xpense in long messages codes can be used in which one word
stands for several words. The Western Union has an established code--or
private codes can be arranged. Five letters are allowed as one code
word. A word of six or seven letters will thus count as two words.

In cablegrams the use of codes is common on account of the higher rate
for cablegrams. Since the name, address, date, and signature are all
counted, code words are frequently used for the name and address. Code
language is allowed only in the first class of cable messages.

OCCASIONAL TELEGRAMS

A graceful, concise, pertinent, and well-worded "occasional" telegram is
frequently not easy to write. The following forms are suggested for the
composition of some of these telegrams. The longer forms can be sent
most cheaply as Night Letters or Day Letters. A Night Letter of fifty
words can be sent for the cost of a ten-word full-rate telegram, i.e.,
from 30 cents to $1.20, depending on the distance. A Day Letter of fifty
words can be sent for one and one half the cost of a ten-word full-rate
message, i.e., from 45 cents to $1.80, depending on the distance.

_New Year greetings_

Best wishes for the New Year. May it bring to you and your
family health, happiness, peace, and prosperity. May it see your
hopes fulfilled and may it be rich in the successful
accomplishment of your highest aims.

Best wishes for a Happy New Year.

May peace and happiness be yours in the New Year. May fortune
smile upon you and favor you with many blessings.

I (We) wish you a Happy New Year, a year big with success and
achievement, a year rich with the affection of those who are
dear to you, a year mellow with happiness and contentment.

What the coming year may hold we can none of us foresee. It is
my (our) earnest wish that for you it may bring forth a generous
harvest of happiness and good fortune.

May the coming year and all that succeed it deal lightly and
kindly with you.

May the coming year bring you happiness in fullest measure.

We think of you with the affection born of our long friendship
which the recurring year only strengthens.

May the New Year bring you health, happiness, and all other good
things.

Health, happiness, and contentment, may these be yours in the
New Year.

May health, happiness, and prosperity be yours in bountiful
measure in the year to