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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;

HISTORY OF THE TYPE- WRITER.

"FAST SETS" 3,000 YEARS AGO.

"AN, "IMMORAL FILM.”

Injunction Against Robin Hood in Japan. To Celebrate its Fiftieth Life in Ancient Egypt" by

Prof. Petric. Birthday.

Several hundred foreigners and "Give me 18 cups of wine, Japanese at the Kamakura, Gekijo behold I should love drunken-were disappointed recently when ness,"A. Lady in Egypt, B.C the local police entered the thea- tre shortly before the sbowing of 1500.

"Douglas Fairbanks in Robin There were "fast sota" in the Hood" and issued an injunction high society of Egypt 3,000 years against the film, reports the Japan ago, and Professor Sir W. MAdvertiser. The police declared Flinders Patrie tells something of that the showing of the picture them in his fascinating little was illegal and that the film itself volume," Social Life in Ancient was detrimental to the moralstof Egypt" (Constable, 6s.), published the community. The theatre recently.

manager was compelled to return the admittance price to the crowd in order to prevent a riot.

The faithful typewriter is to Dalebrate ita fiftieth birthday next Fall. This practical instrument, which started life is the small village of Ilion, Harkimer County. Now York, in the Autumn of 1873, is now used by kings for their personal correspondence, and has helped mary an office boy to be come a king in the business world. Women, too.xiveitgratitude, from The Queen of Rumania, who never goes on her royal travels without taking along a writing mashine, to In the public gardone outside the thousands of, "queens" of Alexandria there were day and everyday life who have climbed night, crowds of men and women

to economic emancipation over in boats, singing and dancing, its small black-and-white koys.

without restraint,"

Mr. Fuji, the manager of the theatre, and Mr. Kamakura Suzuki, a representative of the United Artista Corporation who

taken

It is hard to think ofan invention Women to-day will be interest was in Kamakura for the show. that has more thoroughly revolued (especially with the summering of the picture, were tionized modern business than sales raging) to know that the to the Kamakurs police station this small machine. The Perki-earliest woman's dress in the land and submitted to a gruelling ex mor County Historical Society in of Tutankhamen was the fringeamination from 6.30 o'clock until its Story of the Typewriter," now worn in Nubia. Linen then 10.30 o'clock. Mr. Suzuki gald. about to the published, bas gather bogan to be woven, and in the that he was compelled to romaiu ed much interesting data from a later prehistorio age women wore standing stifly at attention at the great variety of sources on the a tight skirt of white linen to the police headquarters in spite of the history of the typewriter from its knee."

uncomfortable weather through- earliest days.

out the examination.

가

Werd

in

Fandy waistcoats vogue 4,700 years before Christ. The earliest braces were crossed, and, the fashionable dress for women 6,000 years ago was a tight-fitting dress to the ankles,

The United Artists Corporation. of Tokyo has filed a protest with the American Embassy against the Kamakura police, as the in- junction caused the distributors a. beavy financial loss as well as unwarranted embarrassment. From prehistoric times women This film agency hopes to have shaved their heads and wore a wig the matter aired and the officers tea out in the sun. Sometimes responsible for the injunction servant girle had their hair shaved punished. The agency believes to a peak on the head.

The first American patent on a iypewriter was granted in 1829 to William Austin Burt of Detroit, the man who later invented the solar compass Alettor printedin a news paper in 1820 calls the model "with tight sleeves. simple, cheap and pretty machine for printing letters." Unfortunate. ly the model was destroyed by fire at the Washington Patent Office in 1830. The next recorded effort was made in 1833, when a French patent was granted to a man in Marseilles. This was followed by several other inventions along similar liues.

During the '50s the umbryo ipyewriter maker became more activo. No fewer than ten models were brought forward at this time, but the general opinion seems to have been good work but too

alow."

In 1867 the inventore of the first successful machine began their labours. Three men, all middle-aged, thoughtful and stud. ious, started the work in the Winter of 1866-67 in little machine shop in the outskirts of Milwaukee. Carlos Glidden, one of the three, was at the time engaged in developing a mechani- cal "spader" to take the place of plow. The two others, Samuel W. Soulo and Christopher Latham Sholes, were printers,

DID NOT WANT WEALTH,

Sholes, the most picturesque of the three, was for some years active a journalist in Wiscon

in, This led him into politics, and for two terms, 1848 and 1849, he was State Sopator. Shale

Slavery for debt flourished as a contract system, and a man who could not pay his doctor's bill in cash or corn paid in servitude. Lawyers also had their pickinge

in those days.

A 5,500 YEARS OLD WILL.

Business men will sympathise with the early Egyptian, who suffered dreadfully from the in- came tax demon.

that some rival Japanese film organization is at the bottom of the police action, and that the police were bribed to issue papers against the film.

