The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-26
Two STYLES.

We all admire the business man who
is terse and to the point, and we dis
Like the man who hangs on to the door
knob, as though life was never-ending
dream, and refuses to say good-by. It's
so with correspondence.
For instance, here is line which tells
the story in brief, without wearing out
your eyes and days by ponderous
phrases and useless verbiage. Use
less verbiage and frothy surplusage I"
is synonym which we discovered in
rs, while excavating for the purpose of
laying the foundations of our imposing
residence up the gulch. Persons using
the same will please fork over 10 per
cent. of the gross receipts;
BANGOR, Me-
Sind 10c, for which send sample copy
Boomerang to above address Yours, &c,
THOMAS BILLINGS.
Some would have said please" find
inclosed 10 cents. This is not abso-
lutely necessary. If you put 10 cents
in the letter, that covers all seeming
lack of politeness, and it's all right.
Here's another style, which evinces a
peculiarly we do not admire. 1t he
speaks the man who thinks that life
and its associations are given us in order
to wear out the time, waiting patiently
meanwhile for Gabriel to render his
little overture.
1t occurs TO us that life is real, life is
earnest. We cannot sit here in the
gathering gloom and read four pages of
letter which only expresses what
ought to have been expressed in four
lines. We feel that we are here to do
the greatest good TO the greatest num-
Der, and we dislike the correspondent
who hangs onto the literary door-knob,
so to speak, and absorbs our time,
which is worth $3.50 por hour.
Here We go:
New CESTERvIILE. Wis.
Mr. William Nye, Esq, Laramie CITY, w. T.
DEAR SIR: i have often saw in our home
papers little pieces cut out of your paper
the LarB,y Boomerang, yet have never saw
the paper itself l hardly pick up paper
from the Frcside Friend TO the Christian at
Work that do not see something or Il moth
er from your faseshus pen and credited 10
the BOO1nerdhg / have asked our bookstore
for copy of the paper, and he said go TO
grass, there wasn't no such perioddickle in
existence. He is n liar, but l did not tell him
so because am just recovering from n case
of that kind now, which swelled both ewes
1t was the result of a campaign lie, and at
this moment do not remember whether it
was the other man or me which told it
Things got confused, and am not clear on
the matter now
send 10 cents in postage stamps, hoping
you will favor me with n speciInent copy of
the BOOmerdUg and may subscribe l send
postage stamps because they are more con-
venient to me, suppose you can use them
all right, as you must have n good deal of
n In / N he
thorrow and give my folks the benefit also
j love TO read numerous pieces to my chill
dren and my wife and hear their gurgly
laugh well up like a bobblink's now take
a nestern paper which is gloomy in its tend
encieS and / call it the Morg 1t looks at
the dark side of life and costs $3 year and
postage.
So send the speciment If You please and /
will probably subscribe for the Boomerang
as l have saw good many eXtraX from it
in our papers here and l have not as yet
saw your paper. So good-by.
Yours truly JAMES ITTsoN