ted husband!
COMPLIMENTS OF EDWARD FISH

Perhaps, if the old gentleman is employed in the Credit Department of
Brooks Brothers, Frank Brothers, or any one of the better class stores,
the following might prove effective:

A Correct Letter to a Prospective Father-in-Law Who Is Employed in a
Credit Department

MY DEAR MR. ROBERTS: 10-6-22

I am writing you in regard to a little matter of matrimony which
no doubt you have overlooked in the press of business elsewhere.
This is not to be considered as a "dun" but merely as a gentle
reminder of the fact that it would be extremely agreeable if you
could see fit to let me marry your daughter before the first of
next month. I feel sure that you will give this matter your
immediate attention.
Yours truly,
ED. FISH.

11-2-22
DEAR MR. ROBERTS:

As you have not as yet replied to my communication of 10-6-22
regarding marriage to your daughter, I presume that you were not
at the time disposed to take care of the matter to which I
referred. I feel sure that upon consideration you will agree that
my terms are exceedingly liberal and I must therefore request
that you let me have some word from you before the first of next
month.
Yours truly,
EDWARD FISH.

(Registered Mail) 12-2-22
DEAR SIR:

You have not as yet replied to my communication of 10-6-22 and
11-2-22. I should regret exceedingly being forced to place this
matter in the hands of my attorneys, Messrs. Goldstein and
Nusselmann, 41 City Nat'l Bank Bldg.
E. FISH.

Of course, it would never do to carry this series to its conclusion and
if no reply is received to this last letter it might be well to call on
the gentleman in his place of business--or, possibly, it might even
be better to call off the engagement. "None but the brave deserve the
fair"--but there is also a line in one of Byron's poems which goes, I
believe, "Here sleep the brave."

LOVE LETTERS

A young man corresponding with his fiancee is never, of course, as
formal as in his letters to other people. This does not mean, however,
that his correspondence should be full of silly meaningless "nothings."
On the contrary, he should aim to instruct and benefit his future spouse
as well as convey to her his tokens of affection. The following letter
we