Rules for Correspondents.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 225, 3 January 1885, Page 10

Rules for Correspondents.

1. Sign your genuine signature and state your address. 2. Write legibly on one side of the paper only, 3. Prepay tlie postage, or drop communications nto the Editor's Box. * 4. Do not mix np business matters with letters addressed to the Editor, but address all business communications, money-orders, hank notes, cheques, or * postage stamps to Tbe Manager, Observkr. When reniitting stamps do not fasten them to the letter in any manner whatever. • . 5. Write to the point,^and avoid vulgarity, scurrility, low inuendoes, and*!, vagueness. Kemomber that wit is not coarseness ; trlnch'ant writiug.abuse; nor mere spying-, criticism. "*" 6. Do not slum your writing and composition,, and throw the onus of correction on the Editor. If you cannot spell, or are altogether ignorant of grammar, get a friend to revise your manuscript. Write your letter over agam, rather than send out a hasty scrawl, and consult a dictionary when you are doubtful as to the proper sj>ellins< of a word. 7. Notes and queries on literary, scientific,, artistic, and domestic subjects are gratuitously inserted and answered, except those relating to legal, medical, and surgical topics. 8- We cannot insert matters of business which fairly helong to the advertising department. Hence we do not publish in the news columns oilers or requeststo hire, xo sell, let, lend, borrow, give, or purchase. 9. The Editor doe 3 not undertake to answerprivate inquiries, except in very special coses relating, to his own department. 10. Communications which do not conform to the above rules are destroyed, and uo rejected' ■manuscript is returned.

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