PRACTICAL AIDS IN LETTER-WRITING. LETTER-WRITING is a thing which is abso- | more important than conversation, inasmuch lutely necessary in every-day life, besides as words spoken merely fall on the ear; but being a most agreeable pursuit. All young women ought to cultivate it; for who has not, at some period during life, to write a letter? It is an actual improvement, for it brings new thoughts and ideas into our minds. What pleasures should we be deprived of were it not for letter-writing. With what delight do we sit down to write to absent friends, "though lost to sight, to memory dear," and say to them, through the medium of the pen, what we should wish to say could we see them. In one respect writing may be said to be expressions committed to paper meet the eye, and are more lastingly impressed on the memory. After transmitting a letter to post it is no longer our own, we have no further control over it, and cannot tell by whom it may be read. We may have intended it to be seen only by the person to whom it is addressed, and whose affection or friendship would overlook any discrepancies; but chance or accident may cause it to be subjected to the criticism of those who are not so lenient to our faults, and there it stands-if badly composed or ill B |