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Show CACHE AMERICAN, LOGAN, UTAH FABLESGEORGE SLANG IN ADE t Ml ,v WATSON bandwriting and became fa mous as the father of penmanship.' Silencer was born September 7, farm In 1S01, on a poverty-riddethe little settlement of Fast Fish kill In Dutchess county, New York, lie was the eleventh and youngest child of Caleb Silencer, a native of Rhode Island and a veteran of the Coveil Revolution, and Jerusha Spencer, a native of the town of Chuthnm on Cape Cod. Caleb Spencer died when his youngest child was the years old. Soon afterwards Jerusha Spencer so'd the farm and moved with her brood of 11 across the Hudson river to the sparsely settled community of Windham In i1' Greene county. Although the management of the Widow Spencers new farm kept her 9. Keep the top of the KEY TO CORRECT PENbusy, she took a keen Interest In HOLDING pointing to the right shoulder. passing on to her children her edu 10. Keep the arms and paper in 1. Put the forefinger flat upon the cation, scanty as It was, and In deline. When her barrel of the veloping their minds. 2. Put the second finger nail un, youngest-bornIlutt, first began to form letters with charcoal on a der the KEY TO CORRECT POSITION 3. Put the upper corner of the board she recognized his ability and (a) Sit upright. ' thumb nail against the encouraged him In his writing. (b) Sit square to the desk facing opposite the first joint of the foreIn those days western emigration iL h' was In the air. In 1800 the first finger. (c) Sit close to the desk without 4. Bend the joints of the thumb canvas topped Conestoga wagons, it. touching ! laden with household furniture, had outward. (d) Rest both forearms on the i 5. Keep the trailed across the Alleghenies Into of the desk up against elbows. just forward the of side the west fur unof Ohio, at thnt time the forefinger. (e) Rest the right hand on the 6. called the Western Reserve. Mrs. der corner of the little finger nail Keep the forefinger straightAnd do you remember how careat B. Spencer tulked the matter over with ened. ful you were, under the watchful 7. Keep the wrist straight and off (f) Rest the fingers of the left eye of teacher, to put the fore- her older sons, and It was decided Vai hand on the front of the paper. finger flat upon the bnrrel of the to sell the farm and go to Ohio. the desk or book. 8. Keep both points of the pen on to keep the top of the In 1S10 the fumlly started west(g) Rest both feet squarely on the the paper alike. r floor; the left in advance of the right pointing to the right ward. After ninny days of slow, difit Struck Him That Being a Preacher Was the Duck Soup. shoulder" and to use the whole ficult going, they arrived In the bov I, reproduced troni (Th New Reversible Writing Books. Vertical Elleworthi Western Reserve. They halted In Edition, arm In writing with an easy, flowpublished by the Werner company, Chicago-NeYork, 1894.) Jefferson decided to go ahead and ACROBATIC HOROSCOPE ing motion?" And then, as soon as the forest at a little collection of take his Degree rather than disapthe of the next to log cabins, the beginnings she had passed along NCE there was a Boy named point his Purents, but he was aching When he was twenty-twhe deHe traveled about the United earnest exponent of the flap art of town of Jefferson In Ashtabula cided to go to college to prepare States teaching and lecturing. FinalJefferson who lay on his for a Chance to Join a regular Compenmanship, do you remember how county, Ohio. In this settlement Tlutt Back In an Orchard one pany and Have his Photo In a for the pioneer a But taste for the man up humped who ministry. had to forefinger ly, failed your quickly get In front of the Grand Opera whole Afternoon so that you were grew up, helping on the farm In on the liquor, inherited from bis father Into college as a student because mapping Frame the summer and In the winter comand aggravated by the prevalent soon clutching It In a denth-llkhe drank accepted a call to Eclectic out his Future. He was Five Years House. Between the Period of Ills Coldrinking customs, was too strong Institute at Hiram, Ohio (today Old at the time and still carried his grip and you forgot all about that bining household chores with readlege Triumphs and his 21th BirthMilk Teeth and a few for him. He failed to pass the en- Iliram college), as professor of peneasy, flowing motion of the whole ing and writing. Paper was unprobut already he had begun brooding day he had quite a few Experiences. arm? Remember how you hunched curable, but he wrote In the snow trance requirements. manship. Statistics prove that almost anyover his career. over the desk and with your tongue and on the sand and with charcoal If Spencer had not been a hard While he was there a poorly on may happen to a Graduate Just floor. the thing a Occould After of all It Business as out, Survey though sticking drinker, the courae of penman, farm lad came clad, he is deprived of the Checks after hurried It Professions struck and the The cobbler who visited you pen, cupations help push traveling to the college as a student He shlp in the United States might from Dad and finds himself trying him that being a Methodist Preach each farm