YOUNG LETTER-WRITERS.

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 250, 18 July 1931, Page 21

YOUNG LETTER-WRITERS.

The ability to write an interesting and amusing letter is a gift well worth cultivating—a gift, moreover, which not only brings pleasure to other people but provides the writer with much enjoyment, too. i There is no doubt about it that words, and the handling of words, are full of interest, and to get hold of the right word to fit the right place is an achievement which gives genuine satisfaction. The boy or girl who contemplates a business career can have no finer training than the careful writing of frequent letters. Such correspondence is bound to result in deeper sympathies and far wider interests.

Character will out in letter-writing as in other things, and egotism has a nasty habit of rearing its head in letters, unless carefully checked. It should not be forgotten that imagination, tolerance and understanding of another’s point of view, and the power of noting and “writing up” the hundred and one little interesting occurrences of daily life, so often full of unconscious humour, play an all-important part in the equipment of a successful letter-writer.

Many an enduring friendship has been traced to the interchange of companionable letters, and the boy or girl who is able to throw himself wholeheartedly into the Interests and problems of another’s life cannot fail to reap the joys of that finest of human relationships.