| Show SCALLOPED penmanship A man should not study bow to build uis letters I 1 have just been looking over a vt 0 penmanship the circular says it is a great thing to make birds that look as if they were full of fish bones and have a palmleaf fan for a tail it hints that no person ever succeeded in life unless he could make a picture of a wire mattress with a pen it says that the man who cant stand his capital letters up on spiral springs is going to get lost in the shuffle it must have a very depressing effect on one of those bird flourishing gentlemen to look over a collection of the autographs of distinguished and successful men sow it must pain one of these penmanship fireworks artists to find that he cant read half of such a collection shakespeare for instance wrote a hand which is calculated to worry ono of these men who think that the great aim in life is to know where to lean on a pen hard Shake autograph looks as if a comman domestic hen had stopped to scratch up ah angle worm when part way found several left them and went on walking a little lame shakespeare never went to the stratford business college and school of typewriting and learned to erect a capital H with feathers on its legs ahll shakespeare was something of a success mentally jay cosent write a signature which you can pull out and it will spring back into shape like these commercial college professors he cant construct an autograph all mixed up in a bird with a wing growing ott of the back of his neck in fact his autograph hath bowing at all but to quote from the poet it gets there just the same on a bank chock colonel gould is all right financially then theres john L sullivan when he puts on a four ounce glove and places his signature in an autograph album there is nothing pretty about it but notwithstanding he has made pro ess in his particular field of study sess S r sullivan is all right physically it be very hard to naine three or four thousand others who without being able to make a pen act as if it had a hard attack of insanity in fact no man unless he was running a business college ever got so he could earn his living with reasonable certainty who could make a penmanship dove to save his life no man never yet made a success who paddled all of his capital Ws in just the right place and fringe on his no man who can make a dove with a scroll in its bill can become a president besides there is nothing pretty about ghisi business college writing thero is nothing pleasing to the well regulated eye in the effect produced in a capital 0 of practicing frightful economy in the ink nearly all the way round and then getting up on tho pen nud riding for a short distance there is also lots of writings that is easier to read than anis style just suppose all wrote the business collego way and stopped to construct a dove every time they wrote a telegram think of the result but they don the great redeeming feature of it they dont and never will she young man who goes to the penmanship school spends the first three months after he gets home in making a deer with jumping over a wiro mattress bush and after that he gradually lapses into a style of pen which made horace Greeley call him brother caruth in chicago tribune 3 r |
