Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1904 — How to Fold a Letter. [ARTICLE]

How to Fold a Letter.

“I see you have lots of applications,” said the advertising manager to the business house manager who had advertised for a typewriter and bookkeeper. “From all over New England,” said the business man, jamming his pockets full. “But what some of the girls who answer are thinking of I can’t imagine. Here is one girl who will come fifty miles to take a place at $5 a week. “Can you tell much as to their qualifications by their letters?” “Can I? Well, rather. For instance, there is the writing; there is the spelling of the words; there is the way the letter is put together; there is even the way the letter is folded. Ever think that letters are folded so as to save time nowadays?” “No,” said the advertising man. “It’s all I can do to get the stamps put on ’em. My stenographer folds ’em all right, I guess. How should it be done?” “Easy enough, simple enough, but folded wrong often enough,” said the business man sententiously. “If your typewriter knows her business she takes tile sheet and folds it up from the bottom toward the top, leaving the proper width for the envelope, then over from right to left and from left to right—so. Then when your letter is opened it is right side up. See?” “I see,” murmured the advertising man. “And how many applicants fold their letters that way?” “Oh, three or four out of a dozen, perhaps. Quite a commentary on business as she is taught, eh?” remarked the business man as he strolled away. —Springfield Republican.