}
{illustration caption =
A knowledge of the language of flowers is essential to a
successful courtship and may avoid much unnecessary pain. With
the best intentions in the world the young man is about to
present the young lady with a flower of whose meaning he is in
total ignorance. The young lady, being a faithful student of
PERFECT BEHAVIOR, knows its exact meaning and it will be
perfectly correct for her to turn and, with a frigid bow, break
the pot over the young man's head. Alas, how differently this
romance might have ended if the so-called "friends" of the young
man had tactfully but firmly pointed out to him the value of a
book on etiquette such as PERFECT BEHAVIOR.}
LETTERS TO NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, ETC.
Another type of public correspondence is the letter which is
intended for publication in some periodical. This is usually
written by elderly gentlemen with whiskers and should be cast in
the following form:
A Correct Letter from an Elderly Gentleman to the Editor of a
Newspaper or Magazine
To the Editor:
SIR:
On February next, Deo volente, I shall have been a constant
reader of your worthy publication for forty-one years. I feel,
sir, that that record gives me the right ipso facto to offer my
humble criticism of a statement made in your November number by
that worthy critic of the drama, Mr. Heywood Broun. Humanum est
errare, and I am sure that Mr.
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