\m\R

H. C.

CLARK,

ERIE,

Editor and Proprietor.

SALi'TATIOX.
In

presenting to the public

JANUARY,

PA.,

1886.

Vol. 1. No.

phshed.
That flourishes skillfully
Please to send us the names of your
executed are very attractive is not de- friends whom you think likely to subnied, and while many may bring pen scribe.

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Remember The American Penman

we do so with a flourishing into ridicule, we maintain
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ing upon us, and it is not the intention ing the practice and proper use of notice, at fifty cents per .year, or in
to denounce the several publications flourishes as contributing materially clubs of six to ten at forty-five cents,
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It is to

be regretted that every pro-

Ami:hic.\n Pe.\m.\x,

fession lias

sense of

especially painful to

tlie

with valuable reading relative to the fession.

cents, and the one getting up the club
To those who may dissent from this may retain ten per cent, for his services.
Penmanship and the profession in general, but to i)ubli5li a opinion, the columns of The Ameriinterest of

strictly

first-clas<t

monthly journal, can Penman are open

We

and

for a free

its share of information unbiased discussion, to which memupbuilding and maintain- bers of the profession are cordially inand ornamental Pen- vited to contribute.
The American Penman will be
manship, and a business education.
The number of poor writers tlirough- strictly independent in its efforts to
put
forth the latest ideas advanced by
nut tlie country is alarmingly great,
y it is a disease ratlier "le different authoi-s and publisher
than ignorance, for it is a conceded "f "n' several systems of practical pen[

fact that

l)onman, and

tlie

ing of practical

many

well educated peojile

become imbued

with the idea " that

jtublish

whenever

will print fiK simik of

young

jn-aeticable

hand writing

seem
the

its

frauds and quacks, but

find those

who

to take special pride in lowering

profession

claiming to

wonderful things with

fact they can do

ilo

when in
all, and

the pen,

penmanship by

of

nothing at

many

in

cases ob-

some beautiful writing or drawing from a conscientious penm'm and

tain

an original design, the

pa.ss it off for

deceiver affixing his

name

as the de-

and originator.
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tribute to the paper in this matter will
such tilings a miscraljle dece]ition, and
please inform us and send specimens.
one that it will try to expose in

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portrait.

every way possible, in order that the

public may be foi
rued of thesi?
the profession, dangerous imposti
'ny apjjear in the future. It is the and not only become worthy of the
There is only
way to id the
I'lain writing to which we should give honor and profit conferred upon memprofession of tlicsi
cause
particular attention, for there
bers, but take a deep interest in everythe evcriasting d nmfituri
brand) of education so much neglect- thing that will directly or indirectly
perjietratoi's of such deccjitive praced in the common schools, and none help to elevate the standard of pentices, and that is to expose any one
that deserves more attention at the manship among all classes.
known to be palming off somebody
hands of school officers, parents and
The most successful penmen are else's writing or drawing for his own.
school children.
There are a few wiio have recently
those
who
stand
by
the doctrines of
Each issue will have a lesson in

manship that are now pubhshed,

to

short biographical sketches of

contributing

towards

be jileased

shall

1.

PROFESSIONAL FALSIFIERS.

or

Every young penman should aspire

to true excellence in

only a certain few were ever born to

be good writers ;" consequently they

'

are hopelessly

manship

is

lost, so far as their jienconcerned, as Providence

upon them the re-

neglected to confer

quisite gift, (?) which of course is very

amusing to those who, by hard work,
have attained a high degree of excelpractical writing and pen flourishing, truth, carefully shunning hypocricy in
lence in practical penmanship.
The Amkrk'ax Penman firmly be- to which departments it is the inten- building a reputation upon another's
skill, as no substantial success can
lieves that good writing comes from tion to present the ideas of the best
study and jjractice, rather than by any teachers who are wiUing to enlighten ever be expected when such practices
are followed. *' Be sure you are right,
so-called natural gift, although it' must the readers of The .-Vmehican Penman
upon any theme its mission repre- then go ahead."
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iMiiinent in

any

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thorouglily in love
i-alling,

become
he must be

with 'his chosen

and must have

sufficient nat-

sents,

the profession, but everybody,

is

in-

Kvcry iienman should let his work

strong hold upon the confidence of
his class will rapidly walk to the front speak for itself, as he will receive
an instructor. " Live teachers " is much greater glory and fame in the
l.V
Ihi
ying to build a
cry, and one devoid of enthusiasm long nil

'

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is

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warding the executing of

scrolls, lions,

suod

&c.

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.UlERICAN Pkn.MAN.
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THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

LESSON

The Anfieman

IN

PRACTICAL PENMANSHIP.

Pennfian,

on the table.
an oblique posi-

writer's leaning too heavily

The arms should rest

in

tion on the table, the points of the

Published Monthly at 60c Per Year,

By

H-

C Clark, Editor

Buicred at the Erie Poatofflce

ERIE.

and

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u Second Class Hatter.

JANUARY,

PA.,

18S6.

A PRINTERIAN HINT.

and glum.
With types well pois'd 'tween finger and thumb,
And eyes ^.lanting up exp^ei^ive of doubt
poor old printer siands

words he has

If ihe

And

silent

set are clearly

made

out,

a look on his face that tells of his scorn

the old-fashioned quill and ink in a horn,

Of

And

the scrawls on his copy, meant to be words

That looks

of birds.

like the tracks of snails or

writing, man's second

tongue, should receive more attention
than is accorded to it, and especially by
those to whose success in many spheres
of usefulness it may contribute so large-

The

art of

In treating of the subject of penin the hope of awakening a

greater interest in this most useful
branch of education, we must necessarily devote our attention to that department of the art which may be most
easily applied to use in the business pur-

and learning, and good-natured

^ill

Won\

turn into sense these

He

peers up and

As

a key lo the

He spies
When lo
He

down
noun

words with a quill.

cap letter O

for the

that puzzles

out a letter, and has

!

it's

an

it

him

arm.

men.
People are partial to everything that

gives them facility in the transaction of

business, and increases their power to

make money; and to engage them

it is

in the
only necessary to

As he

He\

carefully quarries the

p and

doubtful of

sphinx

"They're made
''SVritwitli

train,

just alike !"

words of the prose.

he whispers to say

ink on the end of a quill

/'lit

By

a gaveruitient clerk, 'wifh his usual skill P'

He

reads along further to get at Ihe gist,

And

The pen should be held by the

and second fingers and the thumb,

the holder crossing the second finger at

the roots of the finger nail, the end of
the first finger resting on the holder
about an inch from the point of the pen,
and the corner of the thuiub resting
against the side of the holder opposite
the first joint of the fore finger. The
holder should rest in the hollow between
the knuckle joint of the first finger and
the thumb, as shown by the lower line
of the holder in the following cut illustrating the position of the hand and
pen.

The

third

and

fourth

fingers

scans very closely each pothook and twist

may

possess in other rebe allowed to

deteriorate intonn unintelligible scrawl.
Legibility is an important element, but
it

spects,

most

it

will

likely

<y

is

made

the^

like

Assuming the above

position, the stu-

/;

quill.

The

characters found on the tombs of Luxore

its

By examining

Ihiiik

By

Whose days

and the
are

flare of

@.@X^.@>@-@^'

all told

they occur in the alphabet.

He who undertakes the study of penmanship in the hope of improving his
style of writing must i-eganl the art as
of sufficient importance to command
his most earnest efforts and careful attention.
Persevering study cannot be

S.

and

is

not a

gift.

It is

acquired,

aciiuired only by thoughtful,

patient, faithful practitre.
it is

practical.
!

in the night

while yet he

carefully the letters, (suit-

What some people call "flourisir* in

ordinary writing is only keeping up,
"oft times," of that freedoui and easo
of motion, without which no writing is

the hot gaslight.

is

\Vho dieth unl;nown. while thy glory

styles of

Writing

will

plain, but not with a quill

always of him who woiks

the glare

the*

STATEMENTS.

O. man of great genius! think not of thyself

When wooring the muse for honor and pelf,
good

fail-

which are presented in

most of the copy books in use,) it will be
found that they can be arranged in
groups according to their resemblance
and simplicity of form, so that they may
be studied to much better advantage
than if taken up in the order in which
able

will;

strive to obtain ihe printer's

ie

quill

It takeih much labor to quarry it well.

The words that are said about each little line
You may think are profane or truly divine;
But you never may know, nor never can guess
What trouble it is to correct for the press

Hy writing quite

cause of the ill-success many students

meet with in realizing their anticipated J
skill in writing.
Practice upon
ment exercises is to the learner of 1
ing. what practice upon the scales
the learner of music, and it is as absurdj
for the one to commence the study of*.
letters and words before having devel-'
oped the power to strike with grace and
accuracy the simplest lines and
as for the other to attempt to perform
|
classical music on the i>iano before having practiced the scales and acquired
the power to strike with ease and accuracy each individual note.
As want of space prevents an introduction of all of the letters and the
maimer in which they should be studied.
I would merely suggest that they be
taken up in a systematic order, those
most simple in form to be studied first,
as the small letters, /. u, n, m, etc., and
the capitals involving the use of the
sixth principle as Q, X, \V, etc., these
being most simple in form and easily
made with the muscular movement.
Following these, capitals involving the
use of the fifth principle, as f), C, , etc.

But, like gold in the mine, or pearl in the shell,

Hut

believe

necessity

richly rewarded than if applied to

penmanship, which insoeiety is accepted
as a rare aeeomplishmeut, and in the
business world, a qualification than
which none other is more highly valued.

the

The Lojvell and Holmes and Whittier

Ha^ made the world cry and laugh at

its

more

hand of Ben: Perley Poore,

And the artistic script on Belshazzar's wall
Is fairly outdone by Bob Ingersoll
Still live in

comprehend

should be turned under to serve as a

rest for the hand, which at all other
points should be carried clear frotn the
table. The arm, resting on the table in
an easy relaxed position, should be
turned to the left, so that the end of the
holder shall point directly over the
right shoulder

dent should practice on easy exercises

adapted to the development of a free
And the r and the v exactly agree
it is valued more by the reader of writsliding movement of the hand from left
And as to the caps, why the 7" is an /,
Nine out of
ing than by the writer.
to right in straight lines and in curves,
And that jV is an ^ there's none will deny;
every -ten business men write rapidly
the muscles of the forearm to serve as a
For Ahe has /"and sometimes the L,
whether they make their writing legible
pivot, at all tunes keeping the hand and
And which one is meant he can't always ttll.
or not, as they would rather waste some
pen in the same relative position, and
other person'stimethan their own. This
He finds now an / that looks like a ^
permitting the third and fourth fingers,
fact alone is sufBeient argument to prove
And an I, undotted, which answers for e ;
the support of the hand, to slide with
that only such instruction as shall ijut it
And the u and the w are always alike,
the pen, describing the same movements.
into the power of the student to acquire
And look just as though they were made with a
The following exercises are among the
a rapid hand writing with as great a demost suitable for practice, with a view
gree of legibility as may be consistent
If he wishes for
il's a very good k.
to the development of the forearm or
therewith, can be expected to produce
But that never stands very much in his way;
muscular movement, without which no
any very satisfactory results in making
But the a and the o, when made just the same,
proficiem^y in rapid business writing can
the study of penmanship popular and
Are apt to confound in a tough proper name.
be attained. These exercises should be
progressive.
taken up in the order in which they are
For those who wish to begin the study
Vou may see how complete is the printer nonpresented below, each being quite thorof business writing, we introduce the
plussed,
oughly mastered before the next is atfollowing suggestions and exercises:
But never can feel his thorough disgust,
tempted. Following these, other similar
But little can be accomplished withNor the dread that awaits the proof-reader'^
combinations can be practiced with
out a correct position at the table, and
skill
equally as good results.
When the poor fellow's copy is writ with a an easy, gUdiug movement of the hand.
But he finds that the

ure to

While a few persons may find it to

their advantage to become artiatic. pcnn, all should possess a, practical hand

of excellence

muscular movement, for

branch of education from

"
giving too exclusive attention to "fine

which we deem to be a style

that can be executed rapidly and easily,
and possessing legibility and grace.
Rapidity and ease of execution are the
most essential elements of a good hand
iting; without tliese, in the press and
bustle of business life, whatever degree

achieve success in this most useful

student must work dilligently,
observing carefully all directions in reference to the position of body, arm,
hand, pen and paper, an<l to the exercises, to develop freedom of movement,
which gives the power to execute with
ease, rapidity, and accuracy tlie forms
of letters he may afterwards study.
I
would urge the great importance of the
)

art, the

sults in this

ting,

of his nose

the /"and the

a style of penmanship adapted to

universal application.
Many teachers
of writing and schools of penmanship
fail to accomplish the most desirable re-

first

cal business writing.

rubs up his glasses and starts off again

To get ai the thread of the intricate

And a tear trickles down on the end

position, leaving the right

penmanship, and not enough to practi-

so

he thinks,

in the spelling of

an erect

hand free to glide Ughtly over the paper,

which is placed so that its ruled lines
shall be at right angles with the right

present some feasible method of ac(iuu"-

pat

in

ly.

matter of writing,

Bui

bows being about two inches from its

edge, the left hand serving to hold the
paper in place and to support the body

manship,

suits of

>^^^^if^^'>?5>2^^^2^'?^//^^

el-

is

youngsung!

7. Bates.

The standard Pen Holder sent us by

Mr. Madarasz is well udupteU to the u
of professional penmen.
Read Mr. M
advertisement in another column.

The above cut illustrates the cor

position at the table. The position of
the chair should be such that its front
edge shall be even

wltli

the edge of the

The

writer should sit erect,

the feet resting squarely on the floor in
table.
front,

-r?5?^--^;?:2-<?^?'2.-^?^e--'^?^

Shade is not essential, and by some

considered positively objectionable in
ordinary writing.
Mctttl-tipped penholders are positively
detrimental. They cause "gripping of
the holder," crainppd lingers." and a
consequent slow, jerky iiiotiun,
the f<.rm of the lettt-r.s ami th.
with which they should be ext-c

thereby tending to prevent the

A. K. }'An^

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Wilton .Junction,

Nov.

21, 1885.

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

We

V. McKee, of Oberlin. O
favors us
H. W. Kibbe. of Utica, N, Y.. sends
with his subscription in one of the best |1 for The American Pksmax. a copy
written letters received.
to be sent to his address and one u> ().
Bro. MeKee is a popular penman, and C. Dorney, of AUentown, Pa.
made it so hot for Michael that he
Mr. Kibbe is an artist in penmanship,
(rood for Mc- and a successful teacher. His letter conE. L. Burnett, Business College, Provi- retreated to Deliiwaro.
Kee.
dence,
I., encloses his subscription in
tained the first cash subscription reW. J. Kinsley, of Shenandoah, Iowa, one of his finely written letters. Mr. B.
in a iiiHKnifioently written letter, enW. D. Showalter. Secretary of Bayliss"
is an able and popular teacher of pencloses his subscription.
Business College, Dubuque. Iowa, says:
manship.
W. J. Hart, Haddoufield. N. J., says:
" I know of no one in the profession "
Enclosed please find ^1 for my subWiUianm & Rogers. Rochester. N. Y..
J. F. Burner, Elko, Nev., encloses more able to conduct a penman's paper, acription to TheAmkukax Penman "
.sends a beautiful written letter.
specimens of his writing with his sub- and you have my best wishes for sucHe writes a beautiful tiaml, ;uid f viProf. Williams is a fine penman,
scription, and promises to secure a club cess."
We trust Mr. S. will find his dentty anticipates mucii plcasnie and

CORRESPONDENCE.

to

many

professional

penmen.

ex-

pect to have the pleasure of presenting

to the readers of The American Penman several articles from his pen.

for

Thk American Penman. We hope

ideal in

The American Penman.

good wishes for the welfare of tlu- Pknman, as he encloses a larger sum by oneProvidence, R. I,, says: half than was necessary.
ot F. C. Irving, in a well-written letter.
W. W. Phipps, International Business "Wishing to encourage the birth and
College, East Saginaw, Mich., reports success of The American Penman, as
C. (t. Prince. Secretary of Clark's
C. H. Pierce, of Keokuk, la., gratifies his school to be in a very prosperous I believe such a paper is of great benefit Business College. Erie, Pa., writes a
us with one of his characteristic letters. condition, which serves Mr. Phipps just to the masses, I enclose my subscrip- skillful hand and is destined to hold the
Pierce is a man of ideas, and when he right. He is a fine penman and an ex- tion." Mr, D. is right.
fort as the "Prince" of Penmen.
lets loose, look out.
cellent teacher,
The American Penman wrappers
D. H. Snoke. Business College, South were addressed
by him. and our readBend,
Ind., encloses very creditable ers can judge for
A N. Palmer, editor of the Wc/tltrn
themselves as to his
H. Russell. oftheJoliet (111.) Business
Penman, Chicago, .says: "We welcome specimens of card writing and flourish- ability.
College, writes encouragingly to Thk
ing.
He
says: "] like the name with
The
American
Penman
to
our
ranks
American Penman, and he promises to
M, B. Cooper, one of the proprietors
which
you
have
christened
and
wish
it unbounded success."
The
Ameribecome a regular correspondent. He is
Thanks; your kind wishes are appre- can Penman, and trust it will be a gen- and Principal of the Actual Business
a good man in the profession.
Department of the Capital City Comciated.
mercial College, Columbus, Ohio, en('. M.
Paulk. Principal of the Pen"
O. C. Dorney, a student of H. W.
E. K. Isaacs, Valparaiso, Ind in a closes his subscription in a letter, the
niandihip Department of Macomb Nor- Kibbe, Utica, N, Y., says
" I hope beautifully written letter, says he wDl writing of which would be
a credit to
mal College, Macomb, III.,
aproffssional penman. Mr.
sends a beautifully written
C. thinks he cannot afford
letter.
to be without The AmeriC, A. French, P. O., BoPton. Mass..
favors us with his subscription and that

others will do likewise.

E. C. Davis,

can Penman.

C. fj. Swensburg. firand

Rapids, Mich., favors us with
copies of his CoUcf/e Journal,
which are well filled with
pertinent inaiter relative to

J.

my support."

spechiieu of his skill in a future number of Thk Ameri-

can Penman.

W. K.
Sadler'ti

Patrick,

Penman at

Business

'

Henry

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i
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C. Spencer. Wa.sh-

ington. D. C, late President

of the Business Educators'

Association of America, subscribes for The American

PENMANand contributes the

poem

in this issue known as

Printerian Hint." Mr.
a live man in the profession, and is principal of
one of our leading business

r*
i

College,

Jacob's

a beautiful

Institution, you can expect

Mr. Medsgar
was a former student in the
Penmanship Department of
Clark's College, and is a superior penman.

and Engraver on Wood, Sacramento, Cal.. will exhibit a

D. B.Williams, Penman at
Bryant's Business College,
Chicago, 111., favors us with
a beautifully written letter
and a superb set of capital
letters.
He is one of the
finest penmen in the west.

in

Penman is as good as what

generally comes from your

Designer

Philip

Medsgar.
Pa.,

specimen of box marking,

says: "If The American

his college.

Robert

P.

Creek,

'

S. is

Baltimore,Md.,sendsabeauwritten letter. Mr, P,

well-known as a superior penman The American Penman will live long
contribute an article each month upon
imd successful teacher.
and prosper," which good wishes
some department of penmanship.
S. A. Drake, .\ssociate Teacher of Penhope to experience, in having the best
Mr, I. is a first-class penman and manship in Clark s College, Erie, Pa.,
W. H. Lothrop, of South Boston, penman's paper published.
teacher, and our readers may expect who has given the lesson in this issue of
Mass.. encloses his subscription in a
something interesting from his pen. We The American Penman, is a thorough
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THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

Afnericafi

^Fhe

Penrnan,

Z.

Clark, Editor and Proprietor,

Erie, Pa.

single wiplcH of

Tns AMBBICAN Pbnman win

I

receipt

be

<

in

clubbing prices with the Pp:x.ma

SHOULD FIXE PENMAySHIP BE

ENCOVRAGEDf
be no inconsideral)le
number
who advocate the
discontinuance of what may be termed
fine penmanship, and would offer instead the old-fashioned round hand,
which is claimed to be much easier to
read, giving advantages in learning to
writ'\ which the present styles mostly
used do not. But it must be confessed
to

to the AV/r public schools to get specimens of penmanship to exhibit when

discusfijtig the negative side of the question.
Prof. Clark sent off to H. C. Spencer, of Washington. D. C, to get specimens to exhibit to the judges on the
Spencerian
evening of the debate.
copy books were used in the public
schools of Erie, Pennsylvania, and of
course it was wise for the affirtnative (Q.
W. Michael) to obtain specimens therefrom, as he did.

The above

from
Rapid Wriliny
Education" which hi
article is clipped

" Michael's Advocate of

and

Biisinenti

been before the public altogether too

long for policy sake, and was some

Michael at
place as

time the debate took

tlie

wc do now, we should have

promptly declined having anything

to do with such a slanderer and
abuser of the best system of practical
writing published.
It may not be generally known that
Michael is a failure as a teacher, as he
has never turned out a good writer in
his whole career of unusefulness, and J
during the past three yeai-s has not 1
had but one good penman in hiflV
school, and he is admittedly a studentf

months ago branded by Prof. of other professional iienmen, which |

Ames, publisher of the Peyiman^s Art illustrates the superior (?) methodflJ
hand is plain, devoid of flourishes, Journal, as " The Slang Advocate " which of Michael as an instructor in penmaaKj
Ac, its tendency is toward a slow of course puts Michael in bad light, ship.
Perhaps there are more congeniall
and awkward movement, which, if and his paper is certainly a disgrace
professions where Michael could ex-^
carried into practice,would prove a for- to modern civilization.
midable obstacle to 1he work of corMr. Michael a few months ago is- cell, but in our oiiinion it is gettin
respondents and book-keepers. Busi- sued a challenge to debate the merits altogether too hot for him in the fiel3
ness men are constantly demanding of the copy book system of teaching of penmanship, and he should at ondcr
legibility and speed, and are not after writing, to any teacher in the United identift' himself with a barbaric racel
where he could jjossibly become
that sort of writing having the largest States
number of hair lines or flourishes,
His challenge was accepted, and chief, or at least find such company
but want such a style as will look neat, he came to Erie May 22d last, and he as is most suitable to his tastes and
being perfectly plain, and free from was effectual beaten in his attempt educational qualifications.
In the future we shall decline to
superfluous lines not materially con- to prove that the copy book should
recognize
the theories and unreasontributing to the finish or plainness of be abolished from the public schools.
able
ideas
advocated by Mr. Michael,
the letter. Such a hand is what com- Three gentlemen,all professional teachmon sense demands, and one that the ers, sitting as referees, Hstened very at- as he was expelled from the Business
professional penman must be able to tentively, rendering an impartial de- Educators' Association of America,
write and teacli, or else he will fail cision according to the argument, pro- and therefore is not a member of any
in his efforts to instruct the boys and duced, and ever since Micnael has standing in the profession.
few

that while the old-fashioned round

SPECIAL INDUCEMENT.
one of the best of

to

special notice,

oi people

Heading matter

Rend the

There seems

ADVERTISING RATES.

given on Reading

pronounced assertion in Prof. Clark's speech, which every oi\e else for life that attempted
we will print in full in the next issu
"To the Adiocatf. Aiues, let us inforin
to defend the (ropy book.
,
another coUinin, as that Prof. Clark knew better than to go
Had we known so much about

enterprise will be a

Our Readers,"

Published Monthly at 60c Per Year,

By H

new

success.

Its class, anil

we dore tbouaands

of snliBcrlbers from ull pans of the countrr, and all

pemons mibscrlbtng before January Ut, 1S86, will re-

PREMIUMS.
Weh

aile

arraiigenieDls with th

zine published In Chattanooga, Tenn., to furnish

sabscrlplfuii price of the

To

all

persons

" Pruifress " alone.

Interesting

Iheniselves

In

be-

Thk American Pknman and

sending clnbs
of two or more, a discount of 10 per cent, will he
given the one sending the club on all subscriptions
forwarded to Tbe Ambrican Penman. We prefer
to give cash premlnma to those securing clubs, and
half of

this rule will

lie

Invariably followed.

Rcniinances shoulil

Money Order,

H. C.

lie

made bj N.

Y. Draft, P. O.

Postal Note, or Registered Letter, to

CLARK.

Publisher. Erie, Pa.

girls in his

upon

We

to use in every

There

many

TO OCR READERS.

school those principles of been

misrepresenting

the

facts

as

business which they will be called brought out in the debate, which of

ie

of

day

no disguising the
our

course can not be wondered

life.

professional

fact that

at, ac-

cording to the unwholesome reputa-

writing tion he has acquired as a defamer of

for the the truth.

The

following letter answers the in-

made by G. W. Michael a:*

specimens used in debate with

sinuation
to the

him last May:

Washington,

D. C, Nov. 20, 1885.

H. C. Clark, Erie, Fa.:
We reply to the points taken by Dear Sir The "Specimens of Compodelicate hair line or the evenness of
sition and Penmanship
sent to you
the shade, than for the actual legibili- Michael in the above article, as folfrom this city, to be used in your public
ty and speed necessary to practica- lows
debate, were prepared entirely by the
pupils in our public schools, in the presbility. The motto
"Teach your boys
First
Prof, Ames never wrote up
ence of exauiiners, and the time allowed
that which they will practice when the debate, as alleged by Michael, and was thirty minutes.
These facts were certified on each
they become men," pertains to writ- even if he did, the article to which
package in my hand, as clerk of the Suing as well as other branches of ])rac- Michael takes exceptions is true, as perintendent and secretary of the Board
of Trustees.
tical education, and if the teaclier of we produced upwards of oOO speciWashington schools have produced
writing is anxious to comjdy with the mens from the public schools of Erie, large quantities of such examination
solicitations of the business com- showing a fine improvement from papers, which are indisputable evidence

teachers seem to care

more

Prof.

an exceedarrangement with the

liavc just perfected

ingly favoral)le

'"

publishers of the Smit/icni Profjrcss, a

In-nionthly of 00 to
to health,

ing of

tlie

1(H)

pages, devoted

happiness and the ujj-buildSouth, printed at Chatta-

Dr. Rohbins has been

engaged as editor of the new publica-

nooga, Tenn.

He was

tion.

formerly an editor of

Northwestern Pennsylvania, and for

of the excellence of the Spencerian sys-

munity, he must jmt himself in a po- copy book instruction.

tem as presented in the copy books,
taught by the regular public school insition to teach a good business hand,
Secondly Mr. Michael has never structors.
pondent for leading daili{fs. His deand not pay too much attention to seen the negative's speech printed in
scriptive writings from the West and
perfect forms, at the cost of not giving full, as only a summary was ever pubSouth have been perused with i)leasthe public such a style of penman- lished, and that appeared in "Clark's
LOOK OUT FOR HIM!
xy:e and profit by many of our readship as will be adapted to the require- CoLLEE Quarterly."
ers.
The doctor lias advanced ideas
ments of a business man. The oldThirdly The specimens of stuIt has come to our notice that one
on health and hai)i)iness, and his
fashioned round hand should not be dents' improvement in the public
philanthropic views in that direction,
A. Tigniere, of New Orleans, La., is
encouraged, but any of the systems schools of Washington, D. C, were
silver
claiming to have received
are perhaps excelled only by Dr. Dio
now published are good enough to ftunished by the Superintendent of
medals on his penmanship at the New
Lewis, of New York.
The I^-ugr&sn draw from,
to obtain such styles of Public Schools in that city, and were
Orleans Exhibition over other wellis well worth its published price (Sl.OO
letters as will be the pride of acundoubtedly effective in disprov- known penmen, and as D. L. Musselper annum), but to subscribei*s paycountants and correspondents.
ing Michael's vague theory regarding man, of Quincy, III., was the only one
ing in advance it will be sent for 1886
The American Pekman will be the improper use of copy books.
with our pajjer atSl.fX) for both. Subin the profession making an exhibit,
pleased to ]mhlish the views enterFourthly Michael never presentas though this man
scribe at onee. Address
it would seem
several years past a traveling corres-

THE AMERICAN
Lock Box

We

7(>.

tained by business

men upon

the sub-

PENMAN, ject of practical writing, and respect- ed a single si)ecimen or scrap of jtaper Tigniere had a superfluous amount
showing the imjirovement of any stu- of cheek, even exceeding that of any
Ehik. Pa.
frdly solicits the same.
dent in Erie or anywhere else, and he man before exposed for similar prac-

have received advance pages of

MICHAEVS PREVARICATIONS.
the Southern /Vogrcw, a bi-monthly
magazine devoted to health, happiness
Be then showed from exnmlnatloD papers,
and the advancement of the South. provemcnt made by the children Id the schooli
fourteea
Our old friend. Dr. D. P. Robbins.form- Erie, their ages ranging from
erly of this city, is wielding tlie pen
Daniel T. Ames in writing up the
and scissoi's, and from his well-known debate between Prof. Clark and ourselves, inanufaotureil the above false
ability as a writer, editor and manahood. We will donate to Ames a negotrer, we do not hesitate to sav that the
tiable check for $500 to find the above

knows

better

than

to publish

any such

tices.

Webelii-v,.

!,. i-

tin-;,,!,- ni;in uIm.

thing.

|.l
a few year- wiu li.nl
The facts are, his whole speech was neSS in In.inni;,. ami mM;
iber of Mil.M.-nl.ri> t:.i
a miserable failure, and proved a great
\ Art Jnin-nal, luit tln'
disappointment to the audience and

the negative of the question, as

,i

it

was

received

the

l;il-c

77,.

/V,,.-

piil.Iislicr

nnmev.

" quentlv we think Tignieiv

generally thought that the " Goliah
He
of Obcrlin would annihilate the negat)ok out for hi
tive side, so as to disable him and doubtedlv bear wat^

Im^i-

c.nsc-

railrd to

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

ADDRtSS BY
To

H. A.

STRONG,

ESQ.,

the Students of Clark's College, Erie, Pa.,

Friday Morning, October 23, 1885.

ISpeclully roponi'U for 'TiiR

by

l>ror.

Auiricak I'bkiian"

H. K. Whitman, M. Ph.. lustnictor

In

Pho-

Ladies and Ocntfrmcn

I feel thiit a few words of apology are
necessary to preface the few words that
Some six
ehall say this morning.
I
weeks ago I was waited ujion by your
honorable President and invited to join
Prt:itiden(,

the corps of lecturers for the coming

year. 1 promised with the proviso that
it was to be in the last part of the year.
He asked me to take something out
of the regular line of my business, and
1 also promised to do this. Now a promise is a very easy thing for me to make.
The other day I was waited upon by the
speaker who was to have been here this
morning, who informed me that I had

to speak remember, got to speak

morning, as he was called away
from the city on business and could not
iippear before you this morning. I remember of reading of Prof. Holmes
when in the same predicament. Rufus
j^ot

this

'boat, the silver-tongued orator, was invited to lecture before Dartsmouth Col-

'

but a few days before the time he

was called away on business, and going
I" Holmes, said that Holmes would have
I') take his place that time; he
did not
iisk him to do it. but said he would have
to do so. Holmes is a regular good fellow and a great punster
so while he
was on the train on his way to Darts"louth College a man asked him whether
I'e was the lecturer for that
morning,
but Holmes said that he was only the
>liadow of the lecturer and would not
try to fill his place, but would
just rattle
lege,

Jiround a while and do his best.

"lis is just my fix this morning.
I

'

Well,

in return would give him legal advice, he would say that he could not afford that, as his stock cost him money,
and he did not need the legal advice.
He could not readily sell my advice, but
he could my note or the currency I
should give him. This is termed an exchange, and things of equal value are
given. Gradually the demand for these
things increased, then gold and silver
was discovered. These had a fixed and
certain value, so a man could exchange
them for those things which he most
needed. There was no money in Abraham's time. When his wife died and he
wanted to bury her iii a cave, according
to the custom of the times, he went to
the owner of the field where there were
some caves, and made a bargain with
him for a cave. Abraham then weighed
out 300 shekels of silver to pay the man.
You tee in this that money was weighed

and

I shall
out and was worth so much an ounce.
around and do the best I aiu able to The next step in this direction was the
and so you must try and bear me out. use of the stamp which gave the coin,

I'ttle
lo.

that is, bills, paper money, notes, drafts, the last and most important stop of the
All these are whole is the sale and purchase of combills of exchange.
In mercial paper. I will make an estimate
comparatively of recent origin.
former times there was no such thing ae of the business transactd in New York
everything
was for one day. How much gold and silver
having goods for sale,
bought and sold by barter. If I wanted do you suppose passes from hand to
a pair of boots I would go to my boot- hand in the payment of debts? I can
makLT and tell him that I would give safely say that not five per cent, of the
him 8o much legal advice in return for whole amount is other than Notes, Forthe boots. The farmer would go to the eign and Inland Bills of Exchange and
maker of cotton goods and say that he other commercial papers. These repwould give him so much farm produce resent actual amounts and are, by the
for cloth that the farmer needed for law of commerce, eiiuivalent to that
Now allow iiie to hold your
his wife and daughters. Of course all much cash.
this was done by giving an ecjuivalent attention as a ieacher for a few moThe other day a man ments and I will explain this more fully.
in every case.
You young men and women who are
came to me and said that he needed
help and that he would exchange farm to go out in the world and take the hard
produce, such as butter, eggs, chickens, knocks that are necessary, many of you
etc. But if I would go to the shoemaker will possibly not be able to afford the
and say I needed a pair of shoes, assistance of a lawyer, so if you pay

and

netics, Clurk'tt College.]

Mr.

The topic that I have taJcen this morn- and placed upon it ihe amount of actual on my promise iC possible, but I cannot
ing is "The Law of Commercial Paper." produce which it would purclmsse. But as long as I am worth one hundred dol-

careful attention I will try and give you

advice. You will probably
very often desire such advice, and in

some good

many eases it will be necessarj'. Poor

Sturgeon found it advisable to take the
advice of his lawyer and fly when there
was no other way

of escape.

In the first place I would impress upon

your minds the idea of a promise. You
thereby bind yourselves to do something at a certain tnue it may be the
payment of a bill, the lending of money,
or even taking a lady to the opera.
These are all promises and must be fulfilled.
Now look at this (pointing to the
following Promissory Note which was
written upon the blackboard):
;

lars.
I say "Thirty days after date I
promise," and I am obliged to pay. The
form of the note may be varied, but all
must say "I promise" This form of
a note is "negotiable," that is, it can be
sold, as H. C. Clark can put his name
on the back and I will have to pay the
money to the one who holds the note at
the end of the time, but if the words
"or order" were omitted, the note
would be " non-negotiable," and of no
use to any one except H. C. Clark. The
note may say "to H. C. Clark or bearer,"
and it would then be nogotiable. Here
is another kind of "Promissory Note"
(Here the speaker holds up a dollar bill)
If you have read what it says on the
note you will have noticed that it says
"The United States Treasury will pay
to bearer upon presentation."
The
statutes provides that a Promissory

on the board will be out^

and after that it is
it. but a
"Promissory Note" of this class (holding up the dollar bill) is never outlawed
and the gold or silver can be secured at
any time as long as the bill remains. It
has often happened that bills have been
burned up, but the ashes were sent to
the U. S. Treasury and there examined,
and if found to be all right the money
was sent to the person who held the
Note like
lawed in

this

six years,

impossible to get anything for

" Promissory

The man who

Note."

made the note

and the one

is

called the

whom

"maker,"

is to be paid is
"payee," but in law we say
the "maker" is the "promiser," and
the "payee" is the "promisee." The
* 100. 00.
signature attaelied to any note is the
Erik. Pa.. Oct. 23, 1885.
Thirty days after date I promise to sign whether it is good or bad. No two
pay H. C. Clark or order, One Hundred men have exactly the same style of writing, so there is no great danger in conH. A. Strong.
founding the signatures.
This is a promise that I will do this
is important to have a legible hand:
r I was dishonorable
I would go back
1 so unfortunate that I am unable to
;

called the

to

it

"

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

So doubtless other curious penmen second Orthography, or true writing;
uame. I will tfll you how
and even teachers of the art flourished and the third Calligraphy, or fair writit is.
I was taught to write in the old
country districts. My teacher told nie in our nation before this Peter Bales, ing. This was imprinted at London, in
to follow the copy; this I did, and day but as their names, characters and la- quarto, by T. Orwin. His rules in the
by day I did nothing but try to write as bors, for ought I can find, are entirely iast part, or key of Calligraphy, are
I saw.
The result is that I have not the lost, 1 shall begin this my collection of written in verse as well as prose. "And
proper movement, but a combination ot the lives and printed works of our Eng- indeed," says Mr. Oldys, "we may obthe arm and flijger movement, which is lish writing masters with him. Foreign- serve several of liis fraternity since adlaughable to see. When I got into busi- ers I do not treat of; and all the rest dicted to poetry, which may be naturne^n I found that my hand would easily after him I intend to speak of in the ally accounted for from their being so
order of their names; conversant with the poets; by transcribtire out and that my writing was too slow. alphabetical
You who have done business with which method, I conceive, will be the ing their moral sentences, short maxhanks know that when you take money most clear and useful to my readers.aiid ims and districks, to set their scholars
to the bank to be deposited, the cashier I hope they will be content with such as copies which is certainly laudable,
hands you a large book, in which he short memorials, as I could procure, con- to season tiieir youthful minds with elekeeps the signature of all those who do cerning many of them; for my endeav- gant admonitions at the same time that
Ijusiuess with the bank.
When a check ors in some places are only like the they are forming their hands to busiBesides, the precepts of any art
is brought to him to be paid, he looks at picking up of a few fragments on the ness.
the siffnature given in the book and that seashore after a shipwreck, discovering are well known to be most successfully
In fine Mr.
if
on the check, and
both are exactly there was such a vessel to which they communicated in verse."
alike he knows that the signature on the belonged. Upon the whole, I shall be Bales con(;ludes his book with the folcheck is genuine, and that he can safely glad if the occasional observations that lowing epigram
pay the money. I went into the bank I shall make in the course of this work " ywilr, true and fair, gooil reader, I present
the other day and asked for the signa- may conduce to the encouragement of Art, pen am! hand have play'ii iheir parts in me.
ture of Judge Gaibraith. One thing pe- keeping to a sound, clean, practicable Mind, wit and eye, do yield their free consenr;
culiar about I he Judge is that he always and consequently useful method of writ- Skill, rule and grace, give all ihcirgains to lliet;
writes his name the same. Here is a ing; for as it is remarked by an ingen- Swift art, true pen, fair hand logeiher meet,
very good imitation of his hand (point- ous author:
"The same motives that Mind, wit and eyt, skill, lu'es and grace to
greet "
ing to the signature on the board.) "make us present ourselves to bur species
Holliday, the Clerk of the Courts, also "with decency and an intelligible lanThe second edition of this book was
has ail exce'lent and uniform signature. "guttge.engage.usto study to arrive at a published in twelves, 161)7, with eighteen
One movement for every letter, a dash "legible, as well as a neat and well or- copies of reconuiiendatory verses before
"dered way pf writing; none but those it. by several learned hands.
of the pen, and he is done.
You ,ask one hundred men which they "who respect nobody, and think themWhat I have seen of our authors,
think to be the most important, a rapid " selves exempted from all regards due from the letter press, urf eighteen lines
or a beautiful handWTJting, and ninety- "to society, can well neglect to have a in blank verse (a rarity at that time) in
nine will say a rapid hand. Life is too "tolerable handwriting.' -Vpco^. rfe la ecimmendation of George Ripley's "Comshort to spend five minnt8 in signing Nat Vol. VII.
pound of Alchy-juy;'" published by Ralph
your name.
In this College you are
taught the proper way of doing things.,
Learn to write neatly and rapidly. Practice your signature until you have it- so
simple and plain that it ean at once be
written.
You will then save time in
business and never be afraid of having
any one counterfeit your handwriting.
Be uniform as well as rapid. Once you
adopt a form of signature, do not
change but use it continually. You will
then have it ready at all times. The individuality of a person is as pronounced

my own

write

need of some friends, who would be

bails.
But this, however, is no
more than conjecture, which might
have perhaps no other foundation than
the invidious expressions in the aforesaid
epigram. However, be that as it may,
the above mentioned trial of skill whs
made on Michaelmas Day, in the year
aforesaid, before five judges chosen by
the consent of both parties. The particulars of this contest is now
the British
Museum, supposed to be written by
Peter Bales hiiuself. It is dated Jaiuiuary, the 1st, ISOO.

I am informed by a short note, hi Mr.

Ames'. F. K. S., handwriting,
that Peter Bales was once servant to Sir
John Puckering, Lord-keeper, and that
the book containing his account of the
trial of skill for the Golden Pen with
Daniel Johnson, was once among Lord
Worcester's MSS., No. 216.

Joseph

One of the first things that grave our

Bales a reputation in the world for
writing was it seems, a micrographical
performance, which he wrote in l.^TS,
(being then about twenty eight yearsold) as Hollingshead takes notice in his
chronicle of that year, viz.: The Lord'*
Prayer, the Creed, the Decalouge, with
two short Latin prayers, his own name,
and motto, with the day of the month,
year of our Lord, and that of the
Queen's reign, (to whom he presented it
at Hampton Court) all within the compass of a silver penny, inchased in a ring
and border of gold, and covered with
crystal, so nicely wrote as to be plainly
legible, to the admiration of Her Majesty. (Queen Elizabethl her Privy Council

it

is in

nes.'i

prepared fur

'

Lotlirop, o( South Iloston, Muss.]

the purpose of these articles to

give some account of the lives of English penmen as found in the work of W.
Massey, published at London in 1763.
The introduction to the second part is
It is

given

ui full.

"THE PnOEM."
"After the art of prmting began to be
generally in vogue there succeed as general a neglect amongst penmen for the

Peter Bales was born A

1547, but the place of his nativity and
who his parents were I have not found.
A. Wood, in his "Athenae Oxonienses,"
saysi
"He spent several years in
sciences aiuongst the Oxonians, particularly, as it aeenis, in Gloucester Hall, but
that study which he used for diversion
only proved at length an employment of
profit." This account is not only very
short but defective, for it does not appear by this that he was ever a regular
student in that University, but rather
that his business was 1o teach others
writing and arithmetic probably to the
;

motives he

Mulli; sed

omnes

illacrymabiles

Urgentur, ignotique longa

Node,
Before

hiii

Whose

glory in these

time there

Lib.

many

IV, Od. y

lived,

lists wai great;

unmourn'd.und now unknown.

hut

all

Are

in a

dark oblivion

lost.

Because no sacred bard has wrote

What

they perform'd."

1586

find

left

Oxford, hut in the year

he was

in

some employ under

Sir Francis Walsinghatu, the Secretary

of State, but

what

how

his business
long he continued therein, I

tell

in all likelihood

in the writing

it

it.

Mr.

Okly's article of Y Bales in the Biographia' Brittanni ca, that

he
wtt

brought into some trouble, (about the

year 1599) though
tly, by copyKabbards, 1591, which are prefixed to ing some of the Earl of Essex^s letters,
the said book.
And at the end of the by the deceitful contrivance of one John
book the said liahbards tells us "That Daniel, a mercenary Tlependent upon
in correcting Ripley's old ill-written copy the said Earl; but I do not find thaV
(Ripley was chanon of Bridlington, 14701 Bales' reputation suffered by this in tho
he had the assistance of Peter Bales in estimation of the impartial.
the Old Bailey, who was," he says, "a
Besides his Writing Schoolmaster, thatmost notabli' and experienced decipherer
mentioned above, I have met with nothof old and imperfect writing."
ing else published by him, except one
In 1595 he had a trial of skill in writ- piece in secretary hand without a date.in
ing in Black Friars, with one Daniel a book entitled, "Theatrum ArtisScribJohnson, for a golden pen of twenty endi Judico HondioCaclatore." Itwaa-

was or

pounds value, and won

it,

thoiigh his

antagonist was a younger mati by eighteen years, he himself being then fortyeight years of age. Yet upon this victory
his contemporary and rival in the art of
writing, .lohn Davis, in a fatyrical and
ill-natured epigram, could not forbear
making the following envious remarks:
This is the 2l5th epigram, in his book
entitled

"The Scourge

cannot

of Folly."

MSS., (now
Museum) No. 2368. there
a thin vellum book, in small (piarto,
called Arebeion. At the end of that
treatise is a neat flourish done by comBut by that hand, that pen, so borne hath been mand of hand, wherein are the letteru,
From place to place, that for this last half year P. B., which shows (says a tiote in that
It bCKtce a fen' night at a place is seen;
book) that this copy was written by tha a
That hand soplies th.ii pen, tho' ne'er the near, hand uf Peter Bales, the then famou* j
For when men seek it, elsewhere it is sent,
writing master of London.
Or there shut up (as for the plague) for rent;
(O

protid poor foul

Ait-ongst the Harleian

In 1590 he kept a school at the upper

Both where he wonnes, and how the same
end of the Old Bailey in London,
and taught the children of many perwriters fair, tho' he wrote ever foule;
sons of distinction at their own houses. From
etc.,

petitions,

letters,

written in fine small secretary and

hands by this Peter Bales in the

Harleian Library of Manuscript*!, which

I suppose are now transferred into the
British Museum. In this year, also 1590,
he set forth the first fruits of his pen, as
he calls them, and coiimiunicated to the
public his Writing Schoolmaster in

printed at Amsterdam from the rollingpress, 1614, when, I suppose. Bales was
dead.though that piece might be written
by him long before; for in the said book,
which contains forty-two plates, some
are dated 1594. so I suppose that which
I saw dated 1614 was not the first imLastly, when, where and in
pression.
what oircumstances this great master of
the pen made his final exit I have got no

The hand, and golden pen ctophonian,

Sets on his sign to shew

There were several

certa-in iutelligenee

UPON PETEIl BALES.

was something

way

It-alian

carent quia Vale sacro.

Carm.

"

in

PETER BALES.

improvement of the art of writing.

This, as I have taken notice before, was college scholars.
occasioned for want of due encourageIt i*. not certain when and upon what

"The first, who with a happy genius

(accompanied with remarkable application and industry,) restored the practice
of fine writing, and taught it by certain
rules in England, was one Peter Bales;
at least he is the first that I find upon
record for being a very excellent teacher,
and performed therein. I beheve, however, we may safely apply to him what
Horace does to Agamemnon:"
" Vixere fortes ante Agamemnon

have some intimations,

'.

successful busi-

[Applause.}

EARLY ENGLISH PENMEN

II.

We
\

You Will then be

men and women.

[Specl:i1ly

by W.

and several ambassadors who saw

the looks,

Possess this characteristic and you are

safe.

for his sign, yet

their

in the signature as
dress. 01- walk.

Hand and Golden Pen

was obliged to remove from place to

place for fear ot disturbance from his
creditors, and that which favors this
suspicion is a proverbial speech matle
use of afterward, when speaking of people in debt; they were said to want the
friendship of Peter Bales, /. e.., stood in

Without which

in the British

he

is

slay, it never still could stand

" The (Trant Memc.rial " is the title of
is for a running hand.
a new and elegantly executed specimen
epigram it appears as if our of pen work by D. T. Auies and Mr.
three parts. The first teaching the art Bales was then in necessitous circum- Rollinson, of New York, and for artistic
of Brachygraphy, or swift writing; the stances, and though he had set up the lieauty. we have never seen its equal.

Because the pen

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Mr Ilrivilt 1-inlii ,1,. of Co- lishers, Chicago, 111.
Mi M. iMiii:
I|..l,:il1,, Mr.
G. G. Zeth, Mountain City Business
" Catalogue of the Seven-Account
\-U-lrni\Vr,t
,1, il
\ |:i IS .)f thi
,\i
College, Altoona, Pa.
A GENTLEMAN in this city recently College of the City ot New York, Mi S.ystem of Book-keeping," contiiins
G. A. Hough, Business College, Fort
Spriggs
of
Union,' Mr. Mallard of Wil- 120 pages of nicely printed matter
undertook to test his si)eed in w-i-iting
Scott, Kansas.
liams, Mr. Payne of Rochester Uiiiupon the subject which its title indiwith a pen, against the skill of an
vei-sitv.
E. E. Chikls, Hampden Business
cates.
Its author claims to have prooperator of the type writer.
The
Messrs, K.lix iiihlTiiiMitliv .r. CampCollege, S|)ringfield, Mass.
subject to be written was the Lord's bell, Mr I'niit/rr Mi ,1.
Mr. Ma- duced good results in practical work
W. H. Sadler, Business College, Balwith the method he has adopted and
Prayer, and in all probability the hone, Jlr Mulli I, .Mr, l;li>-, ;,n.i
timore, Md.
penman would have won, had he Dowdney, who eomirletc tlie list of published, which is a strong argument
Iran Dunn, EIroy, Wis.
New York City and Brooklyn mem- in its tavor. There is certainly a field
known the words of the prayer a little bers, enjoyed only
common school
C. B. McClurc, Munson\dlle, N. H.
better.
As it was, he suffered defeat. privileges, as did Messrs. Hisoock, Da- for usefulness and improvement in
W. F. Roth, M. D., Manheim, Pa.
venport, and other members from the the book-keeping text books, and the
W. P. Cooper, Kingsville, 0.
The Penman's Art Journal, in a re- interior.
.author of the seven-account system
F. B. Costelo, Uniontown, Pa.
cent number, attacks the compenThe proportion of college men in seems to have apprehended the apparL. Madarasz, New Y'ork V\iy.
IS large as
dium publications with great severity. the New York dolr-ratii
ent need of a jiractical treatise, rather
in any other Statr ill li'ollege
N.
S. Bcardsley, St. Paul, Minn.
be
shall
pleased to receive the
than a merp theoretical outline of acmen seem to tiiii in -m
C. N. Crandle, Business College, Inopinions of those who have used the
counts.
C. 0. E. Matthews, 22 N.
dianapolis,
Ind.
compendium, for publication in Thk
Clark Street, Chicago.
will

rii:ill.

thing

;,

Iuiii1h;i,

'.

We

American Penman, and

cussion of the merits

a friendly dis-

any one

c)f

ol

compendiums now pub-

the several

lished, is in order.

There

is

colleges than
gratiij'ing to

the

number

of

young

attending business

which
college principals, and
ever before,

same time

'

-'

'iL'i

F,

Kilniini.l.s,

and

Ulliilirr llilrllr.'tuallv

^1'- il'-Hliiiliiii:

iueli,ard not go to

is

at

indicates the drift of

S. S.

We acknowledge the receipt of the

following college publications, which
are of a high order of excellence:

Packard,

New York

City.

E. K. Isaacs, Valparaiso, Ind.

C.

M. Robinson, Union

Business
College, Lafayette, Ind.
few collegians, however, have
Bro. Francis, Commercial College,
Eastman's 0>llege Journal, Poughtheir way to the front. William
St. Joseph, Mo.
Maxwell Evarts tiKik a slin |iskin at keepsie, N. Y.
Yale, James Dnii,ilii Ci
mn bears
The Srhtml Visitor, N. W. Business
R. A. Lambert, Winona, Minn.
the imprint of
nlil I'n-livterian
H. Russell. Business College, Joliet,
College, Madison, Wis.
Princeton, and John .Vlixamlrr Logan
lU.
Hectld's
College
Journal,
San
Franwas polished off at Louisville UniverH. J. Michael. Engrosser, .\llentown,
cisco, Cal.
sity. iVac York Sun.
college.

a larger

men and women

'''

made

,i.'i

II

11 1

popular education away from classical

The Colkge Record, Jacksonville, 111. Pa.
The above list of prominent men,
schools.
There is no doubt that busiP. T. Benton, Teacher of PenmanTh^ Practical Educator, Trenton,N. J.
mostly from New York, rank among
ness colleges are soon to become the
Business University Journal, Indian- ship and Drawing in Public Schools,
the wisest of our statesmen, and as it
acknowledged superiors of all other
Creston, Iowa.
will be seen that very few of them are apolis, Ind.
schools, as far as a practical education
W. F. Morse, Portland, Me.
Haling' Ledger and Classtical Advergraduates of Iitrary colleges, it would
goes.
F. I. Temple, W. Tisbury, Mass.
tiser, Fall River, Mass.
seem that such institutions can
W.
H. Franzell, Roe, Ark.
Etmira
Busimss
justly
lay
Colkge
Journal,
claim to any great superiorElThe Amekican Penman is receiving
L.

a very cordial and liberal patronage ity in the way of fitting men for pub- mira, N. Y.
Hill's Colkge Journal, Logansport,
from penmen, business educators, stu- lic life, even over our common schools.
Ind.
dents, and those interested in the
chirographic
ing indeed.

our

art,

We

Mends mil

which

is

sincerely

encourag-

ITEMS.

Sense in Education,

New

admirer being Prof E. K.

