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Show CURIOUS BALLOTS OF WOMEN Shopping Lists Among Things Pi't In Envelopes by Careless Female Fe-male Voters. "What I llkd about my old post lion," said tho ex-secretary of a worn iu's club, "was the opportunity It gnve me to see some of the funny things women put Into their envelopes when taking a vote on anything bj sealed ballot Sometimes they left the ballot out altogether, but usually t accompanied the foreign Inclosure I he majority of those lnclosures were shopping lists, and If I hail wanted to be menu I could have got mulij an 'nterestlng sidelight on a member's prlv'tite economies. Other careless voters put letters Into their envelopes I never rend any of them, but, Jinlglnp by the fuss they made about getting Item back, those letters no doubt fur ulaheil pretty Interesting reading "One real romnnce grew out of nils taken bnllots A flighty joitng woman senled up a marriage rertlllcate In her envelope, Sho hud been married three months, but nobody knew .nij thing about It, nnd maybe we wouldn't have found It put yet If she hadn't been so proud nf her marriage certificate that she had to take It out and look ot It every few minutes, and so got It nibxed up with her ballot. The assistant as-sistant secretary opened most of the envrlopes that day The mnnlngo certificate came to her, und tho sight of It turned her head '"Why, what Is this?' she said Who has been getting married?' "llverjbody In the room heard, and there whs that certificate flaunted right before their eyes, so of course the wedding couldn't be kept a secret spy longer. Hut I noticed that nil the members were a llttlo more careful about voting street car transfers and private correspondence after that," |