may be necessary for the speedy transmission of the
letter; for example, "In care of Mr. Charles R. Brown."

Women should be addressed as _Miss_ or _Mrs._ In case the woman is
married, her husband's first name and middle initial are commonly used,
unless it is known that she prefers to have her own first name used. Men
should be addressed as _Mr._, and a firm may in many cases be addressed as
_Messrs._ It is considered proper to use the titles _Dr._, _Rev._, etc.,
in directing an envelope to a man bearing such a title, but it would be
entirely out of place to address the wife of a physician or clergyman as
_Mrs. Dr._ or _Mrs. Rev._

The names of states may be abbreviated, but care should be taken that
these abbreviations be plainly written, especially when there are other
similar abbreviations. In compound names, as North Dakota and West
Virginia, do not abbreviate one part of the compound and write out the
other. Either abbreviate both or write out both. If any punctuation
besides the period after abbreviations is used, it consists of a comma
after each line. It is the custom now to omit such punctuation. Either
form is in good taste, but whichever form is adopted, it should be
employed throughout the entire superscription. The comma should not be
used in one line and omitted in another.

Notice the following forms of correct superscriptions:--

(1)
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| Mr. Milo R. Maltbie
| 85 West 118th St.
| New York.
|______________________________________________________

(2)
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| Mr. John D. Clark
| New York
| N.Y.
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| Teachers College
| Columbia University.
|______________________________________________________

(3)
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| Mrs. Edgar N. Foster
| South Haven
| Mich.
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| Avery Beach Hotel.
| ______________________________________________________

(4)
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| Miss Louise M. Baker
| Nottingham
| Ohio.
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| Box 129.
|______________________________________________