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Show Fleet Differ The Dalmatian Dog . The Dalmatian undoubtedly rig lnated In Dalmatia, 'a province of Austria. At least this Is where Its name came from. Originally yas used for bunting purposes, ca th popular pointer is today, but I.t possessed an. Inferior nose gs compare with other hunting breeds, and Ita fondness for horses soon changed Its status to that of a coach dug. In size It resembles the bunting pointer. Its ground color .Is whft and. the spots either dark brown f black; the more uniform and even ly distributed, the better. The gnl mal should weigh about 35 to 5u pounds and stand 19 to 23 Inches at the shoulder; Contrary to general opinion, dog fleas and the human fleas are' not the same and the person who avoids dogs because of fleas has nothing tq fear. They feast only upon the good handwriting and became faj mous as lip "fa they of penmanship." YOU renjember 7, Spdncer was bflra Septembr Wi when "penpgverty-rld(V-furja days 1801, on a Fish-ki- ll tnanship was one the little settlement of East York. In Dutchess county. New of the most importli defeats and youngest He'was tant subjects taught c'hlhl Caleb of Spencer, a native of in district s:1toq1? .Rhode Island and a veteran of the And do you re- Involution, 'and Jernsha Cuvell member how you jreaded' the Spencer, a native of tho town of on Cape Cod. Caleb Spen-ce- f coming of the daily writing Chatham died when his youngest child practice because it meant that,, Was flve-jendid. oon afterwards for a period which seemed in- Jerusha Spencer sJd tu farm and terminable, you had tc? sit stiff; movei with her brood of 11 across ly erect at your, desk (See Key the Hudson river fo the sparsely fn to Correct Position); .hold sell led .community of Windham Greene eoiinty. your pen just so (See "Key to Although' the mnaagement of the Correct Ten - Holding) and Widow SjHUicer's'neW farm kept her KEY TO CORRECT G 9. Keep the top of the write in your copybook such Busy, she took a keen Vnto.rst In to the right shoulder. edupointing clflldren 1st precepts as Practice is the passing on to her 1. Put the forefinger flat upon the 10. the arms and paper in do-In Keep and as It r, best of all instructors and Re- cation, spanty mfnfls.was, When her barrel of the line. (doping their 2. Put the second finger nail unceive an injury rather than do youngest-hurn, '1tatt, first began to der the one and Wisely improve the form letters with chnreoal .on KEY TO CORRECT.POSITION 3. Put the upper corner of the Present, it is thine. And woe hoard nlie recognized hV ability and thumb nail against (a) Sit upright the pen-hold(b) Sit square to the desk facing be to you if you dipped your encouraged him In tils .writing. the first of the forejoint opposite western emigration In those days finger. pen too deeply in the inkweU wpa In the air. In 1800 the first (c) Sit close to the desk without little 4. Bend the joints of the thumb the kind had that (that, canvas topped Conestoga wagons, It touching ' iron lid on it remember?) and laden with household furrilturb, had outward. Rest both forearms on the (d) 5. Keep the up against desk just forward of the elbows. you made a big blot on the trailed across the Alleghenies Into, the side of the forefinger. time at of that west Rest the right hand on the under Ohio, the far page I . 6. Keep the forefinger straight-ene- d. Mrs. Reserve. corner called of the little finger nail Western enre-fu.the l how And do yon remember over with motter B. the at talked watchful ftpcncer the under you were, 7; Keep the wrist straight and off her older sons, and K was decided (f) Rest the fingers of the left eye of tencher," to put the desk or book. the Ohio. to and soli to farm hand on the front of the paper. . the go finger fiat upon the bnrrel of the 8. Keep both points of the pen on to keep the top of the In 1810' the family started west(g) Rest both feet squarely on the difalike. the of slow, ward. After days paper many to the left in advance of the right. the floor; right pointing and to use the whole ficult going, they arrived In the (Th ibovt ( reproduced from ElUworth'a New Reversible shoulder Writing. Books, Vsjrtlesl arm In writing with an easy, flow- Western Reserve, They halted in Edition, published by th Werner compsny, 'Chicago-NeYork, 1894.) '.collection of ing motion t And then, as soon as the forest at a little -- dshe had passed along to the neat log qahlnS,.'the beginnings of the o In Ashtabula Whcn was dehe twenty-tw.Joffcrson town of be He traveled about the 'United earnest exponent of the fine art of cided to to Ohio. to go how States .college .county, do remember prepare you teaching and lecturing. Finalpenmanship, foe settlement the Plait In But a this taste for pioneer talnlstry. man who bad failed to get. the humped up ly, quickly your forefinger on the sd that yon were grew up, helping on 'the famV In liquor, Inherited from bla father Into college as a. Student because and aggravated by the; prevalent he drank accepted a call to Eclectic the summer and In the winter comsoon clutching It In a dcnth-llk- e read-- . with chores household all drinking customs, was too strong Institute at Hiram, Ohio .