The Etiquette of the Siguature.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 3085, 26 February 1894, Page 4

The Etiquette of the Siguature.

So far as the etiquette of the signatuilH concerned, there is one unvarying rule to* Women, married and single. It is never right nor in good form to sign one's name wttk the addition of Miss or Mrs. You are Mag EWlj Jones, not Mrs, Patrick FitegwwJ . . Jones, to whomsoever you are writing. » it is necessary to notify your correspofediol of your married style and estate, you n»f do so in one of several ways. member that a correspondent should «* be left in doubt as to this, much embarrassment being frequently caused by th» omission in letters between strangers of «*; act information as to whether the writer* married or single. You may readily too* catcall yon wish to tell. You mayp** Mrs. P. F. before the Mary Emilf *g* •aid In parentheses. You may write W Patrick Fitzgerald out fully and plainly » the left hand corner of your sheet— MM* your proper signature— or you mar rtnjv ' Inclose your engraved visiting esid in J«* letter, this being on the whole the mortdj gent and also the most convenient mc»«^ of showing one's relation to society. Bvpert Bazar, authority for theforegoiiig,ij , marks, however, that the visiting <**»■ , out of place in an exclusively business Mr ter— one which has not even remotely »■••. dal bearing.