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...journal, printed with only twelve letters of the alphabet contrived by missionaries to crystallize a spoken language, once boasted securely the leading circulation of the islands. Now its sales lag wearily behind native strides in spoken and printed English...
...find some way to aid blind people, some way in which, if they could never see, they might at least learn to read. His method, a system of printing books with embossed letters, was developed and improved by Louis Braille. The code which bears his name is an alphabet in which the letters are represented by raised dots, differing in number and position...
These inscriptions found on stone tablets which were hewn from the mountainside by the research-party, were deciphered by Professor Butin and others in Cairo this fall, and have proved fairly conclusive the existence of a definite link between Egyptian hieroghypics and the carliest Phoenician alphabet...
Professor Lake's talk will be based upon his recent scientific expedition to Palestine where studies were made on the famous undeciphered Srabit inscriptions, in an attempt to find the link between the Egyptian hieroglyphs and the Phoenician alphabet...
Writing, or what is now called writing, is still of course in common use, but the modern tendency seems to be for everyone to ignore the recognized signs which represent the alphabet and to develop a species of short hand, intelligible only to themselves. This is only too evident in present day business life, where practically all correspondence is typewritten. Business men realize the difficulty of interpretting letters written in ordinary long hand, and they save themselves trouble by arranging their transactions through the medium of a typewriter...