LETTS 



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LETTUCE 



cian may be addressed as Doctor, or the abbre- 

 viation M. D. may follow the name, as, Dr. 

 Henry Johnson, or Henry Johnson, M. D., but 

 only one title should be used. A person hold- 

 ing an important office or one who has held 

 such an office should be addressed as Honor- 

 able. In addressing the President of the United 

 States or the governor of a state, fris Excel- 

 lency is the appropriate title. The title Pro- 

 fessor should be used only when addressing a 

 member of a college or university faculty; this 

 title is frequently misused. Abbreviations in- 

 dicating scholastic attainments when they ex- 

 press something not expressed by the title, as, 

 Rev. Walter Henderson, D. D., LL.D.; Prof. 

 Albert Harkness, A.M., LL.D., may follow the 

 name. 



Formal Notes. Formal notes are written in 

 the third person and are not signed. The 

 heading is placed below the body of the note. 

 The following are good models: 



Invitation 



Mr. and Mrs. James Clark request the pleasure 

 of Miss Abbott's company at dinner on the even- 

 ing of April fifth, at half-past seven o'clock. 

 March twenty-eighth, 



15 Astor Place. , 



Acceptance 



Miss Abbott accepts with pleasure Mr. and 

 Mrs. Clark's kind invitation for April fifth at 

 half-past seven o'clock. 

 March thirtieth, 

 157 St. James Street. 



Declining 



Miss Abbott regrets that absence from the city 

 prevents her acceptance of the kind invitation of 

 Mr. and Mrs. Clark for April fifth. 

 Philadelphia, April second. 



Consult Barrett's Business English and Cor- 

 respondence; Dwyer's The Business Letter; 

 Cody's Success in Letter Writing; Westlake's 

 How. to Write Letters. 



Related Subjects. The reader should consult 

 the following articles in connection with his study 

 of this subject : 



Abbreviations Punctuation 



Language Spelling 



LETTS , a simple-mannered people of Aiyan 

 speech, closely related to the Lithuanians, 

 whom they resemble in physical characteristics. 

 They are light-skinned and have fair hair and 

 blue eyes. They occupy an extensive tract in 

 Russia, including Southern Livonia, nearly all 

 of Courland, the right bank of the Dvina River 

 below Drissa in the government (province) of 

 Vitebsk, and a small portion of Kovno. About 

 300,000 live in East Prussia, their ancient home, 

 called by them Borussia. It was under pres- 

 sure of the Teutonic Knights, who first brought 



the terror of the German name to the Letts, 

 that they took shelter in their boglands; from 

 there they were driven out by the Prussians, 

 who took possession of their lands. 



The Lettish language is rhythmical and 

 pleasing to the ear, and is not unlike the 

 Sanskrit. The poetry produced by the Letts 

 has the fire and vigor of primitive literature, 

 and it is full of the spirit of the warlike age 

 when they "burnt the strongholds of the Rus- 

 sians," "challenged the Polack to enter their 

 land," or "met the foe on the deep." Again 

 it expresses their hatred for their early oppres- 

 sors, the Germans and Russians. The Letts 

 live on isolated farms, compact villages being 

 rarely found in their district, and they number 

 from 1,350,000 to 2,000,000. Many have emi- 

 grated to the United States, where they are 

 mostly day laborers in large cities, and to 

 Brazil. 



LETTUCE, let 'tis, a small garden plant 

 which is widely used as food, especially in 

 salads. Its native 

 home is not 

 known, but it has 

 been cultivated 

 in gardens in 

 most parts of the 

 world for several 

 hundred years. 

 There are two 

 principal varieties, the cabbage, or head, let- 

 tuce, and the curled, or leaf, lettuce. The first 

 resembles a head of cabbage, and its leaves are 

 very broad and crinkled. The leaves of the 

 latter are longer and smoother. Lettuce may 

 be whitened, as 

 is celery, by pro- 

 tecting the plants 

 from the light. 



Lettuce seeds 

 are supplied prin- 

 cipally from Cali- 

 fornia. They are 

 planted in a rich, 

 loose soil, early 

 in the spring, and 

 the leaves are 



ready for the ta- FOOD VALUE 



, , . , . The black section represents 



Die in about SIX the proportionate amount of 



nr sspvpn uroolre nourishment contained in let- 

 seven weeks. tuce The white area repre . 



Lettuce is grown sents the part that has no 

 ,1 . . food value, 



the year round in 



hothouses. Market gardeners find it profitable 

 to start the plants in the greenhouse, and after 

 they have made a good beginning, to trans- 



ex b 



LETTUCE 

 Head lettuce; (&) 

 loose-leaf, or curled, lettuce. 



(a) 



