Show A ta y T z P vc e A 4 WONDERFUL FEAT fear FEA r gives give london wrapper amra lesson speed london ionson telegraph wrapper writing la 12 it would wen seem a popular way of earning earring EL livelihood with the inmates ot of bowton towton house a sixpenny SIX biz penny hotel hero her is an amusing story of the perfection to which it may he be brought by practice and a strong will there Is a tradition lingering among the elder brethren of the wrapper writing whitin g profession to the effect that once upon a time when hen the work was bett better er paid pa id than now a young man from australia turned up and ventured as a last resort into their sphere of labor he spent his all and found himself stranded until funds should arrive from the antipodes so on the suggestion of an old acquaintance he applied for a job at the world famed firm of schmidt co on being duly in stalled and supplied with envelopes and some pages from a directory he looked around and asked for a pen aut ut you have one already said the young man in authority 1 I want two answered the australian and an interested te and obliging fellow scribe supplied the need the scene which thereupon ensued baffles description tor for the colonial separating the pile of envelopes op es into two equal lots began copying the addresses by writing simultaneously with both hands so runs the legend at least and furthermore it Is averred that his rapidity was such as to put the slog gers to shame afif ty pens dropped from the nerveless arg grasp sp of those who but a minute be tore fore had been writing against time and as if for dear life A hundred eyes were fixed in astonishment on the unknown one presently the young youn overseer who superintended super intended the labors of many old enough to be his grand father rose and timidly said he aou would id consult the governor the latter ar rived aad the situation being explained the australian was turned into a locae box all by himself and fed with another thousand or so of envelopes at A t this rate he earned enough in two twe or three weeks to enable le him to las out comfortably till his remittances ar rived then he went home and knew him no more W we asked the old gentleman who told us ue yarn to fill his pipe and have an other cup of tea for we thought he de served both |