'The number of organizations exclusively composed of women that} exist nowadays is really bewildering. It will soon be quite distinguished jot to belong to any of them, as it once was never to have' seen "Charlie's Aunt." But attention' is certainly due to the golden jubilee fof the International Council of cimens of the picture writing of Bushmen and the extremely. difeult hieroglyphs of the ancient. Egyptian priests, As the 10th century was Sominated by. the Talian sivle' of writing, of which, to mention two Well-known names, Queen Victoria and the Duke of Wellington were both beautiful exponents, so In much earlier centuries there was a Spanish Style, which killed self, like. Gothic architecture, from sheer' exuberance.
The old. High German characters tien became the fashion; we might be using them stil, if the Renaissance Tlallang had not gone back to Charlemaine in search of something simpler.
Hooking st the 14th and. 15th cen: tury MSS—there are. plenty In old Bnflsh churches Ineuding some ey Think" of Mim othdtwise, wat frst jority VIlL, who, whatever yas!
class seholat—one is struck by their exquisite. precision and the extreme dimieulty of deciphering them. But this T suppose. Is merely a question of practice and of being used to. the Sbbreviations they used, " Nowadays it is said that writing Is' a dying art. One cannot say that the typewriter eilling It, for there were famous men before the typewriting days, Cunningham Grahame, for. Instance, and. George. Saintsbury, who. wrote atrocious hands; but it is undoubted helping to do so. In America Where T suppose more. typewriters "Pitty Years Hence"
Do you recognize this nice silver-haired old lady, holding what might be her granddaughter's picture?
Tt is Miss Jeannette Macdonald made up for a "Fifty Years Hence" party which was given to celebrate the start of rer new musical film with Mr, Ne Ison Eddy—"Sweethearts." She is Tolding @ photograph of herself. accompaniment to life to which he has become accustomed, and though he may not listen to what she says he has got used to her vocal tintinnabulations, plus juvenile chorus, and misses them. He may now re-fleet in his quiet moments that his dear was particularly bereft of ideas, but he also pays her the compliment of allowing that, for a Dumb Dora, she was uncannily lucky with her verbal shots at times. But, with it fall, he misses the family and he will be' glad to sweat on the jetty some morning soon and happily greet his brood again, and listen to the home-coming Weihaiwei chorus of "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy," os the boat sails up {the Whangpoo.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.