Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1914 — KEEP IN MIND WHEN WRITING [ARTICLE]

KEEP IN MIND WHEN WRITING

If One Would Be Classed as a Welcome Correspondent These Must Be Remembered. Be yourself, strive for the expression of your own thoughts, write with all the force of your personality, and you wiH be projecting your mind on the mind of the friend who is to draw delight from your letter. Write with the 1 conscious wish to express truthfully and -well that which you have to say, abjure slovenly makeshift, and. just as strongly, the self-conscious-ness which keeps one eye on the puis pose in hind and one on effect. Remember always that there is the possibility of publicity for your letter,~and if you have malice, cruelty, or uncharitableness in your mind, at least see that you do nos commit your feelings to paper, to your possible confusing at some later date, when kindliness has replaced your former harsh judgment. Remembering all these things, you will have no need for the services of a complete letter writer. Guided by sincerity and truth, you may proceed to give your thoughts the graven permanence of writing.