Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-17

Most People Are Careless In writing
Their Names.

Who is there who has not at some time
cudgeed his brain in n prolonged. and,
perhaps, Intellectual, attempt to decipher
the signature to a letter. the writer of
which is not known to him; and wound
up by saying, irately: 81 do wish people
would write their names SO that folks
could read them?'
The more limited ones correspondence,
the more helpless one Is when the trouble
some letter comes, and the greater the
wonder how such perverslty can be possl-
Bile. To those, however, who have a
heavy correspondence to deal with daily,
the task of unraveling Is not SO difficult.
and, in addition. they often have a fellow
feeling which evokes a less severe judg-
ment on their unknown and .bothersome
correspondent. They know what II is TO
have batch of thirty or forty, or even
more, letters brought to them at the close
Of the day for signature. There Is then A
great and intensely human inclination to
slip the pen along. one OF a firm consist
Ing Of three or four partners soon gets
tired OF writing legibly, BLACK, Slack or
Quaek,' and the latter portion Of the
batch gets but scant attention. II often
develops into BLACK & Co"
Perhaps this looseness has grown to be
more lightly regardcde since the intro
duction OF the custom OF having the nm
title Of the firm, as well as the names Of
the individual partners, printed at the
head of the letter-paper "Oh. LET n
CO. says the scrlhbler. 81 want to catch
my train, There's the name at the ION
and they can look at that II they enn't
read my writing"
Another device to eoonomize the fin,
and maintain the serenity OF Tho ra
cipient is that OF having the FIRMS name
printed under the Yours truly with n
rubber stamp. This can be irnnressod h,,
the clerk, and the principal has only ~
auu capahstic Sign supposed to repre-
sent his initials.
AZ sehool we were taught that IL was M
Insult TO your correspondent to ohi,aa
him to waste his time and lose hts tan,o
| per IN making OUT your signature. ~.
IA me case OF some men, by reason of
| age or physical infirmity, It Is almost an
impossibility TO write anything rIatri,,
| as, Tor instance. the late Thomas T,oni,
| OF Worldwide touring fame AT tho ,oT
| OF MS letter-paper, for years baforo III
death, there was printed notice that
the signature to the letter was NOT his
put mat OF an authorized secretary. II
would be good thing II some others
| adopted the same course; for all the in.
formation II conveys. the sipnat,,ro
might as well be omitted.
Again. some men will write tho hod, .,
letter IN good, plain hand, and then
SeiISefsteiy Slter the position of the
even exchanging for a broad-nibbsa M,
anu trace some hieroglyphios asiant m
paper N totally different style Thls IL
generally regarded as mere affeetatlon
OF TO lead their correspondents 10 mini,
me, ,hey employ clerk II they only knew
we nnathemas which are heaued MINOR
their heads by long-suffering ana MI
pressed clerks and secretaries, it miFht
touen their oonsciences, and lead them IL
Feioiin. Il wastes lot OF time yyher
CLERK has to run about from one h
GInosher' a letter in his hand and murder
~ ms eye. submitting the problem
Here what do you make out Of thsts,
Eeaeh time, perhaps. getting a dlfrercni
interpretation. until Daniel arises -,
hemeboty happens to know the name. VI