New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-24
NOTE PAPER STYLES
Foreign Correspondence Pads Con-
Uenient for Tourists.

European travel is taken so much for. granted at
this season of the year that special foreign CORE
spondence pads have been brought out by one firm
Tor the use of tourists. In the ordinary sense Of
the word they pads at all, but compact
method of putting up fine and thin paper in
long sheets that fold the middle TO form
note paper and then fold more to fit into OBJ
Iohg envelopes lined with bright coiored tissue
This paper is cheaper than fine correspondence
paper In any other style.
White paper has as many tints as there are
iash'ons IN colors. and these tints are preferred
" pure white. There also exquisite mustard
SHADES pale burned yellows leather shades yellow
70" worry pale mauve, old Dutch gray (Which has
smoke casD. old Dutch blue Harrington tan,
Meos"ood blue. Copenhagen blue. pale and deep
oiue' robins egg blue. grays pale orchid very pale
srsys that show smoke a mauve tint. and
WONDERFUL new granite gray which shows red gran
Tue grains glowing through it. yet which is I'm no
sense reddish. delicate shell pink has an
euNeiope hhed with shell pink. White and tinted
chiffon papers popular this season and bor-
ueFed Styles have not gone out OF vogue. although
they are not used much as they formerly were.
r"shiohaDle new papers have ragged edges. and
81 nave the envelopes that match them These
papers are somewhat thick, and they are made
square 10 fold into long narrow enyelopes
IN the matter Of Initials and monographs there
Is no decided fashion as between large and small
dies Some prefer one size and some the other.
Ihe circular effect in monographs and initials is
III
some letters form the outer circle, and in others
lhis Is formed by coored disk behind the letters
me familiar medallion is not so popular as II once
was but is still used. In it's place drop letters
nave seized the fancy OF those who like orna-
mented stationery. Drop letters appear In two or
three Inherent ways They slant the upper
ieIt hand corner, or are placed below an
Other' or else are arranged on a line at the top
OF 'he sheet in the middle Some effective drop
ieers are set In panels often with the letters in
rehef upon background of contrasting color.
script makes neat drop or top page letter and
script dies are often replicas OF a persons own
handwriting. Where backgrounds are employed IN
oles-ahd they generally are when expense is not
considered-these being made IN mother-of-
pearl effects. and they look II pearl had been
nlaid behind the letters.
Shaded Old English is one Of tho most nonuIsr
styles OF lettering. II engraved I'm small medium
or large Sizes according 20 ones taste and is
very largely employed in dies for residence adj
dresses at the top OF paper. For this purpose
good plain block letter is considerably in evil
dence Some like II small and dainty and others
want II as large as they can get it. Both extremes
I'm good taste
Crests are as much in vogue they ever we're.
and as each color in signifies something a
crest that lacks some OF its colors is complete.
Some persons. however. leave out color or two
IN the die. II is expensive 20 ningle colors and
consequently fashionable The richest color effects
are perhaps. 10 be seen upon the correspondence
paper Of yacht owners. Some Yachts sail under
IN" haEs ~ several countries. and these. we'll
as the yachts own pennon. reproduced I'm their
several colors. novelty of the season is the
bronze monogram. II is now possible 20 bronze any
color. and this kind Of die IL having considerable
vogue.
People sometimes like to suggest their names
or their places 81 residence Instead Of indicating
them directly. and II is part the work OF clever
designers 20 think up such designs Horne
Fish and Burr for instance. are represented
by a golden horn. = FISH and a burr. "'MacIntyre''
Is suggested by The syllable Mac in the circle
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