Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1881 — Care in the Use of Postal Cards. [ARTICLE]

Care in the Use of Postal Cards.

Great care should be taken in the use of postal cards, which should never he employed if you have anything of an unusual o? ambiguous nature to eon*

municate; ~An editorial writer on the New'York Times, evidently writing of personal experience, says: “ A newspaper man once planned a story in which a lady, unhappily married, was to sne for a divorce, and, to make sure of being correct, wrote to a lawyer friend, stating the case as he meant to describe it. Back came a postal card: ‘Yon could not get a divorce on the grounds you mention in New York; you might in Connecticut or Maine.’ This card, handed in by the carrier to Mrs. Newspaperman cne forenoon, when her husband was away at business, raised a breeze in the household which was not allayed for some days.”