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Show Novelty in Letter Writing ' -v the Ignorant Factory Girl Managed Man-aged to Accept an Offer of Marriage. One Englishwoman relates rather a pretty story about a factory girl's way of answering a marriage proposal Bade to her. Of course it happened 'ng. long ago. The young woman could not write or read writing, and one day, says the lady, she brought a letter to me to fead It to her. It contained an offer in marriage. I happened to know that the writer was a deserving young artisan, so I said to her, "Now, you must consider this matter very seriously, and if you like to come to me when you have Hade up your mind, I will write a re- Ply for you." A day or two afterward I met the girl again, and asked her if she want- j ed me to answer the letter for her "O, that Is all right," said the girl. ! looking radiant and pleased. "I've I ettled It; I answered it myself." $ "Why, how did you do it?" 1 asked. And then she told me ' that she could make a capital "I," and that she stuck on the paper a piece of wool after it for "wull" "I wool." Surely one of the quaintest acceptances ac-ceptances of an offer in marriage ever penned. |