Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-02-22
AN ApvERIIslNa LgTTsR.
A sehrme That onen Does a Firm Mol
 Iniury Than st Does Coed

Iniur, Than it Does Coed,
 Speaking of advertising brings Co mind a very prevalent nuisance which k being inflicted just now on long suffering New Workers, l refer Co the advertising letter the circu- lar letter which asks you to trade with somebody or other. They are directed by hand. put in plain envel. opes. sealed and stamped with two cents worth of terra eotta paper The uninitiated cant tell them from a genuine letter un.il the envelope k torn open. Then they arc un- masked. They are revealed in all their unintercstiug disappointment
 These people who send them out are sharT~, 1 tell you. They only send them to private houses and apartments. where women will most likely receive them. and they know the weakness of womankind for any thing in the nature of a letter Women always just ache to get let ters. and these confounded circulars fool them every time.
 If 1t happens that the victim lives in a fiat the wife. mother or sister will gleefully trip down the four flights of stairs when she hears the poStman's short, sharp ring on the electric bell in the kitchen. She knows the ring perfectly, and it is to her cars about the most welcome sound of the whole day. Then she opens the letter box and pulls out the circular. It looks interesting. There Is no advertising imprint on the envelope. The handwriting is apt to be very amateuTish or very expert iu it's lines. The victim stud ies it carefully. She sees that the letter tx postmarled in New York, but that does not count one way or another She is quite likely and more liable Co get a letter from some one in New York than anywhere else. She also studies the back care fully. and holds tho letter up to the light and discovers nothing to give her elew of whom it is from. But she does not open it.
 Oh. no, She holds it tight like some precious thing. and with glad heart at the anticipation of a pleas ant. gossipy letter from somebody she climbs the four flights of stair to her own floor
 Perhaps there are two of them Then it Is ali the worse. When shS gets into the box of a dining room 1T her seven room flat. which also doci duty as a sewing room, she sits dowT m the rocking chair. draws long breath and opens the letter.
 Then Is the time to sec woman mad
 That woman win give the mos perfect imitation of anger and dis gust you can find anywhere. Sh' will huri that advertising letter oa the floor as though 1t was a thing ae cursed. She knows she has beer fooled. and she resents it Then sh' founces out into the kitchen ant slams the door That's a womani way of swearing.
 doubt if under any circumstance you could induce her to buy goods O the firm who sen; her that letter, ana so I don't believe that this systenatil letter trickery that so many firms in dulge in pays them as well as adver tising in some other manner would Within the last week l have receives these delusive letters from dry good houses. banks, furniture stores, car pet cleaners, liquor dealers, real es tate agents, confectioners, bakers butchers, cigar manufacturers, tai lors. and even churches are gettinl into this pernicious habit. The soal people of course are always with you New York Herald.