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Show A recent article mentioned certain ways of making paper capable of taking ink when it bas been roughened by erasure as by powdered resin and by rubbing with a knife handle; but pray, have any of my readers ever heard of pounce! I do not know whether stationers keep it nowadays or not. It is a fine, white resinous powder the cyclopaedia cy-clopaedia says powdered sandarach. A small bottle of it will last one a life time. Along with the powder used to be sold an elegantly turned pounce box, like a bttle wooden oil can, which would sift a small quanity of the pounce on the paper, as needed. My pounce box bas been an inseparable article ot my writing table for many years. To rub the I pounce in after it has been sifted upon tbe erased spot, I use a small stick with a ball whittled on the end, over which a bit of chamois skin is tied, as on a painter's maul stick. Nothing could be more auaol or ' mfTt rTTlTWHtilfc |