Show LOST ART OF LETTER WRITING men and women of to day have no time for such occupant on it Is to a well known tact fact that nobody writes letters nowadays it is true we i spend a vast deal of time at our writ ing table that we consume untold quantities of ink and nibs while our stationery bill is by no means the most modest item of our ever increase ing expenditure but we neither write nor receive letters the utmost we do Is to dash off notes in an awer to hn stations to scribble a few lines of congratulation or sympathy as the ca case cae e may be with a friend to express briefly but forcibly our satis faction with our dressmaker or our surprise at our milliners account As for our absent relations on the rare occasions when we remember their ex iste aste ice at all we send them our love on a post card with a few details about the weather ending in tearing haste with the hope that they will write soon and tell us all their news of coarse course they never do which is lust just as well aa as if they did we should in all probability never have time to wade through their letters lincon nue in ladles ladies field |