Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1906 — Her Idea of It. [ARTICLE]

Her Idea of It.

An official of one of the telegraph companies tells an amusing story of a young woman in a Pennsylvania town who wished to send a telegram to'a New York firm ordering a supply of dress goods, ~ After some inquiries as to whether the line “really and truly” did “con- , nect with iNew York,” the young woman finally decided to afford, the company the benefit of her patronage. Opening her hand bag, she took therefrom various samples which she con- * suited from time to time as she undertook the task of expressing her wants in the usual “ten words.” When she had apparently completed the interesting operation, she attached two of the samples to the telegraph form and handed her message to the man at the window. Her telegram read as follows : “Blank and Company. Send express four yards sample ‘A’ and six yards ‘B.’ ” —Success Magazine.