(today about bining that and you forgot grip for him. lie failed to pass, the en- Hiram college), as professor pf easy, flowing motion of the whole Ing and writing. Paper was unpro' In ' snow, the wrote trance requirements. but . hp '. ', arm? Remember how you Vtiunched curable, over the desk and with your tongue' ahd on. the sand ' and wlUi'chnfconl If not had a hard been While he was there, a poorly Spencer ' sticking out, as though It could on the Roof. self-taugdrlnkerj the course of penmanfarm lad came clad, The traveling cobbler who visited help push the pen, you hnrrlbd In the United States might to a student We aa ship the college ' through writing the required num- each farm in. wlntylr to make' a fiever have felt the Influence of himself ringing the by supported ber of lines In your copybook so years supply of shoes for. the famihit brilliant pen. When the min-Istr- y bell and sweeping out the college that you could be among the first ly lent the hoy his chalk and let was closed to him ho turned building. He studied ufider Spento dash for- the door when tench-er- " him write on the largo plooM of to teaching handwriting and trav- -' cer and later in life wrote a let-said That will he enough writ- sole leather that were watting to.btf eled through Ohio from town to' ing practice for today . , . put away cut. up. The family was proud ef his town and even from farm to farm, skill and, &s a' special treat, on your books for recess? gathering puplle around him. Perhaps, though, you weren't one Sundays his mother allowed him to il revisited New York state In of those who dreaded that dally write her favorite Scripture texts 1S25, taught there two years and writing practice and looked upon la Ink on the flyleaves of her pre- returned to Ohio, where In 1828 he It as an ordeal to be gotten through cious Illble, Miss a married Fersls young Duty, wns twelve When Platt years ojd with as quickly and painlessly ns who had caught the teacher a In school was district g opened possible. Perhaps you were one of pioneer spirit They setthose who believed with the copy one rpom log cabin lh Couneapt, tea In tled' Ashtabula and then hioved Yan-A young Vermont ' books that practice Is the best of miles away. ' to .Geneva, vyhere. they lived most school kee the wits master, plntt all instructors." So you were faithof for time the short periods except ful In that practice because you walked the ten miles to and from wanted your handwriting to look school throughout the'wlhter. l.Iq was In Jefferson and Oberlln. On the farpi he took over, he built nice when you wrote In a frlendta not a particularly sociable youth, the log .seminary. Before serlous-nilnilei- j Jericho, he and partibeing autograph book some such sentitioned d(T his. desk In one corner, long, people gathered from all parts ment as where he devoted tnutti time.. to his .of Ohio, the Midwest and from east. ern states to study under him. My pen la poor, beloved writing, . My tnk la pale, Meanwhile he 'worked to strike a . The schoolmaster soon dlsfdvrred But my love for you numb between the labored fullness this pupil's bent and kept him ocWill never fall.' . of the roijnd pemnunshlp hand and of lessons cupied fifrpfahlng copies the rigid sharpness of the angular. And then, of course,' there was alfor the school, te'itbook's being ex As an expert penman. Spencer ways the possibility of 'that further pvtislvo and very difficult to proAM nnf follow rule's, he made them; himself of reward having people say of you' cure. Spencef. pa Iked 20 PLATT R.. SPENCER "he writes a fine hnnd' or else his miles hn refoot In the lute fit) to and. the versatility of his Imagination was the despalr of those who bandwriting Is just like copperplate get a copy of .DnUolls Arithmetic ter to one of Spencers eofle peals-- , him. Ills brain was ' Imitated were For those the dpys that he hpd heard wan for sale engraving. lng, hi father. The tetter was fertile In Inventing vary when Americans took pride In their cheap. On .the. way home .he slept Jamea A. C.arfield." signed. penmanship, whop offhund 'flour- lu a barn., as ho wos fno bashful lng. forms for the same letters. One Fo'r the aspiring young man