The literary digest . man offeredme a ten-dollar bill one day to pay apenny due Some other tendencies that turn thepostmans hair gray are then one thing, people will address theirletters wTong. As we read: Once, for example, we had a letter whichwas addrest to a number that did notexist. It was wTitten in Russian and con-tained a five-dollar bill. Our registryclerk wanted to send it to the dead-letteroffice; but I remembered that I had seena woman who looked like a Russian in ahouse near the end of my route. I lookthe letter to her, and tho she was notthe woman we wanted she trans
The literary digest . man offeredme a ten-dollar bill one day to pay apenny due Some other tendencies that turn thepostmans hair gray are then one thing, people will address theirletters wTong. As we read: Once, for example, we had a letter whichwas addrest to a number that did notexist. It was wTitten in Russian and con-tained a five-dollar bill. Our registryclerk wanted to send it to the dead-letteroffice; but I remembered that I had seena woman who looked like a Russian in ahouse near the end of my route. I lookthe letter to her, and tho she was notthe woman we wanted she translated it andtold me that the writer had lived at a cer-tain address in New York. I wrote to her,explaining the situation, and by returnmail received a grateful letter in English,giving the right address of the woman inour town. I delivered the letter myself,and discovered that the five dollars wasthe weekly allowance of an old in\alidwho, without that money, would probalily 80 The Literary Digest for February 22, 1919.
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