Isaac's writing lespenmanship, who does not son
It is a beautiful journal, well
receive it regularly.
worth the subscription asked
D, T.
Ames, Publisher, 205 Broadway, N.Y.
E.\TENsiVE
of good

preparations are being

to insure the success of the next

P.

Batavia, N. Y.
I.

Richardson, Business College,

Fayette, 0.

Bartow, Cassville, 0.
A. H. McGregor, Augusta, Me.
Geo. O. Davis, Mount Palatine,
S. E.

The Pcfmian's Art Journal for DeTlie Colkge

cember is a very interesting number,
N.J.
be no pro- the special
and most attractive feature
its cir-

fessional writing teacher, or

made

Common

W.

York.

hope that

help to extend

culation until there shall

BOOK AND EXCHANGE

W. Hammond,

E. E. Salisbury, Phcenix, R.

Quarterly, Jersey CHty,

L. T.

Tlie School News, Indianapolis, Ind.

Wk desire

to

make the

future

num-

The Penman's Gazette comes to hand bers

of The American Penman unmeeting of the Business Educators' enlarged and improved, which makes
usually interesting, and to this end
very desirable paper
Association of America, which is to
It lias unrespectfully solicit the co-operation of
convene in New York City July next. dertaken to give regular lessons in the profession.
There is plenty of
Every reputable teacher of writing or book-keeping and stenography in ad- material
to select from, and if our
of other commercial branches, is eli- dition to penmanship, and we hope it
friends will endeavor to let their light
jirove a success.
gible to membership, and it is hoped
The (I. A. Gas- shine through these columns, it

111.

G. C. Sharer, Flint, Mich.

Business College Journal, Springfield,

lU.

Harinan, WeUsville, Pa.

There

is

a goodly

number

of writ-

ting teachera who do not meet with

the success their writing merits,which
is

due, in

many

instances, to negli-

gence or carelessness in teaching. It

is always better to be in earnest and
work hard in the interest of the students one has to instruct.

'

will

that every live teacher will

be ready

and willing to do whatever he can

bringing about a large attendance.

in

kell

Publishing Co., N. Y.

Tlu:

Wetlmi Penman

is

give us

a bright and

parkling journal, edited

A oreat

much satisfaction, as well as given

who are fortunate enough ment

benefit those

by A. N. to be subscribers.

deal of attention

to the subject of

is being
proper move-

exercises of writing, which will

undoubtedly produce good

results.

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

If clear and fine grained, ink
ink.
generally flow smoothly, if it does
if you can. Mineral inks
very often give a hair line that in new
or raw paper will enlarge and show
You want a smooth and
roughness.
steadfast hair line that never roughens,

open

The

ArTiericafi

Penrnan,

Published Monthly at 60c Per Year,

will

not, get better

learn these peculiarities of each new without good paper good writing is uupen that he uses, hence the longer he possible. It is not easy to judge at
can use one pen. to say nothing about sight of the excellence of paper for
first

expense, the better. The late treo. C.

Gaskell said no penman in America
would use the gold pen, as it is wholly
Two of these we used twenty-five
unfit.
ERIE, PA., FEBRUABY, 18S6.
years, writing and flourishing with both,
alters, or fades.
Every quality,escept the one of color, in academies, colleges, and everywhere
INTERESTtNC POINTS ON PENMANSHIP. described above as essential to good else. Please then, to benefit yourself
with a good gold pen; two would be
inks, should also be found in the orH PBNMAN.]
namental inks, or they should be dis- better. Hunt them over cards until you
KiNOsviLLK. Ohio.
find these, and wear these out yourself
carded entirely.
The various pen journals have already
and my theories you will accept as corInks used in a class should be all alike,
voluminously discussed every topic connected with the art. Article after article no vials should be employed as inkEverybody is familiar with steel pens;
inkstands
the
desks.
All
on
stands
has appeared, able and perhaps conclubroad based and large- we all know their faults and their virbe
sive, but still the public seem slow to should
tues.
One dollar should supply us with
comprehend the philosophy and logic of mouthed; a small-bottomed inkstand is
a nuisance and should not be permitted. these three months. We can break in
pen teaching or pen practice.
the one hundred and forty-four each in
When a class goes into session, noth- turn, and then buy more.
The pupil may read carelessly, indeed
he may he slow to comprehend, or he ing further should be done until there is
However, suppose as we determine to
may have no faith in his author, or fail perfect cjuiet. Inkstands should not be
observe the laws of
to see the force of his reasoning. These uncorked until required for use. as ink use them, that we
may be assent, but no conviction or giv- may be thrown about them; they should their use and structure, in order that
this use the greatest
ing assent, he may feel no necessity of never be fast in the desks, but they we may get from

By H

Editor and Proprietor.

C. Clark,

should still remain in their places and

never be handed about. Each one, or

testing these ideas thoroughly in practherefore tliink we can see the

We

tice.

propriety of a clearly
stated review of manyvery important things
aboutthis business,urging attention everywhere to these matters.
public schools as well
as everywhere else.
all

First allow us to urge

some things
to pens, ink

writing purposes. Young scribes often

find it very difficult to get good paper.
The market is always surfeited with
raw, new, poor paper unfit for use, hfcauae wanting age. Old paper is very
often good for nothing, being dry,
spongy, porous, or rough. Bristol board
is too unyielding, expensive and heavy
for common work. The copy books are
generally put up of a heavy, practical
article of paper.

Unruled Flat Cap is the penman's

paper for all purposes. It should
have age, a smooth surface, and a firm,
heavy body. When permitted to, when
you buy paper in any quantity, try it
with pen and ink. By frequent practice
with different papers you will soon grow
favorite

too wise to bo cheated with worthless

trash called paper. The old-fashioned
Cap letter paper, one size smaller than
Foolscap, is a very convenient paper for
possible benefit.
It is the only perfect size of sheet,
use.
First, learn the power of the spring of and is better i-han any other for letter
writing. Neverroll your
paper; never break with
thumb and finger the
body; never begin to
write with a pen overloaded, or lay your paper on a surface covered
with dust or dirt; never
permit others to handle
your sheets of choice
writing, or your book.

When you buy have

regard

in

and paper.

We know that

Master Clerk carefully

the package full
the heavy wrapper, and take it at once
in your own care and

not only

fold

public schools, but even

the old scribes themselves, very often blun-

size in

der and produce most

imperfect work through
the imperfections alone
We
of these agencies.
care not what inks are
used; one thing is evL
dent, they should be

keeping.

kept

entirely clear

These hints about

papers, pens, and inks
would surely be of great
value to the uninitiated
if

be exposed to air only

when used. Dirt will
disqualify

utterly
(or

though
be,

use,
it

is,

sible

any

rooms and school rooms

exhibit inkstands half

thepopular penT/tclabove specimen of flouHshing was furniahed for The American Penman by Prof. U. MeKee,
man and teacher of Oberlin, Ohio. It ie an original design, executed by the Professor, photoengraved for re-production.

with dust and disquahfted for use. Clean

out these dirty inkstands, fill them with
new ink fresh and clean, and keep them
corked when not in use, that they may
furnish a good article when you need it.
But ink must not only be kept clean,
but above all, it must be that quality
that caust it to flow easily, freely and
readily froui the pen.
filled

each, and don't overtax this power; secencum- cond, use more or less shade in all writber the valuable journal with them ? ing. Be careful by pressing both points
When any person who has visited any aUke to reach smoothness and freedom
considerable number of college halls or of mark; and lastly, never put away a
public school rocmf, fails to see the ne- pen dirty or loaded with ink. Dip your
cessity or the utility of such observa- pen in the ink one-fourth of an inch
Never hit the
e shall try more clearly to show carefully and not hastily.
the necessity of their being brought point against stone, wood or glass.

two at most, should dip

But why these hints?

The school pens of our day have fine

points, hence if the ink is either gummy
or sticky, it may refuse to flow at all.
You try pen after pen, and throw them
away, while the fault generally is not in
the pen, which with very free flowing ink
would nearly all write. Test then the
(lowing quality of your inks or all inks
at hand, select the best, and never use

We hardly ever visited an Academic

Hall or any other school room, counting
room, or office, where the careless handling of ink had not done mischief, or
poor and dirty inks had not left blots,
blurs and disfigured work behind.

Every line, fine or

on.
be palpable in any fight;

when put

coarse, should

nkstand.

Why

forward.

ink having the above fault if you can

Your ink next should have
help it.
color

forerunnerso f first-

suggested by
is
long experience, and
every hint is backed by
Much,
a good reason.
more in regard to eaoh
rials

under-

universally

may

All here
rate writing.
said about these mate-

but, a 1or should

stood, offices, counting

to.

materials

be had somewhere, and they are,

with penmen, indispensurely

dustand dirt.and should

ink

well attended

Good

of

Secure a penholder,

the

socket of

will not strain or alter the curve

of the barrel of the pen; for any cramp of
the barrel destroys both elasticity and
In regard to what pens to buy
spring.

which

we would say. there are a dozen

popular brands, in general use, of about
equal merit; take your choice. Use a
Such
large holder wholly of wood.
Westillmaintain.as we ever have, that
leaves the hand free and clear of cramp.
^1,^ good goj^ pen is the best bu
The most desirable thing in a penholder
pen in the world. It ismore elojitic,
is a socket exactly fitting to the pen.
flexible, and a thousand times more
Thin-barreled pens are. of course, the
other
durable than

while to try them before purchasing.

But with gold pens your best way is to
carefully, and not carelessly, try your
pen before making it your own. Good
Paones are possible and can be had
tiently hunt until you possess one or
My young business
two good ones.
friend, this would be your best invest-

W.

or use,

black ink is then the ink you want You

pen, and it is
any
Such ha^e the most spring and
best.
luuy l)e bothered to get good ink. San- perfect enough for any practical busiare most elastic. A sheath to protect
foid'y Black Ink, of Chicago, we know uegg purpose. The quill pen must be
the pen when put up, is a good .hing.
to be as good and cheap as any we ever continually reproduced, and the steel
To get a holder about right in all o(
used. If this brand is not at hand get pen at best lasts but fifty hours. Each
these respects may not be so easy, but
the best you can in your market.
gold pen, or quill pen, or any other pen,
such are someti^ues to be had.
Many inks will thicken up if exposed has its peculiarities; each is essentially,
to the air. You will generally find the in spring and uoint. unlike any other
jTOod the penman.
It UlUtti
thinness when you nr.^t pen. Any scribe. I care not who, must
1 roper degree of
I

particular topic might

be wisely added, but this article will
now crowd on other matter in the journal too much.
Note. When you purchase steel pens,
their cheapness renders it not worth,

'Callias," said
colts or calves,

I,

"if

we should be

able to find
horsecould hire
improve the good

some master, probably

trainer or farmer,
to

Cooper.

P.

your nons were

some

whom we

bring out and

qualities of their nature. But now, seeing they are human beings, what master

have you in view for them ? AVho understands those good ([ualities which belong
to the man and citizen ? I ask you, because,

suppose that, having sons, you

littve

considered the matter."

Tlu

the best

book

tlu

THE AMERICAN PENMAN

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.
Opinions of the Press, and How it is Received by Educators and its Subscribers

General.

in

L.W. Hammond, Bataviife, N. Y..8ay8:

S. S. Packard, New York, says: "Your
Vol. 1, So. 1, of The Amehicajt Pen"Enclosed please find my subscription.
mas, edited and published by Prof. H. paper is a creditable production."
The paper is far better than I expected,
C. Clark, principal of the flourishing
says: and you may count me a life subBiisiiie>s 'ollege at Erie, Pa., is at hand
E. K. Isaacs, Valparaiso, Ind
and \vi' tinil it as we expected, well filled "Let me congratulate you on the first scriber."
<

with matters of value to those

The Amkrican Pbnman,

H.C. Clark,

an

interest in

who

take

born.

It is

GOOD."

W. H. Franzell. Roe. Ark.,

American Penman came

penmanship.

It is ably edited and typographically

Prof. C. M. Robinson, Lafayette, Ind.,
very neat. Mr. S. A. Drake gives the says: "We are much pleased with the
lessons in writing, and takes the same first number of The American Penman,
is a handsome journal and deserves sucground thai we have taken in our les- and wish you mt
Mric Sunday Gazette.
cess.
sons, viz.: that position and movement
are the first essentials in learning a rapid
Brother Francis, St. Joseph's ComA new paper. The American Pen- business-like style of writing. Shake, mercial College, St. Joseph, Mo., says:
man, is announced, by Prof. H. C. Clark, brother Drake.
" I like your paper very much, and will
of Erie, Pa. We haven't seen the youngWe are sure we are right, and we are do all I can to have niy pupils subscribe
ster, but are quite sure it is for will be) going ahead.
Western Penman.
a very lively one. The venture ha our
warmest wishes for its success. PcnProf. C. R. Bales, of the Evergreen
Prof. G. G. Zeth, Secretary Mountain
man'n Gazette.
City Business College. Altoona, Pa., City Business College, Bloomiugtou, 111.,
says: " I have received a sample copy says: " I think from the character of
The Dispatch neglected to notice the of The American Penman. I find it a the first issue it is worthy of eminent
appearance, a few days since, of the in- neat and attractive journal, fully abreast success, and if I am a competent tribuIt deserves to be a reg- nal, it is an able exponent of a worthy
itial number of The American Pen- with the times.
man, a neat and hiteresting journal de- ular visitor to all who are interested in subject and a gem in the field of caligraphic journalism.'"
voted to the cultivation of practical and penmanship.'*
ornamental penmanship, published by
Frank E.Vaughan, Manager of the G.
Prof. W. P. Cooper, Kingsville, O.,
Prof. H C. Clark, of this city. Like all
"The first number is excellent, A. Gaskell Publishing Company, New
the Professor's ventures, the new jour- says:
nal promises to be successful, and is containing appropriate matter well ar- York, says: "We take great pleasure in
likely to be of permanent value to those ranged, well printed, and handsomely entering Thic American Pen.'^ian on

of Clark's College, editor and proprietor, is the Ifc-teet journaliatic venture. It

its

Erie Daily Dispatch.

presented to the public.

There is no
ability wanting on the part of the edi-

our exchange list, and desire to compliment you on the general appearance
and tone of the paper. We wish The
American Penman a full measure of
success, and would be g'ad to be of service to you in any way we can."

tor,

The American Pknman from Erie,

Prof. E. E. Childs, Hampden B
is a splendid number
and a bold push for the superiority in College, Springfield, Mass., says
publishing a penman's sheet. Our "S" contains more sense and l
to Bro. H. C. Clark, and best wishes for than some of the penman's papers."
Ph., for January,

says:

to

"The

hand

to-

the brightest of

kind now published.

You may count

me a life
W.

subscriber.'"

Richardson, Fayette Normal

and Business College, Fayette, O., says:
"Please send me a few more samples of
The American Penman. 1 have rereceived the one you sent and have
made no effort at all yet to get up a
club, and have four subscriptions already, and want to send the largest club
for this month.
It is the best pentuan's
paper I have ever read, and it is a perfect gem."

interested in first-class chirography.

must say

it is

day.

P.

P. Medsger, Jacob's Creek,

J.

says:

ceived.

Pa.,

"The American Pensian reI am pleased with it, especially

independence and the freedom of its

columns for the discussion of disputed
points and methods, and for its bold
its

stand against fraud and imposters.

could name some who claim to be penmim who are a disgrace to the cause.
To build up the profession. we need men
of

sound moral principles, and

certain

The American Penman

feel

will

encourage every honest effort and denounce evil, thereby elevatuig the profession and the cause of popular educaH. J. Michael, Allentown, Pa., says:
the success of The Amerk-an Penman.
tion.
I
am already reading three pen"I enclose fifty cents for The AmeriProf. C. B. McClure, Muuhonville, N.
Holmes^ Ledger.
men's [lapers, but I feel I cannot afford
can Penman. Judging from the first
H., says: "I received the first number
number it will be well worth the money to be without The American Pknman.
as
a
specimen
copy,
and
it is certainly a
so I send in my subscription with several
The first number of The American
to any out- iiittn-ested in penmanship. I
others."
Pknman. a monthly journal of attrac- handsome paper."
nni MM-e that any teacher or pupil of
tive appearance, has been issued by
F. B. Costolo, Uniontown, Pa., says: Busiiifss iMhication, or person engaged
|

Clark, of this city. As its

name indicates, it is devoted to the improvement of penmanship, both plain
and ornamei.tal, and those interested
Prof. H.

will find in it

much

that

is

instructive.

" It

will

JCric

We

excellent.

Enclosed find

Gazette.

have recently received a new

sub-

L. Madarasz, the eminent card writer

of

New

York, says:

name is a guarante'e that

ance of your paper."
have a most prosperous future.

Sunday

my

"I

like

the appear-

Business College, Erie, Pa. This, the

number, is exceedingly good, and
the publication promises to become one
of the leading penman's papers. One
of the articles contained in this number

P. T. Benton,

it

far

beyond

its

Teacher of Penuumship

and Drawing
School

in the Creston Public

lowo, says: "Success to The
Of course I want

American Penman.

Prof. C. N. Crandle, Business College, it, and one of my scholars is afflicted in

Indianapohs, Ind., says: "Thanks for the same way.
Let our subscriptions
number of The American Pen- begin with the first number."
man. It is good and I wish it a bright

S. E.

copy of

Barton, Cassville, O., says:

The American Penman

"A

is

at

hand. I am so highly pleased with it

that I cannot resist the temptation of
being one of its subscribers.
I am a
boy 17 years of age. all alone to do the
best I can in the world, and as I need
help I thought a paper of this kind was
more valuable than anything I could invest the same amount of money in."

initial

paper entitled The American Penman,

published by H. C. Clark, of Clark's and happy future."
first

prize

in btii-ini^^s, will

scription for one year."

Prof. Clark's
it

is

F.
says:

W. C. Howey, La
"The initial number

Crosse. Wis., says:

Thk American
am delighted with

I.

Temple, West Tisbury, Mass.,

"A copy

man came

of

The American Pen-

last night.

Am

very

"

W. F. Morse, Portland, Me., says:

Have received your gem of a penman's
For the first issue it was far
of what 1 expected. I wish you

sheet.

much ahead

pleased with it, and as I am interested

in everythingpertaining to Penmanship.
Note I cannot show my appreciation for The
A wise man will desire no more than
entitled, "Should Fine Penmanship be for a year's subscription.
Wish you un- American Penman in any better way he may get juhtly, use soberly, distriEncouraged r we quite fully agree with. limited success with Thk American than by sending in my subscription, so bute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
The School Visitor.
Penman.'
enclosed find fifty cents."
-Swift.

i_

Penman
it.

received.

Enclosed you

of

will find Postal

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

The ArneriGan

have received from R. E. Bean good Christian young men have been
samples of the
These are the fulcrum on which no" Ready Binder for Paper ami Pambility of thought and strength of purphlets,'' mimufactured by them, which pose are to
be found; these are the craare well adapted to the purpose for dle of achievement.
The men who
have the greatest trusts are those who
which they an- intended.
have worked for those trusts the longest.
Some of the greatest and best bioWe are in receipt of a nnmber of graphies of the present age have been
specimens of writing and flourishing, written with tears and in the obscure
If you.
corners of some unused loft.
all executed in a superior manner,
likewise. will be great, loved, and sought
from the pen of Prof. E. K. Isaacs,
after, allow the circumstances of the
^'alIJaraiso, Ind. We think our readers time to influence your motives.
will derive much benefit from reading
There are three things which are neProf Isaac's valuable article on " Let- cessary for a successful life.
Sound
ter Writing," which appears in this health, sound sense, and sound characimber of The American Penman.
ter.
With these, none of you can say
well
equipped
for
life;
that you are not
with these, and the attendant capability
In an elegantly written letter Prof. to use them on the right side, you can
MoKee, of Ol.erlin College Depiirt- and must succeed. Cast the mark of
[iit >\' I'r.niinnsliip. says:
"I Hke imperial character in everything you do
You must not sit
IK Ami i;h \n I'inman.
It is full of in the circle of life.
down for three or four years of your life
e lM^t tlniui;lifs nil a most importand think of what you will do. It is
it
(lei)aitnient of practical educaevident that work must mark your track
tion.
There are tens of thousands of all along the line of achievement. If
ng people in this country who you will qualify yourselves thoughtfully
need to know just what The Amkri- and by all human instrumentalities, you
Penman proposes to furnish, and will have the flag of the victor at
the close. God has not created one of
witli Prof. Clark at the helm it cannot
us without having some place to put us,
fail to fulfill its mission.
I consider and having something for us to do in the
the first number worth the subscrip- great expanse of ether. We know there
is very fierce competition for places, and
tion price.*'
yet I want to know whether there has
ever been a boy or girl in the country
Just as we go to press we have rewho
afraid
try for the

PeFirnan, &

Published Monthly at 60c Per Year,

single copies of

Thb Ambhican Pen

on receipt of

niullcd to uny address

ADVERTISING RATES.

SPECIAL INDUCEMENT.

fore January

e fumlabed for

PREMIUMS.
We
lie

hiive

made arrangemeots with the pnhllsher of

new and desirable maga-

Sonltiern Progrpsi!, a

pimilshed In Chattanooga, Tenn., to fiirnlBti our

mtiBcrlbere with both Thb Aubrioan Pemman and
tie Soiitht-fn Progi-esH one year for $1.00, whioli la the
utiacrlplloii prlre of the " Progress" alone.
Tt fill pcrnonB intercBtlng themselves In be:lne

to give

r.a.iti

premiums

all

and

this nile will be Invariably followed.

RemlttHnccB should be made by N. Y. Draft, P. O.

Money Order,

H. C-

Postal Note, or Registered Leiter, to

CLARK.

Publisher. Erie, Pa.

soon have the largest circulation of

any similar publication.

business

man

in this city

me a few days ago and said:

young man, between the age

SPECIMENS RECEIVED.

take charge of

Harold Harmitage, Penman,

If you

to get a good general

haraeter, find out from
hat his opinion of his neighbor

my

came 1o

"I want a"

of 17 and

but*iness; the

usual interest, finely illustrated.

Now

can reconunend

?"

This

man

did not

is the time to subscribe, in order to want a young man of uncommon attainand beautiful get all the back numbere. Send along ments, but he wanted a good Christian
specimen of letter writing from Prof. your subscriptions and those of your young man. He wanted a young man
of sterling character and powerful indiLyman Spencer, of Washington, D. C, fi'iends, and you will never regret it.
viduality.
Young men, there is this
adorns a page of our Scrap Book.
difficulty with the young men of to-day:
\'ou have no purpose or character in
Prof C. R. Bales, of the Evergreen
life.
If you rouse yourself up and be a
model young man, everyone will be
liusiness College, Bloomington, Iowa, By Rev. W. H. Pearce, No
pleading for your assistance, and you
encloses us a beautiful bird flourish,
wiW always have a good position.
I
(Specially reported I
together with cards.
could get places for a hundred young
Prof. H. H. Wliilmai Instructor in Phonetics
Clark's College.]
men of real sterling and sound characProf. W. J. Elliott, Canada Business
,, .-
,,
^^
rm,
ter.
I had a young man, who was very
My
ioung I^rtends:
The addit-ss
i
College, Chatham, Ontario, encloses shall deliver this iiiorning is not so much poor, in my employ while in Detroit.

artistic

tt,

'

his subscription in a well-written let-

Prof H.

W.

Shaylor, Portland. Me.,

number

of elegantly

with ourselves."

pay

is on borrowed trouble."
"Counseling with fear is the way
cowards are made; counseling with hope
is the way heroes are made; eounselinff

with faith

the

is

way

Christians

are

made."
" Curiosity is the instinct of wisdom."
" Ignorance
the wet-nurse of prejudice."
" Beauty is the melody of the fea-

"Deference

"Goodness

is

is

silent flattery."

just as

much

of a study

as mathematics.

No man

"

is

rich

who wants any more

than he has got."

"The wealth

of a person should

be

estuuated, not by the amount he has,

but by the use he makes of it."
" Health can be bought, but you have
got to pay for it with temperance at the
highest rates."
" You can't hire a man to be honest

he will want his wages raised every

morning."
'Toil sweats at the brow, but idleness
sweats all over,"
"Self-made men are most always apt
to be tt little too proud of the job."
"Trusting to luck is only another

" It

is better to know nothing than to

just enough to doubt and diflfer."
"I honestly believe it is better to
know nothing than to know what isn't

know

"To be thoroughly good-natured, and

yet avoid being imposed upon, shows
great strength of character."
"If you analyze what most men call
pleasure, you will iind it composed of
one part humbug and two parts pain.
"We are happy in this world just in
proportion as we make others hapjiy."
" It is a great deal easier to look upon
those who are betow us with pity, than
upon those who are above us without
"

He used to make fti-es, sweep the church

and do other such work. One night
" Kn^-y is an insult to a man's good
when I went down stairs for something. sense, for envy is the pain
feel at the
I found this poor young man sitting in
excellences of others."
front of the furnace with the door open,
" It is a good deal more prrofitable to
and woman. It is not so much what a and he was studying a book he had make ten men think they are above you
person has, as what he can do. All start Was this not enterprise? That young than to make' one think you
out in life upon nearly the same equal. man is now occupying one of the best him."
The question of wealth and useful pos- positions in Detroit, and is the recipient
"Indolence may not be a ci
He worked him- is liable to be at any time."
sessions has but very little to do with of a lucrative salary.
" I consider a weak man im
the prominent results of any man's life. self up, and like thousands of others, he

form, but will be a few practical

words, which I trust will be of use to
you. I shall endeavor to impress upon
your minds those impoi-tant maxiius
which govern the success of every man
in

favors us with a

isfied

" People of good sense are those whose

opinions agree with our.'*."
" The highest rate of interest that we

lesson

written card specimens,

thoroughly

"We should be careful how we encourluxuries; it

i step forward
from hoe-cake to plum-pudding, but it
ile and a half by the nearest road
have
to
go
back
again."
we
is a great deal easier to be a^ood
dove than a decent serpent.''
" Dissatisfaction with everything we
come across is the result of being dissat-

y^

The next number will contain a 20. to

remuneration will be considerable, but name for trusting to laziness."
on practical penmanship and
the charge is important. Is there any
"An insult to one luan is an insult to
pen flourishing, which will be of un- young man of good solid character you
"
all. for it may be our turn next

New

Orleans, favors us wilh several neatly

make us
who othamong the rub-

"Titles are valuable; they

many persons

acquainted with

erwise would be lost

has been
to
top
a club of sixteen subscribers on this account V All the departments
from Prof. W. P. Richardson, Teacher of trades and professions in the centres
of Penmanship in the Fayette (Ohio) of trade have been subjected to the
Nonnal, Music and Business College. some strife, yet who has suffered ? Only
those who fold their arms and say
Prof. Richardson has set an excellent
"There is no use for me to try." If you
example in this respect, and if our make a foremost start in character, you
fi'iends would each respond in like will never fail
The -world will then
manner The American Penman would want you for the world.

subscriptions

to those securing clubs,

'

Co., Franklin, N. H.,

ceived

nding c
given ihe one sending the club on

We

engraved copy-books, together

letter in superior style.

witli a

J. M. Harkins, of Calhoun, Ga.,

sends us specimens of his card work,
The youth of to-day is prone to comwhich, we think, justify his claim of plain, and with homeliness he says:
"I
being the champion card writer of the have none of the opportunities of success
I have not the advantages of a
Soutlu
commanding social position, but have
I'n.f W. C. Howey, La Crosse, Wis., been raised and educated in the school

has achieved success.

ous than a malicious one.

is your chance, and
cliaracter, but weak
improve it before it is too late. I do
es have no
not want you to settle down and not
Method
everything, especially to
enjoy yourselves I plead for a sound ordinary men; the few men who can lift
character, for a rollicking and jolly dis- a ton at pleasure have a divine right to
of necessity, battling against life's stern position. With these you will have suc- take hold of it at a disadvantage."
ss College, sends us a New
and necessary realities." What matters cess and happiness in this life and a
"Be humble, and you are sure to
card, together with specimens
it whether you have wealth; its absence home in the next. [Continued applause,
thankful; be thankful and you are su
ishing, etc., which dLsplay much will demand
your working for a victory, and thanks extended to the speaker by to be happy."
and skill.
and such are the models after which the President and students,]
X. >'. Cliristian Advocate.
;

Young men, now

all

'

l;iste

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

These are single sheets and usually forwarded to the Dead Letter Office at
ruled on one side only. They have a Washington.
margin or blank apace at the top. of
/nA.There is no color as desirable as
from two to two and three-fourths black.
For business purposes, writing
inches, for the printed heading.
fluids or so-called "blue-black" inks,
The Amrkican Pkxmax promise;* to
The ordinary size of Note Heads in 5J are used extensively. These penetrate
be an expon^nt of the pratitical nnd or"
size,
called
Packet
the
paper,
inches: extra
into
and after a few minutes'
namental in penmansliip. The practical x8i
Note," 0x9J inches. The ordinary Let- exposure turn black. They are supvalue of penmannhip is measured by its
ter Head is 8xlOi inches; extra size. posed to be more durable th'in ordinary
application to the practical affairs of
block ink. A copying ink is of a thick
8^x11 inches.
Penmanship in itself may not have
life.
Neither Poolscaj) nor Legal Cap should consistency, so that when dry a portion
much value, but applied penmanship is
of it will lodge on the surface of the
invaluable. This may be said of any or be used in letter writing, nor is it proper
paper, and when a dampened sheet is
Perhaps no to tear off and use a half sheet of Note
all branches of education.
brought against the written page by
one branch or departnient in the eurri- paper.
proper pressure, a "copy" of the origiColor. Pure white is always elegant
euluni of social or busine^* Hfe vys such
nal writing is obtained, which is precream
a daitji on the art of penmanship as and in good taste, although a
served for future reference.
does Letter Writing. With the idea that tint is not objectionable. Of course, in
Young people frequently take a liking
the readers of the Ambrican Penman fashionable circles, there will be a craze
appreciate suggestions and directions at times for different colors, hence we to colored inks red, green, blue, violet,
with regard to this important depart- find some of our leading paper niatiu- etc., but it should be remembered that
ment of applied penmanship, these ar- facturers are putting up fine writing black is the proper thing for letter writpaper for correspondence in a variety of
icles are written
1

am

not sure that I know myself yet tints, such as cream, rose, opaline, silver
Pen*. It would be folly to dictate as
I am going to say, nor how
gray, sea shell, azure, heliotrope, etc., to what pen to use.
We writing masthese articles I will have to but it is quite certain that white never ters all have our favorite pens for difwTite to get through. But I am strictly offends good taste.
ferent kinds of pen-work, and we have
I

what

just

many

of

opposed to preludes, and as I will have

to begin somewhere, we will go right to
work at the
MECHANICAL STRUCTL'RB OF A LETTER.
Under this head will be considered
briefly:
1.
Materials. 2. Heading. 3.
Introduction.
4.
Body.
5.
Conclusion.
8.

Folding.

0.

7.

Superscription

Stamp.
Materials.

Mourning paper has a black border, a right

as has also the envelopes to match.

Envelopes. The envelope should be

adapted in size to the paper, so that
with a minimum numbtr of regular
folds the paper wilt fit the envelope. It
is not necessary, however, that the envelope should fit around the letter "like
paper on the wall," for, as a rule, a letter is opened by tearing off the end of

art-

Paper. Care should be taken to select

paper of good quality and suitable for the envelope, and unless the envelope is
the purpose. Social letters are usually from one-fourth to one-half inch longer
than the letter, the latter is apt to be
Titten on note paper, the ordinary
of which is 5x8 inches.
It may have torn in the performance.
side fold or legal Cend) fold.

Ladies frequently prefer the "Royal" note, which

is about
inches, or the "Octavo"
"ote,

inches.

For business correspondence, " Note

Heads" and "Letter Heads" m-e u

In business it is customary to have the

name and address printed near
the upper left-hand corner of the envelope, so that in case the letter is not
called for at the delivery offire it can be
returned to the sender, instead of being
writer's

recommend

to

pens as

offer.
I

One kind

is

other, but the best

the best.
I

But the article is already long enough.

told you at the beginning that I did
not know just what I was going to say.
Since writing that statement I have
thought the matter over and have
mapped out ajirogramme something a
I

follows:
shall treat of:

1.

The Mechanical

Structure of a Letter, as already begun,

which will include the eight items already enumerated at the beginning. 3.

The

Peniiiansliip of a Letter. 3, The

Rhetoric of a Letter. Don't get scared
at the word Rhetoric, for I shall not
write a paragraph, sentence, or phrase
that you will have any trouble in understanding. I shall not soar into the sublime or scholarly (if such a thing were

possible for a penman), but will confine

myself to the more jjractical divisions,

and under the head

of Rhetoric will in-

clude (a) Spelling,

(ft)

Capitalizing, (c)

our pupils such Punctuation, (d) Diction, (fi) Construction, (/) Miscellaneous.
4.
Classifica\ ii-rieiice has taught us
nlipir.i t.i the learner while tion of Letters.
3.
Cards and Notes.

uiir r

\\'-\\

praiTh

I- have no advice to
about as good as anis the kind you like

coarse business pen,

LETTER WRITING.

iii^'

peiiiium-!iip

Mm

to

iitrer

iiii-iriess

writing

i.s

applied

Miscellaneous.
(To be continued.)

6.

penmanship and

applied peuuianship presupposes previous instruction and practice in the art

of writing; hence the question of pens
ought to be a matter of individual
choice. But it is possible that many
who read this have not had such instruction, and I will mention a few kinds
that are well adapted for correspondence:
Spencerian No. 1 and No. 24,
Eclectic No. 100, Esterbrook No. 128,
Gillott's No. 004, Payson, Dunton &
Scribner's No. 117, Ames' Penman's
Favorite, Gaskell's Compendium Pen,

learner on the cornet in New York

being ccnsiderate for the nerves of

City,

his neighbors, did his three hours' prac-

day in the cellar. This celhad always been infested with rats,
it was noticed that after he had

ticing each
lar

but

practiced a few tiiues the rats all disappeared and never returned. Beginners
on that instrument hereafter need not
wait for musical fame to earn a livelihood, but can hire out immediately for
two or three hours each day as the only
Musselman's Perfection, and Isaacs' genuine "Rough on Rats," warranted
Penman's Ideal. These pens are all of to kill every time or money refunded.
niediuiu firmness.

It

you want to use a

Tituaville (Pa.) Herald.

'

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

"Colonel Ayres was the common father
of us all." This was a grateful acknowlColonel John Ayres.
edgement of a true son of the calligraphic art."
[Speciftlly prepare'I for Tiir AmrHican Pbnm.
In 1(!87 he published his " Tradesman's
W. H. Imrop. of South %^D. Maas.] *'
A the Miooti in a clear niglit shines Pocket Book, or Apprentice's Companvery (!onni)ir:uous amongst the stars, so ion." It contained 20 plates in an obMr. .\yres ('(niiiiiands our particular at- long quarto, being adopted to common
tention in the heniispbere of English business in trade, containing copies of
penmen. Yet his first appearace was bills of parcels, receipts, etc. But some
small and his rising scarcely noticed, performance of that kind of later masfor we are told he caine np to London ters are supposed to exceed it. There is
a poor lad out of the countiy, and no engraver's name mentioned.
In 1694 he published from the letter
served in the capacity of a footman to
Sir Williani Asburst. But his master press. "Ai'ithmetic Mad>^ Easy for the
perceiving hini to be a youth of a proni- Use and Benefit of Tradesmen," in 8 vo.
i^itig and unprovable genius, put him to It is dedicated to Sir William Ashurt,
.school to learn writing, arithmetic, etc., who was then Lord Mayor of the city
I don't observe that there
in which, by a peculiar bent of mind, of London.
seconded by assiduity and care, he is anything extraordinary in it, though
plain and practical, yet it has been very
made a surprising proficiency.
What part of England he came from, well received by the public. That ediand who his parents were, I have not tion of it that I have is the twelfth, and
been able to learn; but after continuing was printed 1714. In that edition, there
some years with his aforesaid kind and is added a short and easy method after
worthy master, in whose service, it is which shop-keepers may state, post and
presumed, he might have laid up some balance their books of accounts. This
money, as well as fitted himself in some was added by Mr. Charles Snell, writing
measure for his future employn:ent as a master in Foster-Lane, London. It is
tpacher of writing and accounts, he probable it was what he made use of in
married a fellow maid servant, with his school.
whom, it is said, he had about 200 1., and
I think the oldest book of merchants'
then began to teach a school at a chair- accounts, that I have met with, in Engmaker's in St. PauPs Church-Yard.
lish, in the way of memorial, journal
From this small and obscure begin- and ledger, is one printed in 1588, set
ning, his industry and abilities, by de- forth by one John Mellis. who taught
grees, procured him many scholiirs. "Or- writing and arithmetic, nigh Battleiiafiir propuft industria donis" says the Bridge in St. Olaves, Short Southwark.
poet, and it has hardly ever been more But in his preface he tells us that that
truly verified than in the increase of Mr. work was only a revival of an oldercopy
Ayres' business, which, I am informed, printed in London in 1543.

EARLY ENGLISH PENMEN.

brought him

when

it was in its most

near 800 1. per
But to return from this digression to
income for a writing Colonel Ayres.
master.
In the year 1605 our author published
The first book that I have met with his "Tutor to Penmanship." John
that he published from the rolling press, Sturt engraved it. This grand work is
was his Accomplished Clerk," in 1688. divided into two parts, and contains in
It contains S5 plates in a variety of prac- the whole 48 large folio oblong plates,
tical hands, and was engraved by John besides his picture in the front.
He
Sturt, who, I believe, was the best en- dedicates it to King William the Third.
gi-aver of writing at that time in Eng- It is indeed a pompous book, and very
land, and was master, in that art, to his valuable on many accounts, so that they
celehrated scholar, Mr. George Bick- who are possessed of one of the first imhain.
He dedicates it to his honored pressions are possessed of a valuable

in,

flourishing condition,

annum.

fine

'

master. Mr. Thomas Topham.

t)ui;j;ht a writing school at the

who then
Hand and

Anno Dom.

he published his
Alamode Secretarie, or Practical Penaan." in 28 long octavo plates, containig examples of the mixt running hand
and mixt secretary. In this piece I find
nothing superior nor even equal to

Pen,

in
F<'tter-Lane,
London, and
though Mr. Topman was not an eminent
penman, with regard to practice, as far
as 1 can learn, yet lie had the honor (if
report says true) of being master of another of the Worthies in Calligraphy. I some of his other works. The (!Opy I
mean Mr. Charles Snell.
saw had no date, but he then lived at
in 1700 he published another edition tlie Hand and Pen. in St. Paul's Churchof this "Accomplished Clerk," re-eu- Y'ard.
It was engraved by John Sturt.
graved with Pome little enlargement, In 1700 he published his "Paul's School
having his picture ut the beginning in Round-Hand." It is only an alphabet
his own hair, and under it this inscrip- of copies, with ornaments above and below them, of fishes, etc., of free striking,
" Johannes Aj/rea, arithmeficcB ac artis
performance is clear and bold.
i-ritionaritE, professor apud Londonalea John Sturt, Sculpt.
He also published,
jiixta divi. PaulV^
but without any date or engraver's
He has a preface in letter press work,
,e, a "Striking Copy-Book."
It conin which he tells us, that he had carried tains 14 narrow plates.
the engraving of writing to a higher
Anno Dom.,
he published the
degree of excellency, and made it more
Penman's Daily Practice," a cyferinglike to natural penmanship, than any book, (it is so spelt) showing much vaone in England. Yet he was convinced, riety of couHuand of hand, with examhe says, it was difficult (if not impossi- ples of all the runninc mixt hands now
ble) for the graver, in some hands, to
use.
It contains 34 plates, and was
come up nicely to the nature and
graved by John Sturt. but the exemfreedom of the pen.
plar I saw had no date. Our author has
This observation has been made by
one plate of en grossing- hand dated
succeeding accurate penmen, and I be- 1005, in George Bickham's "Penman's
lieve the best of engravers will allow it Companion." These are all the works
to be true.
of this laborious. and eminent writing
After his preface there is a copy of
aster that I have met with, and I have
some verses, consisting of nine ogdoastic little more concerning him, buc that his
st>inzas, entitled "The Inditferency."
was by small degrees, so his deparPy This time he had made such consid- ture out of this life was sudden, as I
erable improvement in the practical have been informed. He went to a viland most useful parts of writing, that lage a little way out of town (I think it
Mr. Robert More, In his short essay on was Vauxhall) to regale one afternoon,
thf first invention of writing, says: with a few friends, and he, retiring into
,

the garden from his company, was there

found dead soon after. His detith by

seems to have been the effect of a
fit of apoplexy, but the particular circumstances attending it, and where he
was buried, I have not been able to
learn.
Nay. I have not been informed
in what year he died, but I guess it was
in Queen Ann's reign, and before the
year 1709, for Mr. Uayner, who had been
this

the Colonel's scholar, and who published

his "Paul's Scholar Copy-Book" in that
year, speaks in his preface of his master

any

art.
It is the mind that difi-n-.
wisely or unwisely. It is the mind that
first compels the fingers, hand and arm
to act with unerring precision.
By ami
by the nerves and nmscles memori/ithese mental behests and act autoumii
cally; then, and not till then, do whave the real artist.
We, as successful teachers, must recog
nize these simple facts in the work uf
muscle-training, in the work of teaching
one of the most simple, useful and hcati
tiful of the arts.
In conclusion, we

again ask what is worth more to ilnlearner than the power to persistently
compel intelligent airtiou along the limof doing " one thing at u time ?

OS being then dea<l."

ONE THING AT A TIME.

BIG RAPIDS
(MICH.) INDUSTRIAL

every teacher, but just

GAYLORO ON THE SITUATION.

BEN.

Every pupil wants to succeed, likewise By W.

Si

P.

Cooper

Penman's Art

the

in

how

to realize
this success is often painfully perplexing.
The teacher has discovered, however,
that certain principles underlie success

every line of human action; in other

words, every successful effort has certain characteristics. This fact, though
trite and simple, cannot be too ftrudy
impressed upon the mind of both instructor and pupil. In penmanship the
learner meets many difficulties at the
very outsetpo-si^/on (of body, arm,
hand, fingers, and book), pen holding,
wse of ink, inovemenf, form, etc., etc..
Usually he is led to make war upon
every one of these difficulties all at
once. If he continues this mode of warfare defeat is certain, because he has
utterly disregarded one of the leading
characteristics of success. He has not
learned, or else he has forgotten, that
"one thing at a time" lies very near the
base of making the most of every human
effort.
Begin, therefore, by training
pupils to assume, with military precision,
an easy and graceful position of body.
Let the attention be directed to this one
In like
thing in the prelinunary drill.
manner train the pupil in all of the details of positions, considering only one
But little systematic
thinff at a time.
drill will be necessary to enable the
learner to assume almost automatically
the correct position. He can then concentrate his mind upon the other features of the art. Pen holding anil use
of ink must each receive very careful
consideration.
It is not sufficient to
tsWi. to the pupil about these two points,
he must be tiained to know and practice
them.
The " reason why " so many teachei-s
fail iu leading children to adopt an easy,
graceful movement, is that the mind is
directed to half a dozen things at once.
Let movement be the lesson of the hour,
the one leading thing, and success is
certain -movement without holder, and
pen movement with holder and dry pen,
movement in simple tracing exercises,
movement in producing independent
in

"Well," said Uncle Bei

etting hi

staff against

the counter, a
the store, and turning to the clerk, '*
have just returned from a visit to that
Coiumercial College on the corner. A
fine concern upon the wliole a fine
concern that. Those profet-sors are well
qualified, energetic and elficient. Tliey
evidently understantl everything about
their business, and they spare no pains
to pu t theu- pupils ahead, and they, " said
Uncle Ben, emphasizing the word tliey,
"sir, themselves work early and late.
They deserve encouragement and soTiiethingmore they should reach success.
But in tliis, as in other business, there
are difficulties, perplexities, obstrucI

tions.

Yes, sir, I luive looked about

I
I comprehend Ihe situation."
"There are grand fellows at some of
those desks; noble fellows.
1 could
pick out chaps worth their weight in
gold in any office, any coiming-rooui
sharp, quick, critical and correct."
"Yes, sir," repeated Uncle Ben, in a
voice loaded with terrible emphat'is,
"They are critical, temperate, reliable
;

think

and

con-eet.
That is the sort wanted
and everywhere. Those fellows need no urging they are on hand
at eight in the morning
they leave
when the halls close and n>f before.
Not a note, principle, paragr)i|ih, explanation, or suggestion escapes them.
If they crowd their teachers a little with
business they treat these masters with
the most profound respect. Tliey know
their value to themselves and they have
faith in their words,"
" But in that school there are other
fellows
other fellows of quite another
sort, in fact, many sorts.
They are not
from any special craft or quarter. They

here, there

from all localities. These younp

are, first of all. our countrymenAmericans to the manner born. They
have health, muscle, physical stamina,
brams, (juick eyes and ready ears, and
hail

men

plenty of means, but they want backbone, steadfast energy and firumess of
Let the child's study of fomi be spe- purpose. They retiuire urging, need
watching,
long for flattery, ask too
possibly
concific, not haphazard
by
forms.

tinuing his tracing exercises in his early

lessons, and by analyzing in a commonsense manner each letter. We might
very properly press our doctrine of "one
thing at a time,'' still further in the
doing of this foundation penmanship
work.
We now call the attention of teachers
to the importance of inducing students
to search for their own characteristic
faults.
Having discovered these faults
he should be trained to go at them singly.

Perhaps one

lai'ity

in slant.

of his faults

If so. instruct

is

irregu-

the pupil

many graces, beg too many privileges,

fag the professors with repeated importunities too often, and, most of all, they
lack attention, perseverance and application. They abound too much in fits
and

darts, in stops, in absence and rests.

of these fellows are spoiled boys,

Some

loaded

with the perniciou.s fancies,

whims, caprices of jirincely names, Op
they have rocked off the golden days of
many a season in the well featliered and.,

wadded
other

cradles of Hamilti

priiu;ely

These are not

endowed
all

institutioni

alike, are

not

all

mind upon regularity fectedin the same way, They till up the
a real determination benches, but are poor stock. The winto realize this one characteristic.
He dows are too near their desks. They
must attack each fault In a similar man- see too umch of the outside of the colto concentrate his
and practice with

ner. The student's mental attitude is lege, too many pretty faces, fast horses,
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1 No.

Vol.

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3.

No AMOUNT of instruction, come no other branch of study in which which are the means of acquiring useThe Omiilia Daily Bee pays a very
flattering notice to the Omaha Busi- from whatever source it may, can they take so much delight as in prac- ful education.
conducted by Messrs. enable a student to become a good
which is well penman except he apply it in a systematic and continued study and pracmerited.
tice until that degree of knowledge
Into these three classes all teachers and, skill desired, has becoiyie a part
Teacliers
who
have
may bi divided:
of himself, a confirmed habit, which
nothing more to learn; those who are leads him
to do most easily and
imitators of methods; and lastly, those naturally, the
thing he aimed to do.
who study and a])ply principles. In In fact, this principle is true in any
which class are you ?
department of knowledge over which
one may seek to gain a mastery. It is
There is a world of truth in Josh only by systematic, earnest, and conneps

College,

&

Ruthren

Dailey,

Tu sta is to centrated study and effort

golden oijjjortuni- can be realized in any field of human
persistence. action.
By this means, the profesIn,stability is the shoal upon which sional man, the student, the business
more lives have stranded than upon man, and the athlete many times
any other, excepting, perhaps, intem- multiply their" power of achievement.
win."

How many

are lost for

perance,

want of

and the two arc very

close

neighbors.

Xo
for a

too poor to subscribe

is

penmanship.

common

schools,

Are not teachei-s

by giving little or

no att.-tion to so essential a branch

of education as writing, betraying an
important trust? Arc they not supposed t-o be preparing our boys and
girls for usefulness, and have they
found somesubstitute for penmanship,
in this age of great commercial enterprise,

good educational journal, and

buy a standard work on

occasionally

The

He becomes

the

live teacher

liberal

methods of

gain a

until, in a few years,

he finds himself

business activity, literary de- in possession of a capital stock for

the place of penmanshii).

writing

is

speaking.

Skill in

accustomed employment, but merely

skill in by using judiciously those hours that

Parents deplore the fact would otherwise, most likely, be

second only to

come

of success,

eflbrt,

that their children do not learn to frittered away in idleness, and jirobably

the ma- ness

many

to naught.

ping-stone to usefulness.

fix

Upon

Millie UMi'll

|Plir|ii.,-r. ;i[i.| \,h

Superintendent Lord, in an address begin at uncr, hy uril .IiutIi,! and

our schools?" a question proposed for before the Annual Institute of Craw- systematic effort to employ his leisure
ford county, speaking of the faults of in bettering his condition to liattle for
discussion at the last Teachers'

"Why

do we not teach writing

in

must read.
Instiby understanding
the common schools and common
There is no tute of Erie County, seems to liave
school teaching, as an example, rettlier way of teaching, and the teacher elicited neither explanation nor comferred to a youth who had finished a
who is satisfied with what ho knows ment, though one teacher ventured the
course in the ])ublic schools at sevenopinion
that
children should be
will make no advancement in the protaught to make things on the board, teen, entering a business man's enifession.
"
but it need not be called writing ploy, where it was found that he did
It is with pleasure that we an- The indiscretion on the part of the not know anything that he should
nounce tlie fact that C. U. Johnson, teacher who proi)0.sed the above ques- have known."
In employing improved methods of
late manager of the Erie Dispatch tion brings before the people the fact,
instruction teachers should not overPrinting Co., has become a partner of long known to those who h;
teaching.

Every young man, by utilizing his

houre for a few months, can
skill in penmanship, that will
prove to him an invaluable resource
in whatever he may turn his attention to.
From writing, he may go to
most any other useful branch of
study, and then to another, and so on
leisure

write, in consequence of which busi- in the indulgence of habits having a

men have difficulty in securing pern cious mfluence on himself and
a worthy efficient assistanls, and boys and girls his associations. It is the part of wisamlutiou and good resolution have are deprived, of an important steg- dom for every :i~]MiiiiL' VMun^ rii;ai to-

For lack of systematic

chinery

teacher

of

velopment, social intercourse, and low usefulness, of which any man miglit
rates of postage?
No, nothing has well be proud; and all accumulated
that success been, and never can be, found to take without taking one moment from his

Billings' statement, that "

ties

ticing

others.

an honorable place

in the world's field

of action.

TVed the work of ck ])ublic schools, look entirely the practical side of edulege, and that the firm, in accordance that the study of writing has been cation, if they would serve the best
witli the progress of the age, have cast a.side, and the fact that this tiues- interests of their patrons.
Let teachers make the same prepadeemed it advisable to give an addi- tiou brings to notice a grave derelictional impulse to the promotion of tion of duty on the part of teachers, ration to t-ach penmanship that they

T-J*rof.^01ark,
\

v,f

Clark's

practical education

by

Business Col

establishing a

s(

or an imputation to that effect,

and make

to teach other branches,

and

let

BOYS,

LEARN TO

WRITE.

There is no accomijlishment that

speaks more tor you tlian a good,
plain and rapid handwriting. It is

what business and professional men

admire, and what practical

mands.

It is a substantial

soliolarship that gives

place

and

yon

larger salary.

life

mark

de-

of

preference,

one of
the secrets of success antl a golden
key to prosperity.
The boy who
writes best gets the

first

It is

place

and the

first raise in salary.

You can turn
received neither answer nor superintendents require such i)reparaTlie new College has an excellent lo- refutation in a convention of teachers tion before granting certificates, and many idle half hours and evenings
cation, being in the Coal and Iron and school superintendents, is a tacit one great stride will be made in the into a capital that will pay compound
Exchange Building, and possesses all admission that they do not teach du'cction of practical usefulness of interest hy practicing this most useful
and vahiable art. Don't think you
the facilities that can in any way con- writing, and that they do not wisli to common school education.
write well enough; nine out of ten
tribute to the convenience and advan- expose the causes of such neglect.
who think and say that can hardly
tage of students. The most modern The suggestion of the teacher, given
Every young man, no doubt, wishes
write
their names. Experienced teachand improved methods of actual busi- above, that children may be taught to to achieve success in life, a success
that
ing and vigorous training will greatly
ness practice have been introduced, make things on the board, but that shall- contribute
to his own welfare,
assist
you, and practice will improve
afl'ordiug students the advamtiges of we should carefully avoid calling it and that of others;
and he, no doubt,
you. Avnilyoui-self of both means.if
doing business %vith the mein jers of writing, probably inipfiea that writing looks anxiously
about bin: for a
possible,
and you will find it tlie bei,i
the various de])artments of actual is distasteful to teachers, which is no starting point
upon which he may
investment of your life. Penman and
liusiness practice in the College at doubt true, as they arc generally
sup- begin to build. Very many spend
Artist.
Krie.
The Institution is in every re- posed to have a decided aversion and their lives in a vain search for

Commercial College

in Buffalo, N. Y.

plied well adapted

to

that

it

some-

meet the de- contempt

for everything

they do not thing to do that shall bring them a

H. J. Michael, Engrosser. Allentown,
cannot im- little nearer to the desired end; and a Pa., thinks "that every person who rein which it is established, and it will ply that
pupils would take le.ss inter- singular feature of this fact is that the ceived the first two numbers of The
Americak Penman inust admit that he
no doubt achieve the distinction its 'St in the exercise to call it writing in- very
thing.-^; they need are spread all
is getting the fiilj value of his money
superiority merits.
;tead of "making things," for there is about them in abundance,
among with a good rate of interest."

mands

of the great commercial city

undcrettrnd.

