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Show READS ALU THE POSTALS. Postmistress In This Way Sees That Nothing I nproper Passes Her. Talking with a part) of friends at a down town cafe the other afternoon, after-noon, a trav Mng man told of a new operlence he encountered In a little village not far from Philadelphia on his last trip out. He was standing at the window of the postnlllco In this village while the mall was being distributed, dis-tributed, when ho noticed that the postmistress-who was certainly old enoit-h to I, ovv whut s' e was about ! the letters as she came to them In their proper boxes but placed all the postal dtrds In a pile together on a shelf. "What nre you saving the postals for7" asked the traveler at last "Oh. I've it to read 'em all first," was the repl. "Got to!" exclaimed the traveler, with an accent of surprise on the verb. "Wlr how's tlin . "" "I have 10 read, 'em, every one " said the postmistress, 'to see that they contain nothing Improper It's a rul of the department " And she went on placidly with her distribution. distribu-tion. Philadelphia Record. |