“DEAR MR. MILKMAN”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 48, 27 February 1939, Page 10

“DEAR MR. MILKMAN”

“ QNE of the most amusing aspects of the milkman’s job is the matter of notes in bottles! Many a housewife writes almost a daily note to the milkman. Nothing very intimate or revealing, as a rule, but through these notes, none the less, the milkman gains a knowledge of his customers, their habits and their eccentricities,” writes Robert W. Desmond in the Christian Science Monitor. ‘‘Usually the notes are pretty matter-cr-fact. ‘No milk Wednesday,’ ‘Please leave half pint heavy cream. Thanks,’ ■1 qt. B and i pt. light cream,’ ‘i lb. butter’—that sort of thing. But some are more amusing, or draft the milkman into some other role, occasionally. He may be asked to knock on the door to awaken someone who has an early appointment; or who doesn't want to risk oversleeping. He may be asked

tj let the cat in, or keep the cat out. “Customers are polite and considerate of the milkman’s feelings. One housewife informed him, with obvioue regret, ‘I do not want any more milk delivered to my house beginning with Tuesday, until further notice. I hope there is no hard feeling. Thank you lor past favours, I am, yours truly.’ “Another explains, ‘Please do not leave milk until further notice as I eat out so much I cannot use it.’ “A man of ability, patience, faithfulness and stamina—that is the milkman —your milkman. He is also a diplomat,, a man of friendly temperament, pelite, cons 1 derate, because he must be all of these tilings to deal successfully with m«.n, women and children, and to represent his company in a way that will win it respect as well as patronage.”