for liim if discovered : "Any day when you have time yon can see liow she does it lv dropping luto the postoftice. She nrrivca there with a lettei iu lier hand. It is a sheet of note in a white envclope. She halts in front of the stamp window, opcns her inoutli te ia t a stamp, but Suddenly darts away to seo u she has made any error in names or dates, It takes live minutes for her to make nire of this, and (hen she balances the loter on her lhijjcr, and theawlulqueryarises n her mimi : 'l'erhaps it is ovcrwcight.' j She steps to the wiudow audasks the clerk j f he has a three-eent stamp, feariug that he liasn't, and she looks over every comi parfment in her portmonnie before sha I'hkIs thcchaiigi! to pay for it. The fan eom meuces as she gets the stamp. t She sidles around to oue side, removes her uloves, dosel; inspects the -stamji, and lusitalcs wliuther to 'lick' it or wet her finger. Sho fhially concludes it wouldn't be uiee to show her tongiie, and wets her finger and paf jcs it over the envelope. Sheisso long picking up the stamp that the moistturo is absorbed aud the stamp slide:; off the envelope. She tries it twice more with like sueeess, and getting desperate she givp; the stamp a lick and it stieks. ïheu comes the sealiug of the letter. '■ Sho wcts her linger aguiu, but UlO euvclop (lies open, and nfter three minutes deláy she has to pass her tongue aloug the streuk cl" dried mucilagc. She holds the letter a long time to make sure that the euvclopo is all right, and finally appears at the window and asks: 'Three cents is euough, is it?' 'Yes, ma'ain.' 'This will go out to-day ?' 'C'erlaiuly.' 'WiM it go to Chicago without the name of the countyou?' 'Just the same.' 'Whal time will it reach there?' 'To-inoTrov morniug.' She sighs, turus the lcttei over aud over, and linally asks: 'Shall I dropit iuto oue of those places there? 'Yes, ina'ain.' She walkfl up in front of the six orífices, closely scans each one of them, finally makes a cholee, and drops- no she doesn't She stops to Beo whexe it will fall, pressiuj! her face against the window until she flatteus her nose out of shape, ar.d sbe doesn'l drop it whero she iutcuded to. She, however, releases it at last, looks down to make sure that it did not fall on the floor. aud turns away withasigh of regretthai she didu't take oue more look at thesupcrBcriptiou."