Round-Up | 1897-09-24 | Page 1 | Multiplication of the Typewriter

multiplication ot of the typewriter the coming man will not write nearly so much as the man of this age said prof charles whiteford of philadelphia at the Nor mandic and yet it must not be inferred that the art of penmanship is going to drop into early desuetude the cheaper typewriters become the less a chirography there will be professional men of any standing rarely do any writing now save perhaps to their own signatures in newspaper offices three fourths fourth s of the reportorial staff compose their stories on machines and not a few of the more dignified editors have learned to play the keys handwriting will linger a groat great deal longer in the country and smaller towns than in the cities for the same reason that the candle and kerosene lamp linger longest in the former localities