Show f DECLARES MODERN PENMANSHIP IS NOW NOSY OUT OF DA DATE TE 2 X x 2 2 z zt w t NEW WRITING CLAIMED TO BE B FASTER EASIER PLAINER T Where do daO Pr you come m From Lk r la Ja y f I ct 0 I the Id na oT 01 P I q y w alloh O OJ o zoo zoo jica- jica zo ac acA A eJe re br- br p 4 ll Jt oJ Ie Ike loJ 4 ft A 4 Lre O OJ J 1 05 eyes A tO wL 4 li L rn k J towers tm it U tt n I u I Specimens ot the new ne grader and ant n a sixth grader T It If y grades compare the above to hi hiBy By Dr LEON St M SILER NEA Service Writer NEW MEW YORK TORK Jan 2 The 2 Tho old theory that bad handwriting Isa Is Isa isa a sign of ot genius r seems about to togo togo togo go up In smoke Indeed It if the then n new w system ot of o writing being used In several New York school schools by byway byway byway way of ot experimentation Is gener gener- g generally generally ne ally adopted there will be In a 0 few years no excuse for the remark You cant can't read my ray writing CRAMPED CRA STYLE The new manuscript style ot of writing may sweep out all the tho rem rem- remnant remnants nant nants of ot bl blurred Sp cramped vertical and flourishing muscle writing and to substitute a Clear uniform chirographY copied after the perfect p penman penmanship ship of the tho monkish copyists of othe the Middle lIddle Ages The new system m of chirography known as Broad Edged Pen Writ WritIng In ing was sponsored by Grall Orally hewitt of ot England who with band a band of students discovered red that the manuscripts Illuminated illuminated by y the monks were vere written n In characters which provided d d the the maximum ot of speed In addition to legibility and b beauty auty EASY FM TO LEARN The Introduction o ot of the system Into public school No of ot New i by b a second grader a II fourth on lia huc e a a child IUd In one of these I handwritIng York produced results among the children of the tho lower low r grades that astonished the Instructors and p p ir eats In spite of the fact tact that each letter must be written separately In the new type of handwriting the children have acquired more speed than th they y were were able to achieve In the old script and have produced I legible and uniform specimens far tar surpassing their efforts In the tho old method Another advantage of the new neVo- style Is the Improvement In spell spell- spellIng spelling ing that It produces The letters are more distinct than In script find and their resemblance lance In th the new style to the printed I letters tt rs with which children are familiar makes visualization of the fie words easl easier r Miss Frances Lofink an In- In instructor in instructor In the school points out advantages ad s of the system first that the characters are espe espe- especially espe- espe daIly useful for business writing library filing tiling and bookkeeping that children learn It more rapid rapid- rapidly rapidly ly I because It closely resembles the printed letters Ie Hers In their readers read that It Is a muscular writing and never produces es cramps and that It Is easily learned by foreigners The Tho broad edged pen writing attracts children and they become S 5 0 C lv h n n nS tV c Act c S S r One sine ne Qu o newspaper i Ji 1 in D R RH w lc i y I ft m H I lEu I W W i O e bad bod I int C CC w Whir When W en V h the te ini w 1 iera 1 t rt W e leovy ev u a Ji f 4 5 y jeri down dawn d eue Jcl p yo r it i o oT V i is poc n Vie d lj Y M-I M f Ws 0 a re p ce or oc ShI 0 o Jack Jck W t iJ i I ot of haIk n He H the tn f t it e tow r t tc c i e b on to St V 1 i J- J Ji i ir r J H s- s so iA fit Ua O hi of On Jeo I l i aike o over O to io tn te I r are p oi k 5 bej to w f fcc cc It t wo c a tor kor p ar ald d os Qs h ls he drew d cN it tt clo cloSS d do SS 1 c ti t t e uV V cx ocI eh o pai V liA Jt Vie he wa Wo ra f r mr ort Q orts s is t-IS t io loc h o o 0 S s t x r ot a i the V Ve e e other ec r i TVr r 0 ke t wn Vie e h u was as doing doir I Typical example of ot the tle ew penmanship pen written by Curtis Solo Solo-c Sixth 1 js grader If 1 nt at Public School 66 N New NV V York In Jn Inset t a SH Interested In making th their lr work as neat net as possible USED IN IX D BUSINESS ESS I The use of the system In Eng Ens England land Eng land has haa produced such a demand for the writing among English business houses that many of th them m provide Instruction in It for tor their who have not l learned arned It ItIn itin ItIn In school Dr J F Reigart principal ot of othe the tho New York school has madeI made I test tests showing that manuscript writ writ- writing writing ling ing was s superior perlor to the old style In neatness ss by 26 25 years of growth In accuracy by 02 years of growth and in l legibility by 83 68 ears cars of growth CAN JAY READ IT NOW The teachers of the school find It easy euy to read their pupils papers whereas a year ago there was n a large percentage p of ot complete Il Illegibility il- il illegibility legibility In the papers 1 of th-asame th th the same grades s-radeS Thomas A Edison uses us s a a hand hand- handwriting handwriting writing closely resembling It Ina In 1 Ina a letter to tb one of the Investigators Investigators investigators tors he explained that he ho adopt adopt- ed cd d the system estem ot o writing ng without joining letters or using flourishes while he was a n tel telegraph graph opera opera- operator operator tor tot In Louisville because he found that he could make bett better r speed The pen used In the new now writ writing ing ha has a very broad point for tor torb b beginners glnn rs and a II slightly narrower point for tor experts The broad point ot of the pen en seems actually to dic die dictate dictate tate the form of ot the characters and to make tor for uniformity SCRIPT Ev Even n h when n children revert to script att after r a course In the tha manu manu- manuscript manuscript manuscript script writing there Is a a notice notice- noticeable noticeable able Improvement ment In the the- script probably springing from the at- at at attention t to detail which the new writing calls for tor The Th average speed ot of a child ot of nine In the old system m ot of writing as determined by tests In the Eng English Eng Eng- English lish schools was words to the minute minute- It Is i by the new system tern tem t m In a New York school using the new n w writing the average speed for a child of ot nine Is words a minute |