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i64 Woodcraft Manual for Girls plete picture of a person listening behind a screen, but in time it was reduced by hasty hands to a few scratches; and "War" now fi ' jw spider marks, was originally a sketdh of " two women in one house." To come a little nearer home, our alphabet is said to be descended from hieroglyphic ideographs. "A" or "Ah," for example, was the sound of an ox repre- sented first by an outline of an ox, then of the head, which in various modifications, through rapid writing, became our "A." " " was a face saying "Oh," now simplified into die round shape of the mouth. "S " was a serpent hissing. It is but little changed to-day. We may also record our Sign Language in picture-writing, Som lumnSmi Pictography Sunrhe tn« f i/T) or city Ji»n-T7et noon (Tiktiift as was the custom of many Indian tribes, and we shall find it worth while for several reasons: It is the Indian special writing; it is picturesque and useful for decoration; and it can be read by any Indian no matter what language he speaks. Indeed, I think it probable that a pictograph inscription dup up 10,000 years from now would be read, whether our language was IktHnM »•» niiion I / we wi/h m»<(« I to hit I SeW- understood or not. When the French Government set up the Obelisk of Luxor in Paris and wished to inscribe it for all time, they made the record, not in French or Latin, but in pictographs.