Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1897 — A Wrinkle for Writers. [ARTICLE]

A Wrinkle for Writers.

When a pen has been used until it appears to be spoiled, place it over a flame (a gaslight, for instance), for a quarter of a minute, then dip it into water and it will be again fit for work. A new pen which is found too hard to write with will become softer by being thus heated. Belgium, like Italy, has adopted the twenty-four hour method of marking ■the time for railways, post and telegraph, and the old distinction of a. m and p. m. is to be abolished.