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your " Dear Sir " and your " Yours truly " speak their meanings in 

 their forms as well as in their spelling; treat your friend with the 

 politeness of legibility and feed your correspondence-guest with a meal 

 of words more than half done. 



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Fig. 3. Specimens of Writing. 



It is especially when we consider writing as the expression of our- 

 selves that we understand the Japanese feeling toward it. The voice 

 and the hand are two great means of expressing what is in us. Our 



