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Show Women and Letters. "There is a good deal of talk," said a local lawyer, "about this being an age of business women. I don't doubt in the least that the average woman of today knows a lot more aboue business than the woman say, of even a decade ago, but there Is one thing in the matter mat-ter of business that doesn't seem as yet to have penetrated the feminine consciousness. Maybe It will in time: I have hopes. However, the signs of improvement are not generally manifest. mani-fest. "What is the lack? Well, it's the lack of ability to answer categorically questions propounded in letters. The difference between the sexes in this regard Is apparently deep-seated. A man, when he has to reply to a letter, goes through the communication he has received and notes its points methodically. me-thodically. Oh. there are different degrees de-grees of, being methodical. I'll admit, but the general rule holds. "A woman, on the other hand, skims through a letter, if. Indeed, she thinks it worth while to have H before her when replying to it. and seizes and elaborates on the points that she considers con-siders the most important. Quite likely like-ly she forgets most, if not all of the other points, and It's barely possible that some of these omitted things may be considered of consequence by the patty or the second part. You write again; it's entirely within the range of possibilities that you will get the same sort of reply. With the third letter, you're measurably sure of obtaining the required Information." "Why -don't you put your really essential es-sential matter into a postscript of your first letter?" the lawyer was asked. "Surely that would receive attention." "Good idea." said the lawyer. "Blessed "Bless-ed if I don't try it." |