It certainly

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THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

WILL PENMEN CO TO HEAVEN?

I am. whatever it is, and such as

hope to be in all futuinty, nmst be ascribed under J^rovidence to the precepts
and example of my mother." ^Vhat a
noble tribute to a mother's memory. It
is true that all mothers have not such
I

While walking down a wooded

And

glen,

thinking o*er the pasi,

upon a bank
And soon was sleeping

JOHN QlINtV ADAMS' TRIBITE TO

MOTHEK THE INFLUENCE OF PRPiCEPT AND EXAMPLE.

sat to rest

fast,

lilS

saw the gates of Heaven,

AndheAid the music sHcei,
And, through its gleaming poMat)'.
(ireimed

Appeared the mercy

seat.

MANLY CHARACTKn.

saw the good and great men

Of every land and clime.

And

The

penmen;
and the small.

the

all

great ones

Their rising and their

On

looked

stood there wondering,

in at the gale,

ould

came

ngcl

aid

falling

this lcrr:stial ball.

But,

lo

"Oh, blessed angel!

penmttn ever pa&sed ?"

what
"I guess

Oh

yes,

do not

You'll llnd 'em all below."

heart grew faint, 1 turned to go,

But saw, approaching near
The gates of Heaven, a band of penmen,

waited

With bold and steady

steps they came;

Friend Gaskell led the van;

troop of mighty soldieis,

They had turned out

lo

a man.

There were Michael, Mussclman, and

Isaacs and

And

side

by

Ames-

side.

Pierce brought up the rear.

Shaylor.

Palmer walked

Hinman, and Madarasz

Dennis, Schofield and

all

the rest-

All closely following their leader bold.

Close to the gates they prest.

They

halted,

An

and friend Gaskell knocked;

" Some, brought up under diiTerent

have other and higher no-

angel, bright, appeared;

influences,

And, when he saw this august (?) band,

He turned his back and sneered.

"We've come

"We

tions of manliness, which

are far short

of a true ideal. Courage and daring,
with some, constitute its grand element.
To conquer natural timidty, to overcome
the fear of danger, to rush into fire and
water or battle with unshaken nerves,
seem to them the most worthy objects
of aspiration. Others think the acquisition of money is the great step leading
to manliness. They will relax no effort
to become wealthy, will sacrifice health,

to stay,'* said Gaskell;

have traveled many a day,

dusty road to Heaven,

The

And now,

we're here to stay."

The

angel turned him round about,

While the penmen shook with fear;

lie

spoke with voice as thunder loud:

"No peii'iian

ahall enter here!"

They turned away

in

calm despair;

council short they took;

"If we can not stay here," spoke Michael,

"For some other place

we'll look."

[And they looked

RAISED ON THE FARM.

"Born and raised on the farm." A

boy should thank God for being so fortunate as to be born and raised on the
farm. There is no place on this green
earth so well adapted to perfectly develop mind, muscle and manhood as a
farm; there a boy lias the purest air,
the freshest and healthiest food, plenty
of unrestricted exercise, the brightest
sunshine and the soundest sleep the
very conditions necessary for the higliNine-tenths of all
est development.

the men who have made their mark

in any business, profession, or pursuit
have been born and raised on the farm;

much because tiiere is

better blood on the farm, but because
the surroundings of farm life are better calculated to call out what there is
in a boy and develop a full-grown,
healthy, perfect, self-reliant nnwi. Toletlfi Blade.
this is not so

yi>t

SHALL SUCCEED AS A TEACHER

OF PENMANSHIP?
I

BY PROF.

H. RUSSKLL, JOLTET,

11,1,.

The above pointed interrogation

noble characters as had Mrs. Adams, to me from a young aapirant, who

but I have great faith in the final

triumph of early training, and can oidy
blaire parents for not having disco\fered
the correct way to moll and train each
peculiar disposition, when boys and girls
develop into bad men and bad women.
Again, as the JAdger says, some boys
think that smoking and drinking are
"manly," and at an eai-ly age have a
fight with nature, to win a victory over
the stomach, which rejects such poisons
at first, and thereby contract not only
uncleati but decidedly injurious habits.
Others think to swear roundly on all
possible occasions is a true sign of manliness, hereby contracting a mean and
wicked habit.
A truly manly man
would rather treat an offense with con-,
tempt than show his anger or indignation by an oath. Swearing is a mark
of cowardice. It is not genteel, and,
says Webster, a gentleman is a genteel
man wtfll bred and refined. It is indecent, and "want of decency is want of
sense." It is abusive alike to the mind
that conceives it, the tongue that utters
it,
and to the person at whom it is

form of manliness, and their

notions of the elements it contains, are
not only crude and unformed, btit often
shallow, superficial, and false. The boy
aimed. It is venomous and contemptiof twelve or fourteen who forms his
ble, violating the divine law of Him
ideal from a set of dissipated youths a
who "will not hold him guiltless who
few years older than himself, a^ies their taketh his name
in vain."
dress and manners, learns to smoke, perFre(iuently men of the roughest exhaps to drink and gamble in a small terior, who
all their life have had to folway, struggles to free himself from
low the plow, or do the roughest, of
parental control that he may join in
manual labor, are real gentlemen at
their amusements and vices, and perheart, and have more manliness than is
suade himself that he is thus cultivating found in the costly
homes of their more
a manly character. To cut away as fast
successful fellow-men. Indeed he who
as possible all traces of childhood and
is the humblest in the liarsh judgment
youth, to break all bonds of restraint, to
of a cold and selfish world, is adjudged
obey no will, but self will, to spend the kingliest in point of
manliness and
tuiu irvB TeuRftfsttiy; seeiu to real worth by Him who is "no respecter
fltTTSiTij
many youths to be the very essence of of persons." It is this thing of characmanliness, and they accordingly strain ter that tells more truly than anything
every nerve to accomplish so desirable else that training from infancy and assothey

know

do remember

My

And

of

mistakes, or exhibit greater confusion of

thought. Every school-boy and every
youth commencing the business of life
desires to becomp manly, or at any rate
to b& considered so; but the conceptions

I a question ask ?
within those shining portals,

.A

an excellent

ideal

"There are few things more really

admirable than a manly character in
the true sense of the phrase, yet there is
nothing about which people make more

I see;

me.

May
(,

lished

article on the world's

manliness of character, and
makes very nice distinction between the
real and the sham article. It is so welt
written that we produce it as far better
than anything we can say on the subject, and it contains in no small compass
great and fnr-reaching truths:

anthem chime.

In glorious

thought of

The Philadelphia itfdflfcr recently pub-

heard their tuneful voic.

HOW

such as
Idea Among Boys of What
Constitutes Manliness Training

The Commoti

ciation is stronger
than heredity.

and more

Inf

say>:

tv'enty-five successful yearn hi

hari.i

look to you

tli.-

a few pointof which

am a subscriber, also to all other penmen's papers that I have yet heard
of." This is a very sensible letter, for
every young man that will take an<l
read all the penmen's papers and follow
their advice, need never fear that he
will fail.
Every penmen's paper that
has ever existed in this country I believe
I
have taken and have contributed
something to make it interesting.
!s

feu-

The Amkricas Penman,

in

have many bound copies of these papers

in my library, which I regard as a treasure better than gold. While I could givtthis young man my individual experr
ence, these papers can give the experience
of scores and hundreds of the ablest \eterans. which wilKtell yfju what to do.

when, and how to do it. Every young

penman who des'res to stamp improvement on the wingf time will draw inspiration and courage for the good work
before him, if he will take and read all
of the penmen's papers.
In addition to
many excellent copies for practice, they
contain a vfest fund of valuable information that will be of great use to him
every day and hour of his life.
Any
penman, young or old, who neglects tu
read these papers is penny wise and
pound foolish. In conclusion, let me
emphasize the importance of following
the advice of those who have been successful, and take warning from those

who have proven

membering that
Better than gold

is

failures,

always

re-

a studious mind.

That

in the realm of books can find

Treasures that surpass 'he Australian

And live with the great and i,'ood

The poet's pen and sage's lay,

reliable

And

SMALL TALK.
Nobody abuses "small talk"
be a morose and

caiin'

"I desire nothing on earth -so iimcli us

to become a successful teacher of penmanship, and as you have had upwanls

ore,

of yore.

glories of empires passed away,

All these a pleasure will unfold.

And

unless he
selfish person, or a

leave us a treasure better than gold. J

TRIBUTES TO WASHINGTON.
stranger to its convenience, Small talk
is the small change of life, and peopleAll the good, whether learned
society could not get along without it.
There are times when it is "folly to be unlearned, high or low, r:
wise," when nonsense is palatable and feel that there is one treasure t
refreshing, and when sedateness and to them all, and that is the fame
gravity are well dispensed with.
A character of Washington. They reuound
philosopher cuts a sorry figure in a ball- his deeds, ponder over his principlei
room if he carries his wisdom and phi- and teachings, and resolve
friends, leisure, amusement, even a good losophy with him. If his philosophy and more guided by them in the future.
Webster.
name, and sometimes integrity itself, to does not teach him that he must make
j

"
reach this longed-for goal

The common

idea of what constitutes

manliness held by boys, at the very time
when character is being formed, is generally a false and a low one. Some
think careful consideration of and obedience to tlieir parents' wishes and commands are weak and unmanly traits.
They are afraid other boys will say
they are "tied to their mother's apron
strings." and so they cultivate the habit
of disobedience. All parents do not act
in a manner to win the respect and confidence of their children, and therein
frequently may be found the secret of
the boy'?i eagerness to break from parental ccmtrol, but where parents govern
kindly, liniily, and well, such conduct is
inexcusable, for nothing is more beautitiful than perfect confidence between
parents and children. In John Quincy
Adams' letter to his son, extracts from
which have been published at different
times in this department, he says: "It is
due to gratitude and nature that I
should acknowledge and avow that such
as 1 have been, whatever it was, that

the best of matters and take things that

he cannot control as he finds them, then
indeed has his time been wasted in the
study of philosophy. It should teach
him not to go to Rome, unless when
there he is willing "to do as the Romans
do," in a certain sense at least. Metaphysics are as welcome in the midst of
strains of the waltz as a skeleton at a

George Washington may justly be

considered one of the greatest men the
world has prodtieed.
Greater soldiers,
more intellectual statesmen, and profounder sages have doubtless existed in
the history of the English races,

perhaps in our own country but not

one who to great excellence in each of
these fields has added such exalted
wedding feast. There are men who are integrity, such unaffected piety, such
entirely too lofty for stnall talk, and unsullied purity of soul, and such
regard with a mild contempt those who wondrous control of his spirit. X B.
indulge in it. They are above attempt- Vance.
Liberty unsheathed his sword, necesing to make themselves agreeable,
If he
above pleasing, and being pleased. sity stained, victory returned it.
They are all wisdom, all gravity, all had paused here, history might have
dignity, and all tedlousness. They do doubttd what station to assign him;
not believe that the art of pleasing is whether at the head of her citizens op
the soul of good breeding, and by the her soldiers, her heroes or her patriotv.
course they pui-sue they make their con- But the last glorious act crowns bia
versation as desirable and appropriate career, and banishes all hesitation.
as would be the sounds of a Strauss Who like Washington, after having
waltz on a violin in a church on Simday emancipated a hemisphei-e, resigned
morning. For all such we quote the old its crown, and preferred the retirement

time couplet:

"A

little

life to the adoration of a

land he might be almost said to have

of domestic
nonsense

Is relished

by the

now and
wisest

then

men."

created. Phillipi.

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

LESSON
In a

tention. and this attention should not

consist altogether in practice, butshould
include a great amount of carefui.critical
study of copies and all writing that may
conie imder the learner's notice.
Success in learning to write, like suc-

PENMANSHIP.

IN

previous article

on Pructical

penmanship, we gave directions in regard to position and the first steps in

acciuiring the muscular movement, which
seems to be gaining recognition among
progressive penmen as the most essential requisite leading to a mastery of the
art of writing.

perfect freedom

should

be

While, from the

and ease

employed,

of

and

quisites

first,

movement most
t-areless,

and even

one can never

fail

to accomplish

satisfactory results.

HINTS ON MOVEMENT.

The design

to teach
the combined movement, and it is the
best eiercise I have ever tried for breaking up the finger movement. I think
the proper movement is the muscular

shaxles,

that he may, while developing movement, study form, and cultivate a taste
for the beautiful in writing.
Free muscular movement is indispenBable in achieving suci-ess in the art of
penmanship, but it should be considered
the means and not the end, and in gaining a mastery over it. one should not

of this exercise

is

finger movement combined. The

important point in teaching this movement is to impress firmly upon the student's mind that every stroke of the pen

and

downward stroke should

be made by sliding the whole hand, and
that the last two finger nails should
move with the pen. When the pupil
outside of the

In yom- February issue you expressed

tt wish to hear from those who have used
and medical students who graduated the compendiums, as to tite benefit defrom an English institution fifteen years rived from them.
ago, twenty-three have achieved distinI must say that they have been of
guished SUCCPS8 and siity-six considera- benefit to me, for. although a poor
ble success; the remainder are strug- writer, yet I have made a great imgling for a bare Uvelihood, have failed, provement by tlieir use. and have beOther pro- come such a lover of the art that I hope
left the profession, or died.
fessions and occupations would tell sub- to make much greater improvement.
stantially the same tale.
Commerce
The compendium was the first thing I
forms no exception. Even in the cases saw in the line of penmanship to awaken
of emyloyees in our large houses or cor- me to a sense of the beautiful in writporations, it is a fact familiar enough to ing. It was Gaskell's Compendium that
business men, but not generally appre- I first used, and I still lik'> to take
ciated perhaps by outsiders, that the it up and follow the copies A'ith their
men in receipt of one thousand dollars a fine shades and beautiful curves through
year or over form a very small percen- again and again.
tage of the whole staflf. When competiThat compendiums have been a great
tion is so intense and the prizes so few, incentive, and are still so. there can be
it is easy to infer that the man handino doubt. We see stated time and again
capped in any way stands a poor chance that such and such a penman or famous
of forging to the front.
In point of fact, card writer, is one of the compendium
the great majority of those who attain boys.

J
J
mBBSSatAfms^i^^i& ^^a^^a ^s^mA

wm

s /-i_

-y/

II

in the small letter o is

^-^O HiH

.=^^^=^.^
^^/ 7b
1
-1

Movement, by Prof.

C.

has learned to slide the back of the last

attained. The exercises introduced be- two nails on the paper at the same time
low are admirably adapted to the de- he slides the pen, I think he has learned
velopment of movement and the idea of the most important feature in writing.
[The exercise and suggestions on movement, here presented, are given by Prof.
In
C. M. Robinson, of Lafayette, Ind.
the next number of The American
Penman there will appear an extended
lesson on movement by Mr. Robinson.]

The oval

-^

/-

IIH
lose sight of the ultimate object to

COMPENDIUMS.

a very small pro-

portion of those who embark in it.

Almost as 1 write 1 come on the following item in a daily paper. Of a thous-

cess in almost everything else, depends

upon a well-directed and energetic effort, and by the application of these re-

sprawling, irregular strokes studiously

avoided, the learner should keep congtantly in view the desired end, and aim
to execute accurate forms of letters,possessing correct proportions, harmony in
slant, graceful curves,

of business constitute

be

Does college graduation tend to aid a

business-man in earning his livelihood?
I very much doubt it.
A trained intellect is a fine tool.
But we know that in
many mechanical operations the very
fineness of an implement is a bar to its
usefulness.
It either cannot do coarse
work, or it does it imperfectly, and to
the injury of the material on which it
operates, as well as with almost certain
damage to itself. Every-day experience
tells us that the analogy holds in the
ordinary business of commercial life.
There are a thousand contingencies in
the store, the warehouse, the shop, and
the counting-room, wherein the average
cultured mind finds itself out of place.
Too generally it regards the work as
beneath it, and, therefore, humiliating;
almost uniformly it finds it commonplace

equal
in width to the extended loop in the
other letters in the combination, and by
keeping this fact in mind, the learner
a<^()uire8 the power to detect any inaccuracy in respect to width. These exercises illustrate the manner in which and uninteresting, often positively irkmost of the letters of the alphabet may some and distasteful, or absolutely
be combined to form excellent exercises painful. The result is discontent with
for private learners, and for use in classes
not rarely contempt for the position
wliere they may be profitably employed
which it is placed. "O quam miserrifor practice in concert, to secure the de- mum olim fuisse beatum!'' was the
sired degree of rapidity. The capital pathetic cry wrung from the desolate
letter exercises afford the advantage of heart of Coleridge when serving as a
being so closely connected that the stu- private in a British regiment of dradent, by comi>arison. can easily detect goons. It wotild be vain to look fojirregularities and defects in form, and is anything but a perfunctory and unsatrnabled to secure a degree of uniformity isfactory discharge of duty from any
that will add much to the beauty and one who regards in tliis spirit the work
utility of his writing.
Many learners he has to do. Coleridge never rose out
are inclined to think the capitals are of the awkward squad.
The man of
more important than the small letters, culture whom the humdrum drudgery
Kiid consequently apportion their study of every day commercial Ufe affects simand practice in accordance with this ilarly is certain to continue in a corresrroneons idea. The small letters, com- ponding lowly position.
bined in words, should receive most atThe men who succeed in anv branch

M. Bohinaon, of Lafayette, Ind.

even this comparative degree of

That the compendium-now published
have entered their house as boys, have may not be up to the times as the jourgrown up in it and identified themselves nals of penmanship and commercial
with it. It is their world; it satisfies schools say, may be true, I would not
their mental appetencies and aspira- presume to judge; but that they were
tions, and gives scope for all their ener- the first medium offered between the
gies.
They are, therefore, abundantly master and the pupil cannot be gaincontented in it, and the deft and nimble
execution of its most mechanical details
We are well aware that a student in a
is matter of pride to them.
They are school of penmanship has many advanparts of a machine. Is it to be expected tages over the self-instructor, or the prithat the average college graduate could vate or corresponding student. In the
compete on fair terms with such men? school he has usually more than one
Nor must the fact be overlooked that, master of the art, from whom to receive
irrespective of special qualifications,
mere length of service is an important
factor in promotion.
Here, too, our
is at a disadvantage.
While he
cultivating his tastes and forming

student

was

his habits in the groves of Yale

life.

The men who

attain the highest positions in the executive departments of our railroads are

not college graduates, Ttie same holds

in the various departments of government. Few chiefs of division or heads
of bureaus who have worked themselves
up without political influence are
college-bred.
They are, for the most
part, practical business men.
Why. then, it may be asked, do so
many business men give their sons a
college education? Largely, it may be,
because such persons attach an exaggerated importance to any branch of
knowledge or learning in which they
feel themselves deficient; and,
more
legitimately, because they have learned
by cxp.-'i'Irnrn that a certain degree of
Hible

to

plH

a.

It

the
of
not to commence thoir
at the bottom of the diflicult ladder, but are at once placed on
the higher steps and have all advantages
in climbing. And yet, withal, it would
be curious matter for inquiry to determine what proportion of those youths
born with the silver spoon in their
mouths, could better or maintain their
fathers' position.
Lippineott's Montlthj
.

such

men have

business

life

again, he has an op-

portunity to criticise and to compare

not only his master's, but his fellow-students' work,

than

which

is

worth more to him

the copies that he could get in

But, knowing all this. would
it be wise to discourage young men and
women who, from circumstances, are so
situated that they have not the chance,
or any prospect of a chance, to obtain
the benefit of a school or master, from
getting what they can for a dollar, and
thus putting themselves in the best condition they can by self-instruction, for
the active duties of life that may devolve upon them now, or for the opportunities that may come later.
While there are many who could, but
do not, there are very many who cannot
avail themselves of the superior advanall

and the world.

Harvard, his less cultured rivals were

putting four good years to their credit.
It is much the same in other walks of

non -professional

Then

instruction.

tages of the school, and to this latter

class the compendium proves itself an
invaliuible assistant, and its use should

be encouraged by

all

who would

see

progress in the art of penmanship.

A. B. DAhZBlx, McKean. Pa.

The other evening a corner

sulted a lady,

observed

it,

loafer in-

and a man passing, who

in and thrashed

jumped

that loafer all over Ihe sidewalk, so that

the brute was sore, skinned and bruised
felt as though he had been
And the lady thanked the
while the crowd cheered.
"Oh, you needn't thank me
ma'am; I'm glad to do you a service,
and I was going to lick the fellow anyhow. I recognize him as the cross-eyed
pirate who put a bee down my back at
the M useum, 'tother ni^ht, and I 've been

ver,

and

to a picnic.

gentleman,

He

said:

looking for hi

-Boston Post.

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

Penrnafi,

flrneriGari

Published Monthly at

By Clark &

60c Per Year,

single copies

receipt of B

ADVERTISING RATES.
1

Colnmn

$8S 00

CulnniD
Inch

irtcr

S. e

Itioo oi

Vif.

...:;:

rer.

(luoo
5.100

" "S

..

fiO

liaja

Ilendlng matter
line.

Nine words

given on RetidlDg

E. K.

ted

by comniOH, and a period

is

placed

aftr each abbreviation, and after tlie

lost item.
As will be seen by studying

ISAACS.

Article
the models, an abbreviation frequently
For the benefit of those who may not requires both a period and a conniiu
have seen the February number of The after it.
iVo^c The heading is an elliptii-al
Ambuican Penman, 1 will slate that in
my first article I spoke about Materials. sentence. Thus, " Valparaiso, Porter
OUR EXCHANGE LIST.
I also Co., Indians., March 1, 1886," means;
namely, paper, ink and pens.
mapped out the subject of Letter Writ- This is written at Valparaiso, which is
The March number of Th^ Penman^s
Porter County, which is in the State
ing OS I expect to treat it. and those who
Art Journal does not fall below its read the first article will pardon me for of IndiKua, on March I, 1S86.
high standard of excellence in any repeating the outline here.
The Mechanical
respect.
I shall treat of:
1,
wliich will include
The Western Penman continues its Structure of a Letter,

on

for

excellence in the " art "

lastering the

movement

by

muscular movement.

(-niitscular)

ward toward

onward and up-

a lofty plane of excellence

in chirographic journalism.

Until further nol Ice

caab within

BY

eceivc very

i*.

Johnson, Editora and Pro-

prietors. Erie, Pa.

on

LETTER WRITING.

ornamental work, but they should

little attention from the
student before he has laid the foundain

The

(a) Materials,

(fij

Heading,

(c)

Introduc-

Body, Ce) Conclusion, (f) Folding, {g) Superscription. C'O Stamp. 2.

The Penmanship of a Letter. 3. The

tion, id)

The Penman's Gazette comes regular- Rhetoric of a Letter, which will be confined to the more practical divisions of
ly, well-filled with a variety of inter(a) Spelling, (l>) Capitalizing, (c) Punc-

fi

esting

and

etc.

:ui<i

:{;i)i!ii

'\

^<T^^\[[-l1 jiri-

should have read: "Bui letter writing

penmanship business penmanshlp~and ai>penmanship presupposes," etc.
it

l.i

applied
plled

Also In the sentence, "These pens are all of lueiUuiu

flrmneaa," the last word should have been "tluf-

instructive articles peiiain-

tuation, (d) Diction, (c) Construction, (f)

ing to penmanship, short hand, etc.
Miscellaneous. 4. Classification of Lethave received a copy of each of ters. 5. Cards and Notes. 6. Miscelfollowing college publications, all laneous.

Ma

boBiness penmuriHliip,

SPECIMENS RECEIVED.

We

the

SPECIAL INDUCEMENT.

of which

reflect

by

much

credit

upon

C. H.

Jump, Sandusky,

J. C.

Knapp, Rushville,

O.

THE hkading.

The Heading,

a social

in

letter, is

Ills.

ap- statement of the place where the letter

is written and of the time when it is
J. H. Sohoonover, Colo, Iowa.
written. BuBiness and professional men,
ter:
tjefore
persons snbacrlblug
as a rule, have printed headings, desigW. J. Bentley, Union City, Pa.
and
Artist,
Indianapoliti,
Penmnn
When a clnb of
copy one year for 50 cents.
ceive
business
of
the
nating
the
name
and
6 to 10 la sent, It will he furnished for 4S cents each. Ind.
person or firm, together with the place
E. J. English, Cherry Flats, Pn.
Normal Penman, Fort Scott, Kas.
and a blank s.paee for the insertion of
The Amanuensis, New York.
the date.
W. P. Canfield, Cedar Rapids, la.
The heading of every letter, then,
International Budnesa College Journal,
should contain these two items: the
Business College, LaC. M. Rob:
East Saginaw, Mich.
We hiive raatle flrrangenienta with the jinbllsher of
Place and the Date.
fayette, Ind.
Business College Mirror, London, Ont.
the So'iUd-rn Progrpss, n new anil desiiable magaThe Place must consist of two items;
zine published lu Chattanooga, Tenn., to furnish our
The College Review, Lawrence, Kas.
R.
Bales.
Business
C.
College, Bloomthe Post-Oflice and the State. If written
The Lincoln Monthly, Lincoln, Neb. from the country or siuall town, the
the Soiiltiern Prowess one year for {1.00, which is the
SDbBcrlptlon price of the " Pt-ogress" alone.
Normal andScientific Journal, Bloom- county should also be given. If from a
D. L. Mussel:
isiness College,
To All persona Interesting themselves In belarge city, like Chicago, New York, or
Quincy, III.
Pbnuan and sending clubs field, Iowa.
where the mail is delivered by
Teacher and Penman, Smithville, 0. Boston,
carrier, the number and street should
W. H. Sadler, Business College, Baltiforwarded m The AiiEBiCAN Pknman. We lire
Md.
There is a world of truth in the follow- be given. As a rule, the Place portion
to give cash premiums to those securing ilubs,
ing words of Dr. Lyman Abbott, that of the heading is used by oztr correspontlilB rule will be Invariably followed.
teacherR will do wpII to thoroughly dent in his return address to , hence
study. Compressed into a few sentences care should be taken to make it accu
their editors,

its class,

and we desire thoiinands

uud all
January 1st, issc, will re-

l)ea ranee

and

their attractive

interesting reading

mat-

1 all -pani of the t-ouiUry,

ft

PREMIUMS.

'

Jloney Order, Postal Note, or Registered Letter,

here a volume of most valuable

is
thought.
"Tliere is a difference between learning and wisdom. Learning is intellectiNnnsw.'itoW. P. Z. Tlie obli<iue ual wealthi wisdom is intellectual power.
holder lias advantages over any other, Learned men are not always wise: wise
men
are not always learned. Learning
particnlarly for the student and the
tends to give wisdom, but wisdom is by
In its use the
]jrofessional penman.
no means always the accompaniment of
hand is i)erinitted to rest in an easy, learning. Abraham Lincoln was not a
natural position, well suited to the learned man, but he was a very wise
exercise of the muscular movement, man. James I. of England, is said to
and the position and slant of the pen have been a learned man, but he certainly was not a wise man. F. W.
point is more nearly in accord with the
.slant

of

Robertson states admirably

full.

College, Altoona,

consists of the month, day

month, and the year.
D, B. Willit
and Arrangement. The writ^
cago. 111.
ten heading may occupy one, two,

The Date

of the

according to the niunber of

of the words coi

three

lines,

items,

and the length

posing

with the straight holder.

Cure should be exercised in the

lection of an oblique holder, as many

CNo. 1.)
Valparaiso, Ind., Mar. l, 1S86.
(No. 3.)
59 State St., Cliicago, TIL, S-l-'Se.
(No. 3.)
Valparaiso, Porter Co., Indiana,

March H,

struction, are worse

(No.

lS8(i.

4.)

'

them, from their imperfect con

than useless. A
good one holds firmly the i>en, whicl: ing coioes by studying; wisdom by
should fit perfectly, so that its i)oint thinking. Learning comes from without; wisdom from within. Learning is
will be in line with the center of tl;
an acquisition; wisdom is a developholder.
ment. Learning may be forgotten, and
Among the pens most suitable for so lost; wisdom is a pi^rt of the characthe student's use are Musselman's Per- ter, and so will abide forever. These
fection Pen.Spencerian No. l,Gillott's two possessions are the greatest which
No. GO-1, and Isaac's Ideal. There are
other varieties that would no doubt
J. M. Harkins, Calhoun, Ga., says; "I
give satisfaction, but the above named am in receipt of February number of
varieties we know to be good, and your valuable paper. It went beyond
of

S12

Wabash

Ave., Chicago,

March
(No.

W. H. FranzeU, Aberdeen,
and set of capitals.

10, ISSG.

Northwestern University,

Myron Ryder,

professionals

fied to receive favor at his hands.

Ceresco,

Mich., letter

ISvanston, Illinois,

March 20,

isSG.

the heading consists of the postProf. H. J. Williams, Richmond, Va.,

office, State and date only, one line is encloses his subscription, together with
usually sufficient. It should be written a superior specimen of flourishing.
on the first ruierf liTie. beginning at or
near the middle from left to right, and
W. N. Ferris, Big Rapids, Mich., says:
should end near the right edge of the "Enjoyed reading first number of The
If

paper, as
above.

shown

in

Models

and

American Penman.
grand success

for

anticipate a

your paper."

If

-i

of

I>y

Ark., letter

5.)

the county is given, or if the sheet

is small, or the writing is open or running, it may be necessary to use two
lines, in which ease the arrangement
should be as shown in Models
and 4
above. It will be noticed that the first
recommend them to learners, who my expectation in containhig so many line contains the Place and the second
should have good material with which good things on penmanship."
the Date; also that the two Unes end
Prof. C. R. Bales, of the Evergreen even at the right, but do not begin
to ])ractice, if they would secure the
Business College, Bloomington. III., favbest results from their effoils.
ors us with a list of subscribers for The
When it is necesssary to use three
Tlic muscular movement should" be
American Penman. Mr. Bales is a lines the arrangement should be as in
employed almost exclusively by the
fine penman and a prominent business Model 5.
student of plain penmanshii). Other educator of his State, and we are gratiPunctuation
the Headir^. The difinuvemeiits are used

Business

it.

MODEL headings.

this diatinc-

Let us distinguish wisdom from two

things. From information first.
It is
one thing to be well informed; it is
another thing to be wise. Many books
read, innumerable books hived up in a
capacious memory this does not constitute wisdom. Books give it not. Learn-

Bryant's College, Chi-

Position

tlie letters,

hair-line
])Ossible

making a smoother
and an evener shade than is

and

ferent items of the heading are separa-

The

specimen of letter writing

month is from the pen of
Pierson. Elliott's Business
College, Burlington, la.
finest

received this

Prof.

I.

W.

From W. A. SeheU, Alion, 111., a nicewritten letter, in which he speaks in

complimentary terms of The Amebioak
ly

Penman.

From C. B. Higpy, of Rioeville, Pa., a

hearty endorsement of the Lesson on
Practical

number

Penmanship

of

in the

January

The American Pknmak.

THE AMERICAN PEMANN.

Engrossing- hands for youngclerks.
accurate in many respects, is yet of
S.
good use to one who writes upon the 1757.
subject I am treating of, by mentioning
3.
The Young Penman's Practice, in
most of the celebrated penmen, both 1760.
foreigners and those of our own nation.
4.
Two descriptions of Mr. CockerAnd Mr. Thorowgood, though he has ton's wonderful Oyuxstone on two sepaperformed the work of a curious en- rate plates. 1758.
graver, acknowledges that no graver
5.
A multiplication table in neat minI am under no apprehension of letting
health,} the world may still expect more can fully come up to the neatness, spirit iature for the use of the ladies.
my pen run too fast, in the tract of the curious, and useful productions from his and freedom that there is in the author's 6. A new interest table for any sum,
panegyric
etc.
His most capital M. 8. S. are the
hand, a great eeonium from so prttper a
quill.
So many beauties, in every pari/of his
judge." In the year 1754, he published following:

JOSEPH CHAMPION.

years old. After he left Ur.Snell, he kept

a boarding school in Saint Paul's
Church yard; and has been much emW. n. Lotlirop, of South Roston, Mass.]
ployed, as a private teacher amongst
In the account that I give of some of the nobility and gentry.
He is now,
our penmen I am obliged to speak with (1701,) master of the new academy in
But in Bedford Street near Bedford-row, from
iL sort of coldness and reserve.
descTibing the works of this gentleman, whom, (if Heaven prolong his life and
I

''Anno-Dom. 1733, he published from

the letter press, his Practical ArithmeIn the year 1747, he published The
Tutor's Assistant in Teaching Arithmetic, wherein the rules are explained.and
variety of examples given under each
head, with spaces left for the operations

1.
"New and Complete Alphabet,"
A large body of penmanship in
with the Hebrew, Greek and Genuan common ink, addressed and presented
characters.
contains twenty-one to the Royal Society in 1754.
1
A laboriplates In an ot ng folio, engraved by ous and curious performance in 20 folio
Geo. Bickham. There is a dedication
2.
The
city
freedom
the
editor.
ir
print-seller,
in
vellum,for
by
Henry
the
late Prince of Wales.
0\-et'ton, where
it is said that it conIt was principally
to be inserted in.
3.
The Duke of Cumberlands. ditto.
tains the greatest number of alphabets
above these twenty years. He is des- designed for the use of schools, contain- ever yet performed by one person in
4.
The Honorable Mr. Pitts. ditto;
and Mr. Bilson Legg's. ditto."
cended from a reputable family in Kent, ing 40 plates in quarto; the greater part England."

Chirographic performancesappear; such

a masterly conmiand in the execution
of them that they merit a general indiscriminate applause."
"He began very early to distinguish
himself, and to manifest his fitness for
that employ, in which he has since been
engaged with great reputation, for

his

tic.

KCSiteftiipf

T'^irsi/fEATT:
as appears from a monumental inscription in the cathedral church-yard at
Rochester, in which county our author

them engraved by E. Thorowgood

and the rest by T. Kitchin and T. Gard-

Anno Doui. 1758. He began

lish The Living Hands, i c,

to pub"In fine, as the Muses borrow from,

several as well as are friends to every article of
copy-books of the round-hand, round- science, I shall conclude this account of
engrossing
Mr. Champion, with six lines addressed
While Mr. Champion kept school in
his birth-right by a fine raised to cut
There are to him by the ingenious Mr. John LockKing.shead Court, the south side of St. hands and German text.
off
the entail in that infamously
about 40 plates of them in quarto, enPaul's Church-yard, he published The
memorable and destructive year to
graved
by
Messieurs,
Thorowgood,
"No sweeter force the orator bestows,
Parallel,

was a

free-holder, but

many

families, 1720.

"Mr.

was deprived

of

of

text, Italian, runnirtg-hand,

or Comparative Penmanship in
1750, exemplified in four of the greatest
original foreign masters, viz: L. Materot,
Italian of Avignon, 1604.
L. Barbe-

Champion war born at Chat-

county aforesaid, in the

year 1709, and received his education
partly at St. Paul's School in London,
butcliiefly under that eminent penman,
Mr. Charles Snell, who kept Sir John
limn,

in the

an

dor, a

Frenchman.

1647.

J. V.

Veldp,or

Van den Velde, Antwerp. 1G05. and

Ambrosins Perlingh, a Dutchman,
Amsterdam, 1079, It contains twentyJohnson's free writing school In Foster- four oblong folio-i)lates, with his picture
lane near Cheapside, with whom he at the beginning.
Mr. Thorowgood
afterwards served a reguhir apprentice- engraved it. The whole is an elaborate
*'lilp, and so well qualified was he then
and curious performance; prefixed to
for buRiuess, that he taught in a numer- this Parallel, there are four pages of
OU8 public school before he was twenty letter press work; which, though not
J.

Kitchin, Bailey,

Howard and

Ellis."

When

Our author wns likewise a great enI'ourager of, and contributer to that
very large and elaborate work, Mr. Geo.

Hows;
art.

And any lines prove ple-osing when you write."

Mr. Champion, since above was writhas published a grand and elaborate
work, entitled The Penman's Employten,

ment, containing choice variety of ex-

amples in alt hands of England. It contains 44 large folios which Mr. Champion
began in 1759, and finished in 1763, the

deserve public notice.

1.

lips the graceful period

When double strength attracts both ear and sight.

Bickham 's Universal Penman, for which

he df^signed and wrote 47 folio pieces,
wherein is exhibited a delightful and
exquisite ^variety of penmanship, both
for use and ornament.
He has published some lesser pieces, which well

III;

from his

Then words receive, when by thy matchless

Charming the eye, they slide into the heart.

The Czar's speech to King William

engraved A. D. 17.
whole engraved by Mr. John Howard."
I

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

PENMANSHIP

IN

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

NAL, HAKTFOHD, CONN.

There is no branch of popular education that stands in greater need of good

teaching to-day than writing, and yet

and

by actual exi^erience
the public schools, and ii

slanting parallel lines,

schools perhaps more fully so.

very handy to have a leaning <
aptitude in any given direction, it
much capital to start out i
with,yet without practice it avails noth-

After the oral lesson, the children may

arrange the sticks by themselves, and
copy the positions on their slates.

tually dispelled

in

find objects

each position.

Education hy

Dotrif/.

There is more acquired skill in SUGGESTIONS TO AMATEUR PENMEN.

there is no branch taught in the public the world than born skill: 90 per cent,
schools, or in the greater part of them, of school children can become good
BY C. Q. PRINCK.
that receives less of good instruction, or writerni, if properly drilled.
coiTect treatment.
Observation, and
One of the most common errors into
SCHOOL SHOULD MAKE GOOD
conversation with teachers and school
which young and inexperienced penmen
WRITERS.
during the post year or two,
beHr out this statement. I have heard
such remarks as: "I wish the writing of
my school could be improved."' fall from
the lips of many principals in recent
years.
There is need of a general
brca/d/ig away in many schools from

ing.

olllcials

old

methods

of instruction.

When

this

done, there will be a general and decided improvement in writing in the

public schools.
The first step, however, is the adoption of some plan by which regular
teachers, male or female, shall be required to be as competent to teach
writing as any other branch they may
have to deal with. This will be not
oidy a gain to them adding to their
other accomplishments but will also
add dignity and worth to a branch of
education that has long been treated
as a sort of foot-ball in the educational
scheme, to be kicked out or in at pleasuretolerated but not treated as an
equal in the school curriculum. Teachers are not to be blamed for this state
of things.
So long as school boards do
not require them to qualify themselves
to teach penmanship, they will not take
the trouble to do it. Let school boards
or other competent authority require
teachers to be proficient in this branch,
is

largely in the public schools, and thus

do away with the necessity of sending a
boy to the business college, except he
desires to extend his

knowledge and

power with the pen, and develop into

the skilled pen-artist? We can send him
out a ready writer, and that is sufficient
to carry him through all ordinary work
in commercial life.
Do the principals
of our public schools desire to bring
about this result? I aui satisfied that
they do and are ready to weed ont and
cast

away

old

and

effete

methods and

take on something better, and this not

to please any authors or publishers who
may have books to be considered, but
for the good of the rising generation
and the uplifting of the standard of
writing. Let there be a long and strong
pull by teachers in every grade, from
the principal down to the lead-pencil

and good results will surely follow, which will be a sufficient reward
for the labor bestowed.
classes,

The next article of this series will be

devoted to the method of beginning and
the lower grades
to do whatever she undertakes^-she in public schools, that has produced the
will surely excel.
As a vast majority of best results wherever faithfully and per
department teachers are ladies, perhaps sistently followed.
I am justified in alluding to sex.
Male
teachers, in general, should pass an

and with woman's well-known power conducting writing in

equally strict examination. When this

is done, we shall not hear those careless,
off-hand remarks about writing that so
often escape teachers' lips. "O, I am a
horrid writer," said a teacher to me not
long since, and many times I have heard

Provide each child with several short

about the size of matches.
(Wooden tooth-picks may be bought by
the bos, 500 or more, for about ten cents.
such remarks from teachers, and with These may be kept either in small
boxes,
so much of nonchalance that they giving one to each child,
or in one large
seemed to enjoy the distinction of being box. from which they may be distribu"horrid writers" rather than to consider ted.
it a defect, and by so nmch a loss to
The teacher may take a stick and,
their store of accomplishments.
I am
holding it in a vertical position, ask the
anxious to prolong my terrestial career children each to take a stick and do
the
to the day when teachers in public shall same. Ask some one
to draw a line to
be (is sensitive to their style of writing look like the stick as he is holding
it.
as they are to their proficiency in ortho- Let theiu find several things
in the room
graphy. We shall then have a high in the same position. Tell
them this
standard of writing.
position is called vertical.
The next step to take after securing
Ask 80]ne one to stand in a vertical
the first, and to be taken whether the position, or hold a slate or
book in same
first is fully realized or not
is to break
position.
Have the class repeat: "I
away from old and unnatural methods hold my stick in a vertical position. I
instruction
of
in writing methods that hold my slate," etc.
have been tried and found wanting
When this is learned, the teacher may
and pursue those that the best teachers hold the stick in a horizontal position,
everywhere follow and get good results asking the children to do the same.
from; such methods as will not only Place the slates horizontal. Have them
give the young lad of ten years a good draw this line on the board, and find obhandwi'iting and should he be obliged jects in the room in the same position.
to quit school at that age, something Give the term horizontal.
that will serve him every day of his
In what position are the walls ? The
life but if he stays to pass through the ceiling?
The floorr The legs of the
full course, a handsome, well-rounded, table? The top
of the table?
and fluent style that will pass muster in
The slanting position may next be
the insurance office or bank,
taken, and term given.

sticks,

must accompany his transition from the

work bench to a desk in the private
office, where it is as necessary to be able
to understand accounts as it is to be
versed^in mechanics. Ho, too, the young

law student may have, at the very outset

of his career, the possibilities of becoming the director and controller of great
aggregations of corporate wealth if he
only understands business records as
well as Blackstone and the Code. The
same principle applies in every vocaExperienced and skillful penmen invar tion, and nothing is handier to have
riably select their materials with the around than a business education. Nor
greatest care, as they are fully aware of is this very difficult to obtain. JVewathe fact that no amount of skill will Lctter,
serve to produce a beautiful page unless ink, pen and paper are of the best.
Another fatal tendency of the young
penman is toward the use of superfluous flourishes in his writing. Many an
aspiring genius flourishes up a letter
specimen in much the same manner in
which he would a bald eagle, or a bounding stag, and then regards it as a nmster-piece of art.
He labors under the
idea that if he would gain a reputotion
as a great pen artist, he must execute
only the most intricate forms of capitals
and throw as many compound curves
around the small letters as possible. He
should learn that more skill is displayed
in the execution of a single page of perfectly plain, systematic writing than in
a whole ream of flourished letter specisf^nvA^/^imffcssnxfONfsonAR:.
Our various penmen's papers can undoubtedly do much to improve the style
of writing now in vogue among a large
class of penmen, by presenting copies
for imitation, more simple in their construction, and devoid of useless and un- papiT.subalantlBlly b

the use of coarse, inferior vapens and muddy ink, the latter being often of a blue or green color,
which always betrays a deplorable lack
of good taste on the part of the writer.
fall,

Admitting the value to every young

person of a good command of the pen
in starting out in life and
public
opinion is about unanimous on this
point why not let the work be done

the operations of a great manufactory.

That is if he has prepared himself to
take advantage of the opportunities
which present themselves to him; if, in
other words, he has acciuired the knowl
edge of commercial transactions, whicli

is

rieties of

VOLUME FIRST

sightly flourishes.

WrlUDg, pboto-eDgra

WHY MEN

It

FAIL,

jDit

Mch

ACRdemy.^High Schoc

up to their highest
iddrew,
Some fail through celplofONE DOLLAR"
nerve. Tney are un-

timidity or lack of
willing to take the risks incident to life,
and fail through fear in venturing on ordinary duties. They lack pluck. Others
fail through imprudence, lack of discreThey
tion, care, or sound judgment.
over-estimate the future, build air-castles, and venture beyond their depth,

and

and

fail

Others, again, fail through lack of apand perseverance. They begin

with good resolves, but soon get tired

and want a change, thinking

of that

much

better at something
Thus they fritter Hfe away, and
else.
succeed at nothing. Others waste time

they can do

and money, and

habits

CLARK & JOHNSON,

CLARK'S BUSINESS COLLEGES,
Erie, Pa.,

fall.

plication

tobacco,

fail through ruinous

whisky and beer, spoil

po8lp&Id, apt

and Buffalo, N. Y.

Johnson's Lake Shore

Home

Magaxine.

Prominent umong the fcutures

will

lie

sertos of

HOM.^NCES AND REALITIES

OP THE UNDEROUOUND RAILHOAD, as opera-

Tlirming Historical

ted In this region a greiicratlon ago.

Choicest RcaOliie:, Literary and General, for

Young

them

for business, drive their best customers from them, and scatter their

prospects of success. Some fail for want

of brains, education, and fitness for their
calling.

nature,

Home Magazine

Theylack a knowledge of human

and of the motives that actuate

Co.,

810 State

qualified themselves for their occupation by practical

men.

St.,

(L'td.)

Erie, Pa.

They have not

education.

A.

Youift's Pilot.

H.CAUGHEY&SON,
Stationers

Book-sellers,

A BUSINESS EDUCATION.

Every young man should aim to acquire a thorough business education

ALL SHOULD WRITE WELL.
What part of the desk is slanting? thorough knowledge of how business
With proper instruction from the be- What part of the house? In what posi- transactions of a complicated nature are
ginuhig to the close of the pupil's com- tion are the easel and blackboard?
conducted, and a clear record of them
mon-school career, a large majority of
Place two or more sticks parallel, and kept. It matters not what the young
pupils should leave the highest grammar have them do the same. Lead them to man's station in society or aims in life
grades in possession of a handsome see the lines will never meet. Let them may be, this is an ec^uipment with which
handwriting.
The notion in vogue find OS many parallel lines as possible in he should provide himself. The young
twenty years ago that penmen are the room.
Then let them place the man who is to-day driving rivets may,
"born writers," has been pretty effec- sticks forming vertical, horizontal and in ten or fifteen years' time, be directing

Also Steel Engravings, Arto-Tj'peg,

Pioture Frumeii.
GOLD PENS, feVYLOGRAl'HUJ HKNS, BOOERS' FAf

0*A Liberal Discount on Uoolcs

Teacliers and large book buyers.
8I Stale

St.,

to-

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,^

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

CLARK'S BUSINESS COLLEGES,

LESSONS $1.50,

50

Continued inquiry with reganl to "Instruction by Mair" has induced me to

prepare

of 50

Lessons
Writing

A Course

EliEeiE]. ^-f^-, aCLd-

in

H.C. CLARK.

^"CriF^^f^X-O, ^T- -ST-

.-.--.-----..^-

JOHNSON,
CLARK & JOHNSON.
C.

A Course

ol

U.

President,

Secretary.
Proprietors.

150 Lessons in

Flouristiing.

W. H.

[of EXKBGISES,
OABErS, Word Cople*,

Slocum'.s School of Stenography is

now

associated with these Colleges.

tbe SIaikIbi
Seotai

lotj

s' Capitals

of Fane; Oapllulu, Muacali

ILL03TBA>

plea,

wi-o, ...^-vJHodetpllcIPBINTBD INSTRUCTIONe,

MOTEUENTS, poaltloD of

proporOone,

il

50-LESSON C0DB3E IN FLODBISHTNQ

>

.',

ALL FEE
priD

oipllclt

pi ot

'"",

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81

Ji.

83.00.

.T.oCouriM ....on).

3*12

mI;
BUI Note.

Bftr

Mo """'"

B. K.
,1

N.

I.

Schools,

Twelfth Edition

Class-Sook

of

oomparison

BKliUrea Lattai

ISAACS,
Valpara

ISO.

Now Ready.

Comnsrdal-Law

SCHOOL AND COUNTING ROOM,

A

Plain, Practical Explanation of the

By

C. E.

Laws

CARHART,

President of the Alhantj Business College

* Used

the leading colleges aud

schools throughout the United States
in all

and Canadas.

Siasle Copies, J 1 .OO.

For circulars or specimen

a
Albany Business

E.

copies, ad

CARHART,

College, Albany,

N.

GOOD PENMANSHIP.

The Coal and Iron Exchange Building,

rk->^

Buffttii

Bus

Collegv

is

located.

the world.
tical and actual business training
The course of study embraces the most thorough and complete the
_th equal advantages.
Scholarships good in either College. Students may enter at any time
'
titling the holder to all the advantages of the Commercial Course, and
LIFE SCHOLARSHIP, good
of reviewing at any future time,
V $50
r I'.iiilalo at $3.50 per week.
Good board can be had in eitl
\t.-.- as conducted between the two cities, affording advantages not approached
Students enter into actual biiM
advantages
\ i>uiit,' men and women to attend either of these Colleges, as eciual
by any other Business College.
.
^.^ to be had in each school.
The Institutions are in direct communication with the leading business men in aU parts of the country, and students
securing honorable and
are helped to the best positions obtainable, as graduates from these Colleges have no difficulty
i

'

.1

GRAND THING FOR PENMEN.

Penmen who desire first-class ink and lucrative employment,

^.wish to have it fresh and reliable, can
two splendid receipts to make Jet
Black Ink and Carmine Fluid in such
quantities as they desire, at one-tenth
jf^di^TOSS
of the cost at stores, by inclosing 26
cents and addressing

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t,p

Prof. H. Russell,
Drawer 3,175, Joliet, III.

CLARK
Erie,

&

JOHNSON,

I=a..,

pleased to furnish infor-

secure

or EMffalo,

3Sr. "^

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

BOOTS and SHOES.

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tell yon, boys, many of our suc- ourselves will ever materialize, but when ideals of performance, or of beauty,
call to our conception that which is without whiph we should not desire
cessful men are not ashamed to admit
that the oil of birch helped them to grand in human achievement, there is either beauty or good performance;
nothing which we picture in our minds, consequently these serve to elevate us
their success.
ays we see and hear a great that we can say we are unable to accom- in respect to character. You may have

THE CHRONIC GROWLER.

