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Show USE OF MOURNING BORDERS There Are a Few Set. Rules, But Individual Indi-vidual Tasto Practically Decides De-cides the Question. Tho average person chooses her mourning borders by individual taste rather than by rule and rarely changes the width until second mourning mourn-ing ! Good taste avoids the flaunting of grief and rarely countenances a border bor-der wider than a quarter of an Inch, even for a widow Even this is a trifle wido; three-sixteenths of an lnoh Is a better width for widows, parents or children, and an eight of an Inch for a sister or brother. The paper used is dead white linen of plain weave and lusterless. It Is bad form to have a mourning border on striped or fancy papr, even though the color Is kept white. Where a transparent paper Ib liked, as for foreign correspondence or to save postage, besides the border there is a separate lining of black tissue paper pa-per for each envelope. Addresses and monograms are j often Btamped In unrelieved black, i Some persons prefer them emboBsed . in relief without color, especially If , there be telephone and tolegram numbers num-bers in addition to the address. When these are all in black they look less overpowering if a miniature receiver nnd telegraph pole and lines are used Instead of the word telephone or telegram. tele-gram. As mourning borders are expensive, tho stationery of grief is costly. It can rarely be had by the pound as other papers, but sometimes is cheaper cheap-er by the box. containing several quires. As there is usually a reduction reduc-tion for getting a largo quantity, it pays to lay In a supply. Correspondence cardB carry the same borders as writing paper. When there are no engraved acknowledg- : ments these cards are quite large enough for a few words of appreciation. apprecia-tion. Sometlmos a sentence, is written writ-ten acrosB the top of the visiting card. Black borderod envelopes to fit the risking card should bo bought by the hundred, as the card will do social duty during the entire period of mourning. |