"To Thine Own Handwriting Be True" of be dented that the comfort arg of legibility en hender ip) cal true hate iter haw a horrible seraul! and that ao, and' 20" taken tthe very tone of the votee which aye for the sole gust 'a. hate The "al oe per The facts are that handwriting as changeable with most of us a fare apr individual ways of reasoning and methods of deduction in the various. stages of our thought, Processes, This, of course, applies to the person of average education as even non-professional judges character through handwriting are fable to decipher the Inck of culture {in the coils of calligraphy. If we were to trace back the history of penmanship, even as far back as within our own. recollections, would be at once manifest that each decade has seen certain fashions handwriting, which are quite as marked as ave the fashions in other directions.
'A. fine and fluent script few deenley past showed specimen of a given handwriting in no wise resembles that done with the old fashioned quill. It is even thought by an impartial observer to suffer in comparison. Who can deny that the ancient quill imparted tranquility to the written word, and that the unparalleled examples of style, the essays radiating with poise and quiet humour, the written portrayal of cross-currents, spreading their benign fingers over the rapacity of an age speeding toward the mechanical perfection of life, can ever be achieved by the use of the fountain pen? Likewise, the typewriter affects our thoughts and our handwriting, Digits trained with the muscular, exertion of the typewriter's keyboard itch for the sense of power the suine kind of furbelows and) {rifle on its. terminating Letters aiid the owned. skit of Milady Calligraphy, obviously, is fashionable in tha dead eighties the loser in this speed contest, Then just. as fashions in clothes Then, handwriting seen after it gave way to the hard practicability been hurriedly set down OF life, so did the involved. shadings haste of winging a note when find serals, the final ourahes one] the minutes are flying, differs flimsies give woy before the plain markedly from the leisurely speci-legibility: that for a time at least men, that it becomes once in the classrvons, where we recelvevident that the art of writing our first impetus toward Legibilwith a pen and ink is one of the fly, threatened. to. wipe originality in handwriting off the calligraphic Fentler arts, It suffers in proportion a+ haste and over-wroughtness If it comes to that, most we, geet mat could etn to thane when the eutence of tne" writing waged" bythe aesthtis of cal halyeon caecaly does handwriting hehd eas Wont to nes witha DS: the involved confines of a final syll-So that in the end we come back able, But likewise we would not, to a belief in the efficacy of the if we could avoid it, place legibility quill pen for purposes of style, and above originality in_serip of the typewriter for legibility.
The fact that legibility does Why not be one's self, be it ever tuke a predominant place in the! atrocious, in one's script? The handwriting codes of the world is typewriter can be used when the due, like" many other stereoty~ object to be attained is one's lucid pings which we suffer, to the me-self. chanical age in which we live, Who Thus we of the mechanical can deny that the age which pro-' age have the decided advantage duces 4 fountain pen does not me over our predecessors that fluence our handwriting? Some ase we can express several selves in cribo to it a baneful influence and single life time. And at last redeclare that its gold point from! minx the subtle Mattery which ich the ever-flow of ink trickles! comes in the accusation of with the deadly vernon of efficiency the horrible iMlegibility of the and clockwork—when it can be made! product of our pen, Whatever to flow in practice as in theery—Hwever, is end the point of' the product of a" apy sas a thought retard, That so essentially one's own, lack, an atrocious script and is
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Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.