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He's such a cranky man.
of djity, and in it you see a motive for
such a duty. This is better s
ADDRESS OF HON. J. F. DOWNING
Another young
this example.
woman may conceive his ideal in another
way. He may have a great deal of money
and find his ideal of duty is in being able
He may
to help the poor and needy.
spend his whole Ufe and fortune in doing
My young friends: I am not an edu all he can for them, and thus finds the
cated man or a learned profeflsor, com
summit of his ideal. Abraham Lincoln
petent to instrufit you in any branch of
was another young man who devoted
science, or to give you useful informahis fortune to the wants of the suffering
tion in regard to any subject relative to
and for the abolition of slavery. A
human knowledge;! have not the know- Princess. I do not remember her name,
ledge, and if I had, I have not the tuue
also devoted her life and fortune in the
to prepare an extensive and elaborate
same way. Her ideal of duly was to do
lecture, but what I wish to bring before
all the good she could in the world.
you thif* iiiorning will be whatever
is another way in which you
call out from the recessea of my mind,
and which has been stored there in may seize upon and accomplish the same
thing. A person who has no ideal of
years gone by.
Any one who has an opportunity to duty, chararter^ beauty or performance,
lowest round
store knowledge throughout life, will is sure to remain on the
ladder of fame, and rise no higher.
find the trouble, that men will be able to of the
retain only about so much, and we for- A person may not, necessarily, have the
ive learned formerly, same ideal all the time. The ideal of
get that which
about as rapidly i we learn the new. the man is very different from the ideal
as myself, forget of the boy. Several instances 1 rememSo business me
In those days,
e of what we learned ber when I was a boy.
that, or at least s(

He growls about the Holy Writ,

He growls because he can
He growls because he's bound to
;

in youth, and if w
the times, we uius

to keep up with
ontinually learn new
ivish

hardly know what particular thought

you this morning. I suppeople wont soiuething
which will be held up to them as models.
Many of you are here probably by quite
a sacrifice, or personal inconvenience.
Some motives, which are honorable,
bring you here. All young people
shotJd have an inspiration, and I have
even heard business men say they would
go to New York or Philadelphia for an
inspiration to give them help to push
their business more energetically and
I

to present to

pose young

successfully.

man will live in the

much as in the present,
young men of our large

middle-aged

future

quite as
the

cities.

ially

espec-

upon the beautiful and not feel the

power of that beauty. I would not give
a cent for a picture which did not possess at least one figure that is beautiful.
There is something in such a picture,
even though it be but a figure of a head,
which flUs our ideals of that wiiich Ib
perfection in art. It is a constant souroe
of pleasure.
Every time we gaze upon

What you expect to become, interest*

you more than what you are now; the
inspiration of the future, and what you
would like to be, is your ideal. Have
you formed this ideal yet? What is it?
What is your greatest conception of life?
of you are too young to picture to that picture, or any beautiful object,
yourselves what you would Uke to be; our eyes will rest upon its beautiful
of you, who are here; are old points, and we will feel the power of ingh to have your ideals fully pic- spiration, for it cultivates our higher
tured in your minds. It is necessary nature. A piece of statuary wUl bring
that you should understand this, and to your mind the perfect in art.
have it in your mind, before you will be
In closing, I want to say this: It doeB.
successful. Some young people will say, not do us any good to have these idealB,
what is the use of having in your mind or to picture in our minds that which Is
an ideal of what you would be, or what best or noblest in man or woman, if we
you want to accompUsh? We may have do it for the simple satisfaction, whioh
in our mind an ideal man or woman, and may pass so quickly. We must be able
you will wish to do as well as this man to appreciate these ideals, and they may
or woman, and thus it wiU help you.
be good, bad. or indifferent. The idei^
We are limited, more or less, by our is that, as I have said before, whioh Is
surroundings; we have grand concep- the noblest or the best conception at
tions in the mind, but we do not always the mind.
Therefore, it certainly beundertake to bring about that which hooves you to have in your minds that
If we have which is the most perfect.
will give us the results.
Then what
these ideals we must so conduct our- you must do is to go to work and see all
selves, so direct our efforts and so apply the good you can. and allow those ideals
our energies that we can see the fulfill- to serve as your inspirations. Perhaps
ment of our ideals. It is said that Mich- many of you cannot see the importanoft
i

ael Angelo, one of the greatest seulpters

we had large stage coaches, drawn by the world has ever known, became so
four horses. I would see the coach, as enamored with a statue of one of the
came through the town in which I great masters, that he caressed it, until
lived, with the driver seated on top, it showed the marks of his hands upon
cracking his whip at the horses, and I it. This formed in his mind a concepthought I should he happy if I could only tion of beauty; it enabled him to form
be a stage driver. That was my ideal an ideal of beauty in art, just as the
of happiness and beauty, when a boy. study of Belvedere is said to represent
remember of a school teacher, who the perfection of the human f
I
told me that his ideal, as a young man, is the same with the other statues, Danwas to own the span of fastest horses iel and David, which he made. These
on the road, but when he grew older he were all great works of art. This coi
did not care for such things. Take a ception, the ideal of beauty, helped hii
farmer, for mstance; he must have, for to bring out his ideal the more perfectly

of

so

much

learning.

You

point to

some man who has been successful In

life and who is making money, and say
he did not goto school after he was twelve
years old, and why should you not do
well as he has done?
Education, in
itself, is hapiiiness. and it will make yoQ
a better man or woman. When you gat
older you are glad to get this chanos^
but the boy is apt to think lightly of
these things. You cannot easily consider, in everyday duties, anything that
is too difficult for you to do.
It is just
like the conception of many of youp
earUest duties. You go into a gyionahis ideal, a successful farmer. No mat- in his work.
slum and see those who are performing
ter whether you are satisfied in life or
So it is if you go back to the age of wonderful things, and showing great
not, your ideal should be to rise higher. Moses, when there was no such thing strength; you attempt those same
feats
He had a revelation
If a man wishes to learn to be a ma- H8 architecture.
and find you are unable to do them. Tsj
chinist, a carpenter, or become master of Mount Sinai, where he was taught by to lift a heavy weight, and you fail; but
any other trade or profession, he must God how to build a tabernacle. Whe
try to take a smaller weight at flrit;
have an ideal or he will
he came down from the Mount to hi
the first day you are able to lift b|^
There are many men at the foot and people, he did not tell them howto build little, the second day more, and so <X^
a tabernacle, and say that he had had a until you attain the maximum of yo^"
few at the top of the ladder of fami
there is always room for good men at the revelation, but commenced it at once. strength, and you wiU be surprised to
It was an ideal of beauty to his mind. find that you are able to lift so muo!!^You must have your ideal
top.
This ideal of beauty resulted in the same It is possible to limit ourselves only by
business man, otherwise you will
poor driveling creature, never rising way in the building of Solomon's Tem- our capabilities. The way for you to do
ple.
to the true dignity of manhood,
is to try and develop your ideals of life
must have these patterns before
There is another way in which we may in the same way.
which, it is true, are the creations of the have ideals, in regard to certain things
Whatever your ideals of life are, you.
mind. A oaetle In the air is something concerning the development of the must try to attain them, or they will be

it

things.

more

We must
plish, iintil we have tried it.
have these ideate before us otherwise
we have nothing to serve as an inspiration.
So I say this ideal, which every
man and woman should have, and which

your ideal of a perfect man, woman,

horse, or any animate object, and Its
contemplation wiU elevate you.
It Is
impossible to study such without feeling
young man, and I mean
the improvement in ourselves. Whi
too, who has no ideal,
especdo
you
think
of
being,
is
a
man
or
a
woman
is necessary for our well
they can hope for
ally important to those in middle life. cannot see any beauty in the lofty u
ideal, in its proper signification, means
were, three lives; tlie life of tain and winding valley t I havi
the highest or noblest thought, and is We live, as it
the
Past, the life of the Present, and the respect for such persons, they show a
the highest and noblest part of the
We may not only
life of the Future. The life of the present lack of education.
character, or that which is most grand
enjoyments of the present, see the beauty in such objects, but we
and magnificent in nature or action. comprises the
which we realize may feel an improving influence from
There are four classes ideals of duty; moment, and those
the
past
the
Ufe
their
contemplation.
No man can go
most vividly: the Ufe of
ideals of character, ideals of beauty, and
From one of of the old man, who lives in the past as out in the night and see the stars, whioh
ideals of performance.
much as in the present. I saw a Parisian are all worlds greater than ourown,ajid
these classes you must choose. Now, an
were
made
which
which
were
by
the
same Creator,
day,
in
picture
the
other
ideal of duty is very wide in its range.
three old soldiers: one of them was without being made better by such a
Let me give you an example: A young
marking
on
the ground a map of a sight. Who can view the Falls of Niagout
was
he
and
said
fall
last
me
came
to
man
fought. These old ara without feeliug the grandeur of
an engineer, earning a small salary, and certain battle he had
soldiers were Uving in the past; they that magnificent scene, or go West and
that his parents were old and not able
He wanted to were recalling to their minds those see those lofty mountains, the tops of
to do much hard work.
with which are always covered with snow,
buy a farm for them and pay for it him- scenes of the past which were filled
self.
He said he was without family and sorrow or joy These men could not so and not be improved and have better
would pay for it as he could. That to much enjoy the present, as they could thoughts ? Whether we go down to the
hhu was an ideal of duty; he had pic- the past or the future. A young man or things of nature or not, no man can look
deal about ideals. Now, an ideal is a
important thing. It is said that all
have their ideals. When I see a

He growls about his laundryman,

Me growls about the tailor
He growls about the fit of things

These men lived

smaller towns around these cities, and

went to New York or Philadelphia, and
compared business life there with that

at home. They there found everything

and everybody rushing. You will
the same thing in Chicago; everybody
has not the time to walk along at 8
ular and easy step, but they go in a
rush.
So these men go to these cities
that they may get inspiration to push
things. So young men may get inspiration by observing the energy and bustle
of those about them. In country towns
the boys at school need a little oil of

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

You miist have
of no value to you.
tbee ideulw and conceptions of character, and sliould try and live up to them.

drtmti of

the party to

whom the

letter is

written.

and

introducThink about them, and they will lift tions above are complete, inasmuch as
address;
you higher and higher in the scale of they give the full name and
are incomplete.
beauty and moral culture; you will then the first and second
model is used,
be able the better to see the moral at- If the first or second
should be* written
tributes of character. When it relates the name and address
the letter in the lower
to the elements of character or the per- at tlie close of
foniiance of duty, they will serve you as left-hand corner.
The .S'a^wtoi/o/i. In social correspondhelps, and then you will be better able
salutation should be
to fulfill the ambition of your ideals and ence, the form of
relation of the
attain the mark of successful manhood. governed chiefly by the
writer to the person addressed. Among
the expressions used are: Dear Friend,
LETTER WRITING.
Friend
Friend,
Kind
Friend,
My Dear
BT E. K. ISAACS, VALPARAISO, IND.
Minnie, Dear Friend Ocorffe, Dear
Article TIT.

THE INTRODUCTION.

The Introduction to a letter may

consist of one, two, three, or four lines,
as shown in the following

MODEL INTRODUCTIONS.
No.

1.

/)car Sir:

No.
A. H.

Hlnman,
Dear

No.
A. H.

2.

4.

Hinman,
Sir:

No.
A. H.

5.

Hinman,
79 Madison

St.,

Worcester, Mas)i.

Dear

third, fourth,

fifth

is

line.

The punctuation mark

tation,

may

in social

after the saluor friendship letters,

be a comma, or a

dash;

comma and

correspondence,

business

in

colon, or

a colon and a dash.

The body is the communication itself,

exclusive of the heading, introduction,
As already stated
and conclusion.
above, when the introduction occupies
one or two lines, the first line of the
body should begin on the next line be-

the introduction occupies more

than two lines, the body should begin
Father, My Dear Mother, Dear Parents, on the same line with the salutation.
2he Margin is the blank space at the
Dearest Jane, Dear Mias Hammond,
Its width is governed
left of the page.
In busmess letters, the ordinary salu- by the size of the sheet; in note paper
tations in addressing a gentleman, are: from one-fourth to one half inch, letter
In address- paper from one-half to three fourths
Sir, Dear Sir, My Dear Sir.
ing a firm or a number of persons: Sirs, inch. Care should be taken to keep the
Dear Sirs, Oentlemen. To a married marginal line straight, and parallel with
In ad- the edge of the paper.
lady, Madam, Dear Madam.
low;

if

/'ara.cy/'p/jj*. Like other composition,

ried lady, the
may be used, or the saluta- a letter should be divided into parabe omitted, her name only be- graphs, according to the different disconnected subjects of which it treats.
ing used.
Position and arringcment of the Tntro- Each paragraph, except the first,should
duc'/ion. The Introduction should be- begin about three-fourths of an inch to
A little
gin at the marginal line at the left, and the right of the marginal line.
on the first line below the heading. attention given to margining and paraIn using Models 1 and 3, the body of graphing adds much to the appearance
the letter should begin on the first line of a letter.
CONCLUSION.
below the salutation, and just at the
The Conclusion generally consists of
right
When either number 3, 4, or 5
is used, the body of the letter should the Complimentary Close, and the Sigbegin 071 the same line with the saluta- nature.
The Complimentary Close is the term
tion, and about one-half inch to the
right.
When writing on note paper or of endearment or respect preceding the

Sir:

tion

may

note heads, as a rule

it

is

preferable to

bring the salutation back to the mara letter Bhould ginal line as in Model 4. If letter paper
contain the full name and address of or letter heads are used, the arrangethe person to whom it is written, as well ment may be either as in Model 3, or
ns the name and address of the writer, Model 4. unless the address should be
so that in ease the outside address on very long, when the arrangement of
the envelope should be effaced and the Model 4 is preferable, thus:
letter go astray, it could be restored to
Iviaon, Btakeman^ Taylor & Co.
either party. The heading and signa755 Broadway, New Yorkture furnish the name and address of
Dear Sirs:
the writer; and the introduction, when
written in full, gives the name and adIf four lines are used for the introducIt

Model 5, it is best to begin

the salutation back at the marginal
tion, as in

salutations
Sir.

Worcester, Mass,

Dear

The

desirable that

signature.

Among

the most common

correspondence,

should be signed with the fidl name of

the writer. In writing to a stran>;er, a
lady should sign her name in sucli a
way as to indicate not only her sex, but
whether she is married or single, otherwise her correspondent will not know
whether to address the answer to 3/r.,
Mis
Mrs.
If the writer wishes the answer to his
letter directed to any other place than
that given at the heading of the letter,
he should write his directions under the
signature.
Position

and Arrangement of the Conclmion.The Complimentary Close usu-

ally occupies

but one

Your friend.

Yours sincerely.

Your true friend.

Yours

FOLDING.

Note Paper and Note Heads. Fok\

the lower half up so as to have the bottom edge nearlv meet the top edge;
then fold the right third over to ftie
left, and the left third over to the right.
The directions presuppose that the
first page of the paper is turned up, and
that the envelope is adapted to the
paper. If the envelope is square, as is
frequently the case in fancy stationery,
the paper requires but a single fold.
The crease last folded shouUl be inserted into the envelope first
MODEL CONCLISIONS.
No. 1.
Yoi/rs Pfs/jccffully,

No.

'n.

Wis.

No.
Very RcsncetfuUy,
\

r obedient
"'"'iitttt. .jwt/i*.i.,
Servant,

D. M. Hendet
No.

4.

Respectfully,

(Miss) Jennie Lemuel.

yours, etc.

The Signature. As a

Henry C. Smith.
With address.)

Yours very truly,

B. M. Woodinff.

affectionately.

Your sincere friend, Ever Yours, Your

Loving Wife, etc. In busines:* letters,
or in letters to strangers or mere acquaintances, the following forms are
appropriate: Yours, Yours Truly, Truly
Very PeYours, Yours Pespectfutty,
Youra Pesp'y, Very truly
apcetfully,

but when

Folding a letter is a simple operation,

yet it is often very awswardly performed. The following directions will
aid the inexperienced:

expre.ssions for social

are:

line;

very long, as in official letters, it may

occupy two or three lines. In either
case, it begins on fixe first line below the
body, either at the middle of the line,
or a little to the right or to the left of
the middle, depending on the size of the
sheet, and the nuoiber and length of
the words composing it.
The signature is written on the nest
line below the Complimentary Close,
and should end near the right edge of
the sheet.

rule,

all

letters

[TO

HE CONTINUED.]

'(.

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

The

AnieriGari

Published Monthly

Slnf^Ie

copies of

TnK

PeFiniati,
60c Per Year,

at

PEXMANSHn*, in some of the Busi- find it a neat and attractive journal,

ness Colleges, has been so simplified fully up with the times, and it deand overhauled that the students are serves to be a regular visitor to all who
beginning to wonder what these are interested in fine penmanship."
schools are for but to teach a busiC. E. Simpson, Saco, Me., in a skillness education, and if penmanship is
not used in business,

how

long has

it

been since some of these commercial

schools found

own

idea of writing,

along in that

m wui give

r.

WW
paylDg

SPECIAL INDUCEMENT.

practical

liave

made arrangements with

the pabllaher of

Is

the

Bnbscrlption price of the "Pcoffress" alone.

To

all

half of

peraons

Interesting

TOE AMERICAN PENM

all

forwarded

to

this rule

subscript JODfl

PsNMAN.

The

premiums
wUl be Invariably

We

when
means a good

is right.

Book-keeping, is now identified with

a Clark's College at Buff'alo. He has a
host of friends who will wish him.l

abundant success

L.

Christopher,

Danville,

111.,

"The American Penman

is
it

as a

com-

one
has

D. H. Farley, the popular penman

J., in an
elegantly

of Trenton, N.

"Your American

written letter, says;

Penman

make room
competent accountant, who
obliged to

in his

new

field

of

labor.
J. H. Topping, Newburgh, N. Y.,
encloses specimens of flourishing, in a

well-written letter,

and

tiikes

time to

" I

am

well pleased with

vestment

for

The American Penman."

say:

Mr. T.

my

in-

is

at Erie.

CLARK'S PROGRESSIVE BOOKKEEPING.

is

This

new work was

lished,

and

is

recently pub-

complete

treatise

for a less

A. N. Palmer, editor of the Western upon double-entry book-keeping, in

is a much
Penman, has removed from Chicago to one and two volumes.
better penman.
Is this consistency?
Cedar Rapids, la.
We wish him a Part first treats of Mercantile BookWell, we are of the opinion that good
keeping, in a plain and commonfull measure of success, and hope he
writing will come out ahead in a
manner.
It
contains
one
will be as happy as a young sparrow sense

hand-to-hand contest.

upw

in his

W. Merchant, Kansas

City, Mo.,

New

hundred and s^ij^een pages, printed

upon eighty pound book paper in

manship Department of Clark's Colis making rapid improvement, and his intentions are to stand
at the head of the profession.
We
hope he may.
lege at Erie,

writes a fine business hand,

N. E. Young,

location^

A. E. Scheithe, a student of the Pen- two colors,

P.

JOHNSON.

fi-iends

It is a rtmarkable fact that often a

good book-keeper who writes poorly cents as a subscriber."

J.
&.

F.

PERSONAL MENTION.

Or<ler, Postal Note, or Beglsiered Letter,

CLARK

much

knowledge of accounts.

followed.

Remittances should be made by N. T. Draft,

Money

prefer

my

of the spiciest penmen's papers

says:

they will practice

secuiins clubs, and

to give cash

send

a credit to yourself and

the profession.
Enclosed find fifty

is

tgress one year for$1.00,wlilcti

That

club."

only seventeen, but his writcuted for perpetrating a fraud. Do of Business, Lock Haven, Pa., sends ing would do credit to many of the
you not know that the public patron- us one of the best written letters for older penmen.
He evidently is a supeize your institution quite as much for the month.
the penmanship as anything else, and rior penman, and shows his apprecia'
Prof. E. D. Wilcox, late of Rochesif you do not give proper instruction tion of The American Penman by ter, N. Y., is meeting with marked
in that branch, your college should enclosing his subscri])tion for the success as instructor in the Departclose its doors.
"Teach your boys same.
ment of Stenography, Clark's College^

plete

Chattanooga, Tenn., to furnlah onr

up another

S. S.

so well pleased with

to

been my lot to receive, and I have

than any copy that a teacher
ceived a great many. Success to y(
can write, we do not bother our
efforts."
heads about it."
Poor misguided
college man, you ought to be pr
W. G. Christie, of Christie's School

handwriting fully as

e published In

am

better

they become men,"

\'e

want

that I

it

" Please

says:

letter,

right copy."

when we have engraved copies for

him to follow; as they are so much

that which

PREMIUMS.

and work

ting

Spaulding, formerly Professor

send me three more copies of the of Actual Business Practice, and assoMarch number of The American ciate author of Clark's Progressive
written

fully

"we believe Penman.

There is no need
penmanship,

line.

teaching

of

Until further n
per cent, from a

Principal,

jenr.

11

"Why, young

out.

it

man," says the

in allowing the student to select his

ADVERTISING RATES.

thoughts and sugj,'estions, which I

have not found in any other paper of
It.is a great help to me in
teaching the beautiful art. Am get-

the kind.

Straitsville, 0.,

pages of the

presenting

Day Book,

Book, Ledger, (the

real

written

Journal, Cash

latter in

two

styles),

and also Trial and Balance Sheets.

The Book complete is specially

arranged for use in Business Colleges,,

The value of business education is writes a beautiful letter.
while volume first is intended for"
something that cannot be estimated.
J. H. Topper, of Waterford, Pa., is
A. B. Katkamier, Farmington, N. Y.,
Normal
Schools, High Schools, Acadthe
assignments
of
majority
A great
favors us with a beautifully written now pursuing a course in the Pen- emies, and for self-instruction.
The
and failures in business could be

avoided by properiy educating the

business men. The problem, "How

letter.

McKee & Henderson, Oberlin, 0.,

one which favors us with a beautifully written
to Succeed in Business,"
has occujiied, or should occupy, the letter.
attention of every young man in
W. H. Lothrop, of South Boston,
This problem admits of
America.
but one solution, viz.: Make a thor- Mass., favoi-s us with a beautiful speciObtain a solid men of letter writing.
ough preparation.
foundation in the way of business
The Wilton (la.) Review pays a very
education at some first-class Business
handsome compliment to Prof. A. E.
A thorough business trainCollege.
Parsons, the popular penman.
ing lies within the reach of every enis

young man. If his means are

M. H. Barringer, of the Western
and it is impossible for him Business College, Gatesburg, III., says:
to obtain a thorough classical training, " The American Penman is a neat
he should be stimulated the more to paper and worthy a large circulation.
ergetic

limited*

which lies within his reach.

The average young man, by his own

j^rasp that

J.

H.

Cottle,

Fort Tottcn, Dak., en-

(wertion, within the space of twelve closes in a well-written letter several

months, can earn money enough and beautifully written cards. In his let-

complete a

course

Business College.

in

What

first-class

excuse can

be made ? The time when "ignorance

was bliss" has long since passed, and
to-day the world admires the successful man.
Get a thorough business
training and you have a foundation
upon which to build a successful life.

ter

long as your paper

profession.

practical.

2d. The student

S. S.

Packard,

New

with a copy of his

in the

tion,"
It

is

is not burdened
Turk, favors us with a superfluous amount of theoriz-

" Practical

form of

Evolu- ing.

" a souvenir."

the best thing of the kind

we

K.
promises
E.

Isaacs,

ship,

mens

Aberdem,
of card

beautiful.

Ark., encloses speci-

writing that are very

In his
"

Valparaiso,

Ind.,

to give a lesson in flourish-

letter

is fine,

and continues

at hand.

improve.

It
I

characterize

tliis treatise.

,h.
Each set is followed by a
the next number. He is a
plete analysis of every transacmaster of the pen, and our readers tion, with the reasons therefor,
theremay expect something good from by furnishing a key to the entire
work.
him.

6th.
The old and new styles of
Ledgers are fully and clearly illustrated, with proper explanations.
Clark's College at Erie, is now teacher
7th.
There are fourteen pages of
of Penmanship in the Buffalo College. real business writing, photo-engraved
C. G. Prince, formerly Secretary of

He

is

a very skillful

penman and an from

finest specimens of flourishing that

has ever been presented to The

he takes occa- American Penman. It will probably

of appear in a future number. He says:

to

proved methods of presenting them

ing in

The March number

Thk Amekican Pkn- The American Penman

3d.
Great care has been exerci8edt>
in the gradation of the work, and if,
is entirely free from complications.
4th.
The principles of Book-keeping are ever the same, but the im-

have ever seen.

keeps up the standard it now has, you excellent teacher.

can rest easy that you will succeed."
W. P. Richardson, Business College,
W. H. FranzeU, teacher of penman- Fayette, 0., favors us with me of the

sion to say:

Subscribe for

"As

be says:

manship Department of Clark's Col- authors claim for this work

the follege, and he writes a beautiful hand.
lowing points of superiority
He intends to make penmanship a
That the transactions are
1st.

*'

I find

that

The American Penman

(March number)

is

full

of

copies prepared by H. C. Clar^

and is a superior method of presenW
ing the Day Book, Journal, Caa^*
Book, Ledger, Trial Balance, Etc., to
the delight and profit of the student8th.
The forms of books hereiix
illustrated are such as to present the*
most economical and labor-saving
plan for a book-keeper to follow; in
short, complications are reduced to a

'.

minimum.

-This work is not intended aa

grod' a mere book of reference, but is a

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

desirable treatise upon a most important subject, of which every pei-son,
irrespective of his position, trade, or
calling, should have a full and complete knowledge.
10th.
This treatise is published in
parts, with :i view to its better
adaptation to tin- needs of all classes

twn

Vohmie second
is

a clear

now

is

ready, which

and comprehensive

treatise

Tlie
on Corporation Hook-keeping.
work, as a whole, is probably tlie best
and cheapest treatise of double-entry

hook-keeping jniblished. or at least it

the latest, and eoUoges or schools

is

adopt a work that is

to
their
needs,
specially adapted
should see a cojiy of this book. The
desiring to

foUowint;

chpped

was

testiiimnial

from a recent issue of The Bvffulo

Commercial Advertiser, and is only one
from among many others commending the work

"We
and

commend

cheerfully

comprehensive

new

book

text

})ook-keeping by I'rof

H.

C.

of Clark's Colleges, Huflalo, K.Y.,

Erie Pcnn., which

on

Clark,

and

destined, in the

is

opinion of the best accountants and

business men, to supercede

all

other

works of the kind, and to become the

PRACTICAL PENMANSHIP.

Lapaybttf., Tnd.. March 33, 1886.

80 every fine penman can testify, but
Clark.
there is a plainer straightforward course Prqf. H.
Dear Sir In the last issue of The
to pursue, and if followed success is assured. We shall now invite the readers American Penman I gave a few hints
If there is oue branch of education attention to the first lesson in Practical regarding movement, and promised to
more than another that is crying ont Penmanship published in Thk Ameri- continue the lesson, but with your perfor better methods and improvements in can Penman, and if you will take the mission I beg leave to call the attention
teaching, it is the subject of prac- clause where the position of the hand of those interested in learning to write
The lessons upon and pen is explained, you will read a good, free, legible hand, to a few imtical pentnaiii!iliip
portant facts.
Many young penmen
this subject in previous numbers of
think that a good handwriting consists
The American Penmas, were such as
of a combination of flourishing, dashing
to bring out many hearty commendaand slashing, including all the backtions, not on account of tbeir great
action combinations that can be inventlength, but because they were practical
ed.
I have received several calls from
and plain. The student has been told
young penmen during the year, and in
that if he lacks proper discipline in
every case when they took up the pen
movemeats particularly the muscular
he can not make much, if any. progress, and see what is needed of you as a stud- to show a specunen of their penmanship,
they started otT with either a bird or
which is quite true; but there are other ent of penmanship.
mattei-8 of great interest to the student
The proper position is the easiest and some such character as I have menof penmanship, and he would naturally most natural one that the writer can tioned.
Any good business man would be so
say to himself, "I have practiced these
plaguy movement exercises until I am
The position at the desk should always thoroughly disgusted with such a disfully convinced that I can not master be a healthy and desirable one, we gen- play that he would not have the young
have also noman
in his employ.
I
them,'' and thus he toils day after day, erally recommend the front position,
ticed that these extreme flourishers were
night after night, without noticing any as the writer is lees liable to throw the
very deficient when it came to a plain
apparent change for the better. Well, weight of his body on the right arm, practical handwriting.
I think many
what shall he doV He may stop practic- which should always be perfectly free. teachers encourage too much of this
ing and then he will see a change, a hor- As regards movement, we are inclined to spread eagle work, and in order for the
teacher of penmanship to be recognized
rible one too perhaps. He must go ahead. favor the whole-arm movement, for the
by the business men as a public beneHe must take new courage and push use of the student on taking his first factor, he must get down nearer to a
ahead. The obstacles are almost insur- lesson in writing. The movement con- common-sense basis and produce pracI should be pleased to
mountable, but he must climb, and now sists in carrying the arm above the tical results.
hear from any of the fraternity on this
you watch him as he enters anew the table, independent of any rest, except subject.
race to win. He begins to gather about the hand resting lightly on the nails of
Very Respectfully,
him different books and papers treating the third and fourth fingers, the action
C. M. Robinson.

LESSON

IN

BY

//..,.,..,.,

V/,./r^^y_ ,^,^^..,.^

H. C.

I,.,.

CLAHK.

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shindard of authority in practical upon the subject of writing. He tries coming from the shoulder. I am well
The first his pen and tests his ink to see if it is aware, that many professional teachers
instruction on that subject.
black and flowing. He examines the object to the whole-arm movement ir
volume of lUi i)ages is printed on
paper, for possibly there is the fault, any form, for the student's use. Bui
the finest heavy-weight tinted paper, and so he continues to scrutinize everyfrom several years' experience in teach
and is handsomely bound in richly thing about him, to see if everything is ing, I am convinced that a student will
The work right. A new thought has come to him, master the fore-arm movement much
embossed cloth cover.
complete will be published in two one that he is disposed to ignore, but (luicker, if he first become acquainted
volumes, neatly printed in two colors, no, there is something whispering to with the whole-arm movement, before
him "Watch your position, watch your attempting to use any other. The folupon HO jjound book paper, presentposition " and so he begins to wonder lowing exercises I would commend to
ing real written pages of the Day what it all means, and at last he finds the use of the student for thorough and
Book, Cash Book, and Ledger, the that he was pinching the pen holder. He careful practice with the wholeVolume first was using the finger movement part of
latter in two styles.
contains one hundred and twelve
of

pages, treats

printed

T RY
Could
Could

brief code for youths

show

Power

its

Try

Down by
Slighted,

and men;

all-pervading

would pen,

in progress, I

Magic words

it.

these, born in heaven;

thoughtful angels hurled;

man

to

doom

driven;

is

Heeded, they give man the world;

Try it.

Luck

Judgment wed

is

to

Labor;

Pluck, the handmaid of Succe-s;

Toil to Truth should be a neighbor;

Honor

Mercantile

IT

write, with ink unfading.

One

brings her

Try

own

redress;

it.

Book-keeping, elucidates the principle

of double-entry

common

in

sense manner,

practical

Starry orbs yet call the student

and

movement, and

and presents

the time and something else, be does

not know what, the rest of the time.
and words, carefully defined, which
His attitude at the table is anything
to
every
student
of
indispensable
are
but good, and he is about ready
accounts. This is a standard work to give up, when he is prompted again
to
be
carefully
studied
by
with that mysterious whispering, "push
ought
and
those who desire to be careful ac- ahead" "push ahead" and does push,
even if the table and everything on it
countants."
go with liiin, he is bound to push.
Colleges and schools intending to But now, dear reader, while you are
a large

number

of commercial terms

introduce book-keeping, or to make a

change in text books, are cordially
invited to write for further particulai-s.

Address,

Clauk

&.

Jojixsox,

Erie,Pa..orBuf1hlo. X. Y.

to use thesai
connection with the forement, which was explained in a former
in

issue of

The American Penman.

advisable for the student to

spend a greater part of his time in
study, as there can be no lasting results
without it, as practice alone is insufficient to create good writing, which must
combine legibility and rapidity as the
most important elements. The small
letters should receive careful attention
at the hands of the student before
spending very nmch time with capitals,
as good writing is estimated from the
striving to master a good hand, do not coiTectness and fine appearance of the
get discouraged. It is always the dark- small letters, more than in the use of
Diligent practice and
est just before day. and you are just as capital letters.
certain to win as you are to work on. study must be combined, in order to

There

is

consider

it

no royal road to good writing. insure good

results.

Earth's past age

Nations

seek-

still

unread;

the wise, the prudent;

Throngs and armies must be

Try it.

How

led;

did Watt to steam give morion?

Locke, trace purposes of n-ind?

How Columbus cross the ocean?

How did Luther change mankind?
They

tried

it.

How did Homer write his epic?

How did Scott compose his lays?
How did Mendelssohn, his music?
How did Shakespeare write his play^?They
Thus

it

tried

it.

was, will be forever;

' To be " man has in view,

Man must live with firm endeavor
Well to think, then plan, then do;
If

Try

it.

T. C. yudkint.

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

EARLY ENGLISH PENMEN.
JOHN CLARK.
[Speclaliy prepareO

W. a. Loibrop,

forTHB Aubkican Tbhuan

i>j

of SoQth Boston, .Miiss.)

This is one of our British worthies,

who took greflt pains to hiiprove that
useful brunch of learning, true and natural writing,
lu the year 1708 he published his "Penman's Diversion," in the
nseful hands of Great Britain, in a free
and natural manner. He was then in

twenty
engraved by George Biokhaiu.
1712 he published a second entitled "Writing Improved, or Penmanship Made Easy in its Useful and
Ornamental Parts, with Various Exam-

his twenty-fifth year. It contains

plates,

Anno Domini

ples of

all

the

Hands now Practiced

general rules work

harshly or inconveniently in particular
cases. But they are defensible on the
ground of the greatest good to the greatest number, and are deWsed and established on tliis theory.
Hence it comes,
and rightly comes, that a State is not
bound to place and wear a blister on
the face of its civilization and integrity
because one person or six persons can
be found who would make gain from
the State's humiliation. The law executes criminals and puts them away in
a prison, when not only their creditors
but their families would prosper by having them at large plying their vocation
and their franchises, if they had any.
Such are the fatalities of grovernment
established.

in

and

of civilization

Moacoe

Conktinff.

this work 10,000 books were disposed

and the plates were quite worn out.
His last work was "Lectures on Ac-

Of
of,

counts, or Book-keeping after the Ital-

ian method, by Double Entry of Debtor

and Creditor," published in the year
7U2.

Hediedintbe

1736, in his ,J3d year,

even

1,000 barrels.

The charges for car" Oh," she exclaimed,

advjuice of our civilization.

Get the rying it will be"
best you can, make the most of it you "the traui stops just beyond our farm,
can, push on at once for something bet- and if you'll put me up a gallon I'll carry
it myself,"
She was shown the corner
ter. V/ch/-^/ Cabot Lodge.

grocery without unnecessary courtesy

a compromise a compact
or deUberation. 2Vd-627s
in which indixiduals surrender portions
of their interest for the sake of the benSubscribe for The A
efits inuring to them and the whole
body of members. So general rules are
Society

is

Them

A CASE OF TOTAL DEPRAVITY.

Probably there isn't on record a clearer

Watch Their Company, case of total
juvenile depravity than this

to

and Beware of Spiderlegged Dudes.

Ch1c.\G0,

March 20. Sam .Tonesclosed

week with a sermon to

his labors for the

girls only.
nt.

There were over

Among

4,500 pres-

other things, Mr. Jones

An
Girls, watch your company.
heaven could not keep
some company that girls do in Chicago
and not be corrupt. Pure, noble girls
stand alone on this earth for beauty and
glory. Boys go in bad company, but
the hope of this land is in its pure girls.
Oh, be vigilant guard your parlor. Beware with whom and how you go to enangel from

Little Phyllis J.,

a girl of five very ersummers, was behaving in a par-

ratic

ticularly obstreperous

manner the other

Nothing oould induce her to

calm down and be a good girl.
"Now, Phyllis, I think tliere is notlt
ing that will make you good except fe^
say your prayer. I want you to oon^B
with me into the library and kneel don^T
and say your prayer, and then I'm BUiwf
you will be a better girl."
She allowed herself to be led into the
room and, sure enough, knelt down
cahnly and said her prayer with sweet-

evening.

and humility, closing

ness

" Dear Lord, please bless

it

thus aa

my

papft

and my mamma bless me and make m^

a good girl Amen."
And then jumping up and stamping
:

her foot violently

"There, mamma, you got left that

" Tell me what your associations are,
time " Boston Record.
young lady," he continued, "and I will
give you a glimpse of your history. Is
"Knowledge is power. * Knowlhe an exquisite dancer ? Does he wear
edge is worth having, and therefore
perfect pants ! Is his hair parted eleworth seeking. * We speak of the
gantly in the middle? Does he clerk in
utility, of course, of real knowledge,
a big establishment at $00 a month and
which is knowledge that is yours and is
spend $40 dollars a month for board, $30
available.
Real knowledge is useful
a month for carriage hhe, and $20 a
every way. Looked at in its coinmerolal
month for theatres ? Does he convince
value the worth of it passes figures, for
you that he has not a stingy bone in his
the man who has a particular knowledg
body ? Do you think he is just nice ?
wanted in a particular exigency, obtains
Where does he get his money ?
almost any terms he has the faoe to
I am in love with these wool-hat and
!

'

'

He starts at $30 a
month, sticks to business and the woolhat till he gets a thousand a year then
he gets to be junior partner, then senior
partner, and finally ownsthe whole block
where he does business.
You styhsh
girls do not hke him.
Well, he likes you
just about as well, -for when he wanted
a wife he went back to his country home
and married plain Mary, and for a few
years it was love in a cottage, and
now he has a residence on Michigan
Avenue.
Girls, tie to these wool-hat
boys, and they will take care of you.
"A beautiful girl of this city," he said,
"arranged to attend a wine supper last
jean-pants boys.

week.

When

night came she sent word,

The true teacher joins his soul to

those of his pupils.
He infuses into
them his own enthusiasm. The growing
pupil is the one who thinks, and not the
one who simply remembers. This accounts for so many bright boys amoimting to nothing as men. Brightness
dullness aa a standard in school la a
false one. iZcu. Dr. Crosbu.

^^^

Sir William Hamilton said:

"Tha
highest end of education is not to dlotate truth, but to stimulate exertloOi
since mind isnot invigorated, developed,

a word, educated by the mere p088esion of truths, but by the energy deterin their (juest and contemplain

mined
which have absorbed saying, I can't go my heart has been
so far the forces of his Tama.Principal touched at the meetings.' Now she has
brought three of her associates here with
Bancroft^ of Philtipa Academy.
What do you want of wine supher.
pers ? Oh, mothers, no matter what
HER FIRST SPECULATION.
the devil may owe you, if he sends you
about thi'ee drunken sons-in-law he will
A verdant housewife, fresh from her have paid the debt, and you will receipt
rural home, came to the city to purThen, girls, watch your tempers.
in full.
chase various household necessities.
If a girl is ugly to her mother she will
She glanced timidly about her, and was make it warm in her own home, if she

evidently confused by the countless

shops which took the place of the village accomodation store. There was a
bucket-shop near by, with the usual
OPINIONS OF PROMINENT MEN.
sign over the door, " Stocks, Grain, and
Work for the highest and best meas- Oil," She read the words, and entered
"I want to buy some oil,"
ures, but when there is no moral ques- the place.
tion involved, do not, by insisting on the she said. The proprietor gave her a 1unattainable, lose everythhig. The polit- per-cent. margin smile, and winked at
tical history of the English race is a his- the telegraph operator to get some Oil
tory of compromises.
The greatest City quotations. "I I want to buy a
achievement in institutions and govern- great deal." The bucket-shop man wonments of modern thues is the Constitu- dered if his safe would hold all the martion of the United States, and it was a gin money. " I can buy 60,000 barrels
tissue of compromises.
Compromises, for you madam," he said. "I don't want
when they are not compi-juiises with as much as that.'* " Or 10,000 barrels-"
eternal wrong, as in the case of slavery, "1 don't want as much as that." "Or
in the great

Tells

'

lectual pursuits

Hillingdon church

have been steppmg stones

He

tertainments. The best way to go is not

Human nature in Great Britain differs to go at all."
little from human nature in Ireland.
Mr, Jones then indulged in a long desThe Irish peasant has struggled within cription and denunciation of the perthe last seven years for a vindication fumed young man. He also described a
of three great principles, which are now chase
of young ladies after a spiderbeginning to be fully appreciated by the legged dude,

Great Britain." It is a very useful book,

and has been well received by the public.
It t'onsists of thirty-one oblong foUo
plates, with his picture in the front, and
is dedicated, in the edition of 1714, to Sir
Samuel Stanier, then Lord Mayor of
London. In the letter press work before English, Scotch and Welsh, namely, the
it, there is a preface; an introduction to
natural right of the people to the soil,
the art of writing; and an epistle of the the inviolability of the homestead, and
engraver, George Bickham, to the read- the assertion of true economic hberty in
the domain of industry. In fighting the
Our author also has three jilates dated cause of the land for the people, in re1713, in George Bickham's J^nmian's sisting eviction, and in rebelling against
Companion. About the year 1714 there imposition by a class of a rent tax upon
arose a dispute (occasioned by their dif- the fruits of labor, the mahgned, halfference of opinion about standard rules) starved Irish peasant has not only shaken
between huu and Mr. Charles Snell, both the shackles of landlordism from off his
excellent masters of the pen; which was own limbs, but he has half broken the
supported. I am sorry to say it, with links of the agricultural slaves in Great
too much heat and animosity.
But Britain as v/e\\. Michael Damtt.
as I shall have occasion to mention
It has been said, almost too often, that
that disagreeable affair under Mr. Snell's
during the past few years the colleges
account. I shall drop it here, and only
have been making great advances, that
observe how pleasant a thing it is
they have been raising new standards,
to see great proficiency in any art or
that new methods of discipline have
science, mutually assist each other, concome in, and new methods of teaching.
nected together by the bands of friendThe college age has been rising, so that
ship, and an obliging behavior.
at least a year of studyand I sometimes
According to his son: Mi^ Clark was
think almost two years of study has
born in the year 1683, at Rotherhith;
been thrown back upon the secondary
liis father had command of a Guineaschools, which formally the colleges cared
man, which, in his last voyage, was lost
for.
A man must go to college better
upon tlje Goodwin sands. His grandprepared than he was in the forties and
father was captain of a man of war in
the earUer sixties. He must go with a
King Charles the II's reign, and for
distinct moral purpose, with a better
bravery was honored with knighthood
training as to his will, his fancies, his
and the hand and anchor given lum for
imagination, as well as in all those intelhis crest, which appears under Mr.
Clark's picture prefixed to his "Writing
Improved,^ or Penmanship Made Easy."

SAM JONES TO THE GIRLS.

All

ever has one.

All the girls

who talked ugly or saucy

to mothers were asked to stand up.
There was no uprising, not one,
"Mothers," he added, " overhaul your
libraries.
A young girl once said she
was terribly bored by reading the Bible,
The poor, silly, sap-headed thing "Some
mothers fix their daughters to be damned.
They insist on having Uttle parties for
!

their children.

little

party

is

party in short clothes. Then comes the

big party, and then the hugging german, I want to have the grass growing
on my grave when my daughters are
After the Gerattending germans.
man, then what V 1 will not go further.
Take the words of a profound priest,
who says that at his confessional nineteen out of twenty young women who
had strayed ascribed their fall from purity and virtue to the influences of the
ball-room."

A
many
cess.

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growing interest in this subject will
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I

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WHY PENMAN
During

cess

few years

FAIL.

of

work

la the

pennianBliip I have met many

the itinerant rank) and suc-

field of

penmen

my

(in

perched upon the banner

of

but

few. What are the causes of their illsuccess? I deem them to be in the main
carelessness, negligence, lack of iuterest

volume first of Clark's Pro- lution in public sentiment regarding

Bookkeeping and the Ameri- penmanship; it would be at once and lack

of energy, because they do not

Now is placed in the foreground of the arts, intend to follow teaching and are only
for one year.
using it as a stepping stone. They folmanship recently issued by the Spencer the time to subscribe.
for in point of general utility and
low tlie old beaten paths and fail to
Bros., Washington, D. C, is an excelpossibilities of artistic effect it sur- keep abreast with the age. Now these
The Spencerian Business College, passes all others.
The style
lent work in every respect.
failing penmen cry out against the
preThe Washington, D. C. which is ably
is simple, practical and artistic.
The general estimate of the import- public and say their labors are not
But as a general thing
gradation U most judicious and care- sided over by Mr. and Mrs. H. C. tance of writing is influenced in a appreciated.
Spencer, recently celebrated itsjinnual great degree by the cliaracter of the their work is placed far above its
ful, and the plates reach the climax
commencement exercises in Albaugh's teacher and advocates of the art, and genuine value.
of the engraver's skill.
There are some who love the work and
Opera House in a most fitting man- if these be persons of culture, educayet do not meet with the success they
The value and importance of a good ner.
U. S. Senator Voorhees, of tion and ability, they can easily enlist had hoped for. To those I would say',
hiuul writing can not be over estimat- Indiana, delivered the principal adand maintain the interest of all for discard the old false notions and fill up
ed, and if any of our readers are so dress, which was a masterly effort.
the- vacancies with those of more modern
themselves and their profession.
unft.irtunate as to not possess the The American Penman extends contimes.
Discard the use of copy books
ability to write easily and gracefully, gratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Spencer
Among the letters received at the and the black board. Give your class
individual instruction, and a little more
desire
to
console
them
by
saying
we
upon the deserved iJ0i)ular)ty of thuir office of the American Penman those movement; point out the faults in every
tliat it is possible under the tuition of institution.
from tlie following persons deserve part of the work, and show how they
a skillful teacher to learn practical
special mention on account of the may be corrected.
The next number will contain some elegance of the writing:
penmanship in a very short time.
Encourage your students, stimulate
beautiful specimens of business writH. Klausman, Minneapolis, them and urge them forward.
C.
And above all don't let the preferWe desire to boom the American ing, a lesson in penmanship, points of Minn.

gressive

The Xew Standard

Practical Pen-

and accordingly

Pe.vma.v,

extend

invite our

liiendri

to

help

lation.

We

think the paper has suf

its

circu-

Penman

interest concerning the

coming con-

vention of Business Educators, bioone of our leading

en

H. Oliver Boyd, Manheim, Pa.

S.

A. Wyatt, Jackson,

S, L. Caldwell, Jackson, Mo.

and penman, editorial comments, etc.
John T. Perry, Rockwood, 111.
and
Do not miss seeing the June numJ. W. EUis, St. Joseph. Mo.
esjieoially to all those interested in ber, and if you are a subscriber invite
O. A. Freemyer, Hossick FallSj
The future your friends tosubscribe. Remember N. Y.
the chiragraphic art.
numbei'S are to be unusually good in the paper will be maileil for one year
J. H. Cottle, Fort Totten, Dak.
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every respect.
James Connolly, Cleveland, 0.

merit to place

ficient

favorably

before

the

largely

it

public,

copy of
Progressive Book-

1st for fifty cents, or with a

is

Clark's Progressive Bookkeeping

meeting with general favor, and a

large

number

of business

:es

of the class

work

select the

for

influence you; but

see that

them and

Mist^.

grajihical sketch of

vol. 1st of Clark's

keeping

for

one

The

papers

creditable

office

of

The American Penman:

colleges

If

the

it

to

the best

of their

chet-i'ful

work goes wrong keep up a

countenance and persevere.

The success I have enjoyed during

several years teaching has been in a
great measure due to individual instruction and the attention given to
movement.

following

have been received at the

dollar.

they execute
abihty.

Brother Itinerant, wake up; soon we

must fill the places, now occupied by
the professionals; therefore, "let us be
up and doing," that we may take up
the work where they leave off and push
it forward nearer completion.

From
high schools, etc.. are
Pen)nan^s Art Journal, New York.
tlie work.
It is published "Why teachera of penmanship fail?"
Penman^s Gazette, New York.
complete in one and two volumeS; that have appeared in the penmen's
Western Penman, Cedar Rapids, la.
E. A. McPhkrson,
and patrons can be accommodated in papers from time to time, we may inLone Star Penman, Dallas, Tex.
Albion, Pa.
April 39, 1886.
either style ofbindhig. Either volume fer that'there is quite a general recogSt. Ckarles College Gazette, St. Charles,
sent to address post paid for one nition of the fact that teachers of pen
Mo.
The American Penman is a comMich.
Btisinecd
Detroit,
The
Worlds
parative new venture with Prof. H. C.
dollar, or the complete work for two manship, as a class, do not meet with
The School Balletin, Syracuse, N. Y. Clark, president of Clark's Business
the success in the advancement of
dollars.
College. Erie Pa., at the helm. Prof.
IndianJournal,
University
Easiness
good writing that wc might reasonably
the various explanations of

academies,

adopting

The
vited

attention of our readere

to

the

able

and

is

in-

interesting

expect from the numbers

the profession

and the

who

zeal

follow

and de-

apolis, Ind.

The Business School Register,

dotte, Kansas.

Wyan-

appears in this number votion to their calling that they

InterruUional Business Colkge Journal,
from the pen of Prof. S. S. Packard, usually display.
cue of the leading commercial eduWe may also infer that there is an Altoona, Pa.

article whicli

Clark possesses the ability and entermake a great success of his

and judging from the liberal
patronage already bestowed, he will
undoubtedly come out a winner, T/c

prise to
journal,

Lone

iS'tar

Penman.

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

A DILEMMA.

present of some fine books, and

what we

wa

still better, gave him some kind

words of advice and encouragement.
There has been no greater public
The reputation of being asked by
benefactorof America than Ex-President
A young lady to writ; in her autograph album, Wheeler. Born in the lowest poverty,
And having kept the bonk twoyears,moreoriess, he knows what every young man must
And then not wrilten in it
encounter before he can suet
Or to take the pen against a host of doubts and Among the books which he presented
to the subject^ of our sketch is Willard'i
And by once writing, end them? To start; to Universal History, which he still has ir
his library, though it is yellow with age,
To write! perchance, to make a blot Ay, On the fly leaf is written in a neat hand,
there's the rub;
"Homer Russell, from his friend W. A,
For in that darksome blot what feelings are
Wheeler, February 23, 1852.
Shown forth nervousness, distrust of self,
The father of Prof. Russell was a
And many others! Not as
prosperous farmer, and upon the advicf
When one is writing to his girl, for then
of Mr. Wheeler determined to give his
If he should make a blot, he draws a line
son a good education. His mother, who
'Round it, and says
for years had been a school teachf
It was intentional, and meant lo mark
Vermont, heartily seconded her
A place where he did kiss. And she
band's scheme, and to them he
Believes the yarn, and kisses it, and thinks
everything. He always took delight in
That she is happy.
good penmanship.
Among his first
Boston Globe.
teachers was F. C. Ellis, a veteran teach
er, who has been at the business fully
forty years; to him the Prof, owes much
for getting the right start and for many
encouraging words of advice.
In 1860 he placed himself under thi
instructions of Prof. D. T. Ames, then
Principal of the Oswego, N. Y'., Business
College, and after completing the course
he struck out as a teacher of writing.
He took a thorough academic course
and always drew around him a large

To

write, or not lo write, that

Whether

it

is

is

the quesdon.

nobler in the mind to suffer

<

believe,

owing

to the

wisdom and

foresight of its enterprising proprietor.

Professor Russell, who has adopted a
practical course of instruction suited to

lie

There

before us.

can be no question that the business

schools of to-day are as progressive in
essential matters of education as any
schools in the land. The fact has come
to us as the result of the last thirty
years of constant effort to meet the
growing public demand that there is aa
abiding want for the best work that
can be done in training yoimg men and
women for business pursuits.
At first the prejudices and active hos-

the wants of the people, and thoroughly understands his business and attendit;
this, together with his energy
and fine ability.are the chief elements of
his enviable success. Judge MoRoberts.
Ex. Vice President W. A. Wheeler, EiState Superintendent S. M. Etter, and
every Mayor that Joliet has had since
the Joliet Business College has been in tilities which were ext^ited in schools ot
existence, all combine in hearty coiii- general culture against the innoviitioa
of business colleges were placed undnr
luendations of Prof. Russell."
Many teachers after spending a few a kind of social ban, and their work wa
years in the business usually retire to not fairly recognized and their position
more congenial business, or less irksome in the educational field not accorded;
labor.
Not so with Prof. Russell; he but as they grew in strength and united
has always been in love with the work purpose, and as the work they did
he has been teaching upwards of twen- proved so efficient in placing thelt
ty-five years, yet he seems as young and pupils in paying positions, they soon
fresh as if he had just opened his first came to assume the position in public
ing to

His handsome, manly face esteem which tended to break down the
school.
seems to inspire every student with barriers of opposition and left to them
whom he comes in contact with a love the field which they so justly earned,
He is receiv- and which they will hold so long as they
for the work before him.
ing thousands of leters from ex-students are faithful to their ideals.

