Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1916 — THEIR WRITING TOO FANCY [ARTICLE]

THEIR WRITING TOO FANCY

At Least One Woman Has No Faith in Gen. George Washington and Mr. Thomas Jefferson. “Signatures of General Washing-_ ton and President Jefferson. Take one.” Most every customer did. One woman gave, in return, an opinion—for the benefit of the woman with her; “If I couldn’t write a better band than those two I’d lose my job and deserve It. Neither of them could earn salt directing envelopes, no editor would stand for their copy, and the civil service would turn ’em down so quick they wouldn’t know whether they were afoot or horseback. “Talk about character in chirog-

raphy—huh! You see anything to suggest Valley- Forge in those curlymacues? I reckon Father George is all he’s cracked up to be, but —honest, I don’t see how any man with am Idea in his head could fall for penmanship like that —and when it comes to Jeffersonian simplicity—what object do you suppose Thomas had in changing his two small, but entirely competent fa into one sprawly “y?” Which seems to show that for one woman, anyhow, two great men lived in vain.