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Show Bad Habit. Emerson Keough, the governmental efficiency expert, said In an address on efficiency In correspondence before be-fore the Denver Y. M.. C. A.: "Why shouldn't business correspondence corre-spondence read as easily and gracefully grace-fully as a personal letter? Well, efficient effi-cient business correspondence does so. The world is tired of the old-fashioned business letter with everything reversed, re-versed, like " 'Yours of 11th ult. to hand, as per duplicate order inclosed, for shoes, high, laced, vici, eight dozen, shirts, assorted, calico, two dozen; socks, black, wool, sizes assorted, four dozen.' "They say that one of these old-fashioned correspondents who reverse everything went into a restaurant one day and ordered his dinner like his: "'Pudding rice one; tomatoes one; po ditto ditto; steak beet one; soup le turt mock one.' " |