Show A PICTORIAL ADDRESS m of tho of who write artter it requires the whole almo t a of four clerks to decipher the on letters received at the poil buico ID this city and they have sc expert in determining k that what looks to the ordinary person like 1 form of Is readily intelligible to some of he letters which nrc turned over to then contain ciomo very remarkable and grotesque varieties of handwriting hand writing it in no unusual thin for the men aho vho mails to i ud in a a dozen envelope which look arlt just from iamo dark liquid laid across tho writing nf lawyers and to at salci they write in such anro so accustomed to halo even in alio of a letter they employ so many abbreviations as to make iho addris i unintelligible to any but tt post onice official and alo write very oscuro but they arc by no incan w bac as tho and statesmen alio werft liend the have to con lenil with is the funny couii roan choso whoso delicate of tasteful hurior leads him to discard lucli colimon ahinga as good english kettern in the addris of botet to his ladr friends aho letters in gome very give place to symbol such as ire been on puzzle and often nii il distributors come across an envelope which bears nothing but a group of pic turca postmaster nd several of lil clerks were endeavoring to decipher ono of these when a reporter dropped into the post office the pic turcA were all arami liard lead pencil and were very neatly executed the first ono represented a giddy look n young girl dancing n hornpipe this was madu out to mean miss the ncik was lie capital letter L in monogram form with tho small letter n this was understood to mean ellen tharo was a liguri of simson and the lion 1 I have it exclaimed triumphantly if means miss ellen samson tho first figure on tho second row was a woman leaning over i wash tub in alie act of washing next to was the following 2240 pounds on ami with washing made washington tho next symbol wa was s a figure showing show ing a street on tho third row was a picture of a door handing a chest supporting alic letter R this was interpreted to mean dorchester then a drawing of a M being kicked over by an aai this was designed to stand tor mass meaning massachusetts so after half an hours work it was discovered that the address was miss ellen samp sun washington street dorchester mass tho postmaster very kindly forwarded it to remarking that tho young man who wrote tho unique ad uram probably thought himself smart call |