Show bow to sign a note not long since a prominent woman in good society undertook to instruct the public not so well informed as herself how to write a note her hints to letter writers appeared in a new york newspaper and will undoubtedly prove of benefit to many of its readers all she said on oil this topic was perfectly correct from the abomination of scented stationery and the objectionable zag lagged edge note paper with colored inki to the formula required in all notes of invitation the article which also punctured some of the affectations of a letter writer was signed mrs airs burton N harrison arrison II the use of the prefix mrs in this connection is a breach of literary etiquette which the writer commits in common with mrs john Sher sherwood who certainly knows better than to do so both these ladies have presented dented their society views in print as models to be followed by less well bred people yet both are guilty of bad form in signing themselves mrs 11 no lady ever writes a note and signs it by her married title she is neither miss nor mrs at such times and even should she I 1 lie ie writing to an inferior or to a stranger the rule is the same to avoid an any y mistake of address notes of this description must be written in the third person with a pews newspaper paper article the mrs 11 signature is in intolerably bad ad taste doston boston herald |