Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1913 — Manhattan Manners. [ARTICLE]

Manhattan Manners.

"Roofers are said to be going out of fashion. Know what a "roofer” is? It is the letter you write.to people, after you have been a guest at their house, telling them what a delightful time you had “under their hospitable roof,” and thanking them for all the generous favors you enjoyed at their friendly hands, and expressing the sincere hope that the baby has got over her cold. Nowadays, instead of writing this graceful letter, you generally call your friend up on the telephone, you tell him that the train made good connections, and you add: “My was a bully time I had out there, old man!” Not so nice as the old epistolary way, but better than nothing; for when you have- had a friend at your house and he has taken bls departure you do not like to feel that he has gone into the outer void that he has fallen off the edge of the world into echoless space. That is what it amounts to when he gets' home and writes not nor telephones and gives no sign.—New York Mail.