It

is

the

whom he put in a way to earn a living, business of the Association, through Its
and of whom he has made good business convention, to perpetuate the hold of
men by the excellent course of instruc- commercial schools upon the public, not
tion, and the example of a pure, blame- only by directing attention to the work,
less life.
From these letters he seems to but by so improving the work that
draw inspiration, courage and energy there can be no doubt of its efflcienoy.
The convention to be held in New York
for the good work before him.
In closing this sketch, perhaps a few next summer ought to be by far the best

number of private students, afterwards mottoes that Prof. Russell has adopted
he made it a regular business of teach- for his school, would be fitting, among
ing penmanship.
For nearly five years which are, "Work and think,"
his labor was mostly in the western
it battle they only prevail,
"In life's e
states, and few, if any traveling teachWho daily
:h onward and never say fail."
ers ever made better successat teaching.
"A wretched, weary life is his who h
When he started to get up a class he set
about it with a will and energy that Qo work to do."
knew no such word as fail. In 1866 he
KOMER RUSSELL.
heard that Joliet, 111., would be a good
place to start a Business CoUege.and his
conjecture proved to be a good one,
The subject of this sketch was born in and his school has met with magnificent
My Dear Mr. Clark: Yon ask me to
Bombay, Franklin County, on Septem- success from the very outset. In 1868 prepare for your paper an article relatber 9, 1839, ana if* now in his forty- he was married to Miss Christina ing to the coming convention.
I shall
seventh year.
Like most of our promi Shreffler, a daughter of a wealthy in- be glad indeed to comply with youi
nent men, he was born upon a farm, ventor of Joliet.
Thev have three (luest in the best way, and perhaps the
and by hard and patient toil when a bright and beautiful children.
best way will be to leave as nmch
Prof. Russell has a fine home furnished
child received that nmscular developpossible for the imagination of your
ment which was the foundation of in luxurious style, a handsome library, readers. It is known to you, and to all
excellent health and physique so neces- besides a bank account that shows that intelligent teachers of our specialty.that
sary to every person who would succeed. he is a No. 1 financier. Upon the death the Business Educators' Association has,
Prof. Russell came from New England of his father on last September, he was during the past eight years, done excelstock. and is descended from theRussells left a very fine property which, together lent work, not only in directing public
of England wlio have done so much to with his already comfortable property attention to our field of labor, but more
make a liistorical name in English his- that he had already acquired by his especially in inciting the teachers and
tory.
On his mother's side he is related own business sagacity and shrewdness, proprietors of business colleges throughto the "Wrights, his mother being a first it leaves him decidedly well fixed. Very out the country to more fidelity in their
cousin of Silos Wright, once Governor of few persons possess such a variety of work.
It is simply impossible for a
New Yprk,and for many years a United talent as Prof. Russell
band of intelligent teachers to come toThe readers of the PcnmarCa
States Senator from the Empire State,
Jour- gether and exchange views without
nal
and
a
large
number
but now long since deceased.
(The
of other publi- exciting renewed interest, and leading
brother of the Professor. Hon. Horace cations to which the Professor is a regu- to better and more permanent results.
Russell, of New York City, is regarded lar contributor, can testify that his The tendency of the teacher is to run
by all well-posted lawyers in New York sound sense; his brilliancy, yet purity of into ruts and stay there. This does not
City to be one of the ablest and best style; his sharpness of statement; his grow out of indi.sposition to labor and
posted attorneys of New York; he served precision of arrangement; his sharpness investigate so much as out of the disfor nearly ten years in the trying posi- of thought; scathing sarcasm; his mag- position which most of us have to ride
tion of Assistant District Attorney in the nificient mastery of English, and his hobbies.
city, was Judge Advocate General on apparent fairness and freedom
from
e are quite apt to think that the
passion, all combine to make him a work we do in our particular schools
tlie staff of Governor Cornell, and served
as Judge of the Supreme Court in New charming and interesting wi-lter. As an is the best work that cn be done, and
orator
he has few equals, and he is, to there is a natural tendency to repel
Yolk two terms. In 1878 he was married
to tlie daughter of Judge Hilton, and use the language of the Joliet Bepubli- that kind of information which may, in
can "the very soul of the Philosophical any sense, prove to us that we have not
lias now charge of all the law business
of Mrs. A. T. Stewart, for whom his Debating Society of this city, and his hitherto done all that could have been
speeches command the closest atten- done. The skeletons that are in our
father-in-law is the administrator.)
One of the leading daily papers closets we do not like to have paraded
Prof. Russell at an early age evinced a tion."
marked pleasure in reading and study, of that city hos this to say of the instipublic, and neither do we like to open
and became proficient in many branches. tution over which he has presided for the door for a private view any oftener
He was a great lover of history, and re- the past twenty years with marked abil- than necessitated to do so. The sharp
membered what he read with remarka- ity and success:
and friendly controversies which grow
We liave frequently alluded to this out of the discussion Tof matter and
ble exactness.
Before he was fifteen
years old he had read all the books to prosperous institution, and take this ac- methods of teaching not only serve to
be had in tlie neighborhood, and Mr. casion to speak another deserving word.
V to us individually that other peoW. A. Wheeler, who whs then a practic- No private educational institution has ple know something as well as ouring lawyer, and an intimate friend of lived and prospered with this institu- selves, but beyond this, they open the
his father, and afterwards Vice Pi-esi- tion; for the post eighteen years it has way for improvement, and send us back
dent of the United States, made hinj a had uninterrupted prosperity. This is.
ir work with enlarged views of the

An

possibilities that

ever held by the Association, not wholly

from the fact that it is to be held In a
metropohtan city, for that in itseU
would be no great advantage, but that
it has the experience of former
conveations. and because, also, more efBoient
help should be accessible than has
hitherto been secured.
The ExeoutiTe

Committee are doing all in their powar

to promote the efflcieucy of the convention and the comfort of the attending
members; and all they need to make
their work effective is the kindly co-operation of the teachers of the country.
The Busin^ss Kdi.rators- A.ssociation

should be thf

and most

lar^'est

practi-

cal educators' af-.sooiation in this

try.

It

ooimhas a definite purpose in its

members are all men of praottr

cal ideas, and the hold which we already
have upon public sympathy should be
strengthened by our co-operation.
As
you will see by the suggested pcOr
gramme published in the last number of
the Penman's Art Journal, the coarention is to meet at the Packard Roonw,
805 Broadway, on Wednesday. July 7th,
at one o'clock, and to conclude on the
following Wednesday.
Morniags and
work,

its

afternoons of each day, except the one

day

set apart for recreation, are alreadj^

fully laid out by the committee. subJeA

to such changes as may seem best, and

the whole programme so arranged as to
give all parts of our work u fair chanoa,

There can be no doubt that the conveiir

tion of 1886 will be worthy the attentlott

and

co-operation of
Yours,

all

progressiva

teachers.

S. S.

Packard.

"My dear," said a husband to bis

"I am unable to get any sleep; I
tossed ever since 1 came to bed; I
you would get up and prepare me
tle

wife,

have
wish
a litlaudanum." "It's hardly worthwhile

now,"' she replied, consulting Iier watob;

"it's almost time to build the kitobea
fire."
Then he sank into a iiuiet, peaceful

slumber.

A German named

Wolff,

Loi^

don, has discovered a cur

vritert

cramp.

onslsts

The new

treati

rubbing, kneadir
tching,
and beating of the fingers
eral muscles of the hai
re are gymnastic exen
and passive; and most iiportantof
all. there are graduated
writing, with a clew of catling into pla^
new set of muscles in lieu of those tiX'
jured by the crump.
l>artly of

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

In this way you will soon get familiar
you are developing skill which will
Besides, with the different units composing the
help you in all otlier designs.
BV B. K. ISAACS.
if the model is a good one, you are unDon't fail to send in your subscription
consciously cultivating your eye for
To learn flourishing is not as difficult harmony and beauty, which will lead to the American Pknman, if you have
a^i
It is easier than
many suppose.
you eventually into artistic regions yet not already done so.
writing, froui the fact that the strokes unexplored, and lo, you have made a
used in flourishing are nearly all ex- new design! That's right, go ahead.
RICHARD GETHINC.
tended curves or good sized ovals, and Every earnest effort you make will bear
This curious penman deserves our
do not r*quire so much skill and nim- its fruit, although it may not seem very
highest commendations
I am sorry
bleness in their mauipulatiun as does fruitful at the time.
that I can actjuaint my readers with so
the multitude of small curves and
few circumstances concerning him On
I have already repeated several times
straight lines in writing.
I have
account of his early productions from
Use a straight holder and your favor- to study your model carefully.
because you must learn to see, the rolling press, he may stand in comite pen, good paper and good black ink. done so,
It is petition with Bales, Davies and BillingsIn flourishing, as in writing, there are before you can learn to do.
away,
learner will bang
ley, those heads and fathers of, as I
certain forms or lines that occur very strange how the
the same blun- may call them, of our English callifrecjviently are common to nearly all line after line, repeating
Anthony Wood, in his
designs.
These forms or lines may be der over and over again, and then say grapic tribe.
get
it; there is something
he
can't
that
"Athenae Oxonienses," says: "That this
called Principles.
Again, these forms
but he don't know Richard Gething was John Davies, of
or principles repeated with a continuous the matter with it,
movement, and without lifting the pen, what it is. Before you exclaim that Hereford's countryman, and scholar,
constitute Exercises, the same as princi- you "can't get it," ascertain whether it who excelled his master in various writthe hand. ing, as secretary, Roman, (Italian) court,
ples or letters repeated with a continu- is a fault of the head or of
ous movement and without lifting the Analyze, criticise, compare. Then prac- and text hands."

LESSON

IN

FLOURISHING.

sign,

pen, constitute exercises in writing.

These principles and exercises must

tice energetically.

This lesson

is

not intended to exhaust

be studied and practiced, until the hand the subject of flourishing.

To do that
But in I should want every inch of space in
acquires skill and nimbleness.
practicing exercises, you can enter into the AuBRiCAN Pknman during a year
or more. A single brief lesson can do
it with a better spirit if you can see the
relation between the exercise and the nothing more than offer a few suggeswork that is to follow. Hence, it is tionsgive a few points but, after all,
(ki^irable to have a collection of designs H suggestion at the right time is capable
to study and catch inspiration from as of d'ling luuch good.
I would suggest
you go along.
further that you secure good models to
After giving a reasonable amount of imitate, either fresh from the pen of
practice to the principles and exercises some good penman, or some work on
of flourishing, try some situpie design. Flourishing.

Suppose

it

be a

quill design.

carefully the curve of the

and the location

Notice

main stem,

of the shade.
Notice
carefully every line and stroke in the
design you may be imitating.

cannot

say),

and

undertakin'.?

Anno Dom. 1645 he published his

"Chirographia," in which he styles himself Master of the Pen; it contains 37

plates, where in he seems principally to

aim at an improvement of the Italian
hand. (Tiuldard Script. He tells us he
has exactly traced and followed certain
pieces, both in character and language,
of the ablest CalUgraphotecknists, and
Search out the different main strokes Italian masters that ever wrote; with
certain pieces of cursory hands, not
first, such as the three wing strokes, the
heretofore extant, newly come into use.
tail strokes, the scroll strokes below,
and the quill strokes at the right.
There is another edition of this ChiPractice each of these strokes singly, rographiain in 1664, published,(I suppose,
fill page after page,
until you gain a after his death,) with this title; Gethremarkable degree of skill in making ings Redivious; The Ben's Master-piece
each individual stroke by Itself. Then Restored, being the last work of that
take certain groups of strokes together, eminent and accomplished master in
such as the three wing strokes.
Note this art.
I present herewith
not exactly suited for a very beginner,
yet if you understand how to work, you
will And in this design ample material
for several weeks" practice.

their

There

is

his picture in the front;

drawn with a peeked

beard,

he

shall

be loo

to wrile,

slighi.

supply to Gelhing's name.

He

is

drawn with a peeked beard, and

Around his effigies is this

in a ruff.

inscription: "Richardus Gethinge, Here-

This seems to be a
work, which probably was enlarged from his first book,

fordiensis aet. 33.

later edition of that

published in 1616, for there are some

plates in it dated 1616-1616.
There is in the second leaf a dedicor
tion to his very good master (as be there
styles him). Sir Francis Bacon, Knt.
Now this great man, Sir Francis Bacon,

died the 10th of April, 1626.

So this
dedication must have been written long
before the publication of this bo^k in
1652. but I can give no certain intelligence of the time of Mr. Gething's
death.

GALILEO.
In

Gahleo, then a youth of eighwas seated in a church, when the

lamps suspended from the roof were replenished by the sacrislui],
Im iu -loing
1683,

teen,

\s

so. caused them to osiiLit. ti .m -nir to

side, as they had di.m
iii,.l
.1^ of
times before, when .siiinl.u l\ ili>i m Ij.d.
He watched the laiiii), aiui tliuu;;li he
perceived that, while the ut^eilliUions
were diminishing, they still occupied the
same time. The idea thus suggested
never departed from his mind; and fifty
years afterwards he constructed the first
pendulum, and thus gave the world one
of the most importa,nt instruments for
the measurement of time. Afterwards,
when living in Venice, it was reported
to him one day, that the children of a
poor spectacle maker, while playing
with two glasses, had observed as they
""
"^
It, that things
were brought
1

is

and a laced

will

In 1652 his Calligraphotechnia was

made public from the rolling press. The
engravers' names are not mentioned. It
contains 36 folio plates, besides his
picture at the begitining.

and in 161G he published a copy-book of

various hands, in 36 plates, in a long
quoto, which are 'very well executed
considering the time, but I am ignorant
who the engraver was.

from Pcgasu?,

The Graces

the busi-

ness of a writing master, si^ttled himself

at the "Hand and Pen" in Fetter Lane;

quill

His flourishcT arc fresher than our bays

Then, what the Muses cannot give his faire

Mr. Getbing, leaving Herefordshire,

to London, (but in what year I

The design which

position,

came up

is

Suppose it be a bird design.

Begin
the wing strokes
Notice carefully
Fill page after
page with the wing stiokes until you
1,'et some satisfaction out of them. Then
the head, bill, and breast strokes, respectively.
Drill on each, studying
your model carefully as you go along.
Then the tail; then the scroll work
around. In this way you get thoroughly familiar with that one design; but carefully
their relative
remember that in learning this one de- shade and curve.
witli

then- relative positions.

"What vent'iou* pen may here presume

Or active fancy, to express his praise.

The School

Visitor.

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

^he ArneriGan Penrnan,
Published Monthly at 60c Per Year,

the ajibhican pbnmai

ceni
any address on receipt of

single copies or
mfliled lo

fl

pie copies iinlll furtber notice sent free.

ADVERTISING RATES.
tif' 00|

Unlll fnrtlier

wllblu

II

(55 OOSlflO 0llt;146

give

iH)

SPECIAL INDUCEMENT.

PREMIUMS.
remitting One Dollar we will
II copy of VoUime First of
k-keeptng and the Amebioan
we will present a copy of
)f Book-kt;eplng to any one sending a
Bcriberaand $4.so. Now is the time

Toalloursiibscrll
iinttl fnrttier

notice,

il

Clark's ProgresBlve
le

year, or

perHoua

Interesting

Trr American I'bnuan and sending clnbs

)r more, a dlsrount of lO per cent, will be
e club on alt sabscrlptions
;!rAK

toglve cash premluma

Penman.

Wc

prefer

to those securing clubs,

and

ttUs rnle will be invariably followed.

Remittances should be made by N. Y. Draft, P. 0.

Money Order,

Postal Note, or liegistered Lelter, to

CLARK & JOHNSON.

Publishers, Erie, Pa.

OUTLOOK OF THE BUSINESS COLLEGE.

BY PROF.

WHAT BO\S SHOULD KNOW.

Don't be

FAITON.

Only a few years a^o and the Bi

College was looked upon with contempt
and suspicion. To-day it stands side by
side with the best educational institutions of our land.

A few years ago and the business

educators of our land were looked upon
as a set of men unworthy of public confidence and public patronage. To-day
some of the best educators stand in the
ranks as business teachers, and the best

'

the work of the business

train the young

Pacific.

It is

colleges

to properly

country, for on
tlie

future

rests

commercial interests of the

commonwealth.
tins

them

Then

let

them spare

to lay before the

youth of

land
the bright prosjiects of
the future ond thf avenues of employment open to the competent the

satisfied

with your boys' edl

cation or allow

him to handle a Latin Ot;

Greek book until you are sui
1. Write a rapid business hand.
2. Spell uH the words he knows how
to use.
3.
4.
5.

7.
8.

of

Speak and write good English.

Write a good social letter.
Write a good business letter.
Add a column of figures rapidly.
Make out an ordinary account.
Deduct IG5 per cent, from the faoefl

fl.

'

ilArsfrom tiate of com

Heading matter will be Inserted t
line.
Nine words make a line, and
given on Reading Matter Rales.
)
of (s or less n

casta

they gained a footing and found a place looks after the interests in Chicago of a
in their confidence.
large New York gold pen manufacturing
The time was when business men establishment.
His remarks will conwould not employ a graduate of a busi- vince you that aside from my inestimanefs college. I have heard that some ble value as a connecting link between
business colleges of the past even cau- past, iiresent, and future generations,
tioned their graduates nottoshow their there are facts connected with my hisdiplomas on applying for a situation. tory and manufacture which will tend to
But that is one of the things of the past. increase your respect for me. In his
The Business College graduate of to- own words the gentleman had this to
<lay feels a sense of security in that say about me":
" A bar of gold, fourteen carat genersheet of paper or parchment which is
the source of as much pleasure to him, ally, is rolled and pressed out into a
I dare say, as if he held a sheepskin long ribbon about two inches wide and
from Harvard or Yale. It is the start- about the thickness of an ordinary sheet
point in his life. The scroll on which of blotting paper. This is then cut up
su ccess is written. And if he has been into what is called blanks, each blank
properly inspired by his teachers with being about half an inch in width, and
the one great element of success, invin- with one end tapering to a point. In
cible determination, as he grasps that the processor manufacture each of these
diploma and marches forth to battle blanks develops into a beautifully finwith life's great problem, you might hear ished pen. The points are first notched
him utter these words: "I will find a in order to receive the iridium, without
way or make one."
which a gold pen would be useless, and
It is the luission of the business col- here I will digress a luoment and give
lege to go forwaid. They are not yet you some facts concerning this essential
perfect, but they are fast nearing per- to our business.
Iridium is one of the
fection.
They are fast calling to their so-called noble metals; it is very hard,
ranks men of real merit. Men who are white in color, and exceedingly heavy.
able to inspire the young with courage We get our'supply from Siberia, and as
and nobility of purpose.
it is a very rare metal it is very expenThe outlook of the business college
sive, the price ranging from $20 to $200
a grand one. It is fast becoming known an ounce, but we do not use an ounci
that no education, however perfect
that costs less than $100. I believe th.
science or art or literature, is complete metal was found in California sonii
without a knowledge of the more prac- years ago, but proved too soft for on
tical things of life, which may be ob- purpose, and we could not use it.
" 'We will now proceed with the raanu
tained in a good business education.
The graduate of Harvard or Yale or facture of our pen When the iridium
Princeton, the young man who intends point has been placed in positii
to study law or medicine or even to then subjected to what is called the
preach, needs a business education to
sweating process'; by means of a blowthoroughly fit him for his life's work. pipe the point is brought under the inThe fanner, the mechanic, the specu- fluence of a ray of fire, and the iridium
lator all need a business training to and gold are indissolubly welded together the black surface and discoloramake them truly successful.
To thosQ who have no paj-ticular pro- tions are thi removed by immersing
fession .in view let me say; in this day of the blank in a vitriol bath. It is "then
electricity and steam there is ever an passed through a succession of opei
increasing demand for young men and tions by which it is rolled out into the
women as bookkeepers, as clerks, as required length, cut into the proper
amanuenses and secretaries, and no shape, and the name of the ir
young man, who is truly worthy, need turer, number, etc., stamped on it. It
stand idle a single day if he has the is now tempered by a system of hamproper business training. To such the mering and burnishing, which also gives
college opens a grand avenue it elasticity.
" 'The pen has nowreached oneof the
Ve cannot help seeing,
then, a bright and prosperous future for two most important points in its degood business colleges. Emigration is velopmentthat is. the grinding, which
fast filling up the golden west. Our is done on a copper lathe, with the aid
population is increasing at a marvel- of fine emery flour. Next follows the.
ously rapid rate. Ere long this vast by far, most important operation of the
territory will resound with life on every whole process of manufacture, the slitacre of soil from the Atlantic to the ting, which has to be done with the most

"

it.

Receipt

9.

it

when it

is

paid.

Write an ordinary receipt.

n. Write an advertisement

10.

for the

local paper.

Write a notice or report of a public

12.

meeting,

Write

13.

an

ordinary

promissory

note.

Reckon the

14.

for days,

it

on
months, or years.
ordinary bank check.
it to the proper place in a

15.

Draw an

10.

Take

bank

interest or discount

to get

it

cashed.

17. Make neat and coiTect entries

your day book and ledger.

Tell the

18.

ii^

number

of yards of carpet
parlor.

required for your

19. Measure the pile of lumber in your
20.

Tell the number of bushels of

in your largest bin, and the value
at the current rates.
Tell you something about
the

wheat
of

it

21.

great authors and statesmen of the preent day.

22. Tell you what railroads he would
take in making a trip from Boston to
San Francisco.
If he can do all this and more, it Is
likely that he has sufficient education%
enable him to make his own way in ttl*

world.
If yoti have more tltue and money to
spend upon him, all well ond good, give
him higher English, give him literature,
give him mathmatics, give him scienoe,
and if he is very, very anxious about it,
give him a little Latin and Greek, op
whatever else the course he intends
pursuing in life dem&nds. School Sup-

piemen f.

THE GREAT NECESSITY OF EDUCATION.

Many parents in these days of moneymaking do not properly appreciate the
benefits of education.

Fathers say that

what they want their boys to learn how

to make money; and thinking that they
are doing what is best for them, take

delicate accuracy, the entire value of theiu from school just at the time when
the pen depending upon the nicety of they most require the discipline whloh
the operation. This is done on a very they are under there, and when ttalbt'
fine copper lathe, which saws through minds are just beginning to verge into
the interior point and into the pen the new channels.
This is the very time
desired distance. The pen is then pol- when they most need guidance and
ished and the point scratched to facili- instruction to prepare them for the work
it is then
tate the flow of the ink
before them.
People may cry down
tested, and if found perfect is ready for education, and point out a few succeaS'
sale.
Our pens improve with use and ful business men who are uneducated.

educated and most influential men we

have indorse the business college. It is
no longer a myth nor a mysterious affair. swift and willing, for "tis an age on
cannot be worn out in legitimate work.
It stands high in the ages telling, to be living is sublime"
It is a reality.
Preparation, thorough preparation, I know one man who has used one of
way of training young men and young
women in the real duties of life's great for the duties of the coming years should our pens for thirty years and it is still
be the aim of every young man, and unimpaired.
"'As you see, the entire manufacture
Its mission is surely the good of man- thoroughness and conscientious work
kind and the elevation of our educa- should be the motto of the business of the pen is done by machinery, al'ollege.
though it will pass through the hands of
tional system. The past is prophetic of
ten or twelve persons before it is fin
the future. The greatest men our nation
ished. With the exception of one in
has produced were men who came from
HOW COLD PENS ARE MADE.
Detroit and one in Cincinnati there are
1\ie humblest walks of life and rose to
" Yes, you are above me, I grant," no factories outside of New York where
distinction by real worth by true merit
So it has been with the business col- said a gold pen to its holder the other gold pens are made.'' " Chicago Herald.
Tliey are gaining favor every night as the two lay idly in the pen-rack,
leges.
It is not because some men can forday. Why? Simply because they sup- "but you need not exalt yourself on
ply a long felt want of the practical in that account, because your are merely tell future events that they are more
successful than others, for up to the
education.
They merit their success. an adjunct to my existence.
"As you have (Vequently made aspei^ present tune no man has discovered a
They have worked hard to reach the
place they now occupy in the public sive remarks touching my character and rip in the curtain of futurity. They sucmind. They have fought against super- value, listen and I will repeat what was ceed simply because they know how
They have had said to a representative of the daily to estimate the value of a thing when
stition and prejudice.
to cope with the literary schools till jVc7/' yesterday by a gentleman who it occurs.
;

These, however, are not the rule but

the exception, and hi nearly every other
branch of work education is deemed
almost essential.
Show me the great men of the day
the rulers, statesmen, legislators, governors,

judges, journalists, lawyers, dQi

and

even the m<

men and I will show
men. If they have not enjoj^
the advantages of a cDJIegitite
they have felt the neL-e!*sity of tbM
which lesser mind}< regard ^n ligbtlyft
and have educated thcmsflves. otttlt^
after surmounting many obstacles, btfjl'
they have done it School Principal la'
tors,

ness

ated

Ohf)c-/Jt:mocmt.

THKHttisabook worth
which
Ut-nry.

were

ever

all

other booi(||,

printed.

Patri

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

LETTER WRITING.
BY

E. K.

side slope,

American

Penman

printer

MODEL SUPERSCRIPTIONS.

gkipped a paragraph, or riither got two

paragraphs concerning "Folding" mixed
in

BOY ON BOARDS.

my

last article, so

will

have

No.
B. M.

with taffy.

My sister says there is too much slang

repeat, and the directioiiB for foldlnff as

the printer had them in the last issue
are hereby declared null and void.

Xofe Paper and Note. Heads. FoXA

the lower third of the sheet up, and the
upper third down.
Letter Paper and Letter Heads. Fold
the lower half up. so as to nearly meet
the top edge; then fold the right third
toward the left and the left third toward
the right.
SUPER.SCRIPTION.
The superscription, or outside address,
is the address written on the envelope,
and consists of the same items as the

Wilmiitfjton,

Dane

Co.,

Iowa.
No. 2.
B. M. Worth inff (on,
Wilmington^
Dane Co.
Iowa.
No. 3.
Henry C. Smith,

Madison

81

St.,

Chicago,
Ills.

Model

Henry
81

Madimn

C.

St.

in this, but father says slang is mighty

and shall prevail. He knows because

There are several kinds of boards,

he is a man. Men know everything,

because they can vote.
Sometime I will write about other
kinds of boards, if you have not been too
I think
I
win write about school- badly bored with this. Am. Jour, of Ed.
boards, because my sister is a teacher,
and I can remember a good many things
It is held by the Courts that checks
she has said about them, and that will should be presented at the banks upon
help me some.
which they are drawn the day they are

sign-boards, base-boards, dash-boards,

clap-boards, side-boards, paste-boarde
and school-boards,

1.

Worthington,

to

4.

Smith.
Chicago,
Illinois.

I don't know whethi

are always made of grei
I

heard

my

sister

say

school-boards

dated, otherwise,

ce the board

meantime,
payment.

if

the bank

relieves the

it

fails in

the

drawer from

case of this kind was recently decided in the Pittsburgh Courts.

wasn't half baked. Guess

Gi
she meant it
wasn't kiln-dried,
Maybe it warped, A check was drawn on the Pena Bank
and turned on the TODg side, or maybe in favor of the Penn'a Railroad Comit shrunk badly, when exposed to the
pany, who deposited it on t he foldry fjueHtion of wages.
lowing day. but it was too late, and the
School-boards are of different shapes, case was decided against the railroad,
some are square and polished on both who had brought suit to recover.

oto-engraved

cuted by H. C.

inside address given in the intro-

Punctuation of the Superaeription.

sides, some are longer than they are
duction, namely, the name and resi- period follows each abbreviation, and broad,and so thin they bend under sUght
dence of the person to whom the letter the last word; commas separate the pressure.
is written.
If the person addressed re- different items.
sides in the country, or small town, the
I asked my sister what kind a board
Legibility. ^XtecieX care should be
full address consists of the name, post
ours was, and she said it was a goodtaken to make the superscription accu- looking board, but when put to any
office, county, and State.
If the person
rate and perfectly legible. Thousands
lives in a large city, the number and
use it was full of slivers. There was a
of letters go astray every day on acstreet must be given, together with the
young lady staying with my sister the
count of illegible and otherwise defeccity and state.
evening I was writing this, and she said
tive superscriptions.
she tiiought some of the board would
Position and Arrangenicut of the
make good hitching-posts. I asked lier
Suprracription.The first line, consistif it was because they were such big
ing of the name of the person, should be
The stamp should be placed in the sticks- She said that wasn't it. Then
written at or a little below the middle of
upper
right hand corner, its edges they both laughed; they thought I
the envelope, and in such a way tliat
parallel with the edges of the envelope. didn't know what they uieant, but I did,
the margin at each end will be the same,
Uncle Sam would no doubt carry a because I saw Mr. Jones take her to
If directed to the country or smalltown,
letter just as wilUngly with the stamp church, andheis a member of the board,
the second line consists of the postoflice,
in any other place on the envelope, but and she acted us if she thought he
the third line the county, and fourth
due respect to custom, and especially would be good to tie to.
line the state; or the county may be
for the convenience of the postal clerks,
written in the lower left hand corner,
The school-board is used for the purrequires the stamp to be placed as
instead of in thethird line. (See models
pose of getting the cheapest teachers
directed above.
2 and 3.) If directed to a large city
they can find, whether they know anywhere the mail is delivered by carrier,
a suggestion.
thing or not. and to vote down women's
the second line consists of the number
wages, and to leave men's as they are.
Much practice may be
iind street, the third line the city and
This kind of board is elected by the
the fourth line the state; or the number order to address envelopes well, and I
people, mostly men.
an<i street may be written i the lower would suggest that those who feel
They most always get the closest
left-hand corner, instead of in the second themselves deficient in this particular
Ijurcliase two or three liuiidred cheap grained they can find; when the teacliers
line.
(See models 3 and 4.)
The different lines of the superscrip- envelopes, and practice writing all sorts say they don' get pay enough, the people
Don't allow yourself to say it is the board. The teachers say
tion should be written straight, equi- of addresses.
distant, and parallel. They should be become accustomed to pencil lines or the people had no right to get sut-h
arranged so as to present a grotlual under lines in addressing an envelope, hard wood for their board, and the
but practice until you can write straight board say, "What are you going to do
f^lope downward and toward the right,
about it?"
due attention being paid to both sides. without lines.
Some addresses can be arrangtd so as
In ray next I shall speak about the
Sometimes there is a weak place in
t< slope eijually and gradually on both
penmanship for correspondence, and the board, and when thrown against
sides, some look best with a regular will give several illustrations.
some hard question, it splits and goes
Ifft-wde slope, and some with a right{To be continued.)
all to pieces; then they either get a new
full

the old pieces together

one, or stick

style

FOLDINO.

up

can be arranged

all

neatly and systematically, although the

or the arrangement may differ
according to the number and length of
the words comprising the different lines.

ISAACS. VALPARAISO. IND.

Article IV.

The

while

CIe

LESSON
BY

C.

WRITING.

IN

PRINCE.

G.

Owing to the fact that there is such a

widespread difference of opinion as to
the best methods of teaching writing, a
lesson in this beautiful art cannot safely
assume to be more than a clear and
candid statement of the author's views
on the subject. Such, in part, is the
object of this article, and should I be
able to offer any suggestions that will
be of value to the readers of the

"American Penman."

shall feel well

^S

Poor writing is of two kinds. First:

That which is written with a free and
rapid movement, but which laclts the
necessary elements of legibility and
uniformity. Second: Writing that indicates a fair or good idea of fonu, but

which have been drawn out with the finger movement, and consequently jjreseuts a heavy and labored appearance.
It should be apparent then to all that it
is only by mastering both of these underlying principles,

i.

v..

Form and Move-

ment, that the student can achieve wellmerited fame as a penman, or even become known as a good business writer.

Form and movement

are the great

objects to be kept constantly in view,
for if either one is lost sight of the result is disastrous.
first

be considered

Movement should
by its Ube we exe-

for

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devote about one-half of their time to
whole arm practice and the other half
to muscular, as complete control of both
of these movements is necessary to the
development of great skill, but for those
who simply wish to acquire a plain
business hand, we advocate muscular
movement, "first, losi, and all the time."
For the acquisition of this movement
tlie following familiar exercise should
be persistently practiced, taking care to
keep the penholder pointing toward the
right shoulder, and the wriafc elevated
at least one inch from the paper, in
order that the ovals may be executed
with a free, rolling motion of the arm,
without the aid of the fingers.

paring your writing with that of our

best penmen. Secure good writing, not
printed copies, as yon will then have
something to work from that was actually executed, not drawn out with a
lead-pencil, retraced with ink, and then
engraved.

to offer a

little in

dustriously,

Work

In-

and

re-

conclusion.

criticise carefully,

member

that intelligent study, together

with constant practice will always
accomplish wonders.
Be encouraged,
but never satisfied, with the results of

host of defects.

Be content to

make
up

let you:

If the learner has formerly written a work show for itself, as merit will win ii
cramped hand, he will involuntarily the end,
raise the elbow in practicing this exercise, as he finds it very difficult to roll
EDWARD COCKER.
the arm at all, while resting it upon the
desk.
A little patient labor will, how- {Speclftliy prepared for tbe Ambhicah PBNUii

movement

sufficient to loll the exercise across the

page without

Too much

the pen or arm.

cannot be laid upon

lifting

stress

the importance of moveiuent exercises;

they should receive much more attention and practice at first than sentence
writing, as the successful execution of
the latter is wholly dependent upon a
well trained muscular

movement.

77Z777Tr
Many a begumer becomes discour
aged, and wonders why it is that he
cannot secure this coveted movement,
until some day a level-headed critic
informs him that the clothing worn
upon his right arm fits so tight as
to render the free action of the muscles
a physical impossibility.
It should always be borne in mind
that in order to move easily and gracefully, the arm must be entirely relieved
of any weight of the body or of tight

fitting sleeves.

Form

an important element
of good writing than movement, and
should receive more study and thought
than is usually given it by learners and
is

no

less

penmen in general.
The pernicious habit

of forming n's,

m's and w's alike, (thus giving the

writing a "hand-saw'' appearance), is
the cause of much illegibility and should
be carefully avoided.
Practice daily
upon the m's and n's until it becomes as
easy and natural to join the parts at the
top with turns as it formerly was to
u's,

in

the illustration.

o,

as

HIS

Pen's Triumph" the fourth.

In the
second page there is a dedication
To the ingenious and able penmen

and arithmetician,

Excelling

makes ihy pen

shown the
1^[

poet,
tlic

Weigh

imparlial judge, in everv ca<!P,

well the circumstances, time and place;

All these consider'd, the accused may,

With justice be discharged, on such a plea.

In

our

author pubhshed his

Plumae Triumphus; in some title pages
it
is The Pen's
Triumph, invented,
written, and engraved by himself; he
Uved then on the south side of St. Paul's
Church, over against Paul's chain,
The proper idea of correct spacing where he taught the art of writing,
aud slant can only be gained by com- which, perhaps, was his first work from
1657

such

the

feAnd

canst

transcends afaltefined'st

who can

but

Know,

readers,

are

Repute

all,

from

all

whence
amazed

glorious wilt

yet

out

find

as

Sol

for

all

camE
stanl)

groW

pleA
staR
crowneD

another

by

painted

be

all

comes

far

it

thou

by

intelligenC

skill,
that sO'ertops
those artists,
who for famous gO
home, pens cannot laCamp, courl, and cily of you boast and craC
pens perfection looKnols and unparelelled lines shine in lliis booK

admire thy

Commerce, abroad,
Erected

how

ihou
pens,

pens dispenConverse

precepts

secrels,

ovetfloWith excellence!

like

Desist not from these arts their bottom founDiscovering

Consider what rare

the reach of pens, from

curious hanDisplays

thy

like Nile, thy

at

who

the

for

columns

attends thy

arts,

to

thy

thy

virtues

praisEach touch of thy smooth

favoRenowned

is

quill thy

thy name,

wit,

fame doth rais

pen, and

graveR

graved by himself. It contains 26 plates

in large octavo, with rules for writing,

In the saKpe year, {I. c, 1657,) he pub

This ingenious and very industrious Hshed his "Pen's Transcendency,"
penman and engraver was born in the "Pair Writing's Labyrinth."
It contains 33 small oblong folio
year 1631, which I compute thus: in his
copy-book entitled. Plumae Triumphus. plates, besides his picture at the beginpublished 1G57, there is his picture, and ning, and a large plate at the end, inunder it this inscription: Etatis suae 26, forming the reader that he then lived
which being subtracted from 1657, pro- in St. Paul's Church-yard, where he
duces the year of his birth as aforesaid. kept school, and taught writing and
arithmetic. The writing is mostly "SecI have met with no memoirs relating
to his extraction, or account of the retary" and "Italian," according to the
place where he was born, and under custom of those times, with a great
whom he received his education. His many labored knots and languid pencilled ornaments.
There is another
first appearance on the field of action
edition of this book in 1660, which was
is in London, so that it is probable he
breathed his first air in that city.
He then augmented, containing 43 leaves,
haa been blamed for writing and en- including letter press work.
Anno Dom. 1C59, he set forth "The
graving too much, and thereby debasing' that art which he attempted to Artists Glory, "-or the "Penman's Treaspromote and illustrate.
Mr. Robert ury;" with directions, theorems, and
More, in his short essay on "The first principles of art, in the letter press
Invention of Wi-iting," says that after work. It contains 25 plates. At the end
Cocker commenced "Author," the rolling of the book is a Latin anagram, by one
press groaned under a supersoetation Jer. Colier.
In the year 1661 he published his
of such books as had almost rendered
the art contemptible; and Mr. Cham- "Penna Volens," or "Young Man's Acpion, in his historical account of pen- complishment," to which he prefixes
manship, prefixed to his parallel, echoes this distich:
the same complaint; adding that, led on
"Whereby ingenious youth may soon be made,
by lucre, he let in an inundation of For clerkship fit, or management of trade,"
copy-books. Now, whatever foundation
there may be for this charge in general, invented, written and engraved by himhe was certainly a great encourager of self.
various kinds of learning; an indefatiIt contains 24 plates, besides his picIn each leaf
gable performer with the pen and ture at the beginning.
burin; an ingenious artist in figures; there are directions for the principle
and no contemptible proficient in the rules of arithmetic.
The best performances in this book
poetry he attempted to write, as will
re the German Text Capitals, and the
manifestly appear, I think, to one who
thoroughly examines liis numerous
samples of Court and Chancery hands.
works that are still extant.
Anno Dom 16(i4 he published his
His writing, I allow, is far inferior to

famExceeds

immortal

thy

artist,

Directed from on high,

What

friend,

EDWARD COCKER.

MR.

Art thou still multiplying,

Rare Phoenix! thy bright quill

honored

hi

Mr. Richard Noble, of Guilford in Murry,

in the last page there is a quadruple acrostic on the author, signed H. P.,
which, for the singular rarity of it. I have
here transcribed:

and

RKKOWNED FRIEND,

W, H. Lothrop, South BoBtou, Musb.]

what we
have from the hands of some of our late
masters; and there is not that freedom
and liveliness in his pencilled knots and
flourishes that there is in pieces done by
connect them with angles.
a bold command of hand.
But let us
Loop letters are very important; they consider the time in which he Uved and
should be of full heighth and width, in what little improvement there
had then
order that they may not be uustaken been made in the modern
way of penfor t's.
manship, and we may justly make
Both extended and inverted loops allowance for the many defects that
may be practiced to advantage in con- now appear in his books, and say, with
nection with the small letter

"Arts Glory" the second: "The Pen's

Transcendency" the third, and "The

Although advice is cheap and the

market is flooded with it. I will venture

your best efforts, and never try to

conceit and vain-boasting cover

ever, usually serve to gain

the rolling press; at least I have seen

none older that is dated. It contains 30
plates in a small quarto. His picture is
in the front, with this inscription over
it: JEtatis suae 26.
So it seems he had
a design, in this his first book, to write
just as many leaves as he was years old;
but I advance this as a conjecture, for
in a copy of verses prefixed to this book
by S. H he mentions The Penman's
Experience as Cocker's first work;"

and some

verses, in 4 leaves of letter-

As this book was engraved

upon silver plates, (a thing I have never
met with in any of our most celebrated
penmans' works), it has raised the
curiosity of many to know what superior excellency there is in it.
For
press work.

my

part I can see none; tlie engravers

are the best judges whether or no that

metal

show

is fitter for their working, and will

to a greater advantage than cop-

I fancy it was a piece of foolioh

ambition that prompted our author to
do what perhaps had never been done

per.

before.

The book was

sold

by John

Grarret, in Cornhill.

In the year
"England's Pen
curious hands

he published his
'

graved on

exhibiting

all

the

England, en-

28 brass plates in folio.

It

was printed for Obadiali Blagrave, at

the Black-Bear in St. Paul's Churchyard; and afterwards for H. Overton.
Some time in the year 1676 he published his "Complete Writing Master/*
containing 23 pages in octavo; I oon
give no account of it.
Some time before his death he pub'
lished "The London Writing Master,r*.
or "Scholar's Guide," in 15 small platef,

without a date.

The performance

l8

small and of no great value.

Besides these books, our author published from the rolling-press, the following,

which were

also the productions of

his fertile pen:

Multum

Parvo, or The Pea'i

Gallantry. Octavo.
2.
Youth's Directions to Wiite With
1.

in

"Guide to Penmanship," of which there out it Teacher.

3.
Young Lawyer's Writing Master.
It contains
another edition in 1673.
4.
The Pen's Facility.
oblong folio plates, besides his pic5.
The Country School Master.
at the beginning, where he is
6.
Introduction to Writitif.'.
with a laced
1 in hi* own hair,
I cannot ascertain the precise time of
band, and a pen in his hand, and these
Mr. Cocker's death, nor where he died;
lines underneath.
but I have been informed it was in the
"Behold rare Cocker's life, resembling shaee,
year 1677, which, if true, was the 4flth
22

Whom

envy's clouds have

more

illustrious

made;

year of his age.

The works that we have of this laborious author, that came from the letterPlus book abounds more with orna- press are these:
mental, or rather fanciful flourishes and
A book entitled "Moralt*,
Muaea*
pencilled figures, than examples of free Spring-Garden.
Cocker's Vulgar Arithand sound writing. At the latter end metic," which
publishedinl677. Tl^J
of it there are 5 leaves of letter-press 40th edition
published
work, setting forth some extraordinary! "Cocker's Decimal Arithmetic,
rules and directions, (as he himself ex- the fourth edition being published
pressed it), for everything belonging to 1713.
It was printed
the art of fair writing.
The following line.s are from his V
for John Ruddiard, at the Unicoru
gar Arithmetic.
Cornhill.
"Ingenious Cocker, now to rest thou
Anno Dom. 1672, he published his No art can show the fully but thine c
'Magnum in Parvo," or "The Pen's Thy rare arithmetic alone can show,
Perfection;" invented, written, and enWhat sums of thanks we for thy l.ibo

Whose pen and

With

graver have display'd his name,

virtuoso's, in the

book of fame."

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August 24th and the amount intended being changed

of to a much larger amount, the resvilt
would no doubt be astonishing. The
An excursion to Niagji
most remarkable feature of the case is

whicii are to be lield

TiiE convention of Business Educai-s

convenes in

y,'july

New

York, Wednes-

7tli.

Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage,

Brooklyn, is expected to deliver

25th,

address.

Every Business

College proprietor

Falls

also contemplated.

is

nd teacher should attend the conWe were somewhat astonished in

t-ntion, as no member of tlie i)rofes- reading L. Madarasz's acceptance of
ion can afford to mi?s it.
Air. Bennett's challenge, which was
published in the May number, to find
Teachers of penmanship will hiive
that he (Mr. Madarasz) practically
ample opi)ortunity to discuss tiie best
concedes that he is not equal to the
methods of teaching writing at the
task, as he mentions Mr. Dennis as his
Business Educators' Convention,
assistant, in certain lines of the
at the same time they can show their
liand " to the very best advantage

The

and autobiography

portrait

business outlook

in

appeal's in this issue,

by

Prof. C.

Robinson, of Lafayette, Ind.,

is full

of

all

sec-

of the

will revive very soon. It

devoutly to be wished that such
be the case.

is

may

and is worthy of careful attention

There are now several penmen's
on the part of our readers.
papers before the public, and each
claims 4o be better than the other.
Colleges and schools intending to
Now in order to determine the matadvertise tlieir fall and winter terms,
ter one should subscribe for tiiem all,
will do well to jiatronize The Ameriand then he can easily make up his
can Penman, as during July and
mind as to which ijaperhe will always
August a larger number of sample
read.
The American Penman's miscopies than usual will
sent out.
sion is to do its share in helping to
Send for estimates.
advance the interest of good writing
ject,

With
will
tical

the next number S. A. Drake

begin a series of lessons in prac-

penmanship, which

trated

by

copies jirepared

and constituting

will

by

be

and

illus-

himself,

complete course on

If

it

does

wortliy of an extensive pub-

patronage.

lic

the subject.

practical education.

this, it is

Lightning rod sharks, operating in

the Drover's JbumaLsays, got

Illinois,

the

gullible fanner to sign a paper,

as he supposes, a contract
but, inof the most successful men
stead, it proves to be a note for ten
country owe their stnrt in life
times the sum intended.
to a good handwriting, and our young
Such swindles have become so compeople cannot do anything that will
on that it would seem that the
benefit them any more than to learn
farmers have come to feel it a duty, in
to write an easy and graceful hand.
tins way, to contribute a few hunBusiness Colleges in all parts of dred dollai-s to the support of a large

Many

in this

the country are anticipating an in- and increasing class of dead beats and
Almost (*tery community
erejiseil attendimce for the
coming ra.scals.
season, and the signs of the times arc can furnish scores of similar schemes

such as to warrant the prediction that

more young men and women will be
nrollcd as students in these schools
tiian every before.

that have been

"worked" on

the

honest,but too confiding and ignorant,

farmer. If stsitistics could be obtained
show tlie aggregete amount of
money robbed from unsuspecting men
to

but since such swindles are

movement exercises, flourished
more than that, so very and combinations,

who

letters,

believing that in this

engaged in way he is to become a penman, but failacquiring education should endeavor ure will be thp result most surely. While
to gain some jjractical knowledge of a certain amount of practice on muscuthose

are

business that shall serve

tices of

M. that business

sensible points in presenting the sub-

them as a

art.

country seems to remain unchanged, and while every(ironiised our readers in the last num
body has been hoping for an imher. is necessarily deferred to a subseprovement, they have been disapquent issue, as we were unable to get
pointed. Just liow long this condithe cuts in time for this number.
tion of affairs sliall last, remains to be
seen,
although we are of the opinion
The lesson in penmanship, which
tions

The

telligence

possible, aiid

common,

protection against the deceptive prac-

ii

that such swindles are possible in our

land of fi-ee schools and genei-al in-

Vol. -1 No. 6.

preconceived opinions and his choice of

exercises, and rigidly adhere to the di
reetion of the teacher, dilligently performing, in all its details, the work assigned to him.
The student may have gained some
degree of skill in the use of the muscular
movement, and. delighted at the ease
with wiiich the pen glides over the
paper, devotes most of his time to

dishonest men.

The importance
for

business, in

some

lar

movement

exercises

is

essential,

letters.their heighth, width, alant.curves.

of special training and spaces, to insure desirable progress

which

all

ithec

must, to

extent, engage, has placed the

commercial school among the indis-

CHOOSE YOUR

LIFE

WORK,

pensable educational institutions of

life
the country, and the rapidly increas- occur, and it is an easy thing to mistake
uig patronage of these schools shows or even miss them, when they come. On
your choice, at such times, may depend
that their usefulness is gaining a aenyour future success or failure. Just as
eral recognition.
we choose, when the choice is put to us,
and live lives of obedience or disobediWniTiN& from the influence it may ence to law, we can make our own pathexert in moral culture and the develop- way bloom with flowers
or bristle with
ment of artistic taste and its practical thorns. We may walk on through
life
usefulness, should engage the attention beneath a sky
of cloudless blue, or
of aspiring youth everywhere, and such we can till our
lives with clouds and
earnest attention as must be given to a convulse them with tempests.
The diffworthy aim in order to excel. The never erence will be determined by the choice
varying truth of the maxiiu, "No excel- made at some period of our life.
No life
lence without great labor," too fre- can be free from annoyances,
errors ami
quently ignored, is as applicable to sorrows; disappointment and adversity
writing as to anything else. One cannot will be the lot of even the truest soui,
learn to write well in a week, nor in a but if the choice made
in early life be a
month, but he who recognizes the many wise one, then these
trials will be sim
advantages realized by those who can ply a few clouds floating
across the sky,
write easily a plain, graceful hand, and obscuring
for a time the brightness of
who is thus constrained to put forth a its sunlight, but never mantling
it in
reasonable degree of perseverance in darkness.
They will be but as the rain
the study of penmanship, will be most storm
that washes away the dust from
surely rewarded with a very useful and
the petals of the flowei-s and causes the
gratifying acquisition. Although there blossoms
to bloom with greater beauty
are many who have long pursued the and fling forth
fresher fragi
not like
^
study of writing with commendable zeal the tempest that
uproots the tree of
and energy, achieving but indifferent re- the forests. Life's character
then must
suits, and have consequently concluded
be determined by the passage of critical
that the ability to write well is a natural periods.
gift denied to themselves, the experience
One of the first choices a young man
of those who have taught and studied is called unon
to make, is a choice of his
the subject most proves that all. by ufe work, and how
can he better fit himwell-directed effort and careful atteu- self to
make that choice than by first obtion to details, can learn writing as well
taining a good business education. A
as anything else. No doubt many hi
sound knowledge of business rules and
placed themselves under the instruction principles
wUrbe" found "useful
any
of teachers of writing in the expecta- tradi
profession.
There are many
tion of improving their style of writing who
cannot afford the time or money to
without receiving any benefit; but nine- spend years in obtaining
a classical edty-nine cases of failure in every hundred cktion. To such
the Business Colleges
are due rather to tiie students own wil- offer a reUef. Here,
by spending from
fulness or heedlessness than to any fault
three to six montl;
diligent study.you
of the teacher.
prepare yourself for the active
.

I
'

To be benefited by instruction the duties of life, and be able to carry the

learner must feel that the instructor life work you may then
Preparations are now being mad^ who are induced
choose to take
to sign notes under
knows more about the subject than he up, through to a successful termination.
the Annual Grand Opening of the
impression that they are con- does himself,
and he must lay aside his
c. v. M.

for

it

not alone sufficient; much time must

be given to the study of the forms of
is

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

it is

tlie

not her entire sphere,

Woman's place in the world is in any

capacity or Bphere which she has the re(juieite capabilities to fill witli intelligent
and practically successful results. 1 am
not the champion of any so-called reformatory measures, nor the upholder
of

woman

in

not

my

suffrage, or its opposers.

It

present province to argue

when

talent or genius to enlarge

men make

she has the enslaving of their free wills. Better

when be a woman forbidden to vote than a
man selling his vote and manliness, on
account of his ignorance and vice, to
the politician who would bestialize the

it);

such short-sighted observations, they simply declare to the world

that their wives, mothers, sisters and
feminine acquaintances have all been
among pitiably v eak-brained and superficially educated women, and when a
woman is petty in her nature, and possesses an uncultured, frivolous mind,
even though she may have some smat^
tering of accomplishments, we agree
with men that she is most lamentably

upon any of the so-called questions of

the day involving woman's so-Called
do not stand forth as a derights.
I
As to woman's suffrage, the strongest
nouncer of man's so-called justice. In
our land at the present day, woman has argument which we can find in its
every right which she has thus far favor is the plea in behalf of widows
shown herself competent to maintain; and single women, who own property in
and every avenue is open to her ambi- their own right; that, in the regulating
tion which her mental powers and of the laws which govern said property,
skilled training shall demonstrate her they should have an equal chance of
fitness to enter.
That woman has not securing ther best interests. But, on
already taken her place by the side of the other hand, this may be one of the
man in the political, scientific, or nieta- instances in which the best interests of
jihysical arena, does not argue her unfit- the few could not, at woman's present
ness and incapacity, jier ac, but rather stage of advancement, stand for the
the necessity of laying the question on best interests of the majority.
As to
the table, to be decided only after the

experiment has been fully tried of bringing her brain powers up to their utmost
development, through an equal course

with that which

legiate brother.

ond

is

Not

success-

guided vast political interests, and

shown themselves capable

of diploiuatio

powers equal to those of men, history

most plainly reveals. Take the accounts,
gathered from various sources, of the
life of
Jeanne d'Albret, afterwards
Queen of Navarre, the mother of Henry
the Fourth of France, and one of the
most staunch and fearless supporters of
Protestantism at a time when to espouse
the cause meant persecution; who waa
selected by the Romish powers as one of
the victims of the Inquisition, from
which fate she was providentially saved,
not by the recantation of her faith, but

by the interposition
of Spain.

of the wife of Philip

This Jeanne d'Albret. Queen

of Navarre, married to a husband pitiably weak and vacillating, utterly in-

capable of comprehending her nobility

of soul, was forced to take into her own
tween husbands and wives, fathers and hands the reins of government. Surdaughters, shall help to add the fuel of rounded by enemies on either hand, she
political discord to the fire of ignorance made no mistakes in political measures,
and self-will- And until the majority of sustained her ancestral rights, battled
women shall be raised above the ignor- for the cause of Protestantism, even
woman increasing her individual ance of some of their number, who joining the army, and herself personally
freedom of thought and action by re- think themselves capable of instructing encouraging the panic-stricken soldiers
ceiving the gift of suffrage, surely all others, I doubt if woman's suffrage after the defeat of the Huguenots at the
who have read that thrillingly true would very materially clear the politi- great battle of Jarnac, and the death of

persistent study story of "The Fate of Madame La

exacted from her col- Tour," revealing the tortures and slavuntil it shall have ery of the women of Mormon Utah,
been demonstrated that woman's brain where the women are condescendingly
given the right of suffrage, and practiis incapable of equal development under
the same training.will the fact be proven cally handcuffed by their husbands. will
that woman is mentally inferior to man. be led to doubt the fulfillment of that
That man's mind is different from part of the promise held out by supwoman's in its methods of arriving at porters of this measure. The results nuthe same result,?, does not necessitate merically considered, at the present
an inferiority on her side; that an elec- stage of woman's political education,
tric current is different in its methods would probably not be vastly different
of operation from a steam engine, does in its effects upon any particular party;
not detract on either side from their in- for, until the mass of women learn to
think for themselves, intelligently, logiherent strength and vital force.
Woman, at the present time, needs cally, and clearly, upon political and reeducation more than suffrage, skilled formatory questions, the mass will vote
training rather than a ccntinued clam- as their husbands, fathers and brothers
oring for an enlargement of rights which advise, except in the case of ignorant
she already possesses, and which wait and inherently willful woijien, who will
The seek to gratify a petty spite by voting
only her demonstrated fitness.
words of the Apostle Paul, that "women contrary to the men of their home circle.
When woman's education shall have
should keep silence," have been used
with supposed overwhelming conviction broadened and enlarged her mental
(that is, to their own minds) by many horizon, until her umotal vision upon
men. whose estimates of woman's capa- the ijolitical and reformatory outlook
is as far-reaching as that of the most inbilities have been based upon theu- own
lamentable experience of being sur- telfSgent of men. then will she be fitted
rounded by weak and petty-minded to make wise use of such a power, and
women. As most of our convictions are then will .she surely gain it. if she need
To argue that ignorant, coarse,
founded upon our own experience, when it.
men sweepingly declare that woman's wicked, debased men are allowed a
mind is either incapable or unworthy of privilege of which she isdenied would not
high development, and that her only be a powerful plea to her refined nature
sphere is in the petty routine of daily did she stop to realize that the so-called
duties (that hersphere is there, we don't privilege of these ignorant voters is that
pretend to deny; only contending that of bartering their votes for whisky and
of mental training

nature of his willing slave.