studyishing" was a real art and Whon, to ask for lo(lglng,.iimlbis only food of tils specimen sheets shows the ing business Spencer one might almost say,' the p?n was was a , raw 'turnip. capital, letter S written In len dif- wrote these penmanship lines; prophetic ferent graceful all sword. the than ways, This and simple, hank mightier existence truly scanty . . Today thousands', of clattering seemed only to foster tils love of qnd. legibly Soon the untaught 'hand that feebly . He grew la- Beyond simple handwriting Spentypewriters chronicle, the. fact that grace , guides the pen cer was a gen tin In the fascinating Shall .sweep the curve-- , in busier haunts of men: 'art of "offhand flourishing." This n life' each By ELMO SCOTT WATSON DO - er pen-hold- pen-holde- pen-hold- er, it pen-hold- er () pen-holder- pen-hold- pen-hold- er p, ' mid-weste- ly the use of the swinging pen stroke'to create swans, caglos. stags dnd palm trees, full of Intricate shaded. lines and swirls. The ability to make these drawings and designs flow frotn hlji pen Increased the admiration In which he was held by his contemporaries. He believed,, however, that "flourishing ef this sort was' a separate art and randy Introduced. It Into his for 'the purpose of "showing oft',", as did many less talented came after him. In 1S32 temperance hit Ohio and Sptvscer became a total abstainer. When It becaifle known that be had reformed, popular sentiment demanded his election to the office of treasurer of Ashtabula county, an ifflife .be held for 12 years. Spencer published his first copybook In lStSk.long after his fame hnd spread through the East and Middle. West. The volume was tre-- ; mendensly popular and firmly established Spencer's fame and fortune. Tenniilnshlp became the study of the ration and Spencerian copybooks could not be published fast enough torqeet the demand. When business men began deofmanding better penmen In their fices and the Spencerian system's fame spread, Platt R. Spencer went to Pittsburgh, where he founded the Spencerian Commercial collego In 1852. Illness forced him to close It ,two years later. . In 1SG1, assisted by his sons, be revised the system and produced a tew series of copybooks, printed by Phlnney A Company, Buffalo. They were transferred In 1809 to the house of Ivlson, Blakenian. Taylor & Company, New York. This modest copybook became a best seller In the days when best sellers were few and called by different name. During 1S70, more than a million copies were sotd. W4ts copy-boo- AN EXAMPLE OF OFFHAND FLOURISHING. Now Is the time .for all good aiafi tereated In poetry hi end-tegn-o fry' to come to the p'ld of the pprty" his hand at writing' it. Most of his or that "The quick brown fox Jumps verses were dedicitted to tie art of over the lazy dog." Today peed, pennwnsfilp, and were oa some Mich rather than artistry, Is the demand. theme qs this; . In writing. So today the naifie Flatt Rogers Spencer tpeans but-littl- to most Americans although they perpetuate his fame when they use such an expression as his fine ' Spencerian hand." But there, was a time when his name was a synonym for elegant script and his style of pcnmnnshlp was a model for school children all 'over the United States. So In this machine age, when the typewriter has made chlrography a lost art and the hasty American scrawl has become notorious. It seems worth iwbile to tell again the story of Tlatt Rogers Spencer, the Ohio farm boy who wanted to become a minister and who, thv.arted In that ambition, turned his talents to the task of teaching a whole nation pets and after satisfying their apIrpetites Inject into the bite an This the Increases fluid. ritating Itching and the animals bite and scratch until the skin Is broken. Rolling on their back or rubbing back and forth under a chair Is, according to an authority In the Los Angeles Times, one method of relief, and they soon have a bare spot or sore. Dirt gets In It, Infection sets .In and the result Is a form of 7thveab n PEN-HOLDIN- e The.tpn&ue ' : la --not .thaonly Tarouph. which Jtie active lain heard, , , Bui the good peu aa, welt can aay, In tonA aa awA-t- a. gentle word. . Then apee on this art to gain That leads at nth. Embalm pur taX from .day totrain day , tn-.