In winter to make a through writing the required numnever have felt the Influence of supported himself by ringing the on the World. er was the Duck Soup. He had been to get a Grape-Vin- e ber of lines In your copybook so years supply of shoes for the famihie brilliant pen. When the mincollege bell and sweeping out the one of them and it seemed He suddenly ascertains that the that you could be among the first ly lent the boy his chalk and let istry was closed to him he turned watching buildings. He studied under SpenTask Is a good deal like trying to to him that this Bird had everything to dash for the door when teachhim write on the large pieces of to teaching and travcer and later In life wrote a let- a Brick House without the upset was and wide er" said That will be enough writ- sole leather that were waiting to he eled throughhandwriting organized riding high, Ohio from town to and purty. Nothing to do all Week help of a Lever. It Is during the ing practice for today . . . put away cut up. The family was proud of his town and even from farm to farm, Years that the one skill and, as a special treat, on except wear a Dark Suit In con- cruel try-oyour books for recess?" gathering pupils around him. who has prepared himself to be a to a him allowed his mother with and junction one Sundays werent you though, Perhaps, lie revisited New York state In beam like a Head Light whenever Landscape Gardener suddenly deof those who dreaded that dally write her favorite Scripture texts 382.1, there two years and cides that he can do better by playtaught on Ink In of addressed. her the preflyleaves looked upon writing practice and returned to Ohio, where in 1828 he ing the Plano In a good Movie House It on Bible. cious had Jefferson Authorgood It as an ordeal to be gotten through When Platt was twelve years old married Miss Persis Duty, a young ity that the Parson didnt have to and the Incipient Lawyer goes out with as quickly and painlessly as district school was opened In a teacher who bad caught the pay any House Rent. No matter In a Ford taking Orders for a possible. Perhaps you were one of pioneer spirit They setwhere he went, the Folks who saw Nursery. log cabin In Conneaut, ten those who believed with the copy tled lu Ashtabula and then moved Jefferson got shut of Actoritls him coming began to kill Yellow-Leg- s books that practice Is the best of miles away. A young Vermont Yan to most where lived Geneva, they kee was the schoolmaster. Platt and lay the Foundations of without suffering a single Cramp. all Instructors." So you were faithan ful in that practice because you walked the ten miles to and from of the time except for short periods Strawberry Short-Cak- It seemed to work out through the In Jefferson and Oberlln. Pores. In fact, he told his RelaAt every Wedding he could wanted your handwriting to look school throughout the winter. Ue was On the farm he took over, he built nice when you wrote In a friends not a particularly sociable youth, go as far as he liked on the Ice tions on Commenucement Day that Jericho, the log seminary. Before he partiand being serious-mindeCream. Neighbors often sent In the he had almost decided to take up autograph book some such sentitioned off his desk In one corner, long, people gathered from all parts first Lilac Cuttings and usually he Social Service and be a Settlement ment as where he devoted much time to Ids of Ohio, the Midwest and from easthad Corn on the Cob about a week Worker and go about shaking Hands ern states to study under him. s whether with Lowly My pen Is poor, beloved writing. uhead of the Stores. Easy Plckin Is to Ink My Meanwhile he worked strike a pale. The schoolmaster soon discovered they wished to be annoyed or not. was the only Name for it. But my love for you this pupil's bent and kept him oc- menn between the labored fullness The Job seemed to have no draw- When he made this noble resolution Will never fail. cupied furnishing copies of lessons of the round penmanship hand and backs. On Sunday Mornng the he was still under the Influence rZ the rigid sharpness of the angular. And then, of course, there was alfor the school, textbooks being ex Preacher was Boss of the whole the Baccalaureate Sermon wl tch, As an expert penman Spencer ways the possibility of that further pensive nnd very difficult to provery often, will help to guide Young Show. He picked out the Songs, reward of having people say of you cure. Spencer himself walked 20 did not follow rules, he made them; and no matter what he said, no Men and Women through Life for R. SPENCER PLATT his Imaginahe writes a fine hand" or else "his miles barefoot In the late fall to and the versatility of at least a Week. one dared to give him any Slack tion was the despair of those who handwriting Is Just like copperplate get a copy of Daboll's Arithmetic ter to one of Spencers sons praisTHE DEMON REALTOR THE WEBSTER STUFF engraving. For those were the days thnt he had heard was for sale Imitated him. IBs brain was parThe letter was ing his father. Jefferson copped his Sheep-SkiBy the time that Jelfie was 10, In feitile varyticularly Inventing On In when Americans took pride tlielr cheap. the way home he slept signed James A. Garfield. and sat on