Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1878 — The Functions of a Postmistress. [ARTICLE]

The Functions of a Postmistress.

It seems to have just been discovered why an elderly maiden lady is not the right kind of a lady to put in charge of a postoffice. ThePostoffice Department has recently been compelled to seek the resignation of tho Postmaster of a small town on the West Penn railrord, Pennsylvania, because the Postmaster, who is an elderly maiden lady, has felt it her duty to open letters addressed to the young ladies and gentlemen of the neighborhood to find news which she couldn’t get in the local papers. Hereafter she will have to look through keyholes or something of that sort, in order to get any happiness out of this dreary and exacting world. Most large country houses in Great Britain and Ireland are now brilliantly lit by gas made on the premises, and so are several large country hoiiseg jo this country. ' 1 J “