Show uses stamp as S seal e al you remember mrs airs much exploited feat in using three cent stamps on all her letters because the red two cent stamps harmonize with her stationery asked tho the man who goes R everywhere very where well I 1 know a very charming woman uptown who goes mrs airs mackay one better and with no desire for publicity or to be eccentric this woman uses tho the fashionable square flapped envelope that combines a minimum of gum arabic arable to a maximum of paper with tho the result that not one envelope in three remains scaled after it has been shaken up for five minutes in the mall mail bag so she has hit on the following plan instead of putting mucilage between the tile flap and the envelope and thus causing a warp or a smudge or using scaling sealing wax that Is far more apt to break than not she simply pastes an docent taso cent stamp at the junction of tho the flap and tho the back of the envelope being coated with government gum arabic tho the stamp holds the envelope 0 po securely scaled sealed Alore moreover over as all there Is a sort of superstition I 1 against tampering with government insignia no prying ladys maid messenger boy or footman is likely to try to remove the stamps for tho the sake of opening tho the letter thero there Is of course another two cent stamp in tho the regulation place e if the tile letter Is to go by mall mail instead 0 of t by private hand so each letter costs her four cents thus going mrs mr a mackay one cent better still there Is not much chance that her fad of utilizing two cent stas as wafers will become popular for oven even in the smart tet people usually prefer to throw their money away on something more showy than a two cent steel engraving of washington or jefferson new york world |