a baggage Truck at the In June and along In July his Male ing forms for the same letters. One In a barn, as he was too bashful penmanship, when offhand flourstation every day to watch the Parent asked him if he was going For the man bis shows of sheets the young studyaspiring specimen ishing was a real art and when, to ask for lodging, and his only food s wham by he had for to play Tennis indefinitely and he ing business penmanship Spencer capital letter S written In ten difone might almost say, the pen was was a raw turnip. all about Ids Determination said No, he had been looking around gotten wrote these lines: all ferent prophetic ways, graceful simple, than This and the hard existence sword. scanty mightier truly to his way through Life for the Agency of some good Car, seemed only to foster his love of and legible. Today thousands of clattering so along in September we find him Soon the untaught hand that feebly as a Parson lnHe chronicle and the fact that grace Beyond simple handwriting Spentypewriters elegance grew guides the pen Jefferson knew all the Trains by soliciting Life Insurance, only to was in In a Shall sweep the curve cer the fascinating busier genius Number and was saving up to buy learn thnt all persons still living haunts of men: art of "offhand flourishing. This So about all were fully covered. each day's doings on life's a heavy Silver Watch Where was the use of the swinging pen active stage. We discover him at the Age of 15 he did for the remainder of the stroke to create swans, eagles, stags Arrayed In light, shall crown the eating Throat Lozenges and making year was to play Santa Claus at and palm trees, full of Intricate page. hurried Preparations to be a great a Yuletide Festival. shaded lines and swirls. The ability When Spencers wife died In 18G2 Political Orator. Early next Spring, In order to reto make these drawings and deJefferson had tried out his new lieve the Tedium of Life in a Small after a long illness, the master pensigns flow from his pen Increased man seemed to lose heart and beBaritone on Norval, whose Father Town and to prove that two may the admiration In which he was fed the Flocks, on the Turk who live as cheaply as one if they stay gan to age rapidly. In the Geneva held by his contemporaries. He bepublic library, first called the Spenlay In the Guarded Tent at Mid- In Bed and dont eat, he up and lieved, however, that flourishing" Is a faded night, who got Married. and on Spartaeus, When he announced of this sort was a separate art and cer memorial library. on a bit of yellowed paflourish" Association first formed the Equity his Intentions, the Parental Blesshis Into Introduced It copyrarely among the Actors doing stunts In ing could have been heard a Block books for the purpose of "showing per which bears these lines: the Arena at Rome. He was one away. off," as did many less talented penI.lfe la line and may It be of the main Eloeuters In Lincoln men who came after him. Now we find him at 25 In a Boom Well formd, connected, tasteful, free, High and his Stuff had been going Town helping to lay out a ResiIn 1S32 temperance hit Ohio and And many a happy year be thine. Ere death shall close thy perfect line. over big. Consequently, when he dential District costing $40 an acre Spencer became a total abstainer. came tinder the Spell of a Visiting and about to be sold for $100 a When It became known that he had who spoke for nearly Front Foot. He has a Death closed Spencers reformed, popular sentiment deBungalow, a line on May 16, 1SG4. Busitwo Hours In Court Square nouse manded his election to the office of Baby Carriage and a set of Golf off counhis ness carried was the he completely colleges throughout treasurer of Ashtabula county, an Clubs and Is active In the Chamber Feet and resolved that he would of Commerce, having been selected try draped the portrait of their masoffice he held for 12 years. ,r Spencer published his first copy- ter In black and former students of be a Public Speaker or bust his to give out the Identification Badges his wrote encomiums on his career Vocal Cords In the Attempt. book in 1S48, long after his fame at the regular Luncheons. r who had The great had spread through the East and and his character In their best AN EXAMPLE OF OFFHAND FLOURISHING It seemed that Jefferson at the behand. Friend our treso was Spencerian Young Middle West The volume Impressed of 30 had struck his Strike, rung age Platof Old School to the Now is the time for all good men terested in poetry and began to try mendously popular and firmly estabToday by the side of a road near longed and brought home the the Bell, Metato come to the aid of the party his hand at writing It Most of his lished Spencer's fame and fortune. Geneva stands a modest granite form Performers who loved Hair-CutThe or that The quick brown fox jumps verses were dedicated to the art of Penmanship became the study of the boulder. It bears a bronze tablet phors and hated Ue was worth a World of Money ever the lazy dog. Today speed, penmanship, and were on some such nation and Spencerian copybooks which tells the passer-bthat one Type ts still hanging on In the If all of his Property was worth him has radio the could not be published fast