The Archive · 1938

Art of Handwriting

An unusual and most interesting exhibition is being held in the: Here man Museum at Forest Hill, lustrate the progress of the art of handwriting. "Here are specimens of the writing of Queen Elizabeth and Florence Nightingale, both "of whom in their respective styles wrote Beautifully." Here one may see spe canes the, atmosphere positively rummer and dither with full-charged ry. With sure aim he blazes on mistjacadamized surfaces, and picks wotevery pane of glass, every ished surface and possible reflector, Fnding, beams which penetrate the and cause stabs of pain to nerves Shi brain, He goes down even with und leer and his tongue in his Syeek, for he knows that he has 0 eked the good earth and all solid falter thereon that it will continue radiate hot agony for the rest of the night. No, at the moment, november foggy day, with a touch Mast winds sounds ood enough fo some of us, One can do something shout winter miseries; one can draw cuviains, stoke up cosy fires, and mort to hot water bottles, but Tininst heat one" cannot fight; one inst perforce endure and suffer. It {noticeable that our imaginative frters, when depicting Hell for Siners, devised "heat, and not icg funds as torture for the damned. If tne took the Idea to heart one would, ter a few summers. in Shanghai, fnulate the excellent Queen Victoria snd repeat fervently, "X will be good."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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