READ LETTERS BEFORE REPLYING.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 221, 4 January 1909, Page 2

READ LETTERS BEFORE REPLYING.

"If there is any one thing which makes me specially cross," said a girl, as she threw down a letter she had just finished reading, "it is to wait and wait for an answer, only to find that the writer hasn't deigned to reply to a query." "Here, for instance, is a letter I have watched for, day in and day out, exactly ten days. I wrote to Marion asking her to tell me by return post just where she obtained a certain kind of material for fancywork she was doing when visiting me last summer. "Does she tell me? No, and it isn't because she doesn't want to; I know that.

"She knows she owes me a letter, but it never occurred to her to refer to my last letter to her. She accordingly sits down, dashes off a note telling of all sorts of things of interest to ber — and to me, too, under ordinary circumstances —and here I am, delaying the finishing of that cloth, which is to be a wedding present,because I simply cannot find out where to get a little bit of needed material. "It's vexatiousl, say. If only people would make it a practice never to answer a tetter without reading the letter to be answered, it would save a treaaeadeas lot of annoyance to their