LETTER WRITING

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 14, 8 April 1909, Page 557

LETTER WRITING

If peoplo are known by the company they keep^ a girl is certainly judged- by the kind of a note she writes. Vulgar stationery, incorrect expressions, carelessness of any -kind, will do much -toward making her app ear-ill-bred, and stranger receiving such a note gets a more positively unpleasant idea of the writer than maybe would ever be made by word of mouth. Note paper of a pronounced color is bad form, and should never be used. Colored inks-, highly scented papers, or too lavish use of any of the fads along these lines, are the greatest evidence of bad breeding that a girl can show. Any appearance of haste is inexcusable in letter-writing, all numbers, including the date, should be written out. In formal writing, the entire name should be signed; «xcept amongst absolute intimates the signing of- a 'nickname' is atrocious form. - ~