WHAT SHE TELEGRAPHED.
The difficulty which boys and girls experience in expressing their ideas in writing is notorious. An examiner at a seminary for young ladies requested one of them the other day to give him her notion of what sort of telegram she would send to her father in the event of her having met with . a railway accident. It was a thing that might occur, of course, and the lesson prove useful; but, in any case, it would give an idea of her mental resources. He threw out no hints, but, with the proviso that it should lie as brief as possible, left the whole composition to the young lady’s imagination. This was the telegram ‘ Dear papa,—Dear mamma is killed ; Jane’(her sister) ‘and I are in the re-freshment-room. ’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 36, 5 September 1891, Page 355
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130WHAT SHE TELEGRAPHED. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 36, 5 September 1891, Page 355
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