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A Bad Custom

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
December
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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The custom that the papers have of priuting the love-letters that are produced in Court as evidenoa in breach of promiae oases, would be bad enough if they would only correct the orthography, but they don't The editor seeras to take a fiendisb dolight iu reprodueing such amatory and damaging epistles just as they wercwritten, with all tbeir imperfections on their head. - If the infatuated lover tells his inamorata that she ia lus "deer luv," and he "kneeds her evry our," that is the way it goes into the paper. If he promises her a "lircloake," lir cloakeit is. And if in a hurried and, as it often proves, an unguarded moment, he alludes to her as his "betrautlied," the pitiles3 proof-reader couldn't be induced to substitute the conventional way of spelling that word for a mint of iuoney. These things are particularly harrowing to the father of the incomplete letter-writer, whose shame at the jiublication of the correspondenee is swallowed up in his mortification that he has squandered so rniieh money on ihe young man's education. The safest way is not to writo any love-letters, but if you do, it would be advisable to have them revised and corrected by some expert in grammar, orthography and punctuation before passing out of your hands, so that in case they get into the newspapers, you will not be set down as illiterate however much you may be

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Old News
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