Show How Fast Do You Write Seeking for Informatloncertaln quei lions were asked of an expert whoe profit lies as a manufacturer In pro duclng one of the most popular It feeding pens on the market This au Ihorly ald taI dIp ot Ink oucht to wrlte 100 words That in an hour abut thirty drops of Ink were used and that In the sixty minutes the pen traveled some eighth of a mile I all depnded on Ih Idiosyncray at Ihe writers n oder 10 It thl nlmber at 1 habitual and hardened scribes were asked to take one dip only of Ink ana they were to work off their copy In their uou1 elgat or Iovnly mnner As far us average went the result was disheartening One man wrote 141 words with the one dip and another 1 and the characters of the 144word man wre ry much more egble than those of the Itword man Threw Thre-w a lulya raeeful contributor to Journalism nnd In her Italian hand she wrote eight words t the dip and tho faster she produced copy the less words she wrote to the single dip 1 Is I the measurement of the writing oneeighth of a mile to the hour which Is I curious and to think It possible that there may be Industrious scribes who write every day of their lives more than o mile of copy We wheel faster we cover a mile In a trotting sulky more speedily or we playa finer game of billiards now than ever because the machines or the track or the table and the balls are better constructed With Improved p ns Ink Inkstand and pper o we wrlle any nore opel fly tharUn theolden time The proh ability Is I tbat we are faster In our wrlng the mhanlcnl Imdlment havlngtnen diminished jet the penn mn pen-n with the typewriter nvr kept pa wllh Ihe rapidiy at hi thought = New York Times |