Show I I t 1 heG S lief Ht tell c REMONSTRANCE All this this' talk about the Post PostOffice PostOffice PostOffice Office Department losing money money mon mon- ey on account of inefficient and antiquated methods certainly doesn't apply to our local post office This morning while I Iwas Iwas Iwas was buying some postal cards I Asked the assistant postmistress postmistress postmistress tress Didn't I buy some one cent stamps yesterday Yes fifty of them Viola re re- re- re plied Its funny I said but butI I dont don't seem to remember r reachIng reachIng reach reach- achIng ach- ach Ing home with them Dont you remember Viola said I put them inside that box of 01 envelopes you bought to keep you ou from losing them Now I ask you what could be more efficient than that Those folks really have to work overtime to keep me from getting getting getting get get- ting mixed up But dont don't you think its those extra little services that make life worth living One time when I was buying some three cent stamps I said If you have some with pic plc- pictures tures on them Ill I'll take those Instead of the plain old purple ones Well Vell ever since then Marie and Viola have made me buy a sheet of commemoratives every time a new Issue comes out I keep trying to tell them that stamp collecting Isn't included among my eccentricities but you know how It Is when a woman gets an idea into her head The last time the caught me they sold me two specials One was a three color job Issued inthe In Inthe Inthe the interests of Wildlife Conservation Conservation Conser Conser- rIng H the likeness of nf nfL ofa L n a pair of white whooping cranes standing in some blue water with a couple of their ecru of offspring off f spring walking on the green and grassy shore The other was a plain gray etching honoring Religious Freedom In America The FlushIng FlushIng Flush Flush- Ing Remonstrance 1657 1 1657 57 I have studied American history history hist hist- ory more or less unwillingly for more years than I care to remember but I couldn't seem to o recall anything about the Flushing Then one day I noticed a piece about it In some paper It seems that thata a group of citizens In Flushing New York rem remonstrated a t fa t ed against the oppression of a minority minority min min- religious group there Must lust have happened in 1657 I tore the Item Hem out of the paper i in order to share it with my many readers but now that I want It I cant can't find it I 1 guess I 1 should have hid It la Inide ide a box of en elopes |