enough mile north of the boulder once stood but rather than artistry, Is the demand theme as this: Chautanqnas what he was holding It at Every to meet the demand. In writing. So today the name of one of Americas first writing on the Ropes. Along about 1905 he he sat around with other busy day le not The the tongue only way Platt Rogers Spencer means but When business men began de- schools, the cradle ef her system of was a Darb. talking about buildwhich Is the mind active Through TRY-OUYEARS little to most Americans although penmanship. Within Its crude walls manding better penmen In their ofa Million Dollar Hotel, than heard, ing they perpetuate his fame when they But the good pen as well can say. fices and the Spencerian systems Platt R. Spencer conducted sumLet us now check np on Jefferson which there Is nothing more easy ne Is a to talk about. use such an expression as bis fine In tones as sweet, a gentle word. fame spread, Platt R. Spencer went mer Institutes from 1813 to 1SG3, at the ripe age of 20. Then speed ws on this art to gain to the beauties of his sys- Junior at a College which Is trySpencerian hand. he founded the where expounding Pittsburgh, In Its train. That leads all Now we come up to the Present Bnt there was a time when his Embalms our taskothers Spencerian Commercial college in tem, the Spencerian, to teachers ing to dispense Knowledge and colfrom day to day. we find Jefferson back In the name was a synonym for elegant 1S12. Illness forced him to close It Bids budding virtues live for aye. Through his and coming from all parts of the counlect Endowments. Town running the General learning home the mind to two years later. try. Not far away Is Evergreen membership In a Frat and because Home script and bis style of penmanship Bringsstore. Store founded by his Father In 1877 a large monIn stands he It has his was a model for school children all he assisted In cemetery. sons, by 1801, of his natty Appearance Before our schooluay scenes are over the United States. So In this revised the system and produced a ument, bearing a large familiar heen given the principal male Part and also having general Supervision o er. of the two Farms ne Is Just where a over Under names the machine age. when the typewriter new series of copybooks, printed script quill. In a Performance by the Dramatic For and R. a were and Persis Duty Club and has learned that he Is he was destined to he from the BeSpencer schooldays has made cbirography lost art Spencer by Phinney & Company, Buffalo. of Platt the hasty American scrawl has be- soon over. During his third winter They were transferred in 1SG9 to Spencer Is this Inscription : Their saturated with nistrlonlc Ability ginning. He still has some Holdings lives were kindly, earnest and bene- - Therefore he has made up his Mind In the Town which started out to be come notorious, It seems worth he taught his first writing classes In the house of Ivlson, Blakeman, Tayanother Chicago and then stubbed the log schoolhouse. When summer lor & Company, New York. ficent IWhile to tell again the story of to bo a colobratod Actor. the Toe. They are Corner Lots and This modest copjbook became a Sheet Flatt Rogers Spencer, the Ohio came he ended his school career to Local well have That epitaph ndght The Fact that the will he all right some Day, If not and In a clerk to become a In best when become who the wanted farm boy best seller bookkeeper been a copjbook maxim for later did not go Into any of the harrowdays minister and who, thwarted In that general store. Those three winters sellers were few and called by a generations of Americans to write ing details merely proves thnt more sold for Taxes. MORAL: All Roads lead to the ambition, turned his talents to the of schooling were all the formal different name. During 1S70. more In a fine Spencerian hand. News is suppressed than ever gets than a million copies were sold. task of teaching a whole nation education be ever had. Q Western Newspaper Unon. into Print. By ELMO SCOTT Lovely Applique Quilt wnus.t. By BrndloM Pride of the Garden, t fpl, iOf'A pen-hold- yMf ? r. r. r, ',. o e self-taug- pseudo-Panam- Industrial use for walnut shell final step In eliminating waste has been found. California Walnut Growers association chemists said ths most important of 13 uses found for ground walnut shells are in hard and soft rubber compounds, asphaltum linoleums, roofing paper, filler In dynamite, and abrasive mechanics soaps. good 0 YOU remember the days when "penwas one manship of the most impor tant subjects taught in district school? And do you re member how you dreaded the coining of the daily writing practice because it meant that for a period which seemed interminable, you had to sit stiff' ly erect at your desk (See "Key to Correct Position) ; hold your pen just so (See "Key to Correct Pen - Holding) and write in your copybook such precepts as Practice is the best of all instructors and "Receive an injury rather than do one and Wisely improve the Present, it is thine. And woe be to you if you dipped your pen too deeply in the inkwell (that kind that had the little iron lid on it remember?) and you made a big blot on the page! 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