The difficulty of closely imitating the mannerisms of letter-writers is aggravated when the heading and the address are long and fill many lines.
Amsterdam Avenue, near 136th Street.
NEW YORK, December 6, 1900.
To the Superintendent of the
Clara de Hirsch Home for Working Girls.
Dear Madam:
To put this heading in type line for line as written or printed, the compositor will have to select a type of smaller size than that of the text of the letter, and this selection may break lines awkwardly or make them insignificant in any narrow measure. Name, location, and date may be unimportant in some letters, but in others they need prominence.
AVOIDANCE OF LETTER-WRITERS' METHODS
In the narrow columns of a magazine or newspaper, or in any form of compact composition, this imitation of the mannerisms of the penman who writes upon a broad quarto leaf will be found unsightly even when it is not impracticable. Three distinct series of characters for words that need no display make useless breaks in the harmony of composition. The matter in the heading above would be presented in a more orderly manner, and be
