| Show two subjects aub OE most people in ordinal correspondence pon dence use a whole sheet of note paper even if they only write a few words though business men uso but half sheet note or letter paper as a rule and it seems to be much the neatest style some persons may have a superstition in regard to the folded note but in what way it is difficult to determine unless it commenced in the following manner A young man of economical habits as well as of small means once wrote a few words to his sweetheart on note paper he tore the sheet in two and on tho other half wrote to a gentleman friend of his A short time afterward the friend became acquaint ed with the young lady and subsequently married her thus bringing the two half sheets of paper together again in a way he did not like the young man was so broken up over this occurrence he has never torn a sheet of paper in two since and perhaps from this circumstance the fashion of sending out notes with fly leaves originated TWO STAMPS perhaps there many of the young people or old ones that matter in this part odthe country who knows what a vast language there is in postage stamps that is in the place on the envelopes the language might he interpreted as follows placing the stamp right end up and square in therome mearis that ali 1 ry J i it friendly note upside down and square in the corner no answer required stamps leaning to the right to the left sideways with head to the right head to the left all mean something else to place the stamp in the left hand upper corner means that you want to make the postmaster swear stamps can be placed a little way from the edge of the envelope and in a dozen other ways and tha meaning fixed up to suit the corresponding parties the size style and quality of the envelope depends entirely upon the taste and finances of the writer astow ye fair ones see that your stamps aro placed on the envelopes just the way you want them |
