Show sway of the typewriter the typewriter Is playing an imbor tant part in civilizing the world th latest invention in this line Is a ma chine capable of transcribing the jap anese ideogram but typewriters am printing arabic armenian he brew and other oriental languages have long been used in turkey the printing of anything from a circular letter to a book can only be done under a permit from the government therefore typewriters which imprint turkish or arabic char ackers are prohibited from passing through the custom house never the increasing demand haa somehow produced a small supply bagdad a city of inhabitants has 20 machines all of which write arabic ifa syria one of the most poly alot countries in the world ar able and french writing typewriters are used by many of the business houses persia which used the arabic script Is learning to adopt the type writer to go farther east a number of hindustani writing machines are now used in bombay and other cities of india chinese seems to be the only language which still resists the atje writer s endearments harper weekly |