Show old turkey lining lin n up with mo modern nations engravers street a short abort passage near the grand bazars constantinople has suffered a change in the tha haef pas year adar seal makers who former ly cut signers signets in theold tha old characters now are reduced to such huch inartistic Inar tishe pursuits as painting signs reading I 1 keep the halls halla clean and this way to the janitor this Is entirely due to the influence of compulsory education thousands of illiterate people who formerly depended upon IL a stamp with which to place their nam names e s on documents now sign for themselves not many years ago the signet was something to be proud of frequently it was cut from semiprecious stones and even emerald seals eals we were reused used but the signet has now been b een replaced by the fountain fountai n pen pea |