1883.] 



THE AMERICAN GARDEN. 



241 



Just See those People Write — An 

 Amusing Scene — " Dips." 



Did you ever carefully watch a num- 

 ber of people writing together in the 

 same room? If not, do .so, and you 

 will find it very amusing indeed. No' 

 two -will act alike. One sits bolt up- 

 right; others bend their heads for- 

 ward, right, left, every way. One sits 

 still ; others constantly move necks, 

 shoulders, heads,— one making a direct 

 bow to every long letter, and others a 

 quartering one. Every second or third 

 person has a particular position of the 

 tongue in his cheek, teeth, or mouth, 



— in short, there, is a distinct "man- 

 nerism" in every writer, aside from 

 the letters he makes on paper, that 

 would enable you to name each of a 

 large party of writers if standing be- 

 hind them. Try the experiment. But 

 they all agree in one tMng,— they keep 

 up an everlasting "dip," "dip," "dip" 



— in the inkstand. And in this they 

 differ greatly. One does it deftly ; 

 another makes an " inky way " be- 

 tween bottle and paper, often on to it, 

 saying nothing of blots, soiled fingers, 

 etc. 



CURIOUS FIGURES. — Ordinary 

 writers take, a " dip " about every 40 

 seconds, depending upon the kind of 

 ink, pen, etc., and this "dipping" 

 means a great deal. As the previous 

 " dip " runs out the letters grow faint, 

 and the next ones are over-inked. On 

 the average it takes at least one- 

 jjjfT ,j> fourth of all the time to go for ink and 

 i M. I. .nul properly join on 

 ■111 the words or letters where you left off 

 (Biff *° " cU l'-" Tllis is 11 serious loss of time 

 H I a,IU * a l3iwl toterruption to a. man writ- 

 ing figures, and especially to one put- 

 ting down a train of thought. A dozen persons, 

 writing steadily and rapidly for a single hour, 

 will take about a thousand "dips." A clerk or 

 business man writing a dozen years has spent 

 one to three years in taking " dips " ! (Not " tips," 

 mark you.) 



All the above easily saved, and 

 other disadvantages. We write this 

 with a first-rate Gold Pen that has 

 not taken a single " dip " in four days, 

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 and your Wife and your Children, 

 and your " cousins and sisters and 

 aunts " and uncles too, want it. Its 

 Gold Pen is the best. Its holder is 

 neat, hard rubber. 



BP We will mail you one, post-paid, 

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 Better still, we will present you one 

 if you send 10 subscribers to The 

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