The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-01
IN STATIONERY THE THING.
e+est Out-A Revival of Hun
~ lrsd-Year-Old Style.
From the Washington Star
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ro.oz+ Oi1t-A Revival of Hun
80 --- crad-Y ear-Old style.
From, the Washington Star.
The latest thing in fine stationery Is re-
al Of q style in vogue hundred yen
~, The paper is thick, rather stiff, Of an
- bli,tered. looking surface, unglazed
80 Int not fuzzy, as linen paper Is.
-, +,a famous Dalton mills began opera
h1n The close Of the Revolutionary war,
u 10 S a. inst this kind was the first they
pa o,3t for to use of the elegantes Of
W. av The whirligig of time and tho de-
III "V If fashion have brought the paper
ll, atiars around again to the point from
..5ioh ev started, and ''old style" note Is
W. ont as the latest product OF the paper
makers art n..-, ao;l a..
-,,,i,;1o clerk at 8 leading stationer's to a
2s ranorter. sis that it offers much less
.e;s+ance to the pen than rough, fuzzv-sur
800 ,,a er. and the absence of glaze, on
oo+ber hand, prevents the tendency of
tlo 1,an 10 slip. Now, these points may
Ilg I'm ,,ninportant, but hundreds Of writers
S,,II hail this paper as a blessing. You have
~ idea how particular many people are
about the paper they use, and what hard
ai,,o thew have to find just the quality
oh GTII 8
ojoo that it is of great Importance to them
80 thev sit down to work to have
,ens ink and paper precisely as
~ like them. so thnt no merely
..a:banical difficulties may arise to
nnsettle their moods or disturb Inc flow of
;da1s Vigorous, phlegmatic people will
l,oar at this, but writers are peculiarly
sanstive to all these little external infiu-
ences. Moreover, to people who do great
deaI Of writing the putting forth OF the ex-
ira axertion needed to push a pen over
surfaced paper counts physically IN
+be conrse Of three Or four hours. People at
eli affected with cramping or paralysis
f1d the quality of the paper they use
+,akes a very serious difference in the ease
with which they write"
care women more particular than men
about their stationeryM inquired the re-
porter.
ALL RIGHT 1T 1T is THE STYLE.
what women are particular about" the
clerk answered lis to get the very latest
thing out. They don't care whether it is
rough or smooth surface, glazed or unglazed,
or now hard it is to write on, if it is only
fashionable. They buy it and use it without
amurmur 50 long as it is the thing.
"Some public men insist on having pre-
cisely the same sort Of paper for use in their
private correspondence year dlIeF year.
Their stationery they seam to regard as part
Of their individuality. They want to have
the peculiar kind they like always associated
with them in the minds of their friends, no
doubt. OF course, many men stick to one
KIND YEAR after year because they get used
10 it and like it, but | don't think mere
habit can account wholly for the extreme
reluctance me men show to using any but
the one kind. There is method in their
madness.
WANTS HIS STATIONERY AGED.
1.-THE man with the most peculiar taste
on stationery that l know of is an admiral
in the navy He always insists on having
his paper about ten years old. He says that
paper. like wine, improves with age, and he
doesn't think it fit to write on until it has
been made a good many years When he
wants some stationery, we have to send to
the mills for old stock that has been living
around for years. There may be something
in the admirals theory, but I couli never
discover that seasoning improved paper.
1--WE sell great deal of stationery to the
legation people, and they are very particu-
lar as to quality. The Japanese use the
finest of all in their official Correspondence.
They have it ruled only about to within an
irch Of the edges, having a margin ell
around the page. faint red
line runs at the end of the
ruling and at top and bottom, and one
Of these pages, filed with exquisite copper
plate writing, which the japanese ALWAYS
employ IN their communications to the
state department, looks like a framed
picture By the way" the clerk continued,
- saw the autograph Of the Emperor of
Japan the other day. 1t looked as if some
one had smashed a big mosquito on the
paper"
ANOTHER CHINESE REGULARITY.
Are the Chinese very particular about
their stationery" tie reporter inquired
No, but they are particular about the
price, which must b. low. The Chinese are
close buyers when they are purchasing for
the legation, and don't indulge in any ex-
traVasances. They spend any amount of
money for their own pleasures, but this is
out Of their private funds. Bills that their
government will have to pay they keep
down This is not on the American plan, |
believe, but in China they are said to have
very summary way of dealing with sx-
Tayagant Officials, you know.
W nat are the general features of the
SYKES IN stationery this winter?" asked the
Star man.
PLAIN STATIONERY NOW THE THING.
The tendency now is to taboo all fancy
papers said the clerk. "The only shades
allowable are pale blue, pure white and
cream. Ragged edges, fancy stamped de-
signs and everything not severely simple is
regarded as bad form. A good deal of
iN.. is still allowed in the use of stamped
i,alS and addresses on paper. Initials,
HonQgrams and even crests, in all sorts of
oua designs and letters, are placed in the
page. VIZ '0P "a '"'
r,;. ne he other day we stamped some paper
mlvn the initial, in the lower left hand cor
n nvt' " "A new size Of paper has just come
wIh} the clerk resumed, after pause, in
r "nlch he got out sample book to show the
t5pFler' There it is. II is Just double
, tbo ze OF ordinary note and little smaller
v yuau leJter paper. Soc ety ladies are having
, ,e,y g'aooratey bound visiting lists made
n.2"1a5ys We filed an or or for one the
t5o Jay which COST $35. It was bound in
in a ,,ii5SI morocco, the monogram stamped
=" so'a' and would contain 1000 names"
a SCHOOL FOR BEERMAKGNe.
"nere the Managers of the BIG Brev7-