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From: peg@ihuxs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Mister/Master Miss/Mrs./Ms.
Message-ID: <388@ihuxs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Sep-83 15:57:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihuxs.388
Posted: Fri Sep 23 15:57:34 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Sep-83 05:49:45 EDT
Organization: BTL Naperville, Il.
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When i was a little girl, my mother, in an attempt to school me in the
old fashioned ways of etiquette before the "hippies" and other such
worldly influences got to me, told me that a young boy is addressed as
"Master" until he is twelve years old.  Perhaps this was started to
differentiate the boy from his father if he was a junior...

Maybe "Miss" could serve the same purpose... for all young girls until
they are about 12 years old or so (the approximate time when children
start becoming more adultlike)... Ms. could be used for all other women,
with married women still opting for the use of Mrs. if they so wished.

Well, it's a try, isn't it???


			Not as polished and refined as i look,

			Peg Streff
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			BTL Naperville, IL.