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Show He advertised for a typewriter (female) and received re-ceived in answer some 150 applications. So rich was the embarrassment of charms described in the various letters that he could not make up his mind which to choose, until he chanced on a pink missive, highly scented, and sealed with a monogram. mono-gram. It ran: "Dear Sir: I am a typewriter, young, good-looking, good-looking, just at the end of my teens, and in fact all you could wish. I inclose my photograph, which please return if you do not require my services, ser-vices, as I have to give so many away. I have marked this photograph with red ink, but also inclose in-close another of a friend of mine, who is homely and dumpy. If you are a married man you had better show the latter to your wife, should she wish to sco what your new typewriter is like. Some ladies, you know, are very inquisitive! Very truly your, " MAMIE MOORE' Mamie got the place. New York Telegraph, |