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Show SOME TERRIFYING SCRAWL8. A uowspapcr editor, ",n friend jot mine, wroto such a blind Jiana thnt it was a by-word throughout tho ojllco and a terror to tliotypesoitor81. One dayvn Joker lmltatcdftperIoCtty'1' his writing nnd signature and took the scrawl, moat 6t(,whlcliwaa absolutely meaningless, to tho editor himself,. . asking It ho would kindly tell, what ho Intended to nay. Tho editor was a trifle -unnoyod at first and started out wllh: "I don't sco why you follows fol-lows can't read my writing; It's plain enough. Now, this well, lot ino boo," and ho studied over tho deceptive I scrap ot paper for a fow moments, finally tossing It uwny and Baying: "That Is n llttlo blind, I must ndinlt nnd I cun't remember now Just what I did write.". Pooplo who profess to read clmrac tor by linn Jwrltiuc seem to find traits or uniiBunl ability In Bumplcs ot the most illegible writing, so If all wrote 'plainly tliero .might bo Icbb lndldj I uallty in tho worUU 1 am tempted to say what pcrhupa I ought not, as It appoint! to bo u slur upon my own box that, In niy opinion, tho peculiar pecu-liar and llleglblo writing ot men Is decldudly moro characteristic than tho meaningless, weak nnd poor writing writ-ing ot a great many women! Whether a judgo, ot handwriting would agrco with mo I do not know. Our penmanship Is something peculiarly pe-culiarly our own. Others may wrlto In much tho samo wa&.but never ox-, nctly tho, same. Slnco laiidwrltlng is. so lndjidutd, u thing, jinjl to somo extent nn liidox to, our characters, let ub hopo (hit 'those who nro quick to bco whit It denotes may nlwnjs find joino aKYfceublo' qualities. i-1'hlladel OililaJJsccT " . |