ge charnelhouse which is said to contain the remains of nearly
three million persons, consisting of a labyrinth of galleries
lined with bones and rows of skulls through which visitors are
escorted on the first and third Saturday of each month at 2 P. M.
I long to hold you in my arms.
Devotedly,
PAUL.

CORRESPONDENCE OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS

Congressmen and other public officials are as a rule more careful
correspondents than are men whose letters are never to be seen by the
public at large. There is a certain well-defined form for a letter meant
for public consumption which distinguishes it from correspondence of
a more private nature. Thus a Congressman, writing a "public letter,"
would cast it in the following form:

A Correct "Public Letter" from a Congressman

Mr. Ellison Lothrop,
Vice-Pres. Washington Co.. "Better Citizenship" League,

MY DEAR MR. LOTHROP:

You have requested that I give to the Washington County Better
Citizenship League, of which you are an active vice-president,
some expression of my views upon the question of Prohibition.

Sir, can there be any doubt as to the belief of every right
thinking American citizen in this matter? The Eighteenth
Amendment is here and here, thank God, to stay! The great benefit
which Prohibition has done to the poor and the working classes is
reason enough for its continued existence. It is for the
manufacturers, the professional class, the capitalists to give up
gladly whatever small pleasure they may have derived from the use
of alcohol, in order that John Jones, workingman, may have money
in the bank and a happy home, instead of his Saturday night
debauch. In every democracy the few sacrifice for the many--"the
greatest good of the greatest number" is the slogan. And I, for
one, am proud to have been a member of that legislative body
which passed so truly God-bidden and democratic an act as the
Eighteenth Amendment.

I beg to remain, with best wishes to your great
organization,
Sincerely yours,
WALTER G. TOWNSLEY.

A Correct Private Letter of a Congressman

DEAR BOB:

Tell that fellow on Mulberry Street that I will pay $135 a case
for Scotch and $90 for gin DELIVERED and not a cent more.
W. G. T.

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