Show IM SCHOOLS teacher who Is opposed to tho vertical system mondays standard tho return cc n number of the of this country to the spen celiaa system of writing has prompted this paper to obtain an expression from the school teachers as to the comparative merits ot the old and the new system 0 prof thomas of the schools has contributed the following tol lowing as his views probably is no one thing that the serious consideration ot business men any moro etian coee the 0 used toy hose who are la charge of their borers to chanse bookkeepers carries with it change in tha BS etca of pen used and very naturally alvea rise to the question which system serves all purposes best in presenting tha following facts no will be made to be to any way sensational for the cause of practical writing Is far too important to admit 0 therefore readers no matter what your personal prejudices or your preferences may be the appeal Is made to you to study with me for a few moments this and yet subject 0 from a purely practical standpoint in our views ot thia subject idt ua not be sensational nor aesthetic but i abier receive the direct rays the broad 0 business activity and earnest public school Ae achere are awakening by decrees to a complete realization of the net that something is radically th the generally accepted plan il instruction in hie oos ot today you say this state icet ia radical or even iconoclastic 0 trend rather than dwell on tho a important the point Is granted as up gradually the white light of ii ti is appearing and a once from f i ibo shadows of and of misrepresentation we see something merging which is tangible alch we have clung in almea past and may et cling as a anchor any system of writing ac it ully meets the demands 0 american commercial activity must of necessity embody tarco very important elements viz first legibility second speed third endurance mentioned in the order of their importance father spencer that grand old man to choso whoso memory we all pay a and whose goose penmanship was tho defy embodiment of freedom and grace welded three important elements together and save to america a system of penmanship free graceful and characteristic and which furnishes the fundamental principles tor ajl other systems he never wrote a line that in any way resembled the so called up to date vertical writing which is but little more than print through the aae ot mechanical contrivance tr in drawing and in engraving the original Spencer laa extern has so changed that we see tew it any ol 01 its former landmarks in its cycad certain tad dista for such they are have presented to the educational giorid a system 0 cramped and crippled writing which to the avenge mind Is tar worse than no writing at all for the bad effects ot it are everlasting upon the writer As for eliy reader there are no bad effects for tu read U Is to read print can the vertical aye led ba wilh the auy free ana movement which brings about smooth lanys ana is the mark ot perfect ease you are obliged to answer so I 1 have yet to see the first class or it you please the first pupil using the principles of any up to date system ot penmanship that was not holding the body in a cramped position and that did not have a constrained unnatural of the hand vertical writing has not made good mainess ms iness penmen of the masses in fact it has made no good business writers the have not stood the test of speed and endurance and further they have aoi met the demands of the business world in writings the entire body be need there should be no restriction cramping 0 nerves nor an over ten of the muscles fo in acquiring baill in any modo ot expression we avoid any crippling cr distortion of the physical agents to write cither vertically or obliquely with tho s to ay mind utterly wrong the full arm is the immediate agent of writing it should have perfect fi ot movement at the shoulder ahe forearm resting lightly upon the abak with plenty ot room for the re aued lU ed in writing verti adv or whatever stiffens the lingers causes an undue tension of the fern muscles and restricts the outgoing n voia energy this as utterly wrong no affia tor what the external product BD be ohp i one 0 tho most import an e gents ot anse perception as well aa of over tension of muscles a aro by no means natural and which must thac aws tact for wil upon the entire sen anum thus limiting the amount ot outgoing ou going brain power and radii writing tha only kind that can bo educational impossible should be at all times tho expression of thought the expression ot images which move through con ness ith considerable rapidity the hand should keep pace with the of thought otherwise tho writing is mere copying copying from mere recollection or copying from a book one and the same thing mentally H beems to lie a universal law that whatever survives must right I 1 can ra S call no great question the settlement of which idaa not beba Atte niKl with a severe etrus gle has been especially true in the establishment of intellectual tel ideal once seized with a genuine conviction man ia apt to become a he Is moved oy a sensa ot duty to force his ideas auto the people the horrors ot the spring from leep sense ot duff yet bome of abe abeda committed are wholly infamous tha geat motive gowac ol 01 modean ittin itt in an acure braan tordea may 6 and often ahnes are expended in something ach by trial is found to be inferior lo 10 attic old it is ver often true that oia wc cesal hy money Is the seal the citizen forcing the vertical of upon tae t ae public has helped the inventor ito reach this the enthusiastic conviction only through modem methods we can keep abreast ot the giraca is held by many then let vs as americans exercise our right ot choice and be old fashioned enough to cling to he slant system ot penmanship a and you will see that I 1 am in th main tight |