LORD’S PRAYER ON STAMP

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 225, 21 June 1939, Page 8

LORD’S PRAYER ON STAMP

Minute Handwriting Feat SUCCESS OF TE HORO GIRL Having read in an English paper of the feats of two South Africans, each of whom wrote the Lord’s Prayer on a piece of paper which could be covered by a postage Stamp, a New Zealand girl, Miss Thule Grant, aged 18, Te Horo, decided to try her hand at the task. After two attempts she managed to write in this minute space not only the Lord’s Prayer, but also some of the commandments. Miss Grant wrote with a mapping pen on a New Zealand penny stamp, which is slightly smaller than the South African penny stamp. Mr. W. J. Behrens, tlie South African school teacher whose success first attracted the attention of Miss Grant, was prompted to undertake the task after seeing a “Believe it or Not” cartoon about a Massachusetts man, who had written flic whole of the Lord's Prayer on a piece of paper the size of a postage stamp. Mr. Behrens succeeded witli bis fourth attempt, but, like the Massachusetts man, wrote on a piece of paper, not a postage stamp proper. After Mr. Bebren’s success another South African, a 20-year-old blacksmith, took up the challenge and succeeded with his third attempt, still having enough space left to sign bis name. Like Mr. Behrens and the Massachusetts man, he, too, wrote on a piece of paper. As Miss Grant wrote the Lord’s Prayer and also some of tlie Commandments on a stamp proper, smaller in size than the pieces of paper which the South Africans used, she must be given credit for the best effort so far.