LOOK TO YOUR WRITING

Evening Star, Issue 23113, 12 November 1938, Page 27

LOOK TO YOUR WRITING

Handwriting is coming in for a lot of attention in London at the moment as the result of an exhibition dealing with the progress and the art of handwriting.

Among the exhibits is a facsimile letter of Queen Elizabeth _to her sister Mary—a really beautiful and still legible page. A letter from Florence Nightingale displays _ clear, resolute, businesslike penmanship.

One woman said she was cured of bad handwriting by receiving a letter from a friend which took about two hours to decipher. She wrote remonstrating with her friend, who wrote back and told her that her own was just as good as a .jigsaw puzzle. “We then made a plan to improve our writing; moreover, wc kept it.”

Bad writing in some instances is a form of conceit. It say: “My communication is very important, so you must take time to decipher it.” It is as well to remember, though, that there are relatively few women who luue taken to the typewriter for personal correspondence. Let’s hope they stick to their own caligrapby and make it what the dictionary.says; “ The art of beautiful writing.”