The United Artists Corporation declares that the proper permits had been obtained from the proper oficiale of Kanagawa prefecture following the regulation police Censorship, and that according to the censorship laws the picture

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oxhibited in any theatre in that "Trades were subject to an in-prefecture. Since the Kamakura come tax," saye Sir Flinders theatre is in Kanagawa prefecture, Petrie, "which was reckoned on the permit was applicable in this the monthly receipts; thus it was case. a tax on business irrespective off the amount of profit."

When the permit was shown to the Kamakura police upon Hence, barter, which could not their arrival to issue the be taxed, increased.

. injunction the officers said The earliest will found is of the that certain irregularities wore 12th dynasty (BC. 3500), and the suspected regarding the issue of testator is as minutely described the permit. Furthermore, the as in a modern Scotland Yard an-police said, it was the opinion that nouncement..

the picture was immoral, Thie, in face of the fact that the De- partment of Education voluntarily the picture for its educational issued a statement commending merit and morality.

He was "in his sound mind and right understanding, a sojourner about 80 years old, short in stature with aquiline noso and bright eyes, curly hair, but rather bald- with long ears.

Describing the erection of great

The United Artists Corporation according to Mr. S. F. Lindstrom, expecte to bave the matter

was described as unselfish, kind. monumente, such as the Pyra-cleared up in a day or two andi

bearted and companionable. A

minds, by thousands

of

police officers responsible for the

dreamer and at times eccentric, workers, Professor Petrie says: injunétion punished.

Much nonsenes has been writ- ten shout oppression of the people, their tears and groans. With the

be cared little for money, and Femarked one day to a friend that he had been trying all his life to escape becoming a millionaire, splendid organisation evident, the and he thought he bad succeeded people must have been well man- admirably. He acquired wealth aged, and there was no hardship At various times during his life,

RINGING THE BEES.

whatever in carrying out the Power of Barbaric Music to but did not keep it. The type- work. writer gave him another chance, As ages went on the burial work

And he lot it pase.

Make Them Swarm.

that, from the lane-side, nothing but the tops of the enveloped apple treee could be seen, writes a correspondent of a Home paper.

became a scamped trade, and The bedge round the cottage: It was while Soule and Sholes mummies have been found made garden wae dense and high, eo were at work on a machine for up anyhow. Cat mummies only numbering serially the pages of had a few bones, crocodile mum- blank books that Glidden said. mies contained only an egg and "Why cannot such a machine be some straw. It seemr, oven in made that will write letters and those days, there were tricks in words, and not figures only?"every trade. The result was a "crude affair in every way." but it wrote accurate- ly and rapidly.

Other men now enter the type- writer story. James Densmore, James Ogilvie Clephane and Charles E. Weller, tho last a close personal friend of Sholes, were intimately associated with the new invention, Though many names word suggested for the machine. Stoles finally called it a "typo-writer;" the name which has become universal. Weller, who was a telegraph operator and

a shorthand student, tasted out the various machines that Sholest sent him, and it was to Weller that Bholes wrote the final word on his invention:

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On the other side of, that im- penetrable screen of flower and leaf, a wild weird symphony was lifting into the blue sky-4 rich, deep organ paal of sound that i knew could come from nothing elso but swarming beas, and, high above this sustained booming note, an incessant abrill clamour as of beaten metal rent the sunny air. After some frantic but fruit- lose prospecting, I found a thin spot in the hedge at last, and thrust head and elbows through.

The little garden was full of flowers resplendent in the morn- ing sun.. Amidst these, innumber.

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Straying from garden grounds; mushroome under the chequered Lovers of idle hours, ahade of the trees, all set in a

Breakers of ordered bounds,

Above is shown an incomplete mist of scintillating wings. And If only the sarth will feed us, "word-abar." The puzzle is to by the cottage door, framed in

If only the wind be kind,

"The machine is done, and I want fill each of the five blank roses, stood a hale old woman Weblossom for those who need us some more worida to conquer," circles with

letter (alustily boating with a great door Shortly after this, the historic vowel), so that five complete key upon a gloaming copper pan. And too, the Lord of the Garden,

The stragglers left behind. contract was made which placed words may be read, two starting For all I had read and believed He makes Hie sun to rise, the manufacture and further from the letter B; one from G; one about "bee-ringing as a long And His rain to fall like pardon. development of the typewriter in from R and one from L, as in-discredited myth, thoro susmed

On our dusty paradiso." the hands of E. Remington &dicated by the arrows. Each no doubt of the syren power of On us Ho has laid the duty--- Sons at Ilion.

word will, of course, be composed the music hore. Even as I watch-) The task of the yendering Early in the '80s the typewriter of four letters.

ed, one of the apple-boughs hard hegan to find its way into Eur.

by began to droop under the To better the world with beauty, opean countries. Offices, word

weight of its gathering host.

Wherever the way may lead. opened in Paris, Balcium, Hol- Land, Denmark and Greece, Gur- many was among the first pur

14sers, and Russia had a special machine equipped to write the Russian language-

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