Show I roo CID m UJ vT E might think that tho the quill pen pea had hod gone out of uso use forever fore with the steel stee article so 80 available and eo tO superior but such is 13 not the case for 10 there is hardly a n well equipped stationery store where n a bundle of these is not kept in stock Tho Those making us use of quills are mostly foreigners Bohemians foreigners Bohemians Hungarians and Russians Rus Rus- generally generally men well wen along in years who have been using quills all their Ji lives and have Me Mean an idea that writing can hard hardly be done at 1111 all except with a goose quill Throughout Europe especially in eastern tern Europe the quill has not yet Jet been displaced by the steel pen and md even eras evenin in England in public places J like ke the writing rooms of hotels hotel A the quill and the steel pen are arc seen lying side by side aide on the writing tables for people l to take their choice In official circles circle in England there was un until tit recently an idea that thata a u. document was not legal unless it was written with the old fashioned quill pen though this notion notion no no- tion is now no dying out But Dut among certain classes of ot religionists in Russia Russi the impression still prevails pre and marriage inar- inar riago contracts wills will deeds and other important import import- ant papers aro are always written with a goose gooe quill There is an old Russian Russion formerly a schoolmaster ter li in living in iu London who nr makes pens for Cor his countrymen and mends them too for mending mend mending ing a quill quilt pen is about as important and essential essen Hal as alJ the making makin as very few people can write with a II quill pen more than thou an nn hour or two without without without with with- out getting Gettins it out of order |