Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1912 — NOT ABLE TO ACCEPT OFFER [ARTICLE]

NOT ABLE TO ACCEPT OFFER

Young Lady Wittily Replies to Advertisement That Had Been Misdirected. " Because a large woolen company mailed a circular advertising a line of woolens for trouserings in plaoe of woolens for ladieß’ skirts to a lady of Washington, the concern received an unexpected letter In its correspondence. In her reply she deplores tbe fact that she is not able to accept the offering in the advertisement of trouserings. She says: - "Relative to the generous offer, I beg to advise that there seems, unfortunately, to be a slight misapprehension as to gender on your part. The offer itself seems most attractive, and I regret that nature—seconded by our rather stringent police regulations—has debarred me from the privilege of alleviating your anxiety to make me "the recipient of your special bargain prices in trousers. Would that it were otherwise! Color would be no object, texture a mere bagatelle, could I conscientiously take advantage of your proffered augmentation of my present somewhat limited wardrobe at your most cut prices. I’d glory In one of the 'superb pair’ you wish specially to make according to my plans and specifications, as.it were, and really the outlay would not be so great for yon, either, as I am not very long, and I like things without trimmings any* way_ “My heart yearns—nay pants—to take advantage of your prlpoely offer, but, alas! I am not a true gentleman -’-not even a woman militant’^—Philadelphia Record. £'4>V;