Show Big Pencils for Lower Gr Grade de Schools The Tho Baltimore school board has authorized the use of large round lead pencils in t the e lower grade schools where children are Just lust beginning to write so BO as to prevent what is known wn as writers writer's cramp This is a kind of paralysis which h Is common among amOng bookkeepers accountants and others who use se a pen or pencil constantly during the day and Is primarily caused 17 hy g gripping the pencil too too tightly causing a cramping of the muscles of ot the hand By the tho use of the large pencil the finds it learning to write ch child ld Just Impossible to grasp the pencil except Is less In fn an easy way and writing ef et ef- ef difficult and without restraining fort Many mothers have wondered Why children ren are using the big peri pen pen- s b and according to Superintendent Van Jan Sickle this is the reason |