. The New York coach-maker's magazine. d with waxedthread. Use on the edge. These pencils are employedby many of the best painters for fine striping, and aredecidedly the most serviceable for this purpose. Theycarry more color than the ordinary pencil, and allow ofgreater rapidity of work. An experienced painter canstripe quite a number of spokes, or even go clear aroundthe felloe of a wheel, without replenishing the pencil withcolor. MONOGRAMS. Monograms are of very old date. As far back as weknow of letters, we know of monograms too. They arefound on Greek coins from the sixth century before
. The New York coach-maker's magazine. d with waxedthread. Use on the edge. These pencils are employedby many of the best painters for fine striping, and aredecidedly the most serviceable for this purpose. Theycarry more color than the ordinary pencil, and allow ofgreater rapidity of work. An experienced painter canstripe quite a number of spokes, or even go clear aroundthe felloe of a wheel, without replenishing the pencil withcolor. MONOGRAMS. Monograms are of very old date. As far back as weknow of letters, we know of monograms too. They arefound on Greek coins from the sixth century before Christ,and we know that the Scandinavian people used themeven at an earlier time. Their pedigree is thus of hon-orable length, but perhaps its age is more noticeable thanits blood, for there does not appear to be much glory inthe history of monograms. It may come in the future. As to their origin it was very simple. When a nameor a sentence was to be put down on a very small space,as for instance on coins and seals, it was common and. very natural to reduce it by abbreviations to two, three, orfour letters, and then interlace these letters with eachother till they made a single character, small of size and easy to recognize, but dif-ficult to understand, andtherefore difficult to coun-terfeit. And thus, on thepaternal side, monogramshave, no doubt, originatedas a sort of economy,- avery respectable origin,indeed, but not very no-ble. With the Scandina-vians, however, mono-grams do not seem tohave been used in thisway. They were withthem rather a A. C. H. When one had to send a message and dared not trust the bearer, he wrapped hisnews in a cloud of very obscure words, and put these on awooden plate in a- series of intricate monograms whichonly very apt people were able to decipher. Thus, hisletter, though open to all the world, was covered with adouble envelope, and its monograms were often its bestsafeguard. Sometimes monograms assumed to play thepart of witchcraft.
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