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Q OMBoNE wants 10 know what ! when I
~ say that am TO contribute this column period
icaly." Just TO- relieve possible distress VIII
say that I hope talk under this heading at least
twice week, but that am not holding
myself 70 any schedule OF fixed days. II can con-
jure up a desire in anyone to make sure Of each APP
Dearance. he will have TO keep the lookout from
day TO day-perhaps that is reason.
Another inquistive friend to know how
succeeded writing 30 beautifully the heading at
the top. To be quite frank about It, didn't Tho
lettering in what is called the library hand being
the writing preferred catalogue work in libraries
because Of it's painness and legibty In the belief
that the library hand would serve my purpose best
and also lend a little oddly. went over to the pub
lie library and asked Miss Hammond to copy the
caption for me. but she modestly recommended Miss
Banner the expert In the art Miss Bau-
consented 10 accommodate. but with the assur-
that the young woman to whom had first
applied In fact came writing perfect
library hand than anyone else in the establishment
In saying that the library hand is preferred for
catalogue work, / may have overstated 1t a tribe
IL was once so preferred but now, believe printed
script used, or. still often typewriter or
typed card OF fashions in writing change as
do fashions in other things. / remember that when
I went to school, my teachers vanly tried TO mold
my scratches into "spencerisn penmanship." and
later when put In brief term at commercial
college the aim TO make indite a so-caled
business hand" Il all in the slant and the
shading Of the down strokes. Subsequently the YER
teal" handwriting had the call. and then a modifca-
ton that permitted OF a slight tilt 1 would not be
surprised live 20 the day when handwriting
will have become almost a lost art except for per
sonal signatures. and when all our manuscripts and
written communications will be either typewrttten,
Photographed Just talked the wire.
While the topic OF handwriting, let recall
a schoolday incident when / turned in an essay to
my teacher OF rhetoric the High school, young
woman who herself wrote in near-herogyphics and
had it returned bearing the inscription, Compost
ton excellent; chirography miserable" went to her
at once and impertinently asked, "Wnl you kindly
tell me what you have written my essay?' She
didn't the Joke, but fortunately for the prin-
cipal to whom she sent did.
Going to funerals is always depressing, and par
tlcpating in the last sad rites over Frank Ellick
must have made everyone there pause and ponder OH
the swiftness with which comes the transformation
from warm. virie. pulsating life to the cold, inert
emptiness that ends all this earth. For many
months / closely associated with Eilick as a co..
laborer the Workmen's Compensation commission
named by Governor Aldrtch to investigate report
on the whole subject, and submit a draft Of com
pensation bill II conclusions favored the project
At that time Ellick was veritable steam-engne OF
human enrgy. Whatever he took up he went al
with vim that left no doubt as TO his confidence
in it's successful outcome. and in this he furnished
an enthusiasm that more than saved a dubious
situation. In his field of business activity he
wrapped up in what Is known the cost
system of figuring printing jobs, and 'the cost
system" literally exuded from Elick's system. He
demonstrate the plan. and he had II down TO a fine
point with wall charts blank FORMS etc. In every
commercial social organization with which he
connected he only "a live wire" but
ready to respond with alaerity and good spirit 10
every demand for his help.