- lt . Bid budding virtues pvt for aye! learning bom. tha mind to store, Befora our sehoalday accnes ara Brings o er. . . For Spencer- schooldays' were soon over. During h!s third winter he taught his first writing classes In the log schoolhouse. it hen summer came he ended his school career to become clerk and bookkeeper la a general store. Those three winters of schooling were all the formal education he ever had. - -- days. doing Wpere . ahtlv ctage,. !n crowp the light, hall Arrayed , , page. ' . well-wr- it When Spencers wife died lq 1SG2 master penafter a long illness,-thman seemed to lose heart and. began to age rapidly. In the Genevji e public 'library, first called jthe Spencer memorial library, is a faded "flourish" on a bit of. yellowed which bear these lines: ' . . ptl-p- er Life Is line and my it be Well form'd, connected, tasteful, free; And many a happy year be thine. Ere dath shall cloae thy perfect llaei a Death close'd. .S.pencers line on Xiay lfl, 1SG4, Business colleges throughout the country draped the portrait of tbe'lr master In black and former students of his wrote encomiums on his career and his character .In ,the,ir bast Spencerian band. Today by the side of a road tear Geneva stands a modest granite boulder. It bears a bronze tablet that one which tells the passer-bonce boulder stood of the north mile one of Americas first writing schools, the cradle of her systemof penmanship. Within its crude walls Flatt IL Spencer conducted summer Institutes from 1853 to 1SG.T, expounding the beauties of bis system, the Spencerian, to teachers coming from all parts of the country." Not far away Is Evergreen cemetery. In it stands a large monument, bearing a large familiar script over a quill. Under the names of Flatt R. Spencer and Fersls Duty Spencer is this Inscription: "Their lives were kindly, earnest and beneVeil-forme- v y ficent" That epitaph might well have been a copybook maxim for later generations of Americans to write In a fine Spencerian hand. C Wtrn Newpapr Cnton, The Merry FUgttaff Painter Re. count Hi Up end Down. - no object other than the air along the beautiful parkway fringing the Gulf of Mexico in this attractive center of Culture and re finement, I found myself in the live oak grove of Gulf-Par- k WITH eczema. Breeds of Goats "Llanfalrp the most commonly known as the Toggenburg and Saanen. Tbe derives Its name from the Toggenburg valley in the Canton of SL Gatil, situated In the northeast portion of Switzerland and the dlstrlcj of Obertoggenburg is the The true Toggenburg breeder. Saanen originates from the Saanen valley In Switzerland. Some of the other breed? are the Alplfle, Rock Alpine and Nubian. .Tog-genbu- tree-prune- - Pyll Gywyngyll ls.th'e pool of whiN hazels," Goger Ts ' rather near, while Chwyrn Drobwll Is .the swirt whirlpool," and. Tysilio gogo goci fa "of Tyslllo .fit the red cave, Oddest Window The world's oddest window vuaN. rial, found in use lnsouthprn JniJi.i and many parts of.. China, Is t!i shell- of the "windowpane oyster. These' oyster shells, alth&ugh nr? transparent, are translucent enough to pass nearly aa much light' as an Free, ordinary pane, of glass.-r-Eman, San Ma'teo, Calif, In Colliers . Weekly". Animat Endure Seatick,nce ' Many animals suffer from seasickness as much as, If not more, than humans. Uofses sometimes die of it, but one animal that 1s amenable to treatment Is the He .can usually make the trip In good healh If he Is Qlller'a kept slightly. Intoxicated. Weekly. - ' best te ! e ele-pha- nt . "Drinking of' Tobacco. The drinking of tobacco spread through every, stratum nf society Jn England by 1630. A 6lngle pipe was passed around the table In some groups, after the custom of the Indians. In fashionable circles much . attention. wps given. to art. To the stranger w3io actuhlly goe there and seed the place It Is also a locality of . Charm and' beauty. Llan is church," Fair Is of..Mary, ' Boutterime The expression is French and means rhymed .endings. A list of words that rhyme with one another Is drawn up. Each competitor Is given a copy, and must make a verse ending with the words, without changing- tfielr places. or the list 'Judges award a. prize o the e To names on the map. poetical Hearth Mone? . . 1 a Welchman this Is one of the .most rg Hearth money was a tax laid In England on hearths. It was first levied In 1GG3.. Each hearth in every house that paid church and poor rates was taxed at the rate of 2 shillings. This tax, also known as chimney meny, was repealed In the reign andMai'y, 1GS9. 