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Show ALPHABET IS EVER CHANGING Painters Cause Certain Letters to Aa-lumi Aa-lumi New Shapes Cultivating Artistic Side of Trade. Alphabeta are Buffering a change of form at the handa of modern algn palntera, remarks the Philadelphia Record. For many yeara letters have held certain distinct forma, which gave them their namea and claases. Sign palntera, however, are cultivating cultivat-ing the artiatlc aide of their trade, and from various algna displayed all over the city there seems to be a great unanimity of opinion among them aa to the apeparance of certain letters in one of the alphabeta. Tbla new Idea aeema to bo a tendency ten-dency to fill in and "balance" blank paces. It waa first to be obaerved on the letter "L." The painter saw fit to add a frill about the middle of the apace between the base and the upright Next the letter "p" of the aeriea waa attacked and the ornamentation orna-mentation went in the middle, making mak-ing the familiar letter resemble old Greek "tbeta." "A" and "VT1 "Q" have been the latest to be touched up. If the Idea spreads much further the entire alphabet will change ita face. |