I'ntil women can understand and rea^
son logically upon all questions of political moment, let them not yearn for the
privilege of being counted as so many
victims whose free wills must be sarificed
upon the altar of ignorance.
That many women in our land are as
capable to cope with these questions
successfully as any man, is already a
demonstrated fact; but in this, as in
many instances, the few must suffer a
while that the mass be not enslaved.
Until both parties are equally competent to judge, and choose for themselves
independently of either's coercion, let
us not desire that political wrangle be-

That educated women have

fully

from the clouds which hang

theii- leader, the Prince Conde.

Thlfl
masterly address of a woman to the
ignorance upon soldiers of the Reformation hag somethese questisons displayed by women thing truly Napoleonic in its clear, ring^
who even profess to teach others, I will ing cadences, and somethuig vaatl^
mention the following: A woman who grander than Napoleon's aim; for it
spends her time in going about the coun- inspired by a desire to uphold and adtry and making exhortations, made in vance God's kingdom, rather than an
my hearing the following illogical and ambitious thirst for increased powM^
ignorant remarks, of which any bright- Whatever we may think of upholding
im"nded school-boy would have been any cause by the use of the sword, we
ashamed, "that she thought the only must admire these .soul-stirring words of
solving of the negro question would be, this great and dauntless woman:
"Sodiers, you weep!
But does the
to found a colored republic within the
boundaries of our own nation and give memory of Conde demand nothing more
to them their own government and Leg- than tears? Will you be satisfied with
with
profitless
regrets ?
No Let us unite
islature and President, and treat
them as with a foreign power." As to and summon back our courage, to dethe Germans, as they were such beer fend a cause which can never perish.
drinkers, her opinion was. that "our Does despair overpower you? Despair,
government should never have given that shameful failing of weak naturesi
them the privilege of becoming citizens Can it be Itiiown to you, noble warrioai
through naturalization." And, as to and Christian men? When I, the QualULu
the Chinese, she considered that they hope still, is it for you to fear? BeoafflBy
were allowed to come to this country in Conde is dead is .all, therefore, l^HT
order that they luay be converted to
Christianity, in which laudable opinion No! God. who placed aruis in his hands
poor California does not entirely differ for our defense, and who has resooad
with her, but plaintively begs to be al- you from perils innumerable, has ralMd
lowed to send their 100,000 heathen, free us up brothers in arms, worthy to 800^
of freight, to the benevolent evongeli- eeed him and to fight for the cause Of
zers of New England, that they may the King, our countrv, and the truth
have the privilege of converting the * * * To these brave warriors I ad^
heathen at their own door. Thus, in ray son; make proof of his valor. Sod[j
you everything in
five minutes' time, did this woman dis- iers!
I offer
my dominions,
pose, probably to her own ignorant aat.- power to bestow
isfaction. of these momentous questions. treasures, my life, and that whioh*^

cal horizon

over

it.

As an instance

of

WM

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

dearer to me than allmy children! I
make here nolenm oath before you all,
and you know me too well to doubt my
word, 1 swear to defend to my last sigh
the holy cause which now unites us,
which is that of honor and of truth !"
Think you. if the wives and mothers
of the men of our republic were educated and trained to become such women,
the bills passed by Congress would be
influenced, as now, by the unscrupulous
but keen-witted women-lobyists V Men
will be influenced by women: l.t i\.]y

be the

seek to appropriate her

brother's crown of glory, when her own
memory is immortalized by her matchless songs which her brother publicly
acltnowledged to the world as composed
by the sister whom he admired above all
women, and whose genius he candidly
and lovingly recognized. In these days
woman's place in the world is bounded
only by her own capabilities and highest possible development. In benevolent
and uiissionary enterprises she has long
taken the lead. Now, literature, music,
:ii t, s.-ieuce, medicine, metaphysics,theoiu> (hhI trade are open to her ambition;
ami to every woman comes the stirring

wife and mother and sister in ili- l;iii'l

see to it that their own pett\ hhh.IhiI
ness and weak (because unt^xci-risiMlj
brains do not leave it for other bad,
though it must be confessed, much
smarter, women to wield the power for
evil, which they could hold in their own
hands for good did they but use and
increase the talents which God has
given them, and for which he will surely
hold tliem to an account.

last to

IN

PRACTICAL PENMANSHIP.
.

ROBINSON.
.

The exercises

in the following cut

RUS:

JOI-U

may

be practiced with the whole arm or forearm movement.

In practicing the
whole arm movement you should keep
the arm free from the desk, resting the
hand on the back of the last two finger
nails.
This movement will enable beginners to obtain control of the hand
more readily than any other, but it
should be introduced as a steppingstone to the fore-arm movement in the
place of being made a standard move-

One

grandest and best laws ever

entered upon the statute books of the
nation is undoubtedly the civil service
reform law.
I am in receipt of the
Second Annual Report from John M.
Gregory, one of the commissioners, who
says "the enforcement of the civil service
act of January 16, 1884, has been found
both practicable and effective for the
accomplishment of its purpose.'' It has
relieved a large number of officers, from
question, What can I make of my own ment for making capital letters.
the President down, from the pitiless aplif el Lydia Hoyt Fatimer in Cleveland
Next we come to the fore-arm move- peals of the office beggars. So, notLeader.
ment, which has universally been called withstanding the howl of a few sorethe umscular movement.
(We see no headed demagogues and office-seekers,
reason for calling this the muscular the law has proven a grand success.
iiioveinent. for the simple reason that The days of ignorant dunderheads in
The proprietor of a wholesale import- every movement we make is a muscular office are evidently numbered, and the
ing and exporting house down town movement). The position for practicing long, (lark nightmare of ignorance has
|i

A LESSON

of the

C.WWl.

place in

If

politic

n1

to be

politician see

He

it

future possibilities, we have no sympathy with those foolishly weak advocates of her mental powers, who grasp
at all

vague rumors

ments, and

who

of her past achievebelieve the faint, un-

founded traditions that Mendelssohn's

crown of glory belonged by right to his
sister, who. they claim, was the real
author of his masterpieces; and that the
laurel wreath of political renown as the
framer of the Declaration of Independf nee must be torn from the brow of

Thomas

Jefferson

'

'

and placed upon the were, their ignorance.

head of some unknown woman, who,

this movement is the same as the whole

arm movement, with the exception of
resting the muscles of the fore-arm on
the desk. In order to develop and discipline the muscles of the fore-arm, a
large amount of tune should be spent
practicing the oval
Then practice the
Q and U, as you see the first two following the oval.

complained the other day of the lack of

kind of business.
said that those who expected to rise,
endeavored to master the details of the
intricate business, but he found few
with energy enough to attempt it.
"Now out of forty clerks I annually
drop thirty two and retain eight. Why
is that ?
Well, foreign exchange and
the details of the system have to be
learned thoroughly. It requires energy
and some brains, and a constant exercise of the memory.
A majority of the
young men employed refuse absolutely
to try to understand the details. They
hold on in an unsatisfactory manner,
perform their work perfunctorily, and
wonder why they are discharged. Perhaps eight or nine clerks have helped
theui for months, and tided over, as it
efficient clerks in his

that she becomes a Jeanne d'Albret

in discipline of mind,
unimpeachable
integrity, fearless promulgation of reUgious principles, and unflinching courage.
In pleading the cause of woman's
high mental development and great
to

>

The design
the oval

at last been dispelled.

The edict has

gone out that henceforth merit and
learning, not ignorance and stupidity, is
to be the test of those who are hereafter
to be clothed with official power. What

a grand thing it would be if the law

could be indefinitely extended to state,
city

and township

officers.

What a vast

amount of trouble would be saved, and

what a blessing it would be to all of the

of these exercises following

people.
No other law has ever been
made that is of so much importance
t<)
Business CoUeges, as the prepaby faitlifidly ration for government offices is mainly
Small letters ae(|uired at these institutions. It is an
acknowledged fact that our business

to gradually reduce exercises

is

into letters.

Any one

learning to write

will be greatly benefitted

practicing these exercises.

should be made with the combined colleges are giving
just exactly that
movement. All forward strokes should kind of education that is needed by
be made by moving the whole liand, every government officer.
The lack of tliis pdTu-atinn is what has
letting the last two 'finger nails slide
been the (.-jui^p i>l
htruM. [irojiortion of
on the paper. The downward srt-okes the (iefalratiuM- ,ni.l failun-s,
both in
are made by contracting the thumb and out -.f t)i.-' ..llir.-, A large pro1-- government
and first two fingers.
Eortiun of tlu- nffim- ol
-.,

Any young man

who

is half way bright, honest and inereafter, it is fair to presume, will be

Now, we will say in conclusion that graduates of the Business College.
dustrious can succeed.
Positions are
every hoy and girl can learn to write, if
Brethen, it is our duty to make the
When woman's cause demands such always open to this kind of clerks. they only have the necessary will power course of instruction in these institutions both thorough and practical, for
unreliable, legendary lore to prove her Once they get in. they remoui, and after and are wilUng
to give the sufficient
the book-keeping of the richest nation
mental equahty her cause will be weak several years turn up as jiartners in the amount of time and energy
to the on earth depends upon skill and knowlMuieed. And Fanny Mendelssohn would business." *V. Y Evangelist.
work.
edge here acquired.

petty rumor saith, favored Thomas Jefferson with her sage advice.

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

JFhe

AfneriGaii

accouni of

tlieir

fine

address

and

The question may be very properly

astonishing to see the rapid pro asked. How long does it take to learn
in this branch of education the art, and what previous education is
ceived fi'om the following named per- within the last twenty years. The day needed in order to make a success? The
was, and not very long ago, when the average time as given by one of experi
sons:
gtenographic art was a rare accoui- ence, is six months. A thorouRh knowlJ. N. Curry, Harrisblirg, Pa.
plishuieut. and therefore vahiable to edge of the English branches is absoC. G. Prince, Clark's Business ColBut now many young lutely necessary, and knowledge in any
its possessor.
lege, Buffalo, N, Y.
men and women in pi-ofessional life can direction never comes amiss. All other
studious habits.

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write short-hand, and its uses are many

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'

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amount of force and perseverance to

make

SPECIAL INDUCEMENT.
nil
I

parts of the country, anti

fiubscrlblng before January

copy one year for 60 cents.

all

1st, 1S86, will re-

When

a c lib of

PREMIUMS.

half c

subscriptions

fonvariieti to

to give cuBli

We

Thr asiehican Penman.

premiums

prefer

to those securing cUibs,

and

this rule will lie invariiihly folIowetL

niude by >'. Y. Drnft, P.

Onler, Postal Xoie, or Registered Letter, to

Rcmitiiinccs

Money

shciilil ite

>

BUFFALO. K

Y.,

JUNE,

PFMSOi\AL MENTIOiX.
S. C.

Malone,

more, Md.,
ot

his

penman.

artist

favoi-s

pen

Balti-

us with specimens

drawing

which justly place him

pen artist.

and

lettering,

nt the front as

C. R. Bales,
a

beautitully

Bloominpton.
written

111.,

letter.

sends

He

is

open to an engagement, and judging

fiom his writing, he ought to have a
good place.
Chas.
cago,

I.

Rice,

penman

Rock Island

&

in the Chi-

Pacific Railway,

encloses several fine specimens of

The above

let-

lette

ter writing.

W.

P. Richardson, Fayette, 0., en-

Stenographers in railroad offices are push forward at the point that seems
thousands in number, and in the metro- the darkest, is sure of such proficiency
politan offices of the great express and in the art as will prove eminently satislege, Logansport, Ind.
transporation companies nearly every factory.
ful pen flourish, which appears in this
"With ordinary talent and extraordiC. H. Ivlausman, letter business department has its short-hand clerk at
number. Prof. Richardson is evidently
The salaries commanded nary perseverance, all things are attaiuwriting and cards, Minneapolis, Minn, his elbow.
a live teacher.
range from $10 to $25 per week, accordW. C. Harvey, Business College. ing to ability and experience.
Clark's Business Colleges are attractDavenport, Iowa.
As a work for women there is no field
There is nothing in after life that
ing students from remote cities and
where men have felt more keenly the can take the place of father and mother
C. M. Robinson, Business College,
towns in the United States, as well as
effect of their competition, the average to the child; there is no other institution
receiving a large home patronage. Lafyette, Ind.
young woman making as efficient and tike the family; there is no other love
satisfactory a stenographer as her like paaental love, anil no friendship
During the early part of the month
ToBAico is a cui-se, socially, physi- brother, and in many places they are like the friendship of father and mother.
Messrs. Jas. M. Baker and J. F.AVeaver,
preferable to a man.
X. Y. EqangelisL
of Cincinnati, Ohio, were registered cally and financially, and the raising,
There is to-day no profession offering
among the new arrivals to the Erie manufactru'ing. selling and consum- so sure and immediate promotion as
The next number will contain a r-,
sat
everlastingly
College.
Mr. J. C. Maxwell, of Rich- ing of it should be
stenography. The principal of one of port of the Business Educators k9Sfii?<
land Centre, Wis., was also admitted down u|)on by all good citizens. Gal- the first schools in the country said to ciation and much other valuable voSffi^
since,
that
scarcely a
These young men liopnlia Jovmal.
me a short time
to m(mbership.

closes in a well-written letter, a

of fourteen subscribers,

club

and a beauti-

W.

J.

M'. Bennett, Cleveland, O.

W.

Shott,

American Nomial

Col-

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

and of what shall pie opportunity for the penmen, the
shortrhond writers and teachers, and all
consist ?
Afternoon session, 3 to 4. Women in other specialists, to confer with each
business; 4 to 5, The ethics of business. other without restraint, and thus to
promote a better ac(iuaintanoe and
SIXTH DAT TUESDAY.
more effective co-operation. A room
Morning session, 9 to 10. Meeting of
will be setapartfortheexhibitof books,
committees: 10 to 11:30. Penmanship in
machines, and appliances of any sort
class instruction; 11:30 to 1. Shorthand:
appropriate to the work in hajid.
Methods of teaching, and practical rertAlLROAD RATES AND HOTEL ACCOMMOsults to be accompHshed.
Social
Afternoon session, 2 to 4.
The matter of reduced fare on the
economy: Its place in a business course, railroads has been seriously and careand how it may best be tauglit; 4 to 5. fully considered by the committee, the
Commercial law: Method and extent of result being, that on account of the uncourse shall

Eighth Annual Convention of the Business

Educators Association of America, to be
held in New York, Wednesday. July 7, to

Wednesday

it

begin,

it

cert

lialls,

The Executive Coiiunittee o( the"BusiRduuators Association" takes pleasure in submitting the following suggestions as to the coming Convention:
1. TIME ASD PLACE OF MKETIXG.
The Convention will be called to or-

der at the rooms of the Packard College,

7, at 1 P. M.. for organization and listening to the PresiFor subseciuent meetdent's address
ings, both the Packard Tollege and the instruction.
SEVENTH DAY WEDNESDAY.
^pencerian College will be at the option
of the convention.
Morning session, 9 to 10. Meeting of
committees; 10 to 11:30, Language: How
9. pmLIC MEETINGS.
On AVednesday evening a meeting will it can best be taught in business
be held at Chifkering Hall to which the schools, and to what extent; 11:30 to 1,
public will be invited, and which will be Election and general good of the asso-

on Wednesday, July

addressed by representative New York- ciation.

AND DI;
ers in a welcome to the delegates, and
The Committee desire to
responses made by members of the Asfor all

sociation.

members who

make room

iiave anything to

suggested that at least one say, and wish to say it: and. in order
other meeting be held for the discussion that proper arrangements may be made
of some broad educational topic; and to this end. it is suggested that those
that the public be invited to attend
the regular sessions of the ConvenIt is also

and that Friday be devoted

an excursion and banquet, which
has been tendered to tlie members
by the Packard Allunmi Association.
Suggestions as to hours and means
of recreation and leisure are given
under the proper head.
The daily proceedings are suggested in the following schedule:
vention,

FIRST HAV WEDNESDAY. .lULY 7.

Meeting at 1 P- M. for organiza1. Report of Secretary and
Treasurer: 2. Report of Executive
Conunittee; 2. President's address; 4.
Miscellaneous Business.
tion, etc

the

SECOND DAY THIIRSDAY.

Morning session. 9 to 10. Meeting

the study of accounts: 11:30 to 1, Penmanship; The best method of teaching

in connuercial schools.
I

to

teach

it

Arithmetic: How
to secure the best practical
11:30 to

1,

results.

'

Afternoon session, 3 to 4. Industrial

education: Its relation to business oollege work and to the educational inter.,1
estB of the country;
,

?,..

ij.e/-,
to
Commercial
^ 4
may

0.

^
^
Correspondence;
To what^ extent
.
be taught as a special duty?
,

.^

jt

red

a city of

us

FIFTH DAY MONDAY.

|

which

shall tenil to

comfort of members or to the

hotels

that

'

Morning session, 9 to 10 Meeting of

'onmiittees; 10 to 11:30. Bookkeeping as
adapted to retail business; 11:30 to 1.
Husiness practice: At what stage of the

of

ten dollars a day. according to the in- plies.

clination and the purse of the guest.
S. S. Packard. 805 Broadway. N. Y
The ordinary price for good single
D. T. Ames. 205 Broadway. N. Y.
shall be opened in a deliberate way, rooms at the best hotels, is from |1 to
L F. Gardner. Poughkeepsie. N. Y.
through a carefully prepared paper or $1.50 a day; double rooms, ?2 to $3.50.
ExeviiHue Committee.
address, occupying not to exceed thirty There is no good reason for placing the
New York. May 10, 1886.
entire
cost
of
lodging
and
board,
in
utes, to be followed by extemporaneousdiscussion; and, while everv mem- good hotels, above ?3 a day; and any
The American Penman is late in
^^^ ^^.^ ^e accorded the constitutional one who desires to economize, can live coming out this month, but owing to
privilege of speaking upon any open comfortably and respectably on $2.50. pressing business matters, we hope our
Good
boarding
houses
can
be
found
question. It
y much aid the comreaders will excuse the delay. The July
mittee to know in advance, the names close [jroximity to the convention, at a No. will appear alittlelater.owingtoour
of those who may be called upon to rate not to exceed SIO a week. Places desii'e to get a full report as possible of
hotels
or
boarding
at
houses
will
be
se^peak upon the several topics named
the Business Educator's Association.
The experience of former conventions
Thereafter the "A. P." will appear on
lias taught us that a full hour for distime.
cussion of the points in any jirepared
ENTS AND RECREATION.
Avoid the first teiuptation to wrong.
paper or address is as brief a limit as
of Information will be
A Bun
He who yields, and indulges ui some
should be set.
* .
u during 4.1the conv
tabhshed. *to hold
rry,^ nnmniittpe nro i^rPiinrt.f1 tr, oHv
form of sin practiced by others, because
1-1 can Ibe obtauied
I *
11
ine connmrtee aie piepareci to say. *from which
all
others
practiced it, is in the quicksands
*
nsani-nn,.*. aiieaa>
nivonHv at
*
f,.n, assuiante
ttt nana,
hanA tnai
fVmt g^ry mformation
*
.
<
iiom
plHf'rtfi
as to
and cannot expect but to suffer loss.
no^e of the topics are likely to go beg1 and amusement: and it must not be
Safety consists in ability to say no.
gillg.
forgotten that New York, in summer
firmly and from tlie beginning.
A<-adspecial intekfsts.
time, holds out unusual attractions in
cmy News.
The object of devoting the morning this line. Especially is rich in cheap
botly
hour, from 9 to 10. to "meetings of the excursions to the country and seaside,
makes
the
'Tis the mind that
committees and sections," is to give am- while the numerous theatres and con- fiKh, Shakesjiearr.
It

go in applying the science to business

specialties?

Many

and advancement of the cause. Communiboarding houses, and good board can cations should baddressed to the Chairbe secured at from ten dollars a week to man, who engages to render prompt reis

School day of meeting.

Management, as applied to the B

KOURTH DAY-SATURDAY.
Morning session. 9 to 10^ Meeting of
)mmittees; 10 to 11:30. Bookkeeping:
How far and in what direction shall we

effort untried

the

New York

wiio are willing te take part, either in

the prejiaratinn of papers or in the disshall communicate with the
of the coumiittee, before the

to introduce

College; 4 ton. Relation of business colleges to pubUc schools.

public.

in the field uninterruptedly

for twenty-flve years

no

committees or sections for the consideration of special subjects; 10 to

of

Afternoon

have been

ent themselves, but will use their influence to induce a large attendance
of teachers within the line of their
Especially do the
correspondence.
committee request suggestions and
inquiries touching any point of interest.
They are determined to leave

Statements from the Executive Com-

How

work before the

It is to be hoped
that members of the association will
not only make an effort to be pres-

m. 1. Ad-

dresses of welcome from eminent citi.

zens; 2. Responses by the President
and members of the Association; 3.

Bookkeeping;

weighty reasons why a special effort

should be made to properly place our

of unusual zest.

SESSION.

mittee and announcements of

meetings of the Convention.

an important time in the history

and that there are

is

of our association,

the best thoughts that are in us. and

that we leave no doubt in oiu* own
niinds or in the minds of our friends
that we are in the line of advancement in educational ideas and processes.
It is believed by the committee that the convention of '86
will be in many respects the most
important that has yet been held.
Evidences are at hand of a very
large rttendance, and the prompt
responses which have been made to
requests for papers and co-operation in other matters give evidence

to

p.

this

__ in our individual schools. The Business Educator's Association had its

birth in New York eight years ago,
and there are important reasons why
its return to the old ground should
be signalized by such evidences of
solid growth as shall impress the
public. To this end. it is essential
that we bring into our discussions

3. DIVISION OF TIME.
It is proposed that Thursday, Saturday. Monday.Tuesday and the forenoon of Wednesday be given up
wholly to the real work of the Con-

Chickering Hall, 8

In conclusion, the committee would

respectfully call the attention of members and their friends to the fact that

and more, and

certainty as to the number of persons others who have come into it more
to be provided for on any particular recently have the same or even greater
route, and the fact that very few will interests at stake in the matter. There
care to come and return over the same seems to be almost as much necessity for
route, the eflfort to secure special re- educating the public mind now as there
ductions would prove of Uittle avail. has been at any time in the past.not withThey would also call attention to the standing the growth of our specialty
fact that these are times of abnormally and the missionary efforts of earnest and
low rates <.ii all road;; leading to New progressive teachers. Those wlio have
York, and that, though outside ticket followed the line of progression as adagents, even these low rates maybe dis- vanced by our recent conventions, cancounted. It will be the business of the not fail to see tliat in this method lies
committee tD secure all possible favors our best avenue to the public sense and
our best means of promoting efficiency
in these directions.

THIRD

that could

CONCLUSION.

nes.'*

11:30,

all

be desired.

EVENING

arranged especially for sum-

mer entertainments, are

July 14.

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

country,

BY PBOF. RUSSKLL.

man

-lOLIET. ILL.

In comparing the relative merits of our

Business Colleges with those of our
Classical Colleges, we will say nothing
derogatory to the latter, but will, we

by fair argument and couiparishow up truthfully the relative

merits of each At the outset we claim
that our Business Colleges are doing
vastly more good in proportion to their
trust,

sons,

means than Classical Colleges, although

we suppose that this may be denied,
nevertheless, we believe that statistics
will

verify our statement.

place

is

it

In the first
not a fact that the vast ma-

amount

of business of the a sigh, and appeared to be taking in

a fact that we suppose no emptiness with both eyes.
" You are very good," he replied,
mind will attempt
to deny. That there are humbug insti- " but I am afraid I shall rob you."
tutions that do not teach what they ad"Oh.no.'" with emphasis. "We have
vertise, in fact, are grand frauds, we so much more than the family can use
suppose to be equally true of both Busi- that we're feeding it to the calves all the
ness and Classical schools. Of these we time."
have nothing to say, but of the many
An episode of the North Shore;
worthy institutions scattered over the
Bicycler to rural individual: "How
country that have been models of suc?"
cess, which are presided over by men of far is it to Blankville
"Wall, for a hoss 'n kerridge it's a
learning and unblemished character and
reputation, who are devoting their lives good three mile, but for one of them
for the advancement of education, of blame things I guess it ain't much
these we now speak, and are proud to more'n than a couple o' hundred rods.
claim in no arrogant or bombastic man- Fust road to th' left, mister, then keep
ner,that they are doing, have done,and in straight ahead t'l ye get thare."
of the vast
is

in his right

jority of our Classical schools are sus-

all

human

tained by private contributions, or by

benevolent individuals, or perhaps some
church? How may of them are self-susComparatively few. Is not
taining?
the annual commencement used as a
day of asking, yea, begging alms, to
lielp along the different Classical institutions? In the history of any of our
Business Colleges, do we see anything
of this kind; nay, verily a Business
College that cannot stand upon its merit

for

young men,

and how

'veil they have

Let the hundreds of
stood the test.
prosperous Business Colleges throughout the country answer this. To any observing business man, this would, if applied to actual business transactions, be
most conclusive proof. How long would
any mercantile house, be its name what
it might, stand, that was compelled to
issue an annual appeal to the charity of
the customer, to keep it from bank-

has to

sink,

ruptcy? Yet, my classical friends, disguise it as you may, this is precisely

what you are doing: begging

to

keep

yourselves from having your doors closed

which the lack of patronage would force
upon you.
It may be that many of our Business
Colleges are poor. I know that many,
if not all, are most heartily despised by
Classical Colleges. Thatthey do not educate and are consequently humbugs, has
been charged time and again against
them. How true this is, let the nuiuerous graduates of these institutions
answer.
Everywhere, scattered from
Maine to California, are the graduates
of our various Business Colleges in positions of the utmost responsibility and
trust, where brains and talent are required. Can as much be said of the
graduates of our various Classical Colleges? The late Horace Greeley, whom
all will admit to be a fair judge, inasmuch as he was a graduate of neither
a Business nora Classical College, said,in
1869, that in the city of New York there
was an army of upwards of ninety thousand graduates from the various Classical institutions of learning of the United
States, and that not a tithe of them
could earn a living, while at the same
time the graduates of our Business Colleges were nearly all in some useful employment. The devotion of four years
to the study of dead languages Mr.
Greeley regards as a most positive injury
to many, and as far as the discipline is
concerned, all sensible persons will admit
that there is enough to learn in the
English language, that is of benefit
to mankind.
A knowledge of Latin
may be of benefit to the medical profes.'iion, and how very few of these ever retain the knowledge that they have spent
years to secure. Is it not almost invariably forgotten? In regard to the statement that our Business Colleges do not
educate, we think that we have shown
most positively that they do educate,

possibility will do as much

yes, more that will be of
worth to their students and the
world at large, than the very best of our
classical schools.
That they ask no endowments from the millionaire or the
philanthropist, but expect to stand upon
solid

own

individual worth, supported

by a just and appreciating public, we
believe redounds most emphatically to
their credit.
their

When we compare

The quick-wittedness of the Irishman

was capitally illustrated the other day
on the road between Lynn and Salem,
where a gang of laborers were constructing a sidewalk.
"How soon will that be ready to ride
on?" asked a passing wheelman from
Boston, pleasantly.
" Before you're i-eady to pay the Lynn
authorities for the privilege, begorra !"

Boston

liecord.

the expenses that

are required at either of these instituwhich is no small matter, especially in such stringent times as we have
had for the past four years, as it is a
well-known fact that the vast majority
of students that attend these schools are
from the middle and poorer classes, that
compartively few are rich, we shall find

FRIENDS AND COMPANIONS.

tions,

"We should ever have it fixed in our

memories," said Blair, "that by the
character of those whom we choose for
our friends, our own is likely to be
formed, and will certainly be judged of
by the world "
that the investment of $100 in a business
The good Sir Matthew Hale said:
education is surely of much more im- "There is certainly magic or charm in
portance than is the $1,000 invested in company, for it will assimilate and make
the dead languages. For what the age you like to them by much conversation
demands isatraining of a practical nature with them. If they be good company,
afforded by many of our best Business it is a great means to make you good or
Colleges. Let the antiquated mossbacks, confirm you in goodness; but if they are
if they have time and money to do so,
bad, it is twenty to one but they will
search out and translate Nepos, Virgilj infect and corrupt you. The myriads
or even grow enthusiastic over Cicero's who have devoted their lives to drinking
orations, but the age demands practical and gaming habits, have ascribed their
education, and the young man that has wreck and downfall not so much to the
brains and ability, and the right kind of love of drink and mere play, as to the
energy, is the man that will succeed.
love of company and the attractive
Good business men are apt to ask in temptation presented by bad eompanrelation to almost anything, Does it
" Keep good company, and you will be
pay? If we put this question as to the
relative benefits of a Business or Classi- one of the number," said good George
cal education,

elusion,

when

we are led to the con- Herbert.

we compare them,
There ought

that a Business education is better than

a Classical education, for the reason
which we have minutely observed, it
pays infinitely better.
It is what the
people need and must have, in order to
do their business properly, and the
unanimity with which they sustain and
patronize the three hundred Business
Colleges is sufficient evidence as to their
relative merits in comparison with Classical Colleges.

THE ADVENTURES OF THE WHEELMEN.

to be a restraining influence in the avoiding of evil and idle

companionships by the thought that although temptation may have been
yielded to in company, the consequences
must be borne alone. Evil companions
are strong to seduce, but heartless to
sustain their victims. They will exhaust
your means, teach you to despise the
God of your fathers, lead you into every
sin, go with you while you afford them
any pleasure or profit, and then when
the inevitable disaster of wickedness
begins to overwhelm you, they will

credible, but I

would say to you,

in

thf

words of Shakespeare, "Thou wilt be

king hereafter Yes, sir, you will reign.'"
After gazing into the palm of (he third
the young girl shivered, grew pale, and
dropped his hand.
Quickly rallying,
she informed him that she saw nothmg
\
worth repeating, and left his side. But
the same night, before leaving, she im!'

Lady Blessington to distrust her

" He will commit murder
and be sentenced to death."
These three men were Charles Dickplored

who, in 1864, returning from abroad,

in the horrible railroad accident of
Staplehurst, and escaped unhurt; the
manuscript of "Our Mutual Friend,"
his offspring, inclosed in a small handbag, was found upon the track amid the
debris and returned to the author. The
ens,

was

second man was Prince Louis Napoleon.

No commentary is needed. The third

was Charles Wainwright, then a most

who afterwards murdered his wife, with the iimst revolting
proraisiner.painter,

cruelty.
He was condenmed to death,
but the Queen comiimted his sentence
to transportation for life.

Desbarolles, the great French wizard,

has chosen this opportune moment to
leave the world; sooner he might have
passed away without even the slighest
notice. He was not rich, having lost all
his fortune in the failure of a bank, and
because, as he said, "he had not dared
to ask permission to examine the hand
of the manager." He used to receivehis clients in a room of dazzling brightness, with curtainless windows, the light
coming in from the sky, the gardens^
and above the roofs.
DesbarroUes
laughingly explained: " My attic is the
ante-room of tlie constellations.''
In 1865 a very young Creole, Mile. Autard de Bragard, came to consult him.

"Whom shall

marry ?"

"

A man whoaO^

A^

position will be universally envied." '*

millionaire?
prince?" "Better still.'*

Four year later the young girl becameMme. Ferdinand de Lesseps. iowtoa
Letter to the

New

York Sun.

chance of being widelyread depends greatly on his style, and it

seems to us a piece of literary affectation for any author to write in florid orwriter's

No man who

obscure language.

writes

London Times says,

can afford to neglect the art of composition.
Dr. Johnson's verbosity was a.
for posterity, as the

standing joke among many of his contemporaries,

Of him Macaulay said
that he wrote in a style in which no one
ever made love, nor quarrelled, nor drove
bargains, or ever thought. When he
wrote to his friends he wrote good Eng^

but when he wrote for publication

he "did his sentences into Johnsonese."
" He has had his reward," says a writer.
"His 'Rambler' lies unread on our
bookshelves: his talk, as recorded by
Boswell, will be perused by thousands
lish,

abandon you. A'ucccs*.- in Life.

They had just been introduced. She
of delighted students."
Carlyle's exwas a pretty country gu-l and he a
wheelman who was very vain of his per- FORTUNE-TELLING IN DRAWING ROOMS traordinary style undoubtedly militates
against his being more extensively read.
sonal appearance when clad in 'cycling
Forty
years
ago. in 1846, at the ultra- All the Year Mound.
costume.
He I assure you there is scarcely a refined literary receptions of Lady BlesSENSIBLE PARAGRPAHS.
man who does not find the wheel suit sington, a young French girl, introduced
Whenever you are in doubt about
by a friend of the hostess, laid the founmost becoming.
dation of her future reputaition in for- which of two things to do, let your deShe (Doubtingly) Indeed
He As for myself, everybody insists tune-telling. It was Mile. Le Normand, cision be for that which is right. Do
the modern pythoness. Lady Blessing- not waver, do not parley, but go squarethat I look 100 per cent, better in bicycle
ton, who had been informed by her ly up to the nmrk and do the right
costume than in an ordinary business
!

Parisian correspondent of the miraculous thing.

her protege, determined to

try
She (innocently) Dear me
How gifts of
her before she could have become acawfully you must look in an ordinary
quainted with any of the persons presbusiness suit
ent, or even ascertain their names.
This is also from the country, and Three men were successively brought to
he. too, a wheelman.
He had called at her. To the first, after examining his
"Your life will be a
and do it in a much more practical man- a farmhouse for a glass of water, but the hand, she said:
ner than most of our Classical Colleges. pretty farmer's daughter had olTered happy and successful one, but on one
That they impart the most essential him a glass of milk instead.
occasion you and one of your children
branches of education which are daily
"Won't you have another glass?" she will miraculously escape destruction."
used and ar6 required for the transaction asked, as he drained the tumbler, with To the second: "It seems almost in-

guest, saying:

He who has left the world the record

a noble life, though he may have left

no outward memorial, has left an endurof

ing source of greatness.

"Joseph," said a merchant to his

"your character and all your
future usefulness and prosperity depend
upon the way you pass your eveninga.
clerk,

Take my word
evenings that

for

tell

it, it is

upon

New

a young

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H. C.
S. A.

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&.

ERIE,

Edlto
Proprle

JOHNSON.

seemed

THE CONVENTION

far

PA.,

AS SBCO.VD-CLASH ilATTJili.

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PA.,

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N.

Y.,

JULY,

ent would acquire a better

Vol.

ii

command

teaching:

1 No.

7.

Roeth, of San Francisco;

i-st. in wliirli he deplored the process

of the muscular movement by first CoUins, of Knoxville, Tenn.; RathFairly Successful, but Devoid of nf mystitViiig the records of accounts, practicing with the whole arm. He burn, of Omaha; Hinman, H. A. Spenanil Ik* inado a special effort to arouse advocated simple forms of letters for cer, Huntsinger, and Burdett, of BosEnthusiasm.
and hold the attention of R. C. Spen business, and was of the opinion that ton.
A SMALL ATTENDAXCE.
cer. of Milwaukee, instead of address- good writing was one of the most esUpon the call of the regular convention, Thos. E. Hill, of Chicago,
ing the convention in a body. How- sential things in education.

General Convention Notes, &c.

ever, everybody took it good naturedly

H. C. Sjjencer and Prof Vincent read a paper entitled," Ethic in BusiJuly Tth, the Busi- and allowed Mr. Brown to say what- followed, each presenting in a brief ness," which was commented upon
Amer- ever he pleased without molestation way his methods of teaching. At 9:45 by R. C. Spencer, of Milwaukee.
ica convened at Packard's College, He was followed by Euos Spencer, of the Penman's Section adjourned to Prof Packard then r^d a paper writXo. S05 Broadway, New York, and TiOuisville, Ky., and Richard Nelson, unite with the regular convention in ten by Mrs. H. C. Spencer, of WashingPackard's rooms at 10 o'clock.
ton, D. C, entitled, " Women in Busiwas called to order by the President, of Cincinnati.

On AVednesday,

net^s

Educatoi-s' Association of

Next, the subject of penmanshi}:

Hon. A. J, Rider. The Secretary was
upon to read the minutes of the was presented by C. T. Smith, of Jackmeeting, which he did in a grace- ville, who is credited with the ability
fiU manner.
The President tlien de- to instruct young people in this
His melivered his address which was read branch very successfully.
from manuscript, and as a whole was thod, however, is not new, as there
are
hundreds
of
teachers
who
teach
ijuite an able i)aper.
The convention
then took a recess to meet at Chicker- with just ns good results as Mr. Smith,
and
in
fact
find
we
failed
to
out
ing Hall in the evening.
Here a
small audience greeted the speakers, whether he taught by illustration on
called
last

Upon the convention being

to order the subject of

called

among whom were Mayor Rooney, the blackboard altogether or fi-om cise style of presenting the subject to a
class.
ex-Gov. Chamberlain, S. S. Packard, written copies.
The balance of the day was emAt the afternoon session a very inHon. A. J. Rider, Rev. Dr. Buckley,
and Prof. J. L. Hirst. Music was fur- ployed in listening to an address by teresting and meritorious paper was
S. S.

nished by a quartet club, which was

Packard which, by the way, was read by

S. S.

Packard, after which the

far more favor by the au- a very able eflbrt, and at four o'clock convention adjourned to attend a dinthe rest of the pro- the convention in a body went to ner given them by the Spencer Bros.,
Ex-Gov. Chamberlain de- Manhattan Beach to attend a dinner at Manhattan Beach, and it was one
livered an excellent address, claiming tendered them as guests of the Twi- of the most "delightful features of the
Seated at either end of
that a business education was much light Club, N. Y. About six o'clock convention.
better for our young men and women tliere were more than five hundred the table were the two famous Spen
than a classical training. He has a people who sat down to dinner, and a cers, Henry C. and Harvey A., who
cry delightful time was had by all. look so much alike that one can
jileasant style of delivery, and his
" which is which," and,
address throughout was listened to The tlinner was served in excellent scarcely tell
tyle,
the bill of fare elaborate, and they kejit the guests in a happy state
with close attention. The last speaker,
Rev. Dr. Buckley, said, among other the after-dinner speeches pertaining of mind during the two hours occu" Problem of the Hour," were pied in serving the dinner.
A very
things, that a relative of his (a lady) to the
laughable affair was the joke that
lost sixty-three thousand dollai-s by very good.

by

received

dience

than

gramme.

not having a business education.

Following

his

address,

FRIDAY, THE THIRD

the Glee

Lyman

The convention was

in

called to

Packard's College, at

ten o'clock

by the

little

Pre.'^idcnt,

was by

the best

far

New

York.

Mr. Miller was engaged

the student before presenting to

in the theory of ac-

to

him anything

After Mr. Nelson's talk, Prof

counts.

Frank Lincoln, the celebrated humorwas introduced and succeeded iu

ist,

convulsing the convention with his

happy

At

style of telling anecdotes.

the close of his entertainment the con-

vention adjourned for lunch, and up-

on reassembling. Prof Felix Adler

delivered an address advocating a
higher plan of education amongst
business men, laying great stress upon themoralsof business, ignoring the
idea that the sole purpose of

busi-

tlie

man was

to simply make money,

was the love he had for his calling that should put him to better efforts, and not mere money -getting.
If he was a succsss, money was a
secondary consideration, and that
Id be added unto him.
The

ness

as

it

tossing up crumbs that he gathered speaker enlisted close attention from

and a most enjoyable from the table, and catching them in
his audience and his address was retime was had. One of the features of his mouth, (a
trick that they say very plete with good thoughts, well spoken,,
order ihe occasion was a match game of
few can do successfully) when

the Hudson,

Lyman

past base ball between the Packards

and Dr. Trenton College

clubs, in

anjjl
spoke out and said,
which the large a mouth
as you

Bryant read a paper on book-keeping

Packards were badly worsted.
was made up from observaSATURDAY, THE FOURTH DAY.
tions the Doctor had made on the
wliich

The Penmens'

science of accounts.

We

Spencer, America's greatest

pen artist, perpetrated on Win. Alien

the invi- Miller, the celebrated accountant
of

CUib rendered a good-night song in a tation

extended to it by the Packard
highly satisfactory manner.
Alumni Association to a sail upon

THURSDAY, SECOND DAY.

P,

The convention accepted

which

ness,"

book-keeping paper presented to the convention.

was taken up and discussed at some In some future issue we shall be glad
length.
After which the. subject of to publish this admirable paper, so
arithmetic was presented in a very that our readers may judge for themsatisfactory manner by T. B. Sto- selves as to its merits.
Business practice was then taken
well, of Providence.
His method
was practical and to tlie point. Few, up by Prof Richard Nelson, of Cinif any, of the membere of the conven- cinnati, in which he advocated the
tion could surpass his clear and con- plan of introducing actual business

Section

met

at the

were unable to learn anything Spencerian Business College at nine

**

see

how a man

thoae crumbs."

throughout.

Miller, with so

In the evening an ex-

meeting

was

held,

as

it

hardly was called, and (juite a large number

could foil to catcli responded to the call of the president,
The joke was greatly iu relating what each one had accomJiave, I

enjoyed by the guests. After the din- plished while a

ner quite a large delegation attended sion.

member of the

profes-

new from the presentation of the sub-] o'clock in the morning, and in the the concert given by Gilmore's Band,
after which they took a boat for New
jeot, and suppose that if there were absence of D. T. Ames, Prof H. A.
York.
any new points, they were carefully Spencer was chosen chairman.
MONDAY, THE FIFTH DAY.
concealed, lest some member of the
H. C. Clark being called upon to
convention might find them out. jiresent some of his ideas of teaching,
The Penmens' Section met at the
Prof G. W. Brown, of Jacksonville, responded in an address of ten min- Spencerian College and the following
III.,
followed with an address that! utes, in which he claimed that a stud- gentleuien explained their methods of
;

TUESDAY, THE SIXTH DAY.

The Penmens'

Section was culled to

order by the chairman at

Mr. Shattuck, of

upon the bad

many
dent,

New

taste

i).

15,

and

York, spoke

of ptiTOig

too

styles of capitals before the stu-

and

his talk

brought Henry

C.

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

Spencer

to liis i4kt,

to illustrate

and he ]>roceeded

on the blackboard a vawere used

ritty of capital letters that

and itppioved by business men, as

i)ractical, which

they were simple and

justified

At

their perpetuation.

the

of the Penninn's Section, Hi!i-

close

nian, of M'orcestr> wasted a

of time

in

getting

good deal

what he thought

was the proi)er thing before the convention, and even said amorg otlier
unreasonable things that " Dr. Talmage would dance in his pulpit to
liold tlie attention of his

New York.
A. W. RiNDELL, New York.
W. E McCoRD, Jacksonville.

J. D.

P. R.

Odell.

seem

Spencer, Cleveland. O.

Byron Hobton, New

York.

C. C. CuRTiss, Minneapolis.

G.

W. Brown,

Jacksonville. III.
J. H. LiNDSLEY. Elizabeth. N. J.
C. C. Gains. Poughkeepsie. N. Y'.
E. C. A.

Becker, Worcester. Mass.

Smith, Jacksonville, HI.

M. Vincent. New Y'ork.
Wm. Allen Miller, New York.

C. T.
J.

W.

E.

Thos.

Drake, Jersey
E.

audience."

A FEW of the older members of the

McAdam, of Caliand L. F. Gardner, ofPough- convention try to do all the talkDuring the afternoon a large ing, but never say much.

discussed by Prof.

keepsie.

number of the delegates

tomb of Gen. Grant.

visited the

The New York

WEDNESDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY,

Was

given up to discussions of differ-

ent topics, and election of

which resulted as
ler,

Baltimore, President

Vice President; Mrs.

S. S.

York, Vice President; A.

R. C.

ing Hall.

Business Education was not maadvanced through

terially elevated or

S.

subject

as

circular,

has the best possible position for writa series of lessons on

pracing.
The pen should be held by the
penmanship, and now is the
thumb, and first two fingers. The
time to subscribe in order to receive thumb bending outward slightly, should
tical

the

course of lessons.

full

We

believe

that

The American

will present to its readers

an

appreciate,

and those who follow the

instructious mil receive many valuWilliams, of Rochester, stated at able points that cannot be otherwise
The next meeting will be at Mil- the convention that " book-keeping than of great interest to them.
waukee.
is of the least importance in a busiLESSON IN PENMANSHIP.
The following are the names of ness college course." What does he
those who attended the convention:
consider a business education to be ?
BY S. A. DRAKE.
not
his
students
spend
more
and does
J. E. GusTUS, Lindsburg, Kan.
A. H. HiNMAN. Worcester. Mass.
No. I.
time in getting a knowledge of this
Those who would profit by inKtrueC. L. Free, Easton, Pa.
branch than any otlier.
S. S. Packard, New York.
tion in writing must have a just appreciation of the value of skill in the art,
L. L. Williams, Rochester.
We had always supposed that a and they must also realize the truth of
A. S. OsBORN, Rochester.
thorough going business college con- the fact, th.at all who give a reasonable
L. A. Gray, Portland, Me.
H. C. Spencer, Washington.
the degree of attention and perseverance to
sidered book-keeping one of
J. M. Frasher. Wheeling. W. Va.
branches most essential in a commer- the study o! practical writiuff, cannot be

and

Com-

L. L. Williams, Executive

mittee.

Wood, Scrantoo, Pa.

W. H. Sadler, Baltimore.
F. E.

but there is one man, perhaps more, who think ditferently. If

he will just jiublish that fact and circulate it extensively, he will not be
cial couree.

Ames, New York.

H. C. Clark, Erie.
J. C. Bryant, Buffalo.
D. T.

R. C. Si'KNCKR, Milwaukee.
C W. RoBBiNS, Sedalia, Mo.

WiNANS, Rockford,

G. A.
H. A.

111.

Spencer. New York.

Cady, New York.
W. H. Covert, Fairfield, N. Y.
Richard Nelson, Cincinnati.
C. T. Miller, Newark.
Knos. Si'ENlEr, Louisville, Ky.
C. E.

K
W.

Burnett, Providence.

L.

A.

Warriner, Woodstock,

Ont.

R. S. Collins, Knoxville. Tenn.

Claghorn, Brooklyn.
Mrs. S. S. Packard. New York.
C.

Mrs.

L. L.

Williams. Rochester.

H. C. RoETH. San Francisco.

Rider, Trenton.
T. B. Stowkll, Providence.
G. R. Rathbln, Omaha, Neb.
L. F. Gardner, Poughkeepsie.
V. Schneider, Wilkesbarre.
F. H. BrRUKTr, Boston
A. J.

Shattick, Bostoh
(4ALLAGHKR. Hamilton.
andE. W. Smith, Lexington.
M. Hi ntsinger. New York.
Doit E. Kimball, Lowell, Mass.
Madarasz, New York.

P. C.

R. E.

W.
E.
L.
L,

W.

R.

(i.

W.

Gregory, Allento^vn.
Bartholomkw. New York.

p.

W.M.

Barton, Kent's Hill. N.

Hub, Indianapolis. Ind.

A.

E. J.

Y.

disappointed of their aim. The opinion

held by many, that the ability to write
well is a "natural gift" is true only of
the higher departments of the art, or

wbat may be styled ornamental penman^

harnessed to a business college pro- shij}, and is not true in regard to plain
Young men rapid writing, which can be as easily
prietoi-ship very long.
acquired as any other simple mechaniseeking a thorough business educacal skill.
tion want a complete course in bookOne who has decided to enter upon

press lightly against the side of the

holder opposite the first joint of the fore
finger the end of which rests on top of
the holderabout an inch and a half from
the point of the pen which crosses the'
second finger at the roots of the fingernail.
The third and fourth fingers
should be bent under slightly not
clasped tightly so that they may serve
OS a rest for the hand, while the ends of
the finger nails enable the hand to sUdf
easily over the paper.

The movement

to

be employed

in

writing is a matter of nmch itnportance

to the student, and he should endeavor
to gain a perfect understanding of the
different writing movements, and to
bring into use that which is best adap^
to the style of penmanship he ltf[^
aiming to execute. The finger mov0^^
jiicnt, which consists in contracting and
extending the fingers holding the pen,
when forming the letters, is most commou and seems to be the most natural
movement, which is due. perhaps, to the
fact that all persons first learn to use
the pencil, which requires a firmer graap''
and greater pressure than is necessary
in the use of the pen, and having a&quired faciUty with the fingers, and
having no hnowledge of a better move-^
ment, it is consequently employed in a1|^

ted

>

the study of writinif should adopt some writing. Many serious objections may^
the one course of instruction, and follow it be raised against this movement, and it
implicitly and systematically, at least, should be entirely discarded by those
who would acquire an easy, graceful
Wc be- until he lias gained sufficient knowledge style.
to attend.
That best adapted to practioa^V
of the subject to employ judiciously and
lieve it is.
understandingly the useful suggestions writing is the forearm movcmcnty
While any one of which the hand, impelled by a rolling
of various methods.
Mr. Packahi) jirobably did his best the different methods might produce the motion of the muscular part of the foreto make a success of the lat conven- desired results, a confusion of them arm, slides on the ends of the third and
fourth fingers, its only support. Thlfl
tion, but lie did not have the hearty would not be likely to lead to any degree of success, as any one of differing movement is admirably suited to the
co-operation of the business college
courses of medical treatment may be execution of plain, rapid writing, and la
men. It is safe to say that a majority the means of restoring and preserving used exclusively by many of the best
of the most earnest and successful health, a conjunction of courses of professional penmen, which proves Iti
workera remained at home, and we do treatment would no doubt result dis- excellence in other departments of t^
not tiiink that they lost very much astrously. An instructor in any branch art. The student should give niuche
tention at first to the cidtivatio
by so doing. The lack of interest that of education is supposed to have made
the branch a subject of study and inves- movement, as it makes tlie practUj
was ever manifest, indicates that betigation with a view to the discovery of much easier in consequence of the urm^i
yond a social ])oint of view, the con- the most direct and efficient means of resting in an easy position on the tabl^
vention was not a success.
guiding others to a knowledge of the and no grasp or action of the flngeii|
same, and that pupil who follows care- being required.
The combined viovement is a
The subject of penmanship re- fully the guidance of the teacher is
the finger and the forearm movemeatt
most likely to do well.
ceived some attention at the last conThe lessons which have appeared from The wholearm mavcmenf consists
than
informed,
vention more, we are
time to time in the Penman have dealt carrying the arm clear from the tablq
has been the usual custom to grant with the subject of writing in a manner the third and fourth fingers sliding a
However, the business educator^ more likely to interest advanced learn- furnishing a support for the hand. Th
it.

keeping, and tliey have a right to

ask

if

the college

branch
not the best one
])rincii)al

making

this

in its curriculum, is

m^

Jones, Bergen. N. Y.

B.

ber,

tlie influence exerted by the late conOs- vention. Many of the most import- unusually good course in practical
writing, one such as everybody will
little or no at-

and Treas- ant branches received

Spencer, G. W. Brown, attention.

very ers than any other

number of

and words and exercises adapted to the

announcing the development of a plain rapid, hand
Au- writing.
In the first place, it is quite essential
gust 24. Graduating exercises will
be held in the Park Opera House, that the learner be provided with good
writing materials, smooth, heavy fools
Erie, Pa., on the afternoon of August
cap paper, free-flowing ink, and fine
24, and a very fine programme of
pointed elastic pens. The table or desk
speeches and music has been ar- used, should be targe enough to allow
ranged. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, of the paper, and arms forward of the
Brooklyn, N. Y,. will address the elbows to rest full upon it.
graduating class and deliver a lecture
POSITION. '
in the evening, entitled, "Bright and
The writer should place liis i-iiair so
Happy Homes." The circular will that its front edge will be even with the
be mailed to any address gratuitously. edge of the table; and sitting erect, being careful to keep the back straight,
S. A. Drake begins, with this num- with his arms resting on the table, he
page

Penman

Packard,

borne, Rochester, Secretary

urer;

Graphic recently

adorned one of its pages with fifteen

prominent members of the
late convention, and an imaginary
illustration of the meeting in Chicker-

portraits of

R. E. Gal-

L. F.

New

Sad-

Hamilton, Ont., Vice PresiGardner, of Poughkeepsie,

lagher,

dent

officers,

W. H.

follows:

the

Quite a large

Fall Oiiening, wliich takes place

III.

