MARRIAGE PROPOSALS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 273, 27 November 1901, Page 1

MARRIAGE PROPOSALS.

THE WRONG ANSWER. Chicago, October 4.

Since Thursday morning the Chicago Post Oihco has been bombarded with telegrams from a young woman of Kansas City, asking, bogging', imploring that two letters which she had mailed to CWicago men be stopped. She explained that her whole future happiness and that of others depended upon withholding the letters. The young woman —-too bad her name can’t be given, but it’s against the rules of the post ofßce —arrived at the lake front Federal building to-day. She rushed into the presence of Superintendent Cahill and told who she was.

“ Have you got them ? ” she asked in breathless suspense. Cahill pushed some electric buttons and in two minutes there was a scurrying of clerks from all parts of the building. They got their heads together in a provokingly deliberate way, but finally Cahill held in his hand two muchmarked envelopes “Here are two letters that we stopped in answer to your telegram, ”he said. “One was in the West Chicago Station and one in the Englewood office. Are these your letters ? ” The excited young woman fairly swooped upon the outstretching envelopes. Tears of gratitude . and smiles i-.of delight mingled on her pretty face as she thanked Cahill and tore open the letters. “ See, this is the one to a man I meant to marry. It says ‘ No,’ ” she explained to the sympathetic clerks. “ And here is one to a man to whom I wish to be only a sister. It save | 1 Yes.’ ”