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Show No 8ex In Initial. There Ib a bad trick In business lot-tor lot-tor writing to which men as well as Women are addicted," said a business man. "I mean tho way people havo ot signing merely Initials and leaving you without a clew ns to their box, consequently conse-quently without a correct form In which to reply to their communication communica-tion and without a proporly complete notion ot their Identity. "tor example, I havo been for thrco wooka In desultory correspondence with a client who signed '8. T. Snlts,' wo will say. Tho handwriting was somewhat feminine, and 1 had my secretary sec-retary address tho answers to 'Mrs. S. T. Snlts.' Wo received a correction tills morning from Samuel T. Snlts, and discovered that our correspondent is a man. "At other times women write us, Blgnlng merely Initials, and sovcral letters aro Interchanged before wo discover that 'P. B. Pipkin' or 'E. I Skeoter' represent members of tho fair sex. "This Is a caso wbero brevity Isn't tho soul of wit" |