Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . talented foreigner once remarked to thewriter upon his astonishment at the pre-dominance of this hand in America. Ido not like it, he said; the clerk sends correct position oe the in my rates, the landlord my bill, and the young lady her reply tGmy invitation, all in that same commercial hand. There is no indi-viduality, no character, in such writing. And there was too muchreason in his remonstrance. We are not quite a nation of shop-keepers, a
Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . talented foreigner once remarked to thewriter upon his astonishment at the pre-dominance of this hand in America. Ido not like it, he said; the clerk sends correct position oe the in my rates, the landlord my bill, and the young lady her reply tGmy invitation, all in that same commercial hand. There is no indi-viduality, no character, in such writing. And there was too muchreason in his remonstrance. We are not quite a nation of shop-keepers, and there is no reason why this business handwriting shouldso permeate all classes of society. The lines should be straight, and as ruled paper is not permissiblein formal notes, invitations or punctilious correspondence, savoring too28 434 LETTER WRITING. nearly of the school-room and the counting-house, some little practicemay be necessary to keep the lines even. Should this prove impos-sible, let a sheet of paper with heavily ruled black lines that will showthrough the writing paper, be kept in the desk and slipped beneaththe page as a
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