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Show WHEN BUYING WRITING PAPER Certain Times of the Year When Suitable Colors and Tones May Be Acquired In Quantities. The woman who would get the most for her money buys her writing paper in quantity at an annual sale. The reason for these sales is that the manfacturers accumulate small lots of discontinued papers. They are 'not cheap qualities or seconds, merely styles that are not novel. It is possible to get four quires of paper and 100 envelopes for a dollar, and there is a choice of different weight, texture and color of the paper, various shades of blue,' gray, lavender, cream and white, also stripes and bars in self tones. These , come in two sizes, usually letter and note. Marking varies according to color. Two-colored letters are most expen-ive; expen-ive; plain gold, silver or a single netallic color costs about 25 cents a quire; a single plain color, gray, blue, violet or brown, ten cents a quire, and embossing in relief without color, about five cents a quire. These are tandard prices almost everywhere he year round, the reduction being on the price of paper. In buying paper by the quantity it Is not wise to choose novelties. An Inconspicuous color and good quality is always good. Many women adopt a certain tone and kind of paper and nake it individual. Thus, the girl who loves violet will have pale violet paper with a deeper tone or silver for the stamping, while the transparent envelopes en-velopes are lined with violet tissue paper of a deeper shade than the envelope. en-velope. Gray paper or very pale blue is also permissible, but it is bad form to use garish stationery. |