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Show - LEGIBLE HANDWRITING IS A LOST ART In an entirely laudable endeavor to expedite the handling of the Xmas mail, Postmaster General Hays has appealed to the women of the coun- try to address their packages plainly. plain-ly. But why "pick on the women folk?" i What the postmaster says about fancy feminine writing being difficult for distracted postal clerks to read, is perfectly true. In fact there really real-ly should be a postal regulation gainst some of the Spencerian - garies of feminine chirography. But look at the other side of the picture. Were the postmaster general compelled compel-led to decipher the hen tracks made by the average man. -he would soon revise his appeal, or issue a new one for men only. Illegibility on the feminine fe-minine side is generally due to "fus-siness," "fus-siness," but with the men the fault 's the more aggravated because it is usually deliberate, inspired by the idea that to write an unreadable hand is a mark of mentality or distinction. dis-tinction. It is the fellows who are imbued with this thaught who should be "Haysetl" a bit Exchange. A |