The weather, al the time the conComparatively few of the members

remiiined in their seats to hear his vention convened in New York, was
talk through to tlie end.
Political exceedingly hot.
economy was next taken up and ably
fornia,

penmen.

eight

City.

Hill. Chicago,

handle

class, in that the lessons present outlines of methods of

teaching, and suggestions, rather than
detailed instruction suitable for those
them could improve upon their style who have not had the
opportunity of
of writing to very good advantage. studying penmanship, but who deMre
Would it not be well for those who to improve their handwriting. The folare deficient to attend a good pen- lowing lesson and those to appear in
subsequent numbers of the Penman,
manship school for a term or so?
will be designed to present a complete
Clark's Business Colleges, Erie, course, introducing the principles, and
letters, with a careful analysis of each,
and Buflalo, have issued a beautiful

to

cautiously, lest they be branded

IIL

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

19 used chiefly in executing large floui^ space in lueafiuring the height of letters,
iahed capitals. It may be employed to w*hile the smalt
advantage by some in first learning width The learner should give considtiie position of the pen and hand, and erable time to the study of each separate
in getting a start in the foreanu move- letter before he undertakes to
make it.
ment, and especially by those who have
He must have a clear conception of the
contracted the habit of resting the hand
form of the letter, before he can hope to
on its side in contact with the paper,
place a copy of that form on the paper.
preventing, thereby, a free gliding movement, which is so essential to smooth, He must know the form he wishes to
make before he can expect to make it,
graceful writing. The wholearm movement compells the writer to turn the and he can gain such knowledge only
hand to the left, resting it on the third by study, caitiesf study of the letters.
and fourth fingers and bringing the He must observe the slant, the height,
the width of each letter; and which lines
liolder in direct line with the shoulder.
are curved, and which are straigth; which
After practicing for a time with the arm
turns are angular and which are oval;
in this position, he will find it quite tiring and will be very likely to bring the which strokes are heavy, and which are
arm to a rest on the table, and by con- light. Many students of writing find
their
efforts fruitless in consequence of
tinuing the motion of the hand and arm
in thig position, he has the forearm move- their not recognizing the fact that careful study must be combined with pracment.
tice to secure improvement.
In the
Assuming the correct position for the
above manner, the learner should enforrnrin inovcmtnt, the student shoidd
deavor to master each letter, taking
begin by making parallel lines from left
them up in the order in which they are
to right nearly across the paper, which
may be followed by practice on the oval presented in the copies. Not less than
an hour should be devoted to each letpresented below. T
ter before the next is attempted.
After
the i has been well learned let it be followed by the u in like manner, after
may be reversed. After considerable which, these letters may be combined
and practiced together. The next in
practice on these exercises, he is preorder is the u, in which the first three
pared to take up the study of the small
I)rinciples are used.
The ascending
letters which are most simple in form.
convex curves, the descending
lines str. ight. and the finishing line a
curve. The turns at the top
oval, at the base, angular, except
The above cut presents
the principles which, with
}

modifications,

slight

that the lines be not allowed to coincide, mere assertions of its value and utility
but that they be kept separate and dis- We, like the writer, believe in reasoning
tinct.
The hue joining two oval turns from cause to effect, but in the present
instance, we do not think it at all necesis usually a compound curve, or a consary to enter into a philo>4ophi<-al discusvex and a concave curve combined.
sion of the relations of mind and matter,
Many of the letters may be used in the influence of mind force, or why the
mind
can act to better advantage
exercises similar to the following, which
through the agency of the nmscles,
are admirably adapted to the develop- when the arm is resting, than
raised
ment of the forearm movement which from the table. This sort of Teasoning

shoidd be employed exoluoively in the is of little interest to the general reader,

work of this lesson. If the student is and the business world cares nothing
In ascertaining the amount of
diligent, and masters thoroughly each for it.
step, the copies herein presented will good that results from acting upon an
furnish sufficient work to engage
attention for a long time.

Those who, by a

desire to

we first look for reand if they are satisfactory, we

are apt to believe that their causes are
established theory,

his

sults,

fault.
When such rich fruits
can be gathered from mustmlar move-

improve without

their hand-writing,

are constrained to
enter upon a course of study for that
purpose, would do well to consider the
fact that their efforts will be fruitless
unless they labor diligently and systematically, giving due attention to de-

ment practice, we know that the causes

that are operating in producing them,
are certainly reliable ones, and that if
the theory were without foundation, the
fact would soon be discovered by the
thousands that are practicing it every
day. Elegantly produced script forms
tails, though seeming trifles, for "trifles must have a cause that creates and calls
make perfection, and perfection is no them into being.and we are just as certain of its existance, as if we delved into
trifle."
the regions of speculative philosophy,
in order to analyze and examine its esits essence and the quality of its force.
DuBUijUK, lA., July 10. 1880.
The advantages of the muscular, over
Dear Editor Clark :
the whole arm or finger movements,
have been so often recited, that it is not
I am always delighted to see and read
necessary to refer to them, and it is a
philosophic articles, and scientific reawonder to me that any intelligent personing on the subject of penmanship. son can for a moment doubt the superIt does me good to know that we have iority of this niuch talked of method of
moving the hand, arm and
fingers in using the pen.
right.

may

Will

be so combined as to make
the letters of the alpha-

D.

Showa

THR.

all

The

bet.

first

is

an

obli-

que straight

line, forming
with the base line an an-

gle

of

fifty-two

degrees,

You take a basin of water, place your fingers in

it twenty-five or thirty seconds, take it out and look
at the hole that is left.
The size of that hole represents about the impression that advice makes on

giving a slant that is generally recognized as the

standard best adapted to
practical writing, hence it
ib
called the main slant.

The second
concave

principle
curve, and

a
the

is

a voung man's mind.

bon't depend too nmch
on your fauiilythe dead

the general slant of both

being thirty-five degrees
roni the base line.
The
fourth principle it* the loop
used in fonnin^r the I,
h,

and

similar letters,

.*/,

height. The sixth principle is the oval

inverted. The seventh is the capital

stem. In forming this begin at a point

one-third of an inch above the base

and descend

way where the

in a

line is

3.

convex curve half

changed to a con-

cave and completed in the oval.

is

presented first in the

above copies, as it is most simple in fonn,
iind easily learned.
The fii-st ascending
line is the second principle, with which
!>*
united at the top, in an angle, the
first, and with this, the second is again
united in an oval turn. The letter is
ompleted by placing a dot at a distance
above the anglt* equal to the length of the
first principle.
For convenience in prol)ortioning the letters, the / is taken as
the unit of measurement and is called a
letter

is

The world
;

it

ha,'*

no

queror.

If

you cannot get

_
further back than your
father you are better off.
Your father was a better man than
As the list increases, short
ual attainments, and true mental cul old William.
He had better clothes
to
wear,
better
food to eat, and was
ture.
Such
volving the letters that have been
men are an honor to any
better housed
studied, may be taken up for practice. calling in which they may be engaged,
If vou are a diamond be sure that you
It will be observed tliat the first part of and to such we owe whatever of dignity will be found.
Cheek, brass, or gall
our vocation possesses. It is always taken never gets ahead of merit.
the w is like the u. while the openin
I love a young man who is straight
the latter part is but half a space wide, for granted that a calling or profession
forward.
Ask for what ytfu want. If
and finished with a t-oncave curvi in which there are thinkers, is one of an you want to marry a rich man's daughter
elevated nature, for in no other can they or borrow $500 from him, ask him for
carried down from the top of th(
it
it
amounts
to the same thing in the
find
proper
letter one-fourth of a space.
material for scientific investThe v
end. It is always better to astonish a
similar to the latter part of the w. Thi igations, and for the exercise and deman than to bore him.
loops in the c and c are one-third of
velopment of the rea.soning faculties of
Remember that in the morning of life
space wide, and the descending lines the mind.
comes the hard working days. Hard
There are many earnest thinkers in work never killed a man. It's fun, recour midst, and it is but proper that they reation, relexation, holidays that kill.
The fun that results in a head the next
receive the praise that is justly due them. morning so big that a tub could hardly
Prominent among those who have alwhat kills. Hard work i
ways been the leaders of philosophic
Those who comee after us
u have to work
discussions, stands
an
tbe last which

is

oval.

The m

similar.

men

in

our profession of

solid intellect-

the author of
just as hard as we do. When I shovel
article which recently ap- "' e snow off my sidewalk, if perchance
peared in the columns of the Penmate's
take a three-quarter piece off my
Art Journal, under the caption of "The neighbor's walk. I put it back, because
if I didn't I should be doing him an inMuscular Bugaboo." As usual in the
justice.
productions of this well known contribuYou can't afford to do anything but
^ood. You are on dress parade
tor to Chirographic Literature, the style
is finished and forcible, but just the ar- all the time.
Don't be afraid of pounding persisgument the author wishes to produce is
Don't be afraid of
dilTlcult for me to discover.
It is evi- tently at one thing.
dent, however, that he is opposed to the being called a one-idea man or a crank.
modern muscular movement crusade, If you have one idea, you have more
and while he believes, to a certain extent,
lie muscular action of the arm, he
desires something more substantial, as
proof of the merits of this theory, than
Subscribe for The American Pkn

anonymous

The

men

cestors back in a direct

line to AVilliam the Con-

live

use for dead ones, (^ueen

Victoria can trace her an-

was photo-engraved frorr

is a student in the Penm;

College, Erie, Pa., and

mean.

wants

and

being inverted constitutes

a part of the
g, and others. This principle is simply a union of the second
and first principles, extending a third of
an inch above the base line. The fifth
is the oval, one third of an inch high,
its
width equaling two thirds of its

line

part

ig

but slightly curved. The r and a are

one-fourth of a space higher than the
other short letters, and the width of
each at its middle point is one-half
space. The o is one-half space wide
and closed at the top. The ascending
stroke in the a is a convex curve carried
full two spaces to the right with a similar curve downward, carried back to
the left one space. The oval in the a
is half a space wide.
Where angular
turns are used, care should be taken

'

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

The

Pentnan,

AnieriGafi

Thk

By Clark &
Pa.,

SlDBle copies oT THK ambbu-a.n Penman

mnllcil to any addreaa on receipt of e ctnts.
ple copies until Innlicr notice sent tree.

wUl be

The

of gratitude to our business colleges

which have never yet been properly ajipreciated. But we hope and trust that

7-50.000.
ILL.

PROF.

Johnecr.. Proprietora. Erie.

and Buffalo, N Y.

NATIONAL debt

population of Chicago

nnted at

Published Monlhiy at 60c Per Year,

.500tli

many years shall pass that legiswill give honor where honor
due. by giving practical education
the recognition of which its usefulness
proves it deserving.
before
lation

Many of our young ladies and genat the various

Mon- tlemen who are graduating
present

birthday of the Republic

of Switzerland was celebrated on

is

and seminaries at the

time expect to accomplish with the brain
that which took the united efforts of
LABOR, NOT LUCK.
.
fathers.
are under obligations to Prof. both hand and brain of their
RATES.
This is certainly one of the greatest deIn this age of eulightemuetit it is be- ^^
S. S. Packard of New York, for a copy
lusions and absurdities of modern educa- coming absolutely necessary for a young
of a pamphlet styled "A Souvenir,"
' 00; f65 00 fioo OO |1
tion, for no education can approach per- man or woman to have a good education "
p colnmn
containing a full rej^ort of the twenty- fection unless both hand and brain are
if he or she wishes to make a successful
eighth anniversary of his popular trained to work in unison. A good, sound, fight in this world of business activity.
Business College. The contents di- sensible mind has never been found out- With the telegraph, telephone, railroad,
educabody; hence the
etc.. to assist in doing business t^uiokly,
vulges the factthalMr.Packard himself side of a sound
tion of one without the proper educa- there is no tuue to spare in getting by
made a speech which is published
tion of the other is an utter impossibility. experience what can be gained in a short
and no discount
d it seems that he is fully equal to A man may be profoundly learned and
time at school. Many are seeing this and
given on Beading Matter Kates.
the requirements of an orator. The understand the whole gamut of the dead fitting themselves for the many places
book is beautifully printed in two languages and not be able to make out that must be filled by some one.
if hie life
horse
harness
a
sale
or
bill
of
invocation,
a
colors, and contains the
Business men are not slow in seeing
depended on it. That such education this, and when they want a young man or
by Bishop Harris, addresses by Dr. J.
which leaves out every item of the practhey look
H. Vincent, Mr. Wise, Rev. C. H. Ea- tical every-day affairs of life is a blunder woman for their office or store,
for one that has been trained for such
ton, and concludes with an illustrated and a curse it needs no labored argument
duties, as such a one will more readily
Mr. or mathematical demonstration to pro
story on Practical evolution.
grasp the work and take less time in
Packard is an exemplary man, worthy Every walk and sphere in life has the learning the duties assigned.
victims of such a nonsensical system,
of the success he has attained, and an
To all, and especially those whose time
securt
to
Happily for all those who wish
is limited, the business colleges of our
honor to the business educators' fraan education which is both practical and land are a great boon. Here, at a small
ternity.
useful there are many well equipped
outlay of time and money, one can obremlttlDg Ont
institutions of learning which are ready
tain a knowledge of business and businnlll further notlc. miUl a copy ol l
Life scholarships are now issued by and wilUng to give them a course of in- ness principles that will be of inestimable
au
Rook-keeplng
Clark's Progressive
but three or four schools within our struction which they will need every day
benefit in after life, in whatever business
knowledge, and it is a matter of infinite
busiour
lives.
That
their
hour
of
and
In no other way can
? may follow.
surprise that any intelligent school man
It is ness colleges are giving the people a very
will do so unbuBiness like a thing.
young man or woman make an invests
a rediculous confession to make that good equivalent for their money is an ment of a little time and money that will
three years' tuition is worth no mors acknowledged fact. These long derided,
persons tnterestlng
than a three months' course, but that if abused and vilified institutions are a produce sucli large returns, as by pursnBendlBg c
tialf
ing the thorough and practical course of
the irrisistible logic of their tuition fee,
power in the land. Their constituents, training offered by our business colleges.
Bochesfcr Commercial Review.
on all Bnbscrlptlona
e eending tl
which to-day number hundreds of thous- If you would acquire position and comprefei
We
Pekuan.
Ambbic
The
forwarded to
are not surprised at the above ands, have abundantly demonstrated
We
ant
clubs,
eecurlng
to
e
premiums
to give cash
petency you must be willing to qualify
statement, but we are confessedly ig- ^jj^^ ^^^y
furnishing one of the most
mis rule win be invarlaWy followed.
yourself for a place that will lead to such
Jteminances should be made by N. T. Draft,
norant of any college issuing a life important educational needs for the peo- a result. No person, in any calling in
Monej Order, PoslBl Note, or BeglBtered Letter,
which
is a practical,
pie,
claims
alhrea^yeajs'
scholarship^at
life, ever succeeded, who was unwilling
^^^'^^^^^^^^^
''"
**"""
d6'Vot*undi
they
"
CLARK &. JOHNSON,
to make an effort. Success is the result
course ns necessary to complete the ^^^- ^^^l^^^
Publishers. Erie. P
take to give to any one an education of labor, not of luck.
C. F. M.
is
scholarship.
It
terms of such a
that can never be used in the active
generally understood that a young duties of every day life in this work-aBUFFALO, N. Y., JULY,
CRITICISM.
a
is
enknowledge
to
where
competent
ours,
or lady who is
day world of
And thanks to the keen
We doubt not that the majority of
ter upon the business course, should, power indeed.
BRIEF MENTION.
Yet
people are adverse to criticism.
perception, the profound
if diligent, graduate in from three to
through good, honest criticism are w*
of the American people, such
R. C. Spencer, of Milwaukee, called six months, and according to the tion has received such abundant and enabled to advance. It is true thatthero
for
Commercial Review, it is advisable
liere on his way home from the conmarvelous support that to-day it is a is a certain kind of criticismthat from
business colleges to manage to length- great national blessing. For be it re- ignorant pretenders which, to say the
vention.
bil- least, is unpleasant.
en out the course or procrastinate the membered that although we are six
richer than the richest nation
It is not of criticism in general that wo
Prof. G. Bixler, of Wooster, Oh^
same, to about three years, which lion dollars
in the riches of intelli
that
are to speak, but more particularly of
earth,
on
well
encloses his subscription in a
would cost the average student for
gence and practical education, which
criticism as applied to penmanship.
written letter. He also favors us with the three months' term of S30 at least infinitely the greatest measure by which However, in the application of criticism
a copy of his book, "Physical Train- 8360 a net gain to the college keep- to test the popular progress and great- to penmanship, we readily see that it
ing in Penmanship," and a few cards ing a student in attendance for that ness of a nation we are head and shoul- differs very little from criticism in genders above any nation on earth. Ameri- eral. Criticism is never of value unless
and business writing specimens, all of length of time of 300 to $330.
This important fact l0
intelligent.
ca has many names to inscribe on her
which are vers' creditable.
II is unfortunate for some scliools
educational roll of honor which have overlooked by too many would-be orltlQAi
that they do not issue life scholar
Hence, if criticism is to be of value to
long been the pride and admiration of
F. C. Smith, Fenton, Mich., writes a ships, and in certain instances, it may the world, and to none will the people the student of penmanship, he must
beautiful letter, and is evidently in- be unwise for business colleges to fol- look with greater pride, reverence or thoroughly understand that which he
terested in the success of the Ameki- low up the life scholarship plan. But joy than to those veteran pioneers who would criticise. It is evident, therefore,
through defeat, darkness and discour- that he should first seek a general knowlCAN Penman.
ns every college has the right to management, pushed forward, overcoming edge of the art. And this knowledge
age its own alTairs, as it deems best,
what seemed insurmountable obstacles. might be separated into two distincst diBayat
penman
W. D. Showalter,
^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^j^^ ^;^^^ life scholarAll honor to those veterans whose heroic visions: first, a knowledge of what conBusiness College, Dubuque, Ja.,. j^.^^^ ^^ j^ ^^,^^ satisfaction to th.
liss
fortitude, unswerving energy, and in- stitutes good penmanship; second, a
"
The
like
and
read
take,
says,
icliool issuing it, and to the pur- indomitable courage acccomplished such knowledge of the general theories of
American Penman. All of us unite cliaser as well, is not the wisest means wonders for educational purposes. The penmanship, especially those which rewill be vainly searched late to its acquisition.
in wishing you unbounded success in
Of course world's history
of adjusting tuition rates.
Knowing, then, what constitutes good
your laudable educational and jour- we do not wish to be underetood as for a comparison.
penmanship, and how best
practical education lias
While
nalistic efforts."
saying that a college must not dis- doubtedly been of uncalculable benefit aciiuired. he should severely criticise t
imporl
who
classes
criminate between two
to the people, it has been of infinite ben- work of his pen in both these
Paul H. Hayne, the poet, who died patronize the business colleges, viz.: efit to our goverrnuent. which is enabled relations. To criticise, we mean to
and note wherein it differs from th
recently, was a nephew of the noted those who are advanced sufKciently to do its business much better tl:
conceived idea of good writing,
South Carohnian, with whom Webster in the English branches to take up was done in former years,and far better
see and
than any other nation on earth to-day, not this alone, but, also, to
had his famous debate.
cial course, and those who
which is a great national blessing. No note faults in the manner of executingli
Sam-

colleges

day, July 5th.

We

ADVERTISING

SPECIAL INDUCEMENT.

PREMIUMS.
i

<

'

',

>

We

not.
This habit of constant criticism isn^*
nation on earth has grown rich and prosof skfflL
pered like our own, which fact is owing essary to reach a high degree
with the pen. For if the student do^
Read the advertisement of the Grand in a great measure to the sturdy honesty
see
his faults, either of style or
adopted
in
doing
not
methods
practical
on
and
Colleges
Opening of Clark's Business
members the sixth page. The best of advantages its business and in dealing with nations cution, he cannot correct them.
To students of the "neglected
and individuals. For this she owes n
offered.
;

Sixty-five of the seventy-six membere of the United States Senate are

lawyers. Of the Senate of Pennsylvania* twenty-five of the fifty
:'re

lawvers.

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

learu to criticise
<.
But in your zeal to
correct your faults, do not overlook the
!

importance of knowing whether your

work needs criticism or not. Get knowlfirst: then fear not to seek out the
Honest criticism
faults of your work.
will bf the (-olid stepping stone to higher

pdge

imd nime perfect

results.

F. S.

Epson. N. H., June

Heath.

28. 1888.

EARLY ENGLISH PENMEN.

AURAHA^I NICHOLAS.
[Specially pn-pared for

W.

il.

The Ambrioan Pbnuah by

Lothrop, of South Boston, Mass.]

This elegant i>enman was the son of

Mr. Abraham Nicholas, who kept a
writing school in Bread street. London,
under whom, I presume, he learned his
first rudiments in writing and accounts.
This Mr. Abraham Nicholas, the father,
published from the letter press, a little
piece in octavo, of about fifty pages,

"The Young Accountant's

Debitor and Creditor." The second edition, from which I take this account,
printed
in 1713, what use of it since
was
that time has been made, I cannot say.
entitled,

There

gay:

is in

this

book one piece

of his

brother James Nicholas' writing, who

succeeded him, and supports with reputation the boarding school, that he first
established at Clapham. I cannot well
give a greater ecomium of this ingenious
gentleman's performances, than by reciting the words of the engraver, in a
letter prefixed to the said book, and addressed to Mr. John Bowles, a printseller, at Mercer's Hall; he says, "he
never saw any pieces that were wrote
with greater comuiand of hand than
originals of that book."'
Mr. Nicholas has two plates likewise,
in "George Bickham's Penman's Companion;" one of Oerman text, and one
When he left
in print hand, dated 1722.
Clapham, he went somewhere abroad,
I am informed to Virginia, but in what
employ I have not been informed, only
that he died about the year 1744.

DEEDS.
A

FEW FACTS

"V

As a figure of speech it may be allc

able to call a deed a title, but ole.
headed business people find figures

The above

When laud was sold and to scrawl may be made not only by the
be transferred, the buyer and the seller grantor but by any lawyer's clerk, and
took friends with them as witnesses and may be put on either before or after the
went upon the land, and marked out deed is signed and delivered; every
togetlier and together indentified and trace of value the seal had has long
declared to the witnesses the true boun- since disappeared, yet all the deed is
daries, and the seller then broke off a still but waste paper without the seal,
twig from any tree or bush growing and in New York the Court of
Appeals
there or picked up a clod of earth or a has solemnly
decided the amount and
handful of loose soil any part of the
kind of the waxy matter which must
whole property andsolemnly delivered
form part of the seal! The tithing of
this part to the buyer while the witcountry:

and cummin is left far benesses looked on. Such delivery was
an agreed declaration to all the world hind. A little more wax in the seal,
that the title had already passed from and the hundred thousand dollars paid
seller to buyer, and that the buyer and taken for a Fiifth Avenue residence
should be known hereafter to all men as gives a right to it; a Uttle less wax and
mint, annise

Hence arose this formula,

all men by these presents."
As learning came in, and in every
community there began to be scriveners
and clerks who could write, the bright
idea was born of choosing these rare
the owner.
"

Know

men, these writers, as witnesses of land

deliveries, and inducing them to execute
a certificate of what had been done,
which might be preserved for generations to bridge the

by death.

awkward gaps made

since those who

the family are homeless,

lu the English
courts such refinements are far more
common than on this side of the water;
in fact only a few remain among us,
and happily the tendency is away from
them and in the direction of common
sense.
In Iowa, and we believe in one
or two other western states, nearly all
the mere rubbish of conveyancing has
been declared away; the older states
will come in a due course to a like wis-

Still later,

speci

Abrahiain Nicholas the son, was born in speech rather dangerous in business afthe year 1692. His first appearance in fairs, and prefer plain facts and plain
the world, as far as I can find, as a con- names for them.
tributor to the advancement of true and
A title is something indestructible.
practical writing, was by setting forth a Fires cannot burn it nor waters drown
small copy book containing various ex- it; neither life nor even death can disamples of penmanship. It consists of turb or change it. Cruelly iuunortal,
fifteen plates, which were engraved by it survives every disaster that can touch
George Biekham. Tliis seems to be his physical things, and phoenix like, rises
first essay that he made public; he lived freshened out of every conflagration.
then at the hand and pen. in Broad
A title is a high; something wholly
street, London, 171.'), though the edi- ."Spiritual, and can only be affected by
tion of the book that lies before me, is spiritualities.
The title of an owner
dated 1717. In the year 1719. he pub- may be total or shared with others;
lished "The Penman's Assistant, and may be absolute, or conditioned upon
Youths' Instructor," containing an al- facts not yet determined,
phabet of examples in round hand. It
A deed is an evidence of title. Beconsists of fifteen narrow plates, and has fore writing was common, written deeds
only two lines on a plate. The engrav- were then unknown; but titles were then
er's name is not mentioned; but it was as good as now.
Written evidences of
printed for Henry Overton, at the White title have been widely adopted because
Horse, without Newgate. In what year of their great convenience, and because
lif removed to Clapham, 1 cannot say,
of the general diffusion of learning. It
but suppose it was soon after the publi- is very important to remember always
cation of his last mentioned copy-book; that deeds are only witnesses of title,
he there established a flourishing board- and by no means to be confounded with
ing school; and Anno Dom. 1722, pub- the title itself. And this will appear
lished his Complete Writing Master, moi'e clearly from a bit of history.
engraved by George Biekham. It con- Deeds first came into use in England
tains thirty-one long folio plates, be- in this wise and we inherit our law,
sides his picture in front.
as we do our language, from our mother

KINDLY WORDS

could not write could stamp a seal and

seals were invented for the illiterate

Said of "The An
Penrr
aristocracy and were used precisely as
we now use "John Smith, hia mar/:"'
The American Penman, published
the certificate of the witnesses came to
by Messrs. Clark & Johnson. Erie, Pa
be farther verified by the seals of both
and Buffalo, N. Y., is a coniparitively
buyer and seller. This addition was a
late venture in the line of chirographic
great advance, because no man could
journalism. It has started off well and
be permitted to deny his seal, and counexhibits a considerable degi-ee of jourterfeiting private seals was then impracnalistic ability. We welcome its monthly
ticable and unknown. A sealed certifivisits to our sanctum and wish it success.
cate then was the unquestioned act of
Jacksonville, (III College Record.
the seller or grantor, translated by the
witnesses who could write, and the seal
Glaiik's Proghbssivk Book-keepwas the vital and effective soul of the ing. This is the heading of a very fine
whole instrument. This form of the in- text book on the subject shown in the
strument became established hundreds title. It is accurate in expression, pracand hundreds of years ago, in the very tical in arrangement and progressive in
dawn of English training, and the pro- character. The leading rules can be
gress since made is equivalent to ten highly commended for simplicity and
thousand year.s of the history that went clearness. It is intended for self-inbefore, and yet to this day the vitality struction as well as school purposes. It's
of a deed (of land;
the seal, lucid statement and nice gradation will
I

which may now

bi

colored wafers of \
actly alike; the sou

many different
a year

two

of

a thousand make

of papers ex-

seali

of

them alike or he may

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....

Invocation,

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Miss P. P. StanReport of the Exercises Held in Conckrt Solo Sea Flower Polka,
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Salutatory,

Park Opera House, Tuesday

Afternoon, August 24,

Resources and Liabilities,

O. W. Schlindwein

Mariana Waltz,
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Waldtmfel

Hon.

Jluitkr Overture^
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Wayner
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Home Circle Overtubb, Schtcpcgrel
Address to tin* Graduates by the Address and Presentation of
Famous Orator, Rev. T, De
Diplomas,
Hon. F. A. Mizener, Mayor of the City
Witt Talmage, of Brook,

SEPTEMBER,

West

Millcreek.

McLallen, Frank, Wesleyville, T

O'Lone, Wm, F., Erie, Pa.
Parks, J. J., Buffalo, N. Y.
Patei

1886.

Vol.

l No.

9.

theologians to prophesy where we are

going to, we still have left for consideration the fact that we are here, and here
under more interesting circumstances.
I am glad to be here on Commencement
Day. It is a grand day. I never had
such a day as the day I graduated.

Millspaw, W. D., Edinboro, Pa.

Mallorv, C. P., Erie. Pa.
Munn, W. B., Erie. Pa.
Mills. G. E..

The

carried out,

Graduating Exercises of
Clark's Business

''

rFACTlC^'

L
To\,
^^OTED

13

interests cluster around a moment

I wish to utter words of cheer,
have been announced to utter them
on the programme of the occasion. Let
me say to all young folks, there was
never such a time to start out in life as
now. Of all the centuries, this is the

Such

Pa.

Pond, DoraM., Conneaut, O.

Power, C. M., Franklin, Pa.
Ritt, George L., Buffalo, N Y.

like this.
.IS I
I

Robinson, F. A Mercer. Pa.

Robinson, George S., Lowville. Pa.
Reed. Wm, G., Erie, Pa.
Ryan. John C, Mill Grove, N. Y.
Sloan, F. H., Erie, Pa.
Shenk, William. Erie, Pa.
Smith. C. W.. Franklin, Pa.

'

Stiicker. H. H.. Evie, Pa.

Sherwood. C. G., McLane, Pa.

Schlindwein, Willie, Erie, Pa.

Stoughton, Wm. R., Franklin, Pa.
Starr, Miss P. P., Fredonia, N. Y.
Srhilling, M., Wesleyville, Pa.
Waxelbaum, Max, Erie, Pa.
Walker, C. P., Harborcreek. Pa.
Watkins, George, Buffalo, N. Y.
Weschler, M. A Erie, Pa.

best century; of all the decades of the

century, this is the best decade: of all
the years of the decade, this is the best
year; and of all the months of the year,
thi!* is the boat month; and of all thu
days of the montli, this is the best day.
[Applause.]
It took all tBr'age.** to

make

this

minute possible.

I congratulate this College, and I cougMituIate these young men and these
yming women. I have been looking at
them while I sat here. I can tell that
they mean honest work, and the world
will ojien before them and the victory
will be achieved.
Warner, B. M., Girard, Pa.
There never has been
The music was exceptionally good. such a time to start out as now, becarfse
all the doors are opening New America
The salutatory by Miss P. P. Starr, of
is being discovered.
Columbus discovFredonia, N. Y., was excellent. Wil- ered only the shell of America; Agassiz
lie Schlindwein, the youngest grad- came and discovered fossiliferous AmeriSilliman discovered
geological
uate sent out from the College, pre- ca
sented the subject of " Resources and America; Longfellow dicovered poetic
America, and there are half a dozen
Liabilities " in a manner becoming a
Americas yet to be discovered. Some of
much older and experienced person. these will discover them. England for
The audience were agreeably surprised manufactures, Germany for scholarship,
at hearing him.
France for manners, but the United
The addresses by Hon. J. P. Down- States for God. [Great applause.]
,

of Erie.

lyn. N. Y.

Near Thee Waltz,

Words of Cheer,
Pev.

Tla.e Eacc-CLxsion.

.A.ij.g'.

EStli. Pearls of Dew.

Benediction,

....

Watdteufel

T.

De

Witt

Pcv.

ORAD UATESCLaaa
Never

before

in

the

liistory

Business College was

Clark's

of

there

ever assembled, to witness the closing

exercises,

such a

and

large, refined

appreciative audience, as Park Opera

House contained Tuesday

afternoon,

August 24tli.
Promptly at 3:30 o'clock, Knoll's
Orchestra played one of their finest
selections, when the curtain went up,
and tlie audience saw the graduating
class seated on the left, and the faculty
and prominent speakers on the right
of the stage.

The decorations were

superb, being pronounced

ever seen in Erie.
of wire

the finest

large arch

made

and trimmed with evergreen,

iidorned the ii'ont of the stage, meeting

at

point in the center, from

which was suspended the class motto,

in the form of a wreath, the letters
worked in white llowers, which read
:is

follows:

''Skill

tither

end of the

were

to

is

^tjige

Capital."

and

in

At

front,

be seen an abundance of

Talmage
Debueris
Wilson

J. C.

of ISSH.

Baker, Jaines M., Ja(?ksonburg, O.

Berkenkamp, J. H.. East Millcreek,Pa.
Bell, Clayton A., Harborcreek, Pa.
Bouseay, Myrtie, Erie, Pa.
Coover, P. W.. Waterford, Pa.
Carlson, A. C, Erie, Pa.
Carpenter, A. L., Mercer, Pa.
Case, S. R., Buffalo. N. Y.

Chapman, Ralph,

ing,

Davie, George G., Fairview, Pa.

Foote, Frank W.. ButTalo, N. Y.
Frey, C. S., Springboro, Pa.
Gourlay, Frank L., Waterford, Pa.
Granger, Gid, Erie, Pa.
Holder, F. B., Waterford, Pa.
Holder, 0., Waterford, Pa.
Heintz, F. T., Erie, Pa.
Highmyer. F. R Erie. Pa.
Hanson. T. S.. Edinboro, Pa,
Jackson, D. M., Yoimgsville, Pa.
Krull. S. J., Clarence Centre, N. Y.
Liniuger, E. D., Harborureek, Pa.
Leiter, N. J., East Clarence, N. Y.
Leslie, B. O., Kossuth, Pa.
Munz, W., Erie. Pa.
'

Miller,

Wm.,

Moorhead,

W.

R. Davenport, Esq.,

and the

presentation of the diplomas by the

Erie, Pa.

Conrad, W. W., Erie, Pa.

Daly, J. W., Ashtabula Harbor, O.

Cincinnati, O,

Jas. M., Moorheodville, Pa.

Hon.

Jas.

Mayor

R.

Mizener, were of a high order

of excellence,

and judging from the

audience

applause,

the

them most

favorably.

Tlie valedictory,
lory,

considered

by Mr.

was delivered

in

0. P.

Mal-

masterly

mannei".

When

the Rev. T.

De Witt Talmage

arose to address the Graduating Class,

the whole building fairly shook with

applause.
follows

Each one of these young people will

get a call from God to do some one thing
that no one else in the universe can do,
ministers getting a call from
God to preach; all of them must; but
every person gets a call from God to do
some one thing. It is all written in the
physical, or mental, or spiritual eonstitutiou.
Out of the fourteen hundred
millions of the race, there is not one
that can do your work. You do your
work, and it is done forever; you neglect
it, and it is neglected forever; and the
person sent on the meanest mission has
a magnificent errand.
God sends no
one on a fool's errand. Find out just
what you are to do; get your call directly from the throne of God to do some

on behalf of Talk about

Burns,

His address

in full

was as

Pr<tident Clark-, Ladies and Ocnttemen, one thing; then marshal all your faculOfficers and Students of this Business ties and opportunities and gather them
College.
into companies and regiments and batIf we leave to the evolutionists to tallious; then ride along the line and
guess where we came from, and to the give the word of command, "Forward,

,J

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

march," and there

is

no power on earth whether or not they were Middlesex your wife

[Ap- cloths. [Applause ]

Just start out with the idea of success.
Reuiember, among other tbings, it is You are going to succeed. What does
always !>afe to do right and never safe to that mean, a large number of dollars ?
do wrong. 1 know you have come to a Not necessarily. I have seen a house
crisis where, by a divergence of one inch with thirty rooms in it, and a vestibule
of perdition and a home with two rooms
from the right path, you may think
will in it, and with a vestibule of Heaven.
nay
make it ail right with my employer; 1 You cannot tell by the size of a man's
will fix this all up; no one shall lose a house the size of bis happiness.
I say
farthing by what I am going to do, and to these young men in all earnestness,
and among other requisites for success
I will step a little aside from the path of
If such an awful moment in life, when the lime comes, marry a
integrity."'
comes in your heart, and there be such good, honest woman, one who will stand
a santanie influence brought to bear by you in the contests of life. I have
upon you, remember it is the turning seen them over and over again. I have
point in your life. You can never afford seen the success of people that I could
to do wrong under any circumstances. not understand on the start. They did
There is a law of Almighty (rod that not seem to have any special elements
means success to honesty and truth and of success, but there were reasons at
faithfulness, and it means eternal smash- home why they succeeded. There never
up to all that get out of that path. has been a time since the creation of
[Applause.] In the city of Boston there the world when there were as many
or hell that can utand before you.

plause.]

will

'

[Great laughter and applause.}

you feel strong, go to the North; if

your throats are delicate, go to the
South; if you feel crowded and want
been the same to me all though." We room, go West; if you are tempted to
want to throw away all sentimentality on become ofHce-seekers, go to Jail. [Laughthis subject, all mere theory on this sub- ter.] Anything you want you can have
ject.

My

"Courage, brother,

Though

If

homes in this country. I have 850,000 new reathe right sons for saying this; 850,000 people came
in one year from the other side of the
water to live in America. If this had
do not stumble,
not been the best land to live in tliere
establish

friends,

homes, that is what

kind of homes.

we want;

thy path be dark as night,

would have been 850,000 Americans

going to the other side of the water to
live, and all this land to lie under one
government. The nations at the south
will flatter, some will slight.
gradually crumbling into our own, and
Cease from man and look above thee.
then on the north, after a while, beautiTrust in God and do the right,"
ful and hospitable Canada, to whom the
United States will offer heart and hand
If you do not find openings just here,
come East or go West. There is a place in marriage; and when the United
marked out for you just as certain as States government sJiall offer hand and
you are there, my brother; just as cer- heart in marriage to beautiful and liostain as you are there, my sister; a place pitable Canada, Canada will blush and
There's a star to guide the humble,

God and do

Trust

in

Some
Some

will love ihee,

The above sped

was a young man selling goods behind good honest women as now, [Applause.]
the counter, and a man came in and and the man is a fool that don't get one
asked for Middlesex cloths. He says, of them. [Applause,] I do hope none
" We haven't any Middlesex cloths, but of you will ever have the experience of
here are cloths just as good."' "No," the man who said he had three wives,
said the man before the counter. "I and one was very rich, and another
want Middlesex cloths." "Well," he very handsome, and the other had an
says. "We haven't got theui." And so uncontrollable temper; so, says he. "I
he departed. The head man of the firm have had the world, the flesh and the
who had heard the interview, came devil." Ciet rightly affianced in life.
" What did that man Don't hang your happiness on the color
down and said
want ?" " He wanted Middlesex cloths." of a cheek or the brightness of an eye.
"Why didn't you tell him those were When a man marries he marries for
Middlesex cloths V" " Because they were Heaven or hell. That is especially so
not." He says, "You can take your hat when a woman marries. [Laughter.]
A city missionary in London said to a
and get out of this establishment; you
are too honest for this place." And he young man as he entered the man's
took his hat and got out, and went to house, and here was the young man and
the far West and achieved ten times the the wife and child on the floor, and all
fortune his employer in Boston ever signs of destitution and poverty and
had. And the time will come. I don't wretchedness in the house. "Don't you
know just when, but as certainly as you think now you made a mistake in iiiarryYou ought first to have
sit there, and I stand here, the time will mg so early ?
come when in the presence of an assem- achieved a fortune and then married.
l)led
universe, it will be found out Now you will be poor all your days, and

be poor, and your child hogs.

will be poor." The young man looked

at his pale wife, and the tears ran down
" No, sir. she has
his cheeks as he said:

(he right.

some

will hate ihce.

uted by H. C. Clark.
for you for life by an al- look down, and thinking of her allegimighty God, who knew your tempera- ance across the sea, will say: "Ask
ment and all your temptations, and mother." [Great applause and laughknows all about you better than you ter.] God will take possession of this
know yourself. A sphere of duty and of
have exandned your foreheads.
success marked out, and you Just have
I
to put yourself in the line of the Divine There is enough brain in you, and
leadings.
If you are happy here you enough heart in you, to be hurled on
into great success by the superior powor.
will be happy forever.
All parts of this land are openings I tell you, my brothers, my sisters. tha6
now as never before. Do not stop at is most important. I cannot be under ^^
any one point and say, because things delusion, for I have been in the world
are filled up, professions here and mer- long time and examined things,
thi
I
chan<lise there, and this here and that seen failures and successes.
there; go farther, and look out this there is a great deal in realizing there
lanil.
We are just opening the outside a divine superintendence it makes
doors of the wealth of this country. man strong when he knows that he ha
Michigan wheat for the bread, Pennsyl- Almightiness to guide him here, and^
vania coal for the fires, fish frum the omniscient wisdom to direct him. So, I
Hudson and the Chattanooga, rice from believe all the other brothers have said,
the Carolinas for the queen of puddings, I don't know why you want any one to
poets and philosophers from Boston to come from any other place to talk
explain to us all that we ought to know; you, when you have these elotjuent
[Laughter.] oats for the horses, carrots strong-minded men to address you
I believe every
for the cattle, and oleomargerine for the these subjects.

marked out

"*

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

LESS0^4 IN PENMANSHIP.

they uttered, and if I might add to that Buffalo was reached when the excurgrand pyramid that this brother built sionists disbanded, and the train was
up. auythitig at all, I would put on the
Upon leaving the
held until 9:45.
top of it, "Faith in God.'' [Applause.]
train the band led the way up ExAt the close of Dr. Talmage's ad- change street to Washington, and

B\

S. A.

DRAKE.

The

Rev.

J. C.

the benediction, and the Third

(iraduating Exercises of Clark's Busi-

In

Rev. Dr. Talmage delivered a lecture

In other words, he has developed, to

packed Park Opera House from pit to under the auspices of the College, en- some eitent,
the power to use the pen
dome, assembled to hear the lecture titled "The Bright Side of Things." easily and accurately.
by Rev. T. De Witt Tahnage, entitled
At 8 o'clock the hall was well filled,
In the preceding les8on,oiily short let.
"Bright and Happy Homes."
and seated on the platform were a ters were introduced, ou account of their
large number of the prominent clergy- being small and without shade, conseTHE EXOUHSIOX.
quently requiring least scope of movemen of the city.
ment, and pressure upon the pen. The
The following day (August 25th)
It was about ten minutes past 8 small letters, presented
in the first line of

the students and friends of the College " took a

day

off,"

and enjoyed the

pleasures incident to a grand excursion to Niagara Falls.

At

7 o'clock

a.

m. Knoll's Celebrated Brass Band assembled in front of the College building and played one of their fine selections, after which they marched to
the Grand Union Depot, where a specoaches
were in waiting to

cial train, consisting of eight

and a baggage

ear,

is

joined the finishing

a right curve carried

upward two spaces, a straight line down
and finished with a left curve
t

consists of

to base,

If the directions concerning moveWilson pronounced thence to Clark's Business College,

ment, given in the pret-eding leeson.
Annual Coal and Iron Exchange Building, have been closely followed
by the
learner,
he, no doubt, discovers that
where a halt was made to serenade
ness (College closed in a highly sue
the College. After this the band pro- he can control the pen more easily,
and can describe larger and smoother
ful and satisfactory manner.
ceeded to St. .Jamea Hall, where the
ovals than wlien he began the study.
the evening an audience that

ilress,

the p, to which
stroke of the g.

The
until

learner should study each letter

he shall have gained an acctiratfl
of its form and dimensions,

knowledge

after whicli he should give considerable

time to practice upon the letter alone,

following with short words involving the

use of this letter, and others previously
studied.

Of the three principles used in the

formation of capital letters, the reverse
oval or sixth prineiplc, is most easily
learned, and it will be found most profit-

able to turn the attention first to those

letters, the formation of which involves
its use.
This principle should be thorwhen President Clark and Dr. Tal- the copies below, are called the semi- oughly learned, and practiced with a
mage made their appearance on the a>(ended letters. In the /, the right free, sliding movement of the hand, or
muscular movement, before employing it
stage, and were greeted with rounds cunw and the straight Ihic only are
used. The curve is carried upward from in the formation of a letter.
of applause. Mr. Clark, in introducthe base line two spaces, the straigiit
The letter It. presented in th second
ing the famous orator, said
line coinciding with it from the top line of the copies below, may now be
"It atTords me pleasure to introduce downward one space, where they sepa- made the subject of study. In this we
distinguished
lecturer
the
of
the
rate
and
become
distinct
lines.
to you
The have the sixth principle, to which is
evening, and it seems proper for me to downward stroke, a straU/ht line, unites added a left curve, three spaces in exhere state that this oficasion is com- at the base, in an oval turn. with, a right tent, drawn downward to the base line,
memorative of the Pall Opening of carve. The downward stroke begins and one space to the right of the first
Clark's Business College, which has al- with an abrupt shade,
diminishing part of the letter. The two parts are

-^^^-T-TyT^-Crn^^^

/^j^^QX^
The ready obtained such prominence and gradually
and popularity in your city. We have just The letter

it approaches the
base. joined by a loop carried upward from
completed by a horizontal the lower extremity of the last downone space in length, dr
ward stroke.
across the downward stroke, one-half
Beginning at the middle of the despace from the top, so that two-thirds of scending stroke in the sixth principle,
it shall be on the right hand side.
This carry a left curve upward one space,
College, and thence i>roceeded to the ble here so that they, as well as you line should be parallel to the base line. form an oval turn, and descend to base
who are not members of the College,
The ascending and descendnig line in with a straight line, finishing with an
Falls, arriving at 11:45.
may have the pleasure of listening the first part of the d, are like those in oval turn, and we have the capital N,
The day was a delightful one, and tea lecture entitled "The Bright Side the first part of the small
a, while the presented in the third line of the copies
had of Things," and the one who Is present rest of the d is like the t without the above.
it seemed as thougli Providence

carry the

party

to the

Falls.

train left Erie i^romptly at 7:45

returned

from a trip to Niagara Falls,

when the
reached
where several hundred students of
train was reinforced by a large num- the Colleges have been enjoying
themstudents
of
the
Buffalo
ber of the
selves for a day, and we now assemBuffalo

at

10:30,

specially favored the excursionists in

straight

as
is

li7ie,

it scarcely needs an introducPractice on the exercises, presented

he is known the world over for
The (/
like the a. except that the in the fourth line, will prove an efBgrand pulpit utterances as the Rev. last downward stroke is carried below cient means in securing accurate forms.
T. DeWitt Talmage, of Brooklyn, N. Y., the base line a space and a half, where A letter, recurringin this manner, makes
Knoll's Band gave a grand concert in
whom I now have the honor of intro- a short oval turn to the right is made it easy for the learner to discover any
Prospect Park that attracte<l the atducing to you."
and finished with an upward compound defects that may exist in slant, shade
tention of thousands of people. The
and extent, and by keeping such defects
Dr. Talmage was heartily greeted
excursionists were free to 8i)end the
In formnig the />, a right curve is car- in mind, he is led to avoid them in subwith great applause, and for fully one
time as they thought bestj and in this
ried upward from base line two spaces, se(iuent efforts.
hour and a half he held the audience
The student of writing should view
where it is united, in an angle, with a
resjject they lost no time in seeing
spell-bound.
straight line, which is carried below the with a critical eye every form that flows
everything of interest that was offered
At the close of the lecture the ex- base line one space and a half, termina- from his pen. and in every attempt, he
by this famous resort.
should strive to approach his ideal of
ting in an abrui)t shade. The letter is
boarded

giving

ant

them the

weather.

to deliver

benefit of such pleas-

tion, as

At

his

3 o'clock

p.

ni.

its

cursionists
the train, and at
the 9:45 the words 'All aboard" were completed by a left curve carried upward from base line one space, where it
given, and in two hours and thirty
is united, in an oval turn.with a straight
ing a stirring air that was sufficient minutes Erie was reached.
line carried downward to base line, and
notice to the excursionists that the
Thus ended the Third Grand An- here joined to the finishing right curve.
time had arrived when they must bid nual Oi)ening of Clark's College, and
The other small letters presented
adieu to the Falls of Niagai-a and nothing but praise of the splendid
should be used as linal letters. The g
wend their way homeward.
success attending the affair can be is like the q, except that the last downward stroke is a full right I'urve carried
Promptly at 6:10 the train was heard.
below the base line a space and a half,
ready to st^rt on its journey to BufAlways be
haste, but
and well to the left.

At 5:45 o'clock the band

Park and nuirched to the

falo,

and

at a little

left

train, play-

hefore 7 o'clock

The y

is

composed of the

latter part of

perfection. Repetition of lui error does

it,
but
rather confirms the habit of falling into
the error, and makes its avoidance more

not lead to a departure from

difficult.

In every undertaking, it is the part of

wisdom to use all the means that may
conduce to success. He, who deems an
object worthy of an attempt.8hows poor
judgment, if he neglects any requirement that may tend to the accomplish-

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

ill

Afnerican

^\\e

Pefifnan,

short article of only ten lines.

The misspelled

Published Monthly at 60c Per Year,

words

knowledge, and

pie copies u

ADVERTISING RATES.

8S""cn:.'.!!^!l:

::.:

IS

and the tendencies

public,

most important of

his best efforts to have a college worthy of the best patronage, and he will
find that the public will not be slow-

is worth no more to appreciate his

than a three months' course, but that is

the irrisisdble logic of their tuition

Rochmter Commercial Review.

fee.

eflbrts.

A CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS.

advcrtlsorB paying

in having such delightful surroundings,

to wliat Mr. Williams said, we hereand so competent a faculty, and Messrs.
with append a clipping from the Col- Clark & Johnson for the splendid suclege Journal of Mr. G. R. Rathbun's cess they are meeting with in Buffalo
Business College, Omaha, Neb., as cor- the large number of students in attendroborating what we heard Mr. Wil- ance, aud their fine college rooms. Mr.
Ames, who was for over twenty years
liams siiy at the convention:
connected with business college work, is
" 'Williams, of Rochester, stated at the
convention that book-keeping is of the a good judge of this class of schools,
and says Buffalo has at least one school
least importance in a business course
What does he consider a business educa^ that ought to be a.ppreci&ted.Buff'alo
tion to be ? Do not his students spend Commercial Advertiser.
time in getting a knowledge of th"
Bro. Ames, why did you not come
branch than any othe
Pen^
over to Ei'ie ? You have but seen the
To all our aubcrlbers remitting One Dollar wc will
We heard the i-emark by Mr. Williams half of Clark's Colleges, and you will
until further notice, mail a copy of Volume Plrat of and fully
concurred in it at the time.
Clark's Progressive Book-keeping uud the Auekican
We were discussing the feasibility of have to go the whole length of the
Pkmuan for one year, or we will present a copy of
short courses, which were, as the Pen- line before you witness the completeiiQ

Reading

SPECIAL INDUCEMENT.

PREMIUMS.

both volumes of Book-kt^eping to any one Bending a

club of ten subscribers and $4.50. Now Is the time

man knows.championed by Prof

of Poughkeepsie,

To

persons

11

Cincinnati.

themselves in beHK AJiEKicAN Pbnman and sending clubs

Interesting

one sending the club on

Prof.

Gaines,

and Prof. Nelson, of

Brown, of Jackson-

all

subscriptions

SOMEBODY HAS ERRED!

We

little
to which
usually attached practical writing, correspondence, rapid ai'ithmetical
calculations, orthography, use of Ianguage. etc., and that, if these were

ance

made by Mr.

is

book-keeping
after
of itself, his idea being
book-keeping is the most fascinating branch in the business college

projjerly

looked

would take care

that, since

course of study, it will naturally receive

the attention it deserves.
Mr. Packard's quotations from Mr.
Williams' remarks, when they appear in
the report, will justify this repudiation
of the words alleged to have been ut-

all

Williams," and

now

the

Review says no such statement was

Mr. Williams. We are sorry
for Ratlihun,

he evidently wants to
To attain the summit of true useful" ness
tell the truth, but when his " ideal
in our calling, it is sometimes necescomes to the front with a public sary to pause in our laborious researches
if we are really addenial, somehody has erred.
Who and ask ourselves
vancing the interests of our chosen
is it?
work. This can be easily determined bv
results of our efforts and
examining
the
The business colleges of the United
Slates have within twenty years multi- weighing the amount of scribbling we
transformed, or caused to be transplied from a few institutions to several have
iis

hundred, some of which have an annual

registration of over a thousand students
each.
United States Commissioner
reports a greater number of
as its grammar. Rochester Comvicrclal
graduates from the business colleges
Rtrlrw.
than from the colleges of law, medicine
Mr. Williams' attention is resiicct- and theology combined. OfScial reports
liiUy called to tlie following i)aragraph show about 50.000 students during the
clipped from tlie Review, snice he past year, iV. }'. iitar.

From the above notice it is easy for

Mr. Wil- the reader to see what a strong popuwords lar hold the business colleges have

The reader

will notice the originality of

liams' spelling of the following

ARE WE ADVANCING?

made by

Thk Penman's memory is as defective

Eaton

speaks of " orthography."

We

are constantly hearing that the

'

provide for

it.

