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Show were almost impossible to be leached, but she would reach them just the same. An Alabama postmistress regretted re-gretted that she could not undertake the work, as it was impossible to hire any conveyances' in her county, and one in Mississippi asked to be excused as she was very young. j FACTS FOK WAN A 31 A KER. The women postmasters at count' seats seem to have received with delight Postmaster General Vv'anamakek's suggestion sug-gestion that they visit and report upon the offices in their counties. They have ; been hard at work and have sent in j facts, suggestions aud comments, both pertineht and otherwise that are calculated calcu-lated to make the postmaster general glad that he is living. One Georgia postmistress suggested annual visits. Another reported that many of the offices were in country stores, and were not so neatly kept as women would keep them. An Illinois postmistress reported that not one of the visited postollices were perfect, not even her own. An Idaho postmistress rode 2'A miles on horseback to make her inspec-j inspec-j tions, and cheerfully spent $20 in the process. A Kentucky woman went her rounds with horse end buggy, spent $o"0 and reported that every postmaster visited would welcome closer relations with the department. Another in Kentucky Ken-tucky traveled over 100 miles and spent 815 for horse hire alone. A Louisiana postmistress reports that she keeps bankmpt willingly in order to improve the service in her own village. A postmistress post-mistress in Mississippi reached the post-oflices post-oflices of the railroad line in a sailboat. Another in the same state traveled through the piny woods inland without hesitation. A New York woman visited visi-ted forty-four postoffices with horse and carriage, traveling 291 miles, and a North Carolina woman was so courteously cour-teously welcomed by all the post-I post-I masters that she promised another visiJL next year. A Texas woman omitted to visit one ofiice because it required a horseback ride of thirty-five thirty-five miles. A Vermont woman was not prevented from visiting the oflices in her county because it is composed of five islands. Virginia and California postmistresses visited every office in their counties. A Pennsylvania woman attacked the tremendous undertaking of visiting 128 offices, many of them among the Allegheny mountains, and disposed1 'of it. A West Virginia woman wrote that some of her offices |