Show wonderful collections of the dead letter mail W ONDER rUL beyond belief is the collection of articles which the post i office can make within w a vear ear from the mail that cant can t be delivered be cause of oc bad addresses through the benei benevolent agency of the parcels post the department last vear jear exceeded ece eded all records re cordi and upon the shelves of the historic dead letter office are packages DEAD learer M AIL containing everything from bibles to bassoons bas all 01 these articles NN a ere sent to tile the wrong address their original pack ages nele stamped and re stamped until the paper i vias as out for the sake of convenience the officials ot of Q the dead letter office have hane lumped certain articles together in large pack ages thus one passes a package ot of handkerchiefs and runs into a bright young assortment ot of brass castings or turning from a particularly particular melancholy collection of books he be runs smack into a collection ot of toys that might have haie come right out of the bag of 0 santa claus there is a single package that contains NN v omens omen s aprons with 51 sorted assorted garments which the gay young flappers of these parlous times e consider obsolete then there are pairs of hose bundled agether og ether even eien the me most t pessimistic sufferer from hay hav feier ever cheers up when nhen he goes by the handkerchief department of the dead letter office there is a single bundle of 1149 initialed and handkerchiefs reposing near him which is about the number that a hay fever feer patient uses during du ring a 24 hour day sixty six aviators in the united states are wondering where those avla tion caps are thit that they were nere told about in a letter but which they never nener received the caps are in the dead letter office with mith some hocq and the dead letter office mu mut must t ring at night with the disappointed cries of many fishermen it has received 1842 fisli fishhooks hooks and pieces of fishing tackle the only thing the dead letter office chasn t got is tile the fisherman s alibi A few other little side lines in the dead letter office are awls bicycle tires shotguns horbe blankets and picture postal cards to the number of about |