Two ney sorts of note paper heading for those who fancy such things and can afford them are now offered
from photographs or from detailed artists who undertake to execute, topographical descriptions, either an engraved portrait of a home as it appears from the outside or a small street map of the immediate district, indicating precisely where the house is situated and where are the various "bus routes or stations most conveni-
[ent to it.
When the home is old and pretty or new and striking, an engraved picture may be used not only for heading letters but will solve for many the problem of Christmas cards for at least one year. It is particularly welcome to those who live abroad and have to depend upon verbal description as to where their dear ones pass their days and nights. Naturally, when one changes house, one can sell the plate to incoming tenants.
The map idea, if hardly less æsthetic, is more strictly practical, especially if one lives in the country in some out-of-the-way corner. It saves many laborious written directions as to how to get there, and is equally y useful to motorists, pedestrians, or arrivals by train who cannot be met [and have to find their way for the first time by asking every passer-by.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.