The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-18

,-ow York. July 17.-Has it been your
;.eortupe TO receive letter written in
- a. known as the new handwrit-
ina?" The aforesaid new handwriting Is
,,,,riqht in outline and curious in shading
- one must be educated up to reading
- have been told by people who ad-
ire II although they are not famillar
,,.itb If that the Egyptian hieroglyphics
ora Iegible compared with it, AS ma
.t., we are not good writers. The Eng
,tsb write clear. Iegible hand, the French
singplarlv neat, small hand. while they
trvariablv use good stationery. Since l
-. read German 1 can't criticise the
t.nauritine of the emperor or OF Bis
,rarck. but do know that as a natlon
NO are the most variable IN our hand
,~iting of any in existence, and l think
I've found out the reason for it.
A. the time when the present genera
.ior--that is. our sweet selves-were gong
70 school we began to write our notices
=, round copy book hand, with beauu-
s,1 sbadings. tall rs and short is, 10
nroperly dotted and VS. that didn't nave
curled tails like as.
Midway in the search for this we were
s+onned. We began to write by order OF
,ba teacher in charge, 'If at first you
5on,+ succeed. try, try again." in the
sne,lar English hand, for that had be-
come fashionable. Now, no human being
eenecially at the mature age of Is, could
after several years of application at
FOUND o's. suddenly make them sharp o's.
ant
from their hight all her rs, leave her rs
increased and forget shading altogether.
The result was a hybrid handwriting that
Is now general in this country. we be-
q ueved that there was some individuality
in a scrawl in queerly formed letters ana
in a mixture of roundness and sharpness,
hut this new upright handwriting is go
ing to drive more children to prefer ig-
norance to knowledge and more teachers
TO matrimony than anything that has ever
happened before.
1t was Napoleon Bonaparte who said;
mo man dealing with a press of business
can be expected to write a legible hand.
All he can do is to set down dots and
leave it to others to decipher them l
have always been an admirer of Napoleon,
but now 1 feel that he was more human
than ne has ever been credited with being.
Personally l have a kindly feeling to-
ward the people who write indistnctly,
ID but there is one thing that | will not and
cannot forgive, and think that did more
TO make me discover that Ellen Terry was
not my ideal Marguerite than anything
else Miss Terry commits the awful crime
of writing on both sides of the thinnest
of paper with the blacklist of ink and the
heaviest of quilts. The result is mystic
81 rOus beyond telling. You may count
yourself as wonderfully lucky If among
the black and white lines and crosses you
find her name and your own. Mrs. Lang
Try writes a big clear hand, and she has
cheerful way of meandering all over a
heavy page of paper exactly as if she were
putting out her firm, white, weil-shaped
hand to greet you. Lillian Russell writes
a rather round, large hand, using the
blacklist of ink on pale blue paper. which
mas her monogram on it in white. Henry
irving writes a curiously old-fashioned
hand indistinct and requiring a little clew
10 start with, but once you've discovered
what he's writing about all the mystery
Is solved. small, neat, distinct hand is
mat OF Wilson Barrett, his writing being
not unlike that of E. H. Sothern, whose
letters always remind you of the perfec-
'ion with which his coat fits.
Jeanette Glider the best woman critic in
lhs country, expresses herself in legible
"'HMg mat is joy TO read. I possess
~ Of a manuscript of Bret Harte. The
wiring fine, distinct feminine, and the
lAA is violet Yvette Guilbert writes a
psuhctly delicate hand. and her own
p..snt lace looks out from every one of
Net correspondence cards.
iost OF the foreign actors and singers
~lue this same small. distinct hand. the
mem oI'en ,,,ncHnlns to larger letters than the
pst .s Many OF the women who write to
Ohe Jam for their bread and butter do
= III an indistnct and reckless way. II
ir5 'iI seem as If they remembered that
80 was cheap and that, after all what
t5o- "lote was usually put in print before
u,,,i puolc saw 1t. About my own hand
ics 5 am bit sensitive. Severe crit
~ VINO twit me because of my age and
ector-e atE inhrmties, have called It char
80; ~ sue My own family has limited nos
rr,erS,, out kindly and with all love and
~ nee mat II must have been a very
sort 10. ~ acler OF which II was typical a
Evo ~ -, combination OF Lucrezia Borgia
inventtll "aIlhe de Medici the woman who
W. starch and the young woman
o- uo devoted her life to swal:owing nins
al M whose cold corps several millions
llss-sIu were found. This however is
ts H. my But /, like other great neon1e
that george Moore so fiuently saws and
1n NV o 9'u NOT appreciated as / should be
7ts own family.
Romsr tor long time has been that
mans was taking the bread ont OF
tons 2, by assuming his oceupS-
., We'll y. vas said that she could write
rolt..i.,o ~ better Than he did. that as a
6i, 1ss she was far above him d thai a. os
arr bg'i she would have settled this
kue 10, ,' slls long ago and that If ever
pie Womb 5t on me money In the treasury
po1i1 disseminate Il IN a wav maj
bfer Ease all the United states. But
Womas XXI, ,,.. deal OF thinking (and when a
somet5ir, '' lI KS hard 1t either results in
pr b,ir,s or she thinks the curl out Of
thft " tsl She has come to the eoncI u ~
pan. i Il Is new occupation open 70
toa on n. :, a., tnat Of lady's maid The roa-
ri I24 calls the shirt habit s'y showing NOV ,s
io1lble pir, snlt waist. But every fash
l1s shl- t", Understands that the mascu-
aoes.ity n Iie ana simple, has become a
n 20 we5,ill lhe wardrobe OF everv wonoa n
Ping on '' 6.' a cloth skirt ana Jacket ' Pun
Mental as y5,, shirt' however involves a