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Show THEIR WRITING TOO FANCY At Least One Woman Has No Faith in Gen. George Washington and Mr. Thomas Jefferson. "Signatures of General Washington Washing-ton and President Jefferson. Take one." Most every customer did. One woman wom-an gave, in return, an opinion for the benefit of the woman with her: "If I couldn't write a better hand than those two I'd lose my job and deserve it. Neither of them could earn salt directing envelopes, no editor ed-itor would stand for their copy, and the civil service would turn 'em down so quick they wouldn't know whether they were afoot or horseback. "Talk about character in chirog-raphy chirog-raphy huh! You see anything to suggest Valley Forge in those curly-macues? curly-macues? I reckon Father George is all he's cracked up to be, but honest, I don't see how any man with an idea in his head could fall for penmanship like that and when it comes to Jeffer-sonian Jeffer-sonian simplicity what object do you suppose Thomas had In changing his two small, but entirely competent fs into one sprawly "y?" Which seems to show that for one woman, anyhow, two great men lived In vain. |