Show jubok y L W ON ONE CARD new york penman puts words on oil common postal miniature chirography of george L reynolds enables him to perform feats which are little short of marvelous auburn N Y the latest achievement of oue one of tho the cham champion plon penmen was to write the matter contained in about a bundled pages of a book or dr say 16 columns of a newspaper on one dile side of an ordinary united states postal card the work being done with such buch skill that every word can call be read easily perhaps not by the naked eye but with the aid of a microscope athla was done by the winner of the latest fine writing contest ile he wrote a 13 word sentence advertising ver a certain make of fountain pen 1250 times on one side of a standard postal bard ard 31 j by iy ay C inches or a total of words worda or letters the card when first seen appears simply as a gray smudge and it is ia only after careful scrutiny that it bep becomes apparent that Is writing upon it and very good writing it proves to be under tho the mag IlIf vilifying ying glass tho the feat appears more bonde wonderful erful when the observer er learns that the work was that of a man in his eighty fifth year the now champion Is george L reynolds and his skill comes from a long life of training ile he la is one of the inventors of the Spen cerlan system of penmanship and from boyhood ake e has studied oil all kinds of writing ifo ho was lorn boin in mew york in april 1825 and add as a boy bay went with his father to spencer r eloga county this state he fie became a teacher of penmanship and going to oberlin 0 he joined platt R spencer tho the originator of 0 the Spen cerlan system and with spencer joined the faculty of oberlin college at the time that james A garfield was president of the institution I 1 tf df his bis preparation ho he says 1 I used to try and see how small 1 could write on every occasion and made it a hobby it was wag about th that at time that I 1 wrote the one hundred and nineteenth psalm lour four pages of the bible on all a postcard the whole in a narrow half inch band across the card then I 1 wrote what i I 1 call my m medley ealey in small writing the expert displayed a large framed allego allegorical picture showing historical events in fit drawing but instead of pon lines the ale pictures turps on close observation resolved thein themselves selves into a cyclopedia dla of history there were tons tens of thousands of tiny hardly visible to the naked eye all constituting such documents as the declaration of independence the constitution the inaugural ali gural address and other important speeches of washington parts of th tb 9 lincoln douglas debates parts c of f celebrated addresses by webster patrick henry and clay appeared there and there were 13 chapters from the bible with the sermon on the mount and Liti Lincol callis ns gettysburg address As mr reynolds is R an n ardent at dent prohibition there appeared the platform of that party and lastly an original organal poem PY by his wife this work took six months ll 11 of arduous labor dut but all the time you have devoted to this work has not profited yolly you i was suggested well I 1 enjoy enjoyed edit it immensely as a hobby spencer and I 1 used to go swimming at geneva lake near oberlin in the summer evenings eve ninga ile he used to take a stick and practice writing curves in n the alie sand on tho the beach where he worked out his famous system he took an elliptical stone t two wo thirds as wide its as it was long and used that as a basit basis ild he got his curves from stones washed by the waves fi aiom oln wheat way waving ingin in the fields from spider webs in the meadows taking everything from nature it was the only natural tem ever invented added the aged penman reminiscently when asked whether ho he had bad any method of doing his own minute work ho he said I 1 1 I say that I 1 have gained by experience ohavo been at it since a boy 76 75 years ago and I 1 actually find that I 1 can perform better feats as I 1 grow older I 1 expect to mako make a better record five years from now when I 1 am 90 and will do better 15 years from now for I 1 expect to be a hundred during the last year tho the atmosphere has been filled with it a wave of una fine writing demonstrations throughout tho the country after 12 experts had come forth with challenges and records I 1 came to forth rth with viz tha th 0 lords prayer 20 times repeated in a circle the SUO aizo of a five alve cent nickel that tha Is gahie some since I 1 ivro wrote te the lords prayer on a sixpenny six penny piece as a boy of ten years but I 1 wrote that I 1 with a quill pen no steel pens in those days all these years I 1 have been ing ang my faculties in my work I 1 use usa a stationary microscope so adjusted that I 1 van can write under it I 1 chemically prepare tho the curf surface nce of my paper so that when rolled down under great p pressure dessure of hot rollers tho the surface is about as smooth and hard as ilas glass then I 1 take a no steel pen and file and grind the point down so sharp that it can scarcely bo be seen under my microscope the rest that tha t is required Is keen heen sight and artistic skill 1 I see there does doeg come with old ago age its advantages in my aay case it ta 13 clear sight and steady nerve never in my youngest days were both boh so good as now |