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Show Photographic Times: M. Bur-kinsly, Bur-kinsly, the expert, chirographer of the circuit court of St. Petersburg, with the assistance of a physician and by the aid of chronophoto-grapby, chronophoto-grapby, has made interesting studies on the handwriting of several persons. Chronophoto-graph Chronophoto-graph is a proees by which instantaneous instan-taneous pictures are produced or objects in rapid motion. While a person writes one letter three of more pictures can V takon of his hand and pen. In this wieeyerv . motion of the hand of the writer is resolved, so to speak, into its elementary ele-mentary muscular impulses. As the latter are subject t the nervous conditions of the writer, tie writing, writ-ing, for its a ppearauce and its ex-piessiveness ex-piessiveness of character, depends more on the temperament of the writer than anything else.. The results re-sults of M. Burinskly's studies! show that the opinions of chira-graphio chira-graphio experts on the identity of handwritings in, so rainy instances -erroneous; that under certsin nervous conditions various nersons may produce writings that re perfectly per-fectly similar in character while one person rai.y at one time write in quite a different manner than another. ' From the Washington Post: As the senior senator's wife Mrs. Sherman has a fund of reminiscences, reminis-cences, but only brings them out on rare occasions, for one reason because there is no time for such luxuries here. The first ysar she came t the capital was back early irt the fifties and the comparisons betwfen Washington life then and now are striking. Mrs. Sherman says that at that time a number of nnusually brilliant women adorned the capital, among them being Mrs. Henry Clay who was quite as striking a woman as Clay was a man. Calling was conducted con-ducted differently, although in the matter of the first calls the rules were even - more rigid than now tw . ..... C1D ua sutu anairs as 5 o'clock teas or afternoon "at homes," and few of the ladies hd any particular day for receiving. The cabinet then, as now, had Wednesday, but outside of that hardly anyone had a day. One called with no surety whatever of finding the person at home. Moat of the entertaining was done at night. Dances receptions and balls were the only known forms of gaiety. Balls, or perhaps, as they called them, were most rrequenl", and much of the entertaining was done at hotels. And Mrs. Sherman Sher-man adds "there was no such thing as newspaper women then jn Washington. One'came but 8he soon left." Probably more than one woman of these modern days wishes she had Jived in tho"Ee times. .. . . |
