Show I What Are You Most Skillful At I 4 c I IN TN N any first class machine shop you'll find a toolmaker toolmaker toolmaker tool- tool maker so skillful that he can tool down a apiece apiece apiece piece of steel to as fine as a thousandth of an inch That is he can take a steel rod and remove an outer layer so thin th that t 1000 of them would be required to measure an inch thick Any machinist machin machin- who can do that is justly proud of his skill If you know such a fellow and want to make hi his eyes bulge tell him that Professor Richard of Leeds university England has perfected a method for measuring a part of an inch He me measures by I sound waves and electricity instead of a yardstick That man has marvelous skill you say Man certainly is becoming a ar r wonder Yet 2100 years Cicero wrote that he lad iad seen seen the entire entre Iliad a poem as long as the theN N New w Testament written on a thin piece of leather leath leath- er in letters so small that it could be folded into a nutshell If you are interested in that and other marvels of the ancients read Wendell Phillips Phillips' C lecture The Lost Arts I Microscopic writing by means means' o of I the panta- panta i. i graph mach machine e has been carried to unbelievable perfection An Englishman named Peters using a fine diamond point wrote wrote the the Lords Lord's Prayer on glass in characters so minute that the whole Bible could be written two twenty-two times on a squa square i inch c Incredible you say It is vouched for forby by bythe t the Royal Microscopic Society of London The cases cases of of and Peters are arel l merely of the marvelous skill t which is a characteristic of human beings This Thi skill crops out in strangely varied ways in different different different dif dif- dif dif- ferent individuals You'll a genius with wonderful skill at 1 I t handling a and and awkward at everything else Some women are so o skillful at n needlework that their heir fingers seem almost uncanny You'll u recall J Johnny Baker the crack shot with the old Th Buffalo Bill Bm show whose skill centered in his eye eye- ye- ye focusing Leigh Mitchell Hodges of Philadelphia skilled as a writ writer r is most famous among his friends for his phenomenally even touch on a typewriter er Every individual has something at which he or she is s skillful What are you most skillful at Probably Probably Probably ably it is a signboard pointing the way to success and prosperity rity I |