Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1886 — The Finger as an Ink-Eraser. [ARTICLE]

The Finger as an Ink-Eraser.

People who are fastidious about the perfection of their correspondence carefully scratch with a steel or rub out with a rubber eraser a word when they inscribe a wrong syllable. I have noticed hundreds of men who write a good deal rub out words, and even whole lines, while the ink is fresh, and then write over the place first written upon. —-C--: : -;. “I never U3e an eraser of any kind,” said a cabinet officer a few days ago, speaking of this habit, “It takes too long. IF r don’t want to use the word or words I rub it or them out with my finger. It is quick and effective, and one scarcely notices the blotch afterward. I believe the habit is an English one. I venture you will find few blotters or erasers about the desks of old officers in the departments or old statesmen in Congress. No, the finger is good enough for me.”— Baltimore American.