POST-OFFICE BARS CIGARET.
No Boys to Be Employed for Special Delivery Service Who Use Them.
At a conference of the Chicago post-office authorities it was decided to hereafter employ no boy who smokes cigarets, or who is known to have been once addicted to the habit. Heretofore there has been a rule in force that boys employed by the office could not smoke while working, but, believing that smoking has a demoralizing effect, and because of the need of the most intelligent and active boys, it is thought wise to make closer restrictions. An examination is soon to be held, when seven hundred youths will enter into competition for positions in the post-office, and the new order will have no small effect upon so large a number of applicants. The clause relating to cigarets says: "No small boys will be allowed to participate in the examination, since only the best-equipped boys mentally and physically are wanted in this service, and under no circumstances will a boy who smokes cigarets be employed." The service referred to is that of special delivery messengers, for which appointments are made from this examination.—Union Signal.