him make up the
required averages?

As I am leaving New York in two weeks for an extended trip, I
would like to take some steps toward improving his scholarship
status. Will you let me hear from you as soon as possible?

Very truly yours,
John Crandall.

_Letter ordering Easter gifts from a magazine shopping service_

Quogue, Long Island,
March 27, 1922.

Standard Shopping Service,
100 West 38th Street,
New York, N. Y.

Gentlemen:

I enclose my check for $25.00 for which please send by express
the following articles to

Miss Dorothea Allen
Sunrise Lodge
Highland, Pa.

Two sterling silver candlesticks in Colonial pattern at $12.50
each, on Page 178, March issue.

Or if you cannot secure them, will you purchase as second
choice

Two jars in Kashan ware, with blue as the predominating color?

Very truly yours,
Laura Waite.
(Mrs. Herbert Waite)

CHAPTER VII

THE BUSINESS LETTER

A reporter was sent out on a big story--one of the biggest that had
broken in many a day. He came back into the office about eight o'clock
all afire with his story. He was going to make a reputation on the
writing of it. He wanted to start off with a smashing first
paragraph--the kind of lead that could not help being read. He knew just
what he was going to say; the first half-dozen lines fairly wrote
themselves on the typewriter. Then he read them over. They did not seem
quite so clever and compelling as he had thought. He pulled the sheet
out and started another. By half-past ten he was in the midst of a sea
of copy paper--but he had not yet attained a first paragraph.

The City Editor--one of the famous old _Sun_ school--grew anxious. The
paper could not wait until inspiration had matured. He walked quietly
over to the young man and touching him on the shoulder he said:

"Just one little word after another, son."

And that is a good thought to carry into the composition of a business
or any other kind of letter. The letter is written to convey some sort
of idea. It will not perfectly convey the idea. Words have their
limitations. It will not i