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WOMAN is known by the stationery she uses. Paper talks. We read between the lines, along the margin, and across the envelope, the story of good or bad taste which speaks in tone, texture and design.

It's the paper on the desk, not the desk, or the handwrought paper weight, which gives side lights to character and marks the fair scribe as genuine, distinctive, charming or the reverse.

The absent button and the misconnected belt line talk loudly of their owner, but the rustle of her note paper is still more potent.

A woman's stationery opens up a new field to the student of human nature.

One reads the ultra person in the bright blue correspondent, and the careless disregard to daintiness in the page of poorest texture which takes the writing like a blotting pad. Again the modish woman, tasteful and with well-bred