Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1894 — Inclosures In Letters. [ARTICLE]

Inclosures In Letters.

Demorest’s Magazine. How many people know how to send a stamp in a letter? Nine people out of ten stick it so carefully down that the recipient always loses his temper and generally ‘the stamp, in the effort to release it. It is really more exasperating than when the sender forgets altogether the stamp he should have inclosed, for then, at least, it is not wasted. Even the most extravagant of us seldom have souls above saving a stamp, for it is, strangely, far dearer to us than the two cents it represents. The tenth person sends it loose, which is well enough, providing it does not slip out. unseen, and vanish, as these totally depraved small things have a trick of doing. The proper way is a very simple one. Cut with a penknife two parallel slits at the top of your letter, and slip in your stamps, and they will thus travel as safely as in a special paper case. Perhaps you have been in a country village where money orders and postal notes are unknown, and, for some reason, it becomes necessary to send change in a letter. Cut a piece of light cardboard the size of the envelope, and from this cut circular pieces the size of your coinse and paste a strip of paper across on, or both of its sides.