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Show Several improvements are likely in the post office if the plans of experts are adopted. The postal committee of congress, appointed two years ago, will recommend that a permanent director of posts, with seven assistants, be provided pro-vided for, and that the four offices of assistant postmaster general be abolished. abol-ished. Postmaster General Meyer is urging postal savings banks and rural parcels post, and his probable successor, succes-sor, Mr. Hitchcock, favors these lm provements. The parcels post will probably be profitable to the depart xnent, besides conferring benefit on the public The deficit this year is the largest lar-gest ever reported nearly $17,000,000 and although the post office Is not in- I tended to make money, any effort to put it on a paying basis should meet with favor in congress. Talk as they will about fashion, the men are as subservient to its decrees as women. There was a time when I most men wore beards; indeed, at one time It was regarded as wicked to shave. Yet of 24 governors elected last November, Gov. Hughes of New York is the only one who does not shave some part of his face, and nine of the new governors are clean-shaven. A few years ago, says the Youth's Compan- ion, every mother's son In any photo graph of a group of college students had his hair parted in the middle and j plastered flat above the ears. Nowa- I days It is the fashion to part the hair j way down on one side. Twenty-five years ago college seniors wore beards or whiskers. Theodore Roosevelt wore "burnsides" when he was in Harvard. In France archaeologists have discovered dis-covered the bones of men who. they think, died 173.000 years ago, and " workmen tunneling at Torouto have found human footprints in interglacial clay deposited from 50.000 to 100,000 years ago. And yet a woman will sometimes tell her husband that the hat he gave her the money to buy only two short years ago is old. I If we could see ourselves as others see us, it would just about put the looking-glass people out of business. |