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blets, reedpens, and styles. Usually a square or cylindrical box. Figs. 7375, 7376, show the Wooton desk, made at Indianapolis, in its open and closed positions. The front portions opening to right and left have file boxes and shelves. The writingtable lets down, exposing a number of drawers, shelves, and pigeon-holes. Book-cases and drawers are below. It is a neat, handsome, and compact affair. (open.) the Wooton cabinet-secretary. (closed.) the Wooton cabinet-secretary. Stiles's combination-desk is a Philadelphia invention. It is specially adapted for reading-rooms, and shuts up closely when out of use. When displayed, it has two writing-desks: the doors afford hooks for paper-files; cupboards and drawers hold archives, books, magazines. Writ′ing-frame. Writing-frames for the blind consist of a frame in which a sheet of paper may be placed, and a horizontal straight-edge, which forms a guide for the hand in making a row of letters. The line being completed