HER TELEGRAM
These is a rather widely diffused belief that women do verjy amusing things witii telegraph blanks and chequebooks. But one young woman, on one occasion at least, displayed in the use of the telegraph a more than masculine brevity, thriftiness, 1 and "sang 5 f raid. A Sydney young man, who was deeply in love with tihiis fair lady, who lived in another part of New South Wales, decided that the only thing 'for him was to offer his hand and heart. So he went to the telegraph office and sent this message :-" ' Will you marry me ? . Twenty-word answer ' paid ' An hour later he go* his answer : ' You are extravagant. Why pay. for nineteen words 100 many ? No.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 18, 7 May 1908, Page 38
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120HER TELEGRAM New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 18, 7 May 1908, Page 38
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