Show politeness the editor at bi the burlington Barling toa lowit iowa ila W keys is in a strait ile ho hits baa received the following letter to wo we append his hia reply which above how ilia hie wits aro are at an end 1 wish you would help tell mo moon out toa of a liula little quandary I 1 am in I 1 do HOMO jo abbing in connection with u retail in this thia town ono of my CUB customers omers in ill a t 0 tau is fit a airm composed bf 61 a man nuil and b his is wito wife the firm is J 8 0 1 11 I what puzzles mo me is how to malio make out in my y bills billa and addred letters to them YOU loa cun call a it wont do to use the iho fit fab blevin tion 11 nna and it looks liko like trenching drenching tren ching on the social amenities to write 11 mr mrs I 1 dont egin begin my letter with the customary in trod rial loll gentlemen for one of 0 thom them id ia not cot a 11 gentleman nor can I 1 write dear sir nor door madame for I 1 must address both it would look bungling to write dear sir and dear madame and it bo strictly correct cither be aa my lay pertaining purely to business tire ora not to them as individuals but as a a brat to use a I 1 I 1 dear daar F riondo Fri onda general iou louerl erl expression us its bo be liko und and so BO take it t altogether I 1 am quite puzzled over what hat might heem to bo be a trilling trifling mattor matter can you yon help mo me L L 11 we cannot tho the english Eng liali language lA is at fault with all lid fit wonderful woud ordil variety end and flexibility it la is still in a a few representative words to convoy convey the number and gender of nouns and pronouns iro nouns I 1 and exceptional exo optional emergencies in tho the use UBO ol of other words here is ia opportunity for a reform that will be ba all aa practical and useful as 03 a mod ideation of our mode of spelling Bp the iho confusion ol of ideas regarding gender and number gaail to n not ot a few embarrass embarrassments ments and inaccuracies the man 1 or woman who chinko ha or eho can J thia a difficulty flon lity will serve 11 hia leiai beg fiedar pardon don her har thatis that is to bay any their race it lie he n no 0 she bho t tant t is 1 b both 0 0 t em am join jointly y or serer sare rally aa will w r u s to 0 the rescue at once bett ire this thin tiling g gets snarled up ap any moro more than it t is sow BOW I 1 in tile iho meau meantime time while waiting for the deviled reform wo we advise 11 L LL L B to simply address his bills billa in voices and letters to I 1 I 1 J A B S ca G I 1 II 11 without avy any prefix affix or intro introduce duc tion hon and if flioy doat liko then them how they want or expect a civili elvil zeil izod community to address such a complex linn you yon may lose a on stomer by so BO doing but the of language ual hii 1 the comfort of a world may gain a solution of tho tb problem pr |