Rules for Correspondents.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 232, 21 February 1885, Page 5

Rules for Correspondents.

1. Sign your genuine signature and state your address. A j tl 2. Write legibly on 'one side of the paper only, 3. Prepay the postage, or drop communications into the Editor's Box. 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 thsm to the letter in any manner whatever. 5. Write to the point, and avoid vulgarity, scurrility, low inuondoes, and vagueness. Beniember that wit is not coarseness ; trenchant writing.abusej nor mere spying, criticism. .6 Notes and queries on literary, scientific, . artistic, and domestic subjects are gratuitously inserted and answered, except those relating to legal, medical, and surgical 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 Hence we do not publish in the- news columns offers or requests to hire, -co sell, let, lend, borrow, give, or purchase. 8.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 rules are "'destroyed, and no rejected manuscript is returned.