The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-16
Earrect nfationerY.

The charm of the new fashion in note
paner is the exceeding simplicity of all,
save what the stationer calls French
mourning sheets. They are or rougn
finish, tinted a truly heavenly blue, ana
hordered as widely or as narrowly as
Won please. with the conventional black
line. These sheets come large and fold
over once into big, blue, black-edged
enyelopes to be sealed with a duil
black wax and small mourning die
This last, following French taste,
represents a most lugubrious broken
column, draped urn, or angel win
drooping wings, and the postage must
he ALWAYS two blue one-cent stamps,
IN Mace of the cheerful carmine square
Truly modish escritoires are now be-
ing replenished with French linen pa
per bound like the typewriter's pads,
the sheets delicately perforated at the
top to permit ready detachment. some
| of these pads are only five inches long
by three inches broad and meant Tor
a mere mot par lie poste. Every sheet
| As stamped in the left-hand corner with
| simple small printing ana only one
| side Is written upon.
Again the address appears, very
small. on the flaps of all envelopes. ana
| the predominating color for the stamp
| ing is blue. This on the popular gov
| eminent blue bond paper, of which the
| pads are made up. shows in raised let
| tiers and a trifie darker shade than the
paper itself while a clear blue Partisan
/ ink is employed. Finally these neat
| notes. when wax Is used at all, are
| sealed with blue, but wax Is temporary
| Nv out of favor. as are the elaborate
| notices, monographs and even the It-
tie round medallions so prettily util-
dzed last year Very particular per-
sons will show the single initial of Their
| surname surmounted by some chosen
animal from the family crest. but done
very small and in the corner OF the
sheets.
| Besides all these dainties for CORE
spondence, nearly every woman now
has what she calls her business sta
ttonery. This is stout Irish linen. bound
dn pads. but ample in size and stamped
an plain printed black Letters with th'
| address. abbreviation for dating, anS
| in the opposite corner from this ap
pears the lady's name in full. with
notice that her hours are from to Il
or IL to l on certain days. Such papt,
she uses for all business correspond
ence. relating to her philanthropi
work especially.
For the bride on her honeymoon
there has recently been designed a spe
cial stationery put up in white satil
circular box. Within are so sheets
rather rough cream-white paper. show
l ing a deep DOTOeT IN S<tlin hhiSh Gil
prepared for stamping with ones new
! | iy acquired initial and the address c
, the house where the honeymoon Is
| he spent Both envelopes and pape
, | are tied up with a profusion of whit
: ribbons through the bows OF which al
| | thrust an ivory pen handle with Dol
point: a tiny ivory paper knife and tw
: sticks of perfumed white wax comple'
the outfit.
; Correspondence cards are quite out (
favor. and even the dinner. musici
: and at-home invitations are engraye
> on folded sheets of blue bond paper
. | the new blue ink: but the present Gu
), tom is, when writing a brief note on
postal card. to send the postal care
: together.
h Though wax is out of countenan
: on envelope flaps. IL is applied TO
. new use for big sticks of IL. ones Sc
. in the stationer's stock in trade. a
meant for scaling parcels. A DO,
sent by post borrowed gloves or han
kerchiefs TO be returned. a gift 70
warded by a messenger boy or De
ID sonally delivered at a friends do<
are all wrapped In paper and seal
: with wax in place of tying up wi
Il string. Great bars of red or black w
" are sold for the purpose. and every Sc
T. stamped with a very big signet ri
/: the die of which Is as large as a qua
r. ter OF a dollar and bears ones crest
le itials.-Chicago Record.
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