Show excursions IN correspondence by THOMAS ARKLE CLARK dean do of men mo of III allinor E everybody chody writes write Lett letter sir I 1 T HAVE AVS always best been interested d 1 in A writing letters it and i in getting calling the them one a of my ch cherion cr aas full of e excite eit it ment and possibilities when at as a child I 1 rode mile to the ties by to town a on saturday afternoons afternoon me was to an stood bland in th alie ali little concise con congested cist post am and ad v atch tell the dl distributing 0 of if the und mall whole whenever through the grimy at glass J could see bee mr fr S I 1 me the A fat t post matter shove above something r into t our u mail fl but box my heart leaped to for there them was ana the P 1 not at imminent I 1 I 1 ime con tn I 1 feb Ilo that iloan it 1 might be a letter tor ter me a I 1 a got le letters 1 I at times froni from an HIT I 1 1 1 D ca england I 1 ad fr from my ahme who had bad ch moved it t to 11 illum ivans ivan and from a distant relative at limmel who mile au he ill his letters letter I 1 take anke my pen in mad hind though it ma wag often film a pencil to write you the these to few line lines to let 5 ou on kno know if that a we are aill 11 well an and hope so iron are am ill the same Z he H told me little but there liters it was a am ill in getting gelting the letter 1 it was a real sent event to set a letter it was like 1 I allag go lie to ho alic 0 1 is or tak ing B R a gail to the fourth of juh erle cele be ill 1 in alak grove it vai a change from the HUH dull routine matter of ever day tile life andi dl tried 1 to 1 learn sain how best bell to make p tile the first rt be hook I 1 ever but with ili ra mv ov n alle bonev vi to as a sort of adl 1 letter ettar IV hiiter iter a collection of i forma russ supposed li mosed to allu erv kno known n alt it IO a if let into a which hith f hall 11 tom humanity madr could old land Is ie and t to pi provide I 1 an caw as and ad dinv inv on out there them it eve ere letters fima a esth father I 1 to hla his dig iter who he had just el eloped bcd fimm a n ImI bachelor luder of liture years making a proposal alair of marriage 9 to a widow from a merchant ordering S harrel barrel of salt ft fr from a uh wholesale lel it house but am none of the ol eanglen ean ples plen given c seemed in n on adv way to ill fit tile the conditt nn in uhle I 1 found T myself thy were avers all H formal or at precise dyordi they made Is i ne ine fel feel a as I 1 ord artly harlly did mh when after h having ing h heen barefoot to and clothed in a scanty at shirt and ad n pat pair of overalls 11 it dur or ing the week sk on am sued I 1 I 1 P put at on he heavy tiff stiff agoes hoe and ad to mv sundie suit soft the they seemed ruled to me a not net letters for or dinu folks md it helped roo me little ia one write alt letters ill these do daa no a matter he bow ignorant and ad hie inexpert meed co he 1 1 and every one me should Z k know something Bom ething g ili about how letters lettera ima might A al best I 1 be written there was ft a letter in mv mall this morning ild arora a 1 itala aru fad trump tramp and d one or from B man of high pat political I 1 HIM p po idon ili the trump tramp ian iam was old friend of mine the who had bad at one I 1 time worked arkid for me and ad now low being in distress wanted me to lend b him three m dollars until better talk luck line oe come and the governor me was af also 1 in distress and ad varied me to vote for him 1 in the coming mine election and we one act letter we was as Anti tumor to the writer a aa the ther other tw enty letters lettera are w eltten led today where on ona was sent seat fifty years yeam ago and ye yet t mav m dinv inv people wit who should know knew write writ very rey ineffective letters it has has been my fortune good or bad tor for man years to h have a e a wide r range I 1 of cor correspondence to 1 learn in through rough p failure and ad success some smile of the things that go to te make up m an 1 ineffective let to tei or t to one that lias has in it qualities that are worth orth while tiler are we ways of be ginning and coding letters lettera of various orts abts there are customs and eleven conven tio tiona recognized and followed at by people eldy of standing and position portion which ll 11 we me should all 11 it know and follow fellow 1 ahe I he form and nd the arrangement tra win I 1 at of a letter counts for m more ore tan than we sometimes think ind and tells more mom about the writ writer than he often first aspect just as a printed call ing or busm business card rather ill than an engraved ve it one to marks arks the on one who he of fers it as careless of form farm and con at there here Is no reason why it should it any more than there them is logical ali Z reason n for thinking ng that a man who eats at with fill hla his knife rather other the than with his hii fork is a boor boon but bat it does the materials mater hils that at a man uses as in AS writing his letters lettera the way in which letters are I 1 folded and add addressed resold the promptness ith hh which he answers them the language that h he e cas all these things count in immensely s ly toward helping his lettra to in accomplish 11 hie he purpose tor for which aney were intended I 1 knew a man once who ulm lost at an 1 am portent appointment because he had bad in his letter ot of it a misplaced punctuation mark there them was another man applying appl ppl ing fr fee the job and ad his hia let tet ter was col cm th done don and ad be because there seemed little differ LUie in the training and ad the experience of the two mab a lea hie on one a who made bade SO no me stakes got get th the J lob it in AS this a short series of article a I 1 am going to try to tell you jou something sout ti the 1 a things to avoid old in letter writ ing and d the tiling thinks to give attention A to I 1 I 1 a am going to alyen klaft no me ill il lustra m tlona tins of frood dettert and tell you yon icily aminy of 1 the things hag will I 1 no have a to found nd deiy at y audi it ii nonh rh khile dul duding am g the years l pars that I 1 I 1 have been bead biting loiters letters Q 1925 25 by western New speir union |