Worse Than Wasted.
There is a rather widely diffused belief that women do very amusing things with telegraph-blanks and cheque books. Put a young woman, on one occasion at least, displayed in the use of the telegraph a more than maso'ilin© brevity, thriftmess and sang froid.
A young man, who was deeply in love with this fair lady, who Jived in anothor town in Michigan, decided that the only thing for him was to offer his hand and heart. So he- went to the- telegraph office and sont ihis message:
" "Will you marry me? Twenty-word answer paid for." An hour later he got his answer: "You are extravagant. Why pay foi 19 words* too many? No."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 88
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116Worse Than Wasted. Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 88
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