to cans 0 confine her corres idea new delight in note wri ing, bee" terprise 16 the Tow post cards, and They have Inid a tempting snare for the feet—no, not the feet, but the ink tracks—of the epistolary enthusiast. That purse-wrecking curiosity "which makes a woman wonder just how a letter in her handwriting will look on a certain attractive sheet of paper and on its distinctive envelope is a motive power of which stationery designers have availed themselves, and because of their new offerings letter writing is expected to rise to a high crest.
If the postman is burdened with added baggage that lengthens his Jong summer days, at least one of his former petty worries is eliminated, The tiny note, that was wont continually to slip out of his pack, but had to be, because it was essential to the personality of any truly "dainty woman," is something which he can afford to smile at now as a memory. The three-by-two pink note of yesterday has slipped out of his pack for good and all Instead there is an eight-by-four gray one that refuses to lost.
"There," said a saleswoman, Holding it up, as she stopped at one of the stationery counters of a large department store, before which she moved as respectfully as if treading the paths of her neigh-Lour's flower garden, "is an enveloped of character. "It's like the nan of to-day. It means something—and people are bound to notice it."
She was exhibiting one of the most popular envelopes of this season, In size it is long enough to encase a wide sheet of deckle edge paper, which folds tablet wise into three sections; colour it charms with a dove-tone gray; in quality shows a smooth and 2 conspicuous preference for white. A few of the most delicate tints, the lavender-line paper or the gray-line paper, serve to satisfy this season a waning preference for colour. " But white paper, especially that with a dull kid finish, is re-Ported to be the season's fad. This comes in three weights, of which tne heaviest is the most fashionable.
Here there is no one prevailing size, According to the dimensions of your handwriting, so should your letter paper be, says the expert at this bureau, where there are no ready-made assortments of stationery but instead a system is followed of studying and suiting individual tastes,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.