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Show WRITING IS MANUAL LABOR In Five Hours Average Penman's Fin-0rs Fin-0rs Travel Over a Third of a Mile of Paper. The average person has no Idea how much muscular effort Is Expended In j writing a letter. " A rapid penman can write 30 words a minute. To do this he must draw his pen through a space of 18 feet. In 40 minutes his pen travels a furlong, nnd in five hours a third of a mile. In writing an average word the penman pen-man makes In the neighborhod of 10 curves of the pen. Thus in writing 30 words to the minute his pen would make 480 curves, 28,800 curves in an hour and 80,400,000 In a year of 300 days of ten hours each. The man who succeeded in making 1,000,000 marks wdth a pen in a month was not at all remnrkable. Many men make 4,000,000 while merely writing. |