Cruel Graphologist

Gustav Langdmann for 15 years was an honest, industrious, sober clerk. Last week, his employer fired him, gave him no recommendations.

Gustav asked why. Answered the employer, "I am an amateur graphologist. I have examined your handwriting. You have murderous tendencies!"

Gustav, the quiet, the peaceful, shrank away. Finally he told his story to the Berlin Labor Court, sued for defamation of character.

Cruel, a Berlin manufacturer of typewriters used the incident as an advertisement, urged the public to buy his machines and write notes in uniform, unrevealing characters.