Rules for Correspondents.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 231, 14 February 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 the postage, or drop communications into the Editor's Box. I : : '

4. Do not mix up business matters with letters addressed to the Editor, but address all business communications, money:orders, bank notes, cheques, or postage stamps to The Manager, Observer. When remitting stamps do not fasten thaurto the letter in any manner whatever. i '

5. Write, to the point, and avoid vulgarity, * scurrility,. low inuoncloes,. and vagueness. Remember that wit is not coarseness ; trenchant writiug,abuse j nor mere spying, 'criticism.' ' •

..6 Notes and queries on literary, scientific, artistic, and "domestic subjects are gratuitously inserted and answered, exceptthose relating to legal, medical, and svirgical topics. ...

7. We cannot insert matters of business which fairly belong to the advertising department. Hence we do not publish in the news columns offers or requests to hire, to sell, let, lend, borrow, give, or" purchase.

8. The Editor does not undertake to answer, private inquiries) except "in very special cases relating to his own department.

<9. Communications which do not conform to the above rulos. are destroyed; and no ; rejected manuscript is returned.