80-foo- brqsh-wlelde- Longett Name on Map , wRgwyng! y logvy 'Ihere are several breeds of goats, college, an Institution devoted to the Intellectual advancement of girls thirsting for university careers. Save for a gardener and some shampooing the forest ever set out In a city limit, the place seemed deserted. None the less, a more alluring environment Is incoweelvable. So, hoping for something that might Justify exploration, I proceeded, on my way, arriving eventually at .a three-acrcampus, obviously laid out for athletic, activities. From the center of this grassed flagstaff, straight domain, an t a's a. lance and frowned with a gild-- , ed ball, pointed heavenward. Halfway up or down, If preferred a muscular mat), supported only by a looped rope that bound his knees against the fragile spire was occupied with laying a coat, .of '.aluml-mif- n paint upon the perpendicular ' ' . bodkin. Professor ef Foie Painting.. Here, before my very eyes, and within the range of, my idtelllgepce,-waa complete course In flagstaff painting, featuring the methods of one high In the art. Something new In the curriculum of an college. Lhje and learn. Enthralled, I watched tfie pr'ofessor, silhouetted against the unstable, blue sky, do bis aerial stuff. Slowly, btad with Infinite gface, he descended With' clock-likprogression until at last' bis. feet pressed the grass. Aloft quivered the glistening silver shaft Assuming the prerogatives' of a student, I made enquiries concerning the art of flagstaff painting, r Looks like profession for young men. Not much competition, . I Imagine." "No, It. Isnt exactly, crowded," replied the wiping his hands on a gasoline-soakerag. A little slack ' after, the 1929 panic. Prior to tlron I.hbd all I could do throughout thfe South from Texas to Georgia,. Given an opportunity, I could paint eight or te'n flagstaffs a day, at from $10 to $2a a stick. When the break efirne nobody seembd to care a whoop about the Stars apd Stripes or whether they ever, got up again. Ypu needn't come.kround lierp drumming are off, flag stuff for the present 6ald thp consumers; Old Glory Is In the moth 'bnlls for a strctcV I shifted topntntlng smokestacks. I mentioned the 'fact that In tile "South Independence day wn's not so. hot since the rctielllon. e t Die Hed in 'Dane In thf Pot Dance" performed by groups of native girls of Bechu. anqland, ''Sout.h. Africa, the 'head Is as .Important aa the feet,. The dancers execute the intricate steps .in fast rhythm with .large, round Ethiopia Long Isolated earthenware pots. balanced on thelf From the days the Portuguese Colliers. Weekly..' missions were expelled, about the topknots. year 1633, to Britains military exFroceued Wood Aid to Mininf pedition Into the country in the year d Mining, operators by using 1S68-Ethiopia remained In delibwood have fn the last 'eight erate Isolation from the world. years collectively saved thfcmselvee $3,000,000. Denial and Negative r, . proc-.esse- , d bud-ness,.w- 'e , Old. Glory is Supreme. 'Well, we're getting o'ver that,' and you can tuke.lt frura me'thaj the. American flagIs the. only flag; that the. eld l.dpk of exploding fireworks (n Christmas Instead of July 4 'Is fading .out.'. ,lt IS my Intention to continue In' tills profession. ' . With, all Us risks?" , That's .stimejthlny '.else again," $aid the steeplejack, jregelilng Inti) the' back pocket hi overalls. "Here's a cupy ef the relea.se from all djlmages that may arise if I crack flown;' afi dgreCment in duplicate .that ehtltles me to bust ufi entirely at my. otvn expense, if at all I. cant buy Insurance, fire or accident. Three years ago, while painting the lC0fiot flagstaff on (hp Baylor' university, at Waco, Texos, a 'lightning bolt struck the' peak! ran down the s.teel 'tial.vara chains and passed, into the earth, leayips' me jsligtitljr shocked but cn-- ' surged, about' 50 'feet front the top. Didn't you corny down even. for , lhsiectkhl?. . , hundred forty foot rod that sticks out fif the t Bpll Telephone, builtling Iq SL Louis. Mo., than to, fool atfa. an afternoon sashaying aaroun public park . What do youdo'for'.exercisejva . cations; and the like? t "Oh, I visit around among flag. staffs here .and there; shin up an old friend no and then for a sh or sightseeing, to to sjeak, and keep myself In touch with the new In both wood and metal. You would be surprised at the improve-wen- t In staff construction during the last few years. Take It from me, flagstaffs are coming back fast" mo,t-el- s Srvl-a- . .. THIS REMARKABLE OFFER " V . . ' IS FOR MAY ONLY! . V.- - : - ' .' ... l ; .The, new irons bring 'you . - - ' Such .. features as speed, light weight. and ' automatic heat control. . . '.-- Tahe advantage of it! .Grasp this. 'opportunity to enjoy new ironing .ease! . i . -- fifty-foo- eWXU . , . Hi,S job .Take tJcrvef No. Ujjhtuing either knocks yo4 bff the perch! or' It. doesn't.' I re rnuUied up. until the job was fin. Islied, .glad 'to be alive n'd stilt. aloft, Instehd of merely a handful pt tinders on the roqf balow, .per. baps aler all Jt Is safgr up.a flag, staff thaa on the fliotor.-crowdf-d earth where one Is af. the mercy of amateur. Us weeplejifck ne:. er get In anybody's b ay, or .infer, fere .with the traffic regulations. 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