But I think we do not need to despair.

The writing of the masses may have
degenerated as far as legibility is concerned, but it must be remembered that
the increase of speed demanded by the
multiplied business interests and enterprises of to-day,
for the lack of

can partially account

legibility in business

writing.

Had

nothing better than the old,

round style of hand-writing ever been
originated, it would almost utterly fail

demands of business life.

of business demands a handwriting that can be written very rapidly, and still retain as much legibility aa
possible, and if we have succeeded in
ness of our institutions. However, we
establishuig such a system, and impartarc thankful to Mr. Ames for his ad- ing such a
style, we have certainly made
dress at Buffalo, and hope he will call a long step in advance.
again.
To the teacher of writing is entrusted

ville, Williams, and ourselves, contended

that book-keeping was only a small
share of what should be the curriculum
EXCHANGES.
of a business college; simply an auxilito give c ush premiumn to those securing clubs, and
will be invariably followed.
ary of the course. To begin the study
The Penman's Art Journal, New
Remit
of book-keeping before a student can York, presents its usual fine appearMoney t rder, Poalal Note, or Registered Letter, to
work a problem in interest, write a good ance.
CLARK & JOHNSON.
legible hand, or until he has a good
The Pewman's QazeUe^'^ow published
Publishers, Erie. Pa.
knowledge of the common school at Chicago, 111., is among the best of
branches, is a waste of time and a farce, chirographic journals.
ERIE PA., ANB BUFFALO, N. Y.. SRI>T., 18S0.
Mr. Wilhanis rightly claimed, that at
The Western Penman, Cedar Rapids,
this day and age the business colleges
la., comes
out regularly well-filled
have a higher calling than to simply in with good reading.
struct in book-keeping. Such business
The School Visitor, Madison, Wis.,
colleges
have
had
Thk American Penman, published
their day."
occasionally overlooks The American
at Clark's Business Colletfe, Erie, Pa.,
Of coui-se we shall have to refer Penman in mentioning its exchanges,
for July, has the following:
Mr. Rathbun's article back to him, as but clips quite generously from its
Williams, of Rochester, stated at the
Mr.Willinms denies making any such pages.
convention that "book-keeping is of
The College Journal, Rathbun &
least importance in a business college statement, and wait for Mr. Packard's
course," What does he consider a busireport.
But how does Mr. W. know Daily, publishers, Omaha, Neb., is one
ness education to be? and does not his
of the best printed college papers we
that
Mr.
Packard's report will not
students spend more time in netting a
have seen.
knowledge of this branch than any contain what he stated at the convenother.
The Commercial Renew, Rochester,
We cannot imagine how the reporter tion ? It cannot be presumed that the N. Y., is well printed and edited.
" doctored " for
of the paper named could have so mis- proceedings are being
The Gem City Journal is before us,
under^itood what he heard at the con- the occasion.
certainly hope not. well-filled with excellent reading matvention. What Williams did say was Well I well I we pity Rathbun.
Here ter in the interest of business educathat more attention should be given to
he has *' concurred in the remark tion.
too
those things
import-

given

practice.

Tlio Review w.iuld

a date of contract.

given

and the eCTeut it has upon their

penmanship. If it speedily degenerates
into a mere scrawl, there has certainly
been something wrong in your instruction and training of that pupil.
If you
are conscientious, and have at heart the
real welfare Of your students, you will
at once diligently seek for soiue method
Of training that will produce better results when put to the test of actual
bnsinesB,

penmanship of the masses is degenerating, and whether this is true or false, it

do well to study
Prof. D. T. Ames, proprietor of the behooves us to ascertain, and if true, try
uj) on ortliography and English gram- Penman'g Art Journal, New York, who to remedy it.
We cannot, as true teachni:ir before making any further criti- is in Buffalo on business, gave a fine ad- ers, shut our eyes to facts, be they ever
cism.
Now as to the truth of the "A. dress to the students of Clark's College, so disagreeable, but nmst be ever on the
in which he congratulated the students alert to know the worst that we may
P.'s" statement as published above as

"

e will give a reduction of 40

tea to all

Upon the

of the times point to the business col-

are now issued by all educational institutions. Let every

schools within our business college projirietor put forth

it is

tliree years' tuition

'^J~

one column.

iu

a matter of infinite
surprise that any intelligent school man
will do so unbusinesslike a thing.
It is
a.
rcdicnfoua confession to make that

Single CO

address on receipt

set

lege as being the

Life scholarships
By Clark & Johnaon, Proprietors, Erie,
Pa., and Buifalo, N Y.
but Ihree or four

)'

are

italics.

to meet the

The rush

the important duty of molding the

handwriting of a nation, aud with this
trust there comes the gravest responsibilities, which only the' most earneat

and practical wisdom and exp^..

rience can faithfully discharge. Are we

efforts

doing our

merely working in a
manner, regardless of the

best, or

stoical sort of

real results of our labors

Dubuque, Iowa,

Sept.

4,

1880.

In accepting the resignation of Mr.

Bruce, Register of the Treasury, the
President gives as one reason why he
thinks the resignation should be accepted, the fact that the Register has no
practical knowledge of book-keeping.
If that is so, Mr. Bruce should havflf^
tendered his resignation long ago. Thla\
cu-cumstance may properly give rise to
the inquiry if there are not many others
holding important positions under the
Government where good accountants
should be preferred, irrespective of
poUtical views, in preference to mere
politicians who have no practical knowledge of accounts.
hope the intiuia-'
tion given in the acceptance of Mr.
Bruce's resignation will serve as a basis

We

for precedence in future removals and

appointment".
The appointment of
skilled accountants to positions of trust-,
where a knowledge of book-keeping is
niiportant, should receive careful consideration both in National aud State
Govermiients. A^. K. Trcasurij.

The most expert counters of money in

the Treasury are women, and the women.
in the Treasury as detectors of counterformed, into legible or elegant writing. feit money have no equals in this counBy closely studying the practical results try or any other. The women in the
of our work, we can determine where several departments of the Govermuent,
changes should be made and improve- no matter in wliat capacity they are
ments brought about. He who blindly employed, devote more hours to service
exercises a cause, without analyzing its than do the men. while they perform
effect, is doing himself tind the world an their work e<pmliy well. These are facte
injury.
If we possess a pet theory or a that among many other fauts the Comhobby, and by taking a retrospect, find mission appointed to investigate the deits effects unsatisfactory, we would in- partments will do well to consider, before
>efore
J
deed be bigoted did wt* not endeavor to it reports iu favor of eliminating
remove the injurious part of the cause. female element from the clerical force
Teacliers, watch your pupils go into the departments.
Ex.

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

accouDte in a clear, concise, systematic

it. he will never have any confidence in

Walk out from him,
a valuable addition to the you thereafter.
give up your position, rather than make
a false statement. Never be unfaithful
Prof. L. A. Wyatt. Jackson. Min.,
in your work.
When you become an
says: " I like it better and better the employe you sell your time for
so
much. Never prove unfaithful. While
Clark's Progressive Bookkeeping more I become familiar with it."
attending college one of my professors
Prof. G. B. Munn, President of the
said: "Young man, never measure your
and Peomanstiip.
American Business College, Warren, Pa., duty by what you get, but by what
you
says: " Express us 25 books at once."
can do." Those words have come to me
Prof. H. A. Lambert, of the Winona time and again, and I would have you
remember them. Suppose I engage to
The Best Arrang:cd Text Book for (Minn.) Business College, says; "I am work for somebody, and afterward:
umch pleased with your presentation of find that I am really worth $2,000 per
Use in Business Collej^es, Coin
the important departments of the sub- year, and am to get only $500. Shall 1
niercial Departnieiits, Hi^li
ject.
It is certainly a very nicely ar- render just one-fourth of the work, or
Schools, Aeadeniies. &v.,
ranged work, and ought to meet the shall 1 do the best I can, the same as if
Kvei- Published.
I were to have $3,000? Certainly,! should
approval of our leading commercial
do the best I can. It belongs to the
schools."
morals of business never to take more
Hundreds of other equally meritorious than your wages.
A Special Offer to Those Des
letters have been received, but want of
Now, as an employer, you will hold a

"ITmNDSAnEEEEa'

manner.

list

It is

of commercial text books."

but then there's lots that does little felnot half as big as me, and some of
'em do swear awful."
" Do your employers allow it ?" asked
lers

the editor.

"Not
j

'

know

they

but you don't

it;

And

them that chews, they don't chew on

pay-day."
" And don't you think this might and

ought to be changed ?"

" Yes, I do; and I tliought, after I read
'bout the Reformed Club, that I'd like

and so I'd see if I couldn't help

stop off the bad talk; an<l two other fellers, they're goin' to stop."
to jine,

"But how did you manage

should really like to know."
'

it 7

Well, I just said when I heard 'em,

d'ys want to say that for ?' and

'What

now

they stared, and said, "Cos; guess I've

got a right to do what I please!' And
then I didn't get mad and say, No,
you ain't,' but I said, 'Well, s'pose you
have, but I wish you wouldn't' And
sometimes they laughed, and sometimes
they poked fun; but two of 'em swore
off,
another one said he would if
we'd just let him say Jimminy cricks
and we did. We thought that wasn't

counts, stands Clark's Progressive Book-

swearin'atall."

Work.

to Introduee the

Foremost among the excellent works

published on the science of ac-

keeping.

It is

"So you have

it

presenting an unusually attractive appearance.

It

published

is

bound

The work

two

colors.

admirably adapted to

is

as well as

self-instruction,

for use in

Business Colleges, High Schools, Nor-

mal Schools and Academies.

It is care-

graded, beginning with a

fully

(loiiiplete

analysis of

and

full

the principles of

Beautiful written

advantages

presenting

the

of

And the editor went straight home,

and before he took off his overcoat,
wrote down the "dodge." to show the
young folks that one boy at least was in
earnest about helping himself and others

Progres

Ledger, the latest and most labor-saving

method

Every

of Ledgerizing extant.

college or school teaching book-keeping

should use this work.

o/ rapid writing

As a

relation to those

thii

special

inducement

to schools

be mailed, postpaid, which

retails at |3,

This

is

upon the receipt

of $1.

done to enable those interested

a good work upon the science of accounts, to examine its merits for themin

Prof. H. S.

Edwards, of the Eastern

Iowa Normal School,

"

says:

am

very

favorably impressed with the work.

It

accurate in statement, logical in ex-

is

pression

am

and progressive

character.

in

especially pleased with the

arrangement on pages

68, 60,

Ledger
70 and 71.

can see great good and simplicity in

that method."
I

Prof.

W.

A.

Ctane. Professor of Ac-

counts in the Spenceriaii Business College,

New

York, says:

"

your work through and

have looked
like

it

very

much."
Prof. H. C. Spencer
D.

says:

C.

you employ and

"The

compact, neat and

of
.'ork

pie. .sing

Washington,
presents

Never ask of your employe unreasonNever ask an evil thing,

always speak the truth.
Follow the
CLARK &L JOHNSON, Erie. Pa
golden rule. "Do unto others as you
would
have
others
do unto you." Never
and their letters shall receive careful atassume that you are something more
tention. Do not fail to send for a copy.
than you are. If you are a rogue, say
so; if an honest man, do not be afraid to
MORALS IN BUSINESS.
stand up under that banner so long as
mmary of an Address Delivered at Clark's you shall live; and in conclusion I would
College by Rev. J. C. Wilson, Friday
admonish you that if you cannot deal
Morning, Sept. 10, 1886.
honestly, do not deal at all; and at last
This is a subject of great importance let it be said of you when you come to
one that pertaines to business. It has die that you were honest men and
three-fold relation, inasmuch as you women. ^rtc Evtninff Herald of S^tt.
may become an employe and employer.
)r neither one nor the other, and I shall
peak firstly of an employe. As such
HOW THEY BOUGHT HIM OUT.
'ou will have temptations to make false
At least three-fourths of the efforts
statements, temptations to falsify. Now
let me say, never make a false statement started for the reform of abuses, publi{!
to your employer, in other words never or private, when they fail, fail for want
lie.
No matter what you have done. of earnest purpose. A cash boy In a
even If it be too bad to mention, never York store, answered a request that any
make a false statement.
Always be boys or girls should tell of any wrongs
truthful, be just, be candid, as there is they would try to make right in the
no surer way to succeed. Never make a year lW8a, in this way:
Those interested are cordially

retjuest-

Many
1

and unfolds to the learner the

of

'

his last

name,

of

ENCOURAGE OTHERS.

'

A dull boy in a certain school was frequently reproached by his teacher, and
made little progress. One day he made
a first attempt to write. The scrawl was
so wretched it excited the laughter of
the boys who sat near him. A gentleisiting the school, witnessing his
distress, said to

him

" Never mind, my lad. do not be discouraged, and you will be a writer some

day.

when
awkward

recollect

being quite as

first

persevered, and now. look

began

as you. but

See what

can do !"
He took his pen, and wrote his name
in a large, legible hand.
Years afterward, when the dull boy
had become one of the most celebrated
men of his day. he met again the umn
who had spoken to him those few encouraging words. He said to him:

" It is my finu conviction that I owe

statement for your employer.
"Well, you 6ee, I think swearin's
will ask this of you, but say "iVo,- 'bout as bad as anything us boys in our my success in life, under (iod's blessing,
to those few words you spoke to me that
cannot afford it," and if your employer store do; swearin'andchewin'tobacker.
day .when I sat so discourageil trying to
oaks you to do such a thing, and you do I don't chew, and lots of us boys don't; \ix\X.^" Christian A(ivo<:a(t:.
false

appearance,

do not write

who have not been running to the cry

"Cash here!" as he has ever since he
was eight years old.W: I'. Svangeliaf.

able things.

ed to address the publishers,

I know he is in such earnest

that he will be glad to have his language
corrected by some of the young friends

because

to the

general public.

desiring to examine a copy, a complete

will

B.

to reform.

than space prevents the presentatio

it

from any other.

work

Oj/

Students invari-

ably learn faster and better from

?"

it up, only they

stuck to him so he couldn't get rid of
'em without givin' 'em away, and we
offered to buy "em all. Wasn't it a good
dodge?"

published illlustrating and

we bought

What do you mean

said he'd like to give

Day Book, .Journal. Cash

Book. Ledger. Trial Balances, etc appear upon its pages. It is the only work
forms of the

the

" But would he tell you ?"

"Oyes; "twas "pon honor, you know,
and Jack's a real good fellow, and he

Double-Entry, Commercial Paper, Rules

for Journalizing, etc.

who have given

"Well, he had the biggest job lot of

Seemed's if he had all that
left over from the whole
trade. And we just got him to take account of stock, and make a list of swearwords, and we others that swore off, we
formed a company, and agreed to buy
the lot at five cents apiece.
And after
we bought "em, they wasn't his to use
no more, and so every time he used one
of "em he had to pay two cents."

one volume, comprising 228

in

pages, printed in

three

bad words.
had been

also

is

!'

?"

"Bought out

two

in

volumes, and the complete work

up

'

"Yes, and another boy that

out."

in cloth, beautifully embossed,

bound

'

printed upon extra super

sized and calendered paper, substantially

if

s'pose they swear at the boss

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

The merchant or manufacturer who
has carried his business through to a
permanent success, has had much to
learn from experience in arranging.upon
some econonomical basis, many of the
minor as well as important details of his
establishment. leading to loss or waste,
has in turn, received cautious experi-

ment and

careful study, until

Ollyffe, Ralph Snow, there are

some satirical strokes upon George
Shelby, as if he had arrogated too much
[Specially p
to himself in his book of Natural WritW. 6. LotUrc
ing. They find great fault (and I think
The chirographic labors of this able yg^y justly) with penciled knots and
and elegant penman have received
sprigged letters, as not to be admitted
general applause, not only fro;
OS any part of useful penmanship,
judicious Tliese reflections, however, created ill
public but also from
profession, blood, and even an open difference
ingst those of his
I shall, therefore, injustice to his merits
ongst several of the superior artists
writer and accurate accountant,
Robert Moore
ting of those times.
give as full an account of him and his and George Shelby seem, in that controwork as I can, at this distance of time versy, to have been men of calmest temhis death, being kindly assisted in
This book
in the different parties.
particulars by Mr. Joseph Champublished when our authors were
pion, who had been his scholar and masters of St. John Johnson's free
apprentice.
It was
iting school in Foster-lane
Mr. Charles Snell, of London, was printed for Henry Overton, at the

EARLY ENGLISH PENMEN.

OFFICE ECONOMIES.

some prac-

were devised through

the introduction of which a saving
might be effected.
If one avenne of contingent expenditure hae received less attention than another, it is that which pertains to extical safty-valves

Thomafi

down

Ludgate

Hill, etc.,

and

Erie AtlverUaer.

old-time school hou.se of the country district, we wonder that anything can be
said against our present system. The
country school house in which ' the
subscriber " obtained hia educational

was situated at the convenient distance of one mile and a half

"cross-lots," and two miles and a half
facilities,

around the road, from our farm home.

The road was seldom traveled in winter,
and between home and tin* old red
Greenwood school house lay two creeks,
three or four hills, seven fences, and in
winter time about half a mile of slush.
We had to get up before daylight, feed
Whitehouse, without Newgate.
In 1714 Mr. Snell published his copy- the stock, and chop wood for the day,
book entitled. Standard Rules, exhibited before getting our breakfast. Mother
would theu fill our dinner basket with
in six plates, beside the letter-press
work, in which the rules are demonstra- doughnuts, bread, butter and mince-pie,
ted.
This book proved to be a bone of and we were off. We had rare fun ridcontention, and occasioned a terrible ing over the crust with a girl on the sled
Our teacher was a good old
quarrel between our authors and Mr. with us.
John Clark, writing master and account- soul, and for two or three wintnis served
antin Warwick-lane This quarrel about us faithfully, and tiien he went to the
standard rules ran so high between them land of shadows. He could play corner
that they could scarce forbear surrilous ball at noon, and beat any of us, and
language therein, and a treatment of there was no doubt that he loved us and
each other unbecoming gentlemen. tried to do us good. There was no grade
Both sides in the dispute had their abet- lo the school, for every scholar had his
own reader, which ranged from Thadtors, and to say which had the most
truth and reason, "Non nostrum est deus of Warsaw, up to, and Including
tantas componere htes;" perhaps both the new Testament and the Bible.
parties might be too fond of their own Whatever arithmetic we had in the
schemes. The best way, I think, would house was made the standard work for
have been to have only offered their that family. Our school was usually of
different schemes and sentiments there- about thirty-five, and ranged In size
on, and explications thereof, to tlie from Tilda Gough, two feet six. to Ben
Poor
world, and left them to people to choose Christi, who was six feet two.
which they liked best. Who now-a-days Ben, his education was sadly neglected,
take those standard rules, either one or for he read in a new Testament, and
the other, for their guidance in writingV only knew letters, and after he had la^

lastly suc-

ceeded Mr. John Seddon In Sir John

Johnson's free writing school in Priest's
penses in the office as it does looking Court, Foster Lane, Cheapside, which
after the proper and most expedient he supported with credit upwards of
conversion of what is prudently pro- thirty-six years.
The first book that he published from
The just criticism, if one were
vided.
offered, would not fall on the amount of the rolling press was in 1693, entitled
time usually expended in clerical ser- "The Penman's Treasury Opened," bevices, but would more properly strike at ing then twenty-two years of age
It contains
the scanty information and the unsatis- William Elder, sculpslt.
factory results which it is found that twenty-six folio plates, besides his
such labor lias produced- The import- picture in front, and was, as he himself
ance of having concise, accurate and affirms, the first published in England
comprehensive intelligence concerning done by connnand of hand.
It is true, indeed, he was one of our
business operations will warrant a liberal outlay for its accomplishment; but first English penmen who practiced the
to incur all the required expense with- art. of writing in an absolute free, bold
out securing its legitimate benefits is a and neat manner on the revival of the
breach of business economy deserving useful elegance of the quill. Yet I have
been informed that there were jealous
of the severest criticismThe questionsJ? rfl(. What are the heart burnings, if not bickerings, bemeans to be employed ? and, second. tween him and Col. Ayres, another
What are the results to be expected f of our great reformers in the writweal,
both eminent
form important subjects which demand ing common
tlie precise consideration of the business men in their way, yet like our most
manager. The prime feature of import- celebrated poets. Pope and Addison, or,
to
carry
the
comparison
still
higher, like
ance connected with these inquiries Is
thirst of professional service.
The im- Ciesar and Pompey, one could bear no
Ijortant means upon which these results superior and the other no equal.
There is in some copies of the aforedepend is the accountant into whose
hands shall fall the manipulation of said book a little poem prefixed in comthe cutting

llie

When one can compare the complete

and perfect finish of No 3 school, to the

street.

Sound business economy does not

much demand

Wrltteo for

'

penses incurred in the office or accountTliis channel of dising department.

bursement forms one of the most iuipor- born Anno Domini 1670, and educated
Christ's Hospital, being one of the
ant features for consideration in connecwith the subject of business few who reflect honors on the blue coat.
tion
put ai)prentice to some writing
economy; but, unfortunately, it is selwhich
its
master
of no great note; Mr. Champion
atttention
dom given the
upposes Mr. Topham, but Mr. Austin
proniinen(^e demands. Were the exnenditures in this department attended to .'fays he was informed to Mr. Brooks, a
with proper care and prudence, it would writing-master in Aldergate street; but
be found that much more than is, might t was a strong genius and a confident
be accompHshed with them. Business ndustry. and copying after the enmanagers are not always sufficiently graved works of Barbedor, that proprudent in their allowances for meeting duced that correctness and beauty
hicli are so conspicuous in his copycurrent e.\i)enBes of the counting-room,
and book-keepers are many times mex- books. He kept school in divers parts
cusably extravagant in conducting their of London, as Bridewel per Sint. Fleet
special field of service.

OLD-FASHIONED SCHOOLING.

CRARLKS SMELL.

so

of ex-

boriously spelled them out, it never enOur author also printed the law altered his head what the words meant.
phabet, viz.: of the court and chancery
We learned geography by singing the
bands, in one large sheet; but I cannot
names of States, and the Capitals, and
ascertain the date nor say by whom it
the names of rivers and their length.
was engraved.
He has likewise four It was really a good way
to learn, and
plates dated 1711, very well executed, in
has remained in my memory in a great
in George Bickham's Penman's Commeasure to this day.
panion.
I

The school house was usetl for SundayMr. Snell also published eight text
school in summer, and for preaching by
books upon the keeping of Books and a Circuit M. E. Itinerant
once in two
Accounts, between the years 1697 and
weeks all the year.
The late John
1718.
Abbott, an excellent Methodist, was
To conclude, this laborious and cele- preaching on the Circuit, and one sum-,
brated writing master and accurate
mer day he was late to arrive. The
arithmetician died at his dwelling house
school house was packed full of people,
in Sermon-lane,
Doctor's
Commons, and seeing no way of getting In handy,
Anno Bom. 1733, and lies buried in the except by the open window, (it was
a
body of St. Gregory's Church, in Old
very warm day,) a rail was put up at
Fish street, but without either monuthe

ment,

stone or inscription over his

grave, neither does he want any, for his
works will be a lasting memorial of his

and upon whose skill shall mendation of the art of writing as well
depend the proper and economic hand- as of the autlior's performance, by Dr.
ling of a system of accounts
The re- Joshua Barnes, of Emanuel College,
In
sults to be anticipated are the complete, Cambridge, dated April 23d, 1694.
correct and systematic representations this poem Dr. Barnes appears somewhat
which fully illustrate the progress of singular in his opmion amongst modern

window nearest the

preachers' desk,

and he clambered in that way. There

was an irreverent fellow in tlie audience,
and when he saw the Rev. John come
abilities in his profession.
However, through the window he repeated
the
instead of a formal epitaph, I shall prewords: "He that entereth not by the
sent the reader with the following lines
door into the slieep-fold, but cUmbeth
composed
praise
in
his
by
Mr.
Sinclare:
trade, the condition of financial affairs, authors in ascribing the art of writing
up some other way, the same is a thief
and all the various avenues through as a divine gift to Adam in this stanza: " Accept, dear shade what justice makes me and a robber." The effect of this bit of
which each special department of busi- " No, no, the gift of a commanding pen,
du,
timely humor on the audience can be
ness has been affected.
And your most curious hand compell'd ipe to; imagined.
x. x. x.
Was first by God, to first born Adam giv'n;

office affairs,

If the book-keeper is slothful in the

use of supplies and extravagant with
office paraphernalia, no matter what
may be the other qualifications, his services will become a burdensome tax

Great Velde's pen, immortalized his name.

From him to Seth it came, ihe best of men.
And justly, since the richesi gift of Heaven." And Mat'rots stretched the blowing checks

oi

In 1812 Mr. Snell published his Art of Bold Barbedor, in freedom did cxcell.
Writing, in Theory and Practice, George But this last worthy was reviv'd in Snell;
which no businessman can safely afford Bichham, Sculpt. It contains 28 plates And Europe now. strikes to the British hand,
to encourage. If he lacks experience, in a long folio, besides his picture at the I'or justness, neatness, freedom and command;
acquired skill, or natural ability if he beginning. In a copy of verses, by Mr. Yet we're divided, which in thee to boast,
Peter Motteai, prefixed to this book, are Wheiher the penman or accountant most."'
is prone to negligence and liable to mistakes, his retention Is injudicious and the following harmonious and beautiful
inexpedient, irrespective of what may
Clark's College has arranged for a
be the compensation for service, or even "Now justly bold, i ) Snell's improving hand, popular lecture course the coming
seathough none be exacted. The true prin- The pen at once join: freedom with command
There are to be seven entertainson.
With
ciple of economy, here as elsewhere, is to
softness strong, with ornament not vain,
ments, including the Mendelssohn Quinpay for the maximum value of what Loose with proportioi and with neatness plain; tette Club of Boston, lectures by Hon.
such professional services are worth, Not sweli'd. not full, complete in ev'ry part,
Geo. R. Wendling, Prof. David Swing,
and exact in exchange the full consider- And artful most, when not alTecting a
Robert J. Burdette, Mrs. Mary A. Livation for compensation allowed. iV. Y.
In letters to the aathors, prefixed to
Col. L. F. Copeland and Dr. J.
I

I,

Treasurt/.

book,

from John Slnolare, Jay VlUers.

|

One of the most worthy as well as one

most successful of Educational
Institutions established in the region of
the Lake Shore is Clark's Commercial
College, at Erie, Pa. As usual, energy,

of the

ability

and

faithful devotion to business

have had their reward. Although it has

been in operation but about three years,
the College already ranks very high
both in the character of tlie work It
does and In the number of students. A
practical business education is what
Prof. Clark aims to impart to his students; and to this may be added, besides
the ordinary branches of a good English
education, ornamental penmanship and
a knowledge of short-hand. ~7'/'C //owwi
b/n^K

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

HOW TO TELL

COUNTERFEITS.

WRITTEN SPEECHES
There

is

IN

CONGRESS.

a form of discussion that goes

Display
The United States Treasury Departon in the House which deserves due rement has of late years adopted for bonds probation, writes Congressman T. B.
and currency a peculiar paper described
in the Chautanquan, and that is To Penmen and
Reed
below, and which is deemed a stronger
A

Sjeciieus
all interested in artistic

IIT

the reading of written speeches.

pen work.
vast deal of time is consumed to no business purpose. These things are almost
ON RECEIPT OF $2.00
has
They
consumption.
home
for
entirely
feited in 50, 100 and 300 notes.
usually begin at the origin of human afAs the first issue of greenbacks, which fairs, and are full to repletion with that I will mail you. prepaid, your choice of
were not printed on fibre paper, were kind of knowledge which takes it for the following large specimens, size 22i28
most dangerously counterfeited, but granted that the reader's mind is a blank inches, flourished on white cardboard.
have almost wholly disappeared from
I say "reader's," as it
subject.
circulation, therefore receive them with
seldom that this kind of an oradoubt
great caution, or refuse them if in
tion has any hearers, for when a memgenuineness.
about their
ber pulls out a pile of manuscript the
protection against counterfeits than that
used by the Bank of England, which
recently been dangerously counter-

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and

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later issues of

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48

C.-OUtEdge, MorteJ,
D.Bevel out Edge, ths Bdmi
' K.-Bevela of Cream and Whlt
' G.SUk and Satin Bevels
H -aght-ply Bevels, Moried

pair of Running Horses,

gold action, except in rare instances, is reLion, or
garded as an uivitation to the rest of the
and
on
the
printed
business,
members to mind their own
Nationr.l bank notes are
A Lar$!;e Antelope.
Government paper, the first kind with which they immediately proceed with
the fibre distributed in short pieces, lo- one accord to do with their might. It
Any of the above will make a very
calized with a blue tint, detected by may be added as a curious fact in naturand attractive appearance, and
picking it with a pen; the other with the al history that many a member who has showy
OS Display Specimens for organizing
fibre in two parallel threads, red and passed a whole hour in reading w
classes, etc., they have
througU
lengthwise
\
will
beg
runnuig
to
listened
bilk,
has
blue
nobody
the note, seen by holding the note up to pathetic fervor and insistance for
the light. The public are cautioned not other five or ten minutes in which to
to draw these threads out of the paper. render liimself hoarse by reading what
genuine greenbacks,

silver certificates,

18
$0.

"

XjIST.

All other

Number of Cftrdi in packftge:

A.Plain White, good qoMlty
B.-Weddlng BrlfttOl, Terr bwt

NO EQUAL.

of
If in doubt about the genuineness
any bank note in the report, refuse it
unless printed on Government fibre
in
not
paper. All national bank notes
printed
this report are genuine, whether
on Government paper or not.
The counterfeit |;10 and $20 silver certificates are not on Government paper.
Some of the counterfeit $5, $10 and $20
greenbacks (series of 1875) and $50 and
$500 (series of 1860) are an imitation dis
tributed fibre paper. Very dangerous.
These are all the counterfeits on the new
greenbacks worth noticing.
Better refuse all twenties, fifties and
one hundreds on the banks in
port unless printed on Government

paper.

he has

Perhaps

fufl liberty to print.

it

because, his eyes filled with his

handwriting, and his ears soothed and
charmed by the mellifluence of his
voice, his soul transcends the unworthy
House and seems to be pouring itself
into the ears of the country, variously
is

estimated at from
Some day or other the natural historian
of the race will take philosophic cogniz55.000,000 to 58.000.000.

ance of

this

this solution

phenomenon, and to him

is

HEPNER.
Pillow, Pa.
j

A.

H.CAUGHEY&SON,

Tha enmping of the Ongert Ij ccntlaQOU wilting, acI vUcb 13

B7 coyrmuALLY oaASpmo atieb tbs powt ottiii
VZS TO B&IH9 IT SOWV TO THE PAFEB, li vhoUj OTorarat.
cAtrsED

Stationers

Book-sellers,

timidly but respectfully

But the Congressman

and

vigil

companies he
moderate fortune.
of the

3,

ud S,

Uedlui; 4

eztrt

is

Business Writers

a supply which answers a demand. The

fault probably lies with the American Also steel En^pavings, Arto-Tj'pes,
people who unreasonably demand that
their legislators shall be orators, and
shall prove that they are such by visible
results.
If they only realized how much
time was wasted in such effort, and how
little attention was paid to them, they

cessive labors

3 and

I.

not
entirely to be blamed. In fact, perhaps,
he is not to be blamed at all. It is only
offered.

All genuine bank notes having brown

back and seal, have both kinds of the
fibre paper combined; while the counterfeit $10. on the Third National Bank of
Cincinnati, O., and the photographic would measure the virtues of their memcounterfeit $5, on the First National bers by other and truer standards.
Bank of Milwaukee.Wis., have no fibre.
These two are the only counterfeits on
Mr. James H. Rutter, late President
the brow[ibacks.
of theN.Y. Central R. K.,took a course at
All a Business College, and at an early age
Better refuse all pierced notes
United States currency bavmg a brown became a book-keeper and then a clerk
Thence he rose by
seal has the parallel threads or cables. in a freight office.
All United States currency printed since merit, step by step, until he reached the
1869 is on Government fibre paper.
highest position in railroad circles. He
There are in circulation very danger- was a skillful diplomatist, a capital storyous counterfeit $10 greenbacks dated teller, a fighter for his side, and thorAll the genuine of that date are oughly conversant with all the details of
1875.
His death in
on distributed fibre paiter. Detroit Free an intricate business.
early manhood was probably d

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roEUpleted'for aeDdJag;,

nghly
A school teacher in Washingti
Keep at one thing-in nowise change. instructing a class in writing. "Miss,
Observe system in all you do and un- Miss " squealed a small boy holding up
"Yes.
dertake
his hand over in the corner.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth Johnnie, what is it?" she answered,
doing well.
going to the kid. "Do T write RepubliOne to-day is worth two to-morrows. can with a capital R like this copyBe self-reliant; do not take too much book's got it ?" " Of course. Why not?"
but rather depend
Cause pa said this was a last year's
Never fail to keep your apppoint- copy-book, and the style has changed.
be p. uctual to the
The teacher made the kid follow copy.
busii

stht

Cincinnati Merchant Traveler.

Never be idle, but keep your hands or

mind usefully employed except when

The Bank of France is said to possess

an ingeniously arranged photographic
Use charity with all; be ever generous studio concealed in a gallery behind its
in thought anil deed help others along cashier, so that at a signal the portrait
of a suspected customer may be instantlife's thorny path.
Make no haste to be rich: remember ly taken without his knowlege.
that tniall and steady gains give comIt is easy to console others in their
petency and tranquility of mind.
He tliat ascends a ladder must take afflictions if we possess that inward sat-

sleeping.

the lowest round.

All

who

are above

isfaction that tells us

off as

they are.

we are not

as

bad

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

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The course of study embraces the most thurouf,-li and L-umplete theoretical aud actual business training in the world,!
Scholarships good in either College. Students may enter at any time with equal advantages.
LIFE SCHOLARSHIP, good in either College, entitling the holder tc- all the advantages of the Commercial Course, and

TERMS:
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Agents.
Magazine Co.,
810 State

(L't d

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by any other Business College.

are to be had in each school.

It will

pay young men and

The Institutions are in direct communication with the leading business men in aU parts of the country, and students
are helped to the best positions obtainable, as graduates from these Colleges have no difficulty in securing' honorable and
lucrative employment.
The Faculty are gentlemen of well-known ability and experience, and the prop"ietors will be pleased to furnish information to those interested, upon application, either in person or by letter.

CLARK

-A.d.d.ress

JOHNSON,

&L

Erie, Fa., or B-u.ffalo,

pointed,
0>er2.9

perfect.

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IBest JUateriaft
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College, Quinci/, Hi.

PRACTICAL SHORT HAND,

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Book, Ledger
1

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IG bPHUllliilly prlDlcd pag(.', upoD ulgHy-pnund bool

adopting

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"

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It.

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paid, npon receipt of O N E DOLLAR.

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Editor.

ERG,

Associate Ed!lor.

CLARK & JOHNSON,

PA./an!i 3JPFAL0, N. Y OCTOBER

mi NCVEM32R,

VoJ.

1-Nos.

10-11.

Proprietors.

We

tion from the commercial studies.

are of the opinion that it is better for any
person to pursue the commercial course

systematic record of the same

is

very

interesting, especially to a student,

who

seemingly launched
alone, rather than to burden himself upon the sea of commerce, and he for
with several other branches, that in all the first time finds out that he must
probability would add little, if any, to "sink or swim." In most cases he will
his business qualifications.
Then again, swim ashore, bringing his profits with
a thorough-going business college does
doing
and
in
so
article for its motto,
not depend upon theory alone to enSix weeks' time spent in a thorough,
they showed that they comprehended lighten its students, but believes in the actual business college is worth five
the practical value of these words.
Business
motto: "The way to learn how to do a years in a school of theory.
Out of the thousands of young men thing is to do it"; therefore, the intro- education can and does do more for its
who patronize the business college a very duction of business practice. The art possessors than a thousand times it^
small per cent, have sufficient " money of buying and selling, and keeping a
capital" with which to begin business,
for the first time

is

There is a great truth set forth In the

above words. Men in all the different
walks of life have gained many things,
and it has in every instance been the reThere is many a young
(tult of " skill."
man who starts out in life's work without money, but he has, instead, a
weapon to which the mighty dollar and to some it might seem discouraging,
must yield, and that is skill. The one but to others it is a stUinulus to greater
^

'

gets on in the world best need not effort.

Of course money is a ne(
of necessity have the largest number of
dollars, but he must have skill, for there is neither the beginning nc
are no great achievements without it. it only serves a purpose

who

ssity,

but

it

the end, for

n the great

The successful lawyer or doctor does not commercial world.

There is a glorious futun in store for
obtain prommence because he controls
the most wealth, for if this were true, every onewhopoesesses the necessary ele
many a brilliant light that now shines ments to success, and we recommend to
before the world would have been con- every one the advantages of a sound
business education as the best investsigned to oblivion.
At the third annual Commencement ment with which to begin life. Do not
of Clark's Business Colleges the class put it off. You should begin now. ReI

saw proper

to

adopt the heading of this member that "

Many of the best informed persons in

this country are those who do not hesitate to express themselves as having implicit confidence in commercial education, and to the extent that they send
their sons and daughters to the Busi-

ness C'oUege so that they may receive

such advantages as will best equip them
for the battle of life.
It is not many years, since the public
schools and literary colleges were condemning commercial schools, and in
fact were the avowed enemies to practiBut now all is changed.
cal education.

We

find

the leading classical school-,

high schools and academies introducing

commercial studies as a part of their
curriculum, and doing what they can
to promote the interests of business
education.

Now why is this ? Is it not beoause of

the urgent public demand for such inMost certainly, and had
struction ?

Skill is Capital."

A young lady with a good business

The time has come when
and be respected all education will make a better wife than
the more for earning a livelihood, either the one who does not possess such
She will be found an inas amanuenses, clerks, cashiers, or book- knowledge.
keepers, and in not a few instances as valuable assistant to her husband, and
proprietors. There is no good reason in many instances her wise counsels will
why women, if they make the neces- help him on to fortune. The young lady
sary preparation, should not go to the who has a business education is better
front in commercial aflfairs. as it is uni- fitted for any position in life, and even if
" old maid " it will
versally conceded that in many of the she intends to be an
most important positions women have be a solace to her in her lonely days.
The demand for skillful lady stenograbeen found to pay closer attention to
details, less liable to engage in specula- phers and book-keepers is much greater
than the supply, and there is no reason
tions, and are more careful in making
assert their rights

men.
There is
investments than
among the thousands of government
clerks at Washington a decided preference for ladies, as they are found to be
few years earlier, it would have been all more trustworthy, doing the work at
the better, but be that as it may, we least just as satisfactorily as could be excongratulate the sensible teacher who is pected of the opposite sex,
In New
ever ready to hold up to the world the York City many of the leading meradvantages of commercial instruction. chants are makhig room for and actuthese " opponents " to the best education ever devised for all practical purposes been aroused to its importance a

Now while it is true that there are a

number of schools throughout the
country that are becoming thoroughly
identified with business education as a
port of their work. ne\ertheles8 it must
be acknowledged that there is no other
place where young men and ladies can
receive such general advantages as in a
good business college. Why ? Because
the commercial college has but one purpose or object in view, and that is to
successfully prepare its pupils for business; therefore, when one enters such a
school there are not demands made upon
him, here and there, to divert his attenlarge

why any young

lafly Avith

a good busi-

ness education should not readily com-

mand a salary

from fifty to one hundred and fifty dollars per month.

Young lady do not defer this matter,
but take the advice of a friend and obt-ain a sound business education at your
earliest convenience.
You will never
regret it, but on the other hand will
positions thank the one who thus prompted you
ally employing women for
that a few years ago it was thought to get the right kind of a start in the
could only be filled by men. What can world.
be said of New York in this particular,
My ideal of a great lawyer is that
may be said of other cities throughout great linglieh attorney whoaccumulateil
the United States, and young women de- a fortune of 1,000,000. and left it all in a
siring to get a successful start in life will to make a home for idiots, declaring
need a sound business education.
that he wanted to give it back to the
The business colleges are enrolling a people from whom he took it. Robt. Inof

number of lady students this sea- f/crsoU.

son than ever before, and it will so conThere is hope for a dull boy who
tinue, year by year, until young ladies
will be found in even greater numbers thirsts for knowledge; but I don't take
in commercial schools throughout the much stock in a genius who knows it all
larger

without study.

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

If all

the grandest opportunities for achieving

success of any of the sons of other nations, and all they have to do is go forth
with an "aim" in life, bending all their
efTorts in that direction, and their hopes
will be satisfactorily rewarded.
In a recent address to the graduating
tlass of Clark's College, the famous
preacher, Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, said:
' Remember, among other things, it is
iilways safe to do right and never safe to

see

Do

ventilation best secured?

care should be taken of the eyes?
position of the body at the desk?
Not one word about these practical,
things which every one ought to know
and to put into practice almost daily."
"After children are able to apply the
fundamental rules in arithmetic to integers, fractions and decimals they are
ready to begin book-keeping in a prac-

do wrong. , If you do not find

openings just here, come East or go
West. There is a place marked out for
you just as certain as you are there, my

brother
a place marked out
and instructions of great men. v.e find for you for life by an almighty God, who
that they all bear directly upon one knew your temperament and all your
point, and that, character building. It temptations, and knows all about you
A
is a great thing to be an example for better than you know yourself.
others to follow, and it is even greater sphere of duty and of success marked
to have the will to be a man. The last out. and you just have to put yourself
words ever uttered by the late John B. in the line of the Divine leadings. If
Qougb were: "Young man, keep your you are happy here you will be happy
record clean." Of course, there are ex- forever. All parts of this land are opencuses oflfered here and there, by young ing now as never before. Do not stop at
men as to why they commit some follies any one point and say, because things
beneath their manhood, although there are filled up, professions here and merenough, or for any chandise there, and this here and that
is no excuse good
reason, that will exonerate one from there; go further, and look out this
ignorance, which is the twin brother to land. We are just opening tl?e outside
crime. The young men of America have doors of the wealth of this country."

the advice that has been given

to young men from time to time, could
be gathered together and published, it
would make the largest book ever isgued. But if we are to sift the sayings

How is proper

What
What

way, in connection with which

they can learn ali applications of
arithmetic. If this, instead of arithmetic, were pursued during the last three
years of the grammar school their attention would be called to many things
that induce observation and thoughtDo not understand me that I would desire all the work now repeated.
Not at
all, but, on the contrary. I would cut
out a great deal of the routine and abstract, and in their places put something
of life
in short, have children begin
life in school.
Much study is required
simply to enable the teacher to know
that the scholar lias learned his lesson.
If a boy. with or without assistance, discovers, for instance, that the number of
pounds of hay expressed in thousands
multiplied by half the price per ton
always gives the correct result, is it
necessary that he should commit to
memory and recite a long rule so that
the teacher can mark him? Principles
are always better understood by their
tical

young men of this country need to do is to go to work in earnest.

Seek knowledge. Be honest and industrious.
Do not dream of success, but go
in search of it.
Get an education that
will prepare vou for the work you in- applications, and children will make
tend to do. Never say fail, but despise them if they are not hindered from doluck and stick to pluck. Do not let go ing so.
More than one instance is
until you have won the victory.
Aim
high.
Do not be in a hurry. Strike known to me of persons who had no
instructions in arithuietic beyond 'fractions,' and ytt they are rapid and accuVerily, all the

rate in

PRACTICAL EDUCATION.

active

all

their business calculations "

employments furnish

number

of

examples that,

in analysis,

TO

HOME STUDENT.

are sufficiently difficult to exercise the

keenest intellect and at the same time
Epsom, N. H., Oct. 27, 1886.
The following is. in substance, a con- impart some idea of the methods of
My Young Friend .-Your letter, makversation between two men while going transacting business. It is not neces- ing enquiries
as to the best methods of
home on the train. The older and ap- .sary to put them in unnatural forms and practicing writing, has been received.
parently more experienced siid to his obscure language. Our children study I am very glad
to give you a few words
neighbor: "Last night my boy came arithmetic from the age of eight years of advice and
encouragement -not as a
home with this problem: 'A workman to 14, and many of them are not able to perfect writer, but as one who has
made,
engaged to labor for 50 days Every solve ordinary business problems that with some success, a
study of writing at
day he worked he received $2.50, and come uj> every day in mercantile life. home without a teacher
in person.
every day he was idle he forfeited $2. A few days ago I asked my boys, who
I should judge by the tone of your
At the end of the time he received $116. receive more than average marks of letter that you
are really in earnest and
How many days was he idle?' I call scholarshij) in their school work and ex- full of enthusiasm.
I am glad of this,
suck examples puzzles. My children are aminations, to give me the result of an
for without interest or enthusiasm you
required to spend altogether too umeh investment. The example was a simple
will be likely to find advancement in
time over such useless work. Of what one in percentage. They did not know
anything impossible, or at any rate very
practical service can it be? No such definitely what to do; they tried this
slow. If you are as much in earnest as
occur in business. The money cannot way and then another, as they would if
I think you are you will be ready and
be paid to find the number of days he it was an enigma, and they were as
willing to work.
If I can so direct you
was idle. As there stated it is a '13 14 certain of the true result. I was disas to make your work effective the bat15' puzzle, and of no better help to pre- appointed, and tliey were disappointed;
tle is well started.
Then what you need
pare the young mind for life's duties. yes, more, they were discouraged. It is
to bring it to a successful close is a good
No man can afford to send his cliildren not strange that people are looking for stock of patience and perseverance,
to school to spend their time upon better results from our schools
Some coupled with intelligent labor.
puzzles
so-called examples that have call for industrial schools; others would
And right here let me say. do not overno relation to practical life."
turn our languages and bring in the look the importance of knowing
what
" But, my friend," said the younger, sciences;
all these will fail to give the you are trying
to do. All the training
"these puzzles have their value as a child a better preparation for life unless
given to your hand will amount to nothmeans for discipline of mind."
the matter is brought to them in a way ing unless you distinctly
understand
"Ah," returned the other, "are there to induce pupils to think and to observe what
you are practicing. Get a correct
not to be found many problems that what is going on about them. It is true, idea
of the fonu of uvery copy before
afford better mental exercise, and, at as Garfield has said, Mark Hopkins as a
taking your pen and ink for its practice.
the same time, convey to the child's teacher, and a log to sit upon, is a better Early
in your work get a general
mind some idea of business matters? university for a young man than fine knowledge of the whole subject.

Suppose a promising young man wished

to learn the blacksmith's trade, and you
would give him a sledge and ask him to
pound the boulder rocks several hours
a day in order that he might develop his
muscles,
If the youth had any ambition
at all he never would make a blacksmith. While exercising his muscles he
could leani something useful. Life is
too short to pound stone merely for the

sake of developing muscle."

" What would you suggest as a remedy
for this state of aflfairs?" queried the

Find
and labratories, out for yourself what your deficiencies
and with mechanical professors to guide are, then set yourself at work to remedy
them. Only to-day a lady showed me a them. Search out fault after fault
in
set of examination questions
A single like manner and correct each in its turn.
example out of the ten in arithmetic In short, constitute yourself a teacher
had any reference to practical matters, as well as a learner.
and that was stated impractically. In
One word more and I will tell you how
the same set was the following: 'How to commence work. Do not get
dishigh does the sun appear above the couraged. The road to good penmanbuildings, with libraries

horizon

at

Chicago?

At Quito?

Cut

ship

is

not so very long or steep.

You

honor What has that to do with health, can travel it to the goal you are seeking.
wealth or happiness? There was not a You will meet difRculties, but rise above
hint in the whole set as to the cause of them. Others have surmounted
them
typhoid fever, of catarrh or of con- and so can you.
"In the first place, by using text- sumption. What would you do to preFull of eagerness and courage you are
books that contain only practical, vent any of these? What constitutes
tiring of this talk and longing to grasp
^iniiyh(riwai-d problems. The variouK wholesome
food"
What cleanliness? your pen and begin work. But let us
I

a moment.

You must

start right.

not expect to reach excellence without obeying its law. You say that your
materials are good, and that you think
your position is good, and your movement the muscular. We trust that you
are right, but do not go ahead until you
are aure that you are right. Granting
that your position is easy and natural,

and you are using the correct movement, your writing is stiff and labored,
showing that your executive power
needs exercise. Yes, just what you want
is more movement an easier way of
writing.

Begin at the beginning; practice on

the continuous ovals. First, take the
direct
master it. Then with the same
motion carry the hand forward with
every revolution, thus bringing each
stroke farther to the right than the last
preceding one. Do not shade, and let
the exercise run across the page. Keep

at this until you can

and regular

make

it

form and motion.

in

neatly shade every

downward

smooth
Next,
stroke.

When you have

mastered these exercises you have accomplished a good

Your luovement will now be free
deal.

enough to execute

composed
and when you
have reached this stage you will find
plenty to do. Follow out any systematic
exercises

of the letters themselves,

plan that embraces practice on

all

the

And, as I close, let me wish

you much success in your work.
Very truly yours,

letters.

F. S.

The wonderful

industrial

Heath.

development

of the South,

at present in progresH,
many desirable positions fori

opens up
live, wide-awake
accountants, offioe-J
men and business managers. The
ord of what is being done in the South J
is surprising to those who have

watched

it

during the

carefully

and systematically^
Among the

few /cira.

last

new

enterprises reported organized for

the first thiee months of the current year
there were 4 iron furnaces, 3 cotton mills,
1!)

ice factories, 17

foundries,
tural

!J

machine shops and

stove foundrii's, 4 agricul-

implement

factories, 18 flour mills,

24 tobacco factories, 7 furniture factories,

9 gas-works, 12 electric-light works, 7

carriage

and wagon

factories, 28

mining

companies, and 110 lumber mills, including saw-mills, sash and door factories,
stave and coperage factories, etc
Thr
total amount of capital, including capital stock of incorporated oompanies,
invested in new manufacturing and
mining enterprises at the South, and in
the enlargement of old plants and the
rebuilding of mills destroyed by fire during the first three months of 188i

gregated about $36,557,000, against only

about $21,000,000 for the r or responding
period of 1885. r/ie OXHcc.
"IF

WERE

RICH."

One evening, passing along a crowded

heard one boy saying to another: "If 1 were rich I wouldn't"'
and then the rest of the sentence was
lost as I hurried on with the throng.
street,

But

have wondered often how that

sentence was finished. Did the boy say

" If I were rich I wouldn't snub my
poor relations?" or, "If I were rich 1
wouldn't spend all my money on my" If I were rich I wouldn't
self ?" or,
work any more "or what ? We cannot
know; but there is one thing ([uite certain.
Whatever that boy does, now
that he is poor, he would do if he were
rich.
If he is generous now, he would
be generous then. If he is mean now.
he would be mean then. If he works
faithfully now, he would work with fidelity then.
For "he that is faithful in
that which is least is faithful als<
much; and he that is unjust in the leasti
is unjust also in \\\nc\\.'''Indianapoli9m
Junnuil

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

A man

buys the privilege

Union at 75 when it
above 75 you
ribed.
can call on the maker of the privilege
for a hundred shares at 75, and the hun"What are pute," 'calls,' 'sprpadi*'
dred shares are thus bought by the
and 'straddles?' asked a|New York Mail
holder for $7,500, and he turns around
and Express reporter.
and sells it at 80 if the stock is selling
"Well." said John E. McCann, the there, and pockets the difference."
confidential clerk of Russell Sage, of
"What about 'spreads' and 'stradwhom the question was asked, "Til tell
"
dles
you if vou will promise never to men"A 'ftraddle' is a 'put' and 'call'
again.
It
resubject
poetical
tion the
The holder of one may 'put'
combined.
ciuires pretty deft wording to make the
maker of the privilege or
thing clear, 80 it is not an exhilarating stock to the
'Straddles' come high,
subject to talk on. You hear a good cair for it.
money in them whichdeal about puts and calls,' but I ven- because there is
market may go.
If the
ture to say there are 50.000,000 people in ever way the
the United States who do not know market does not go at all, but stands
still, why the maker is in the money he
meaning
is
the
what
nor
they
are,
what
for the privilege, usvially
of the word 'privileges.' Now, a privi- has been paid
or $300.
A 'spread'
lege is a contract by which the maker of about 3 per cent.,
Jay Gould, is also a 'put' and a 'call' combined,
it, Russell Sage, S. V. White,
this difference: a straddle
or Harvey Kennedy, engages to pur but there is
chase from the holder in one cose, or to is made at the market. That is to say,
the privilege takes the risk
sell to the holder in the other case, a the maker of
number of shares of some specified that the stock in question does not move
stock at a certain price, at any time to any extent from the price at which it
MikDE CLEAR AS DAY.

opposite way.

of catling Western
If
is selling at 70.

and Straddles of

it sells

'

?'

'

warrant, simply because of the lack of

upon the part of their employers to perceive their real valn-v
The introduction of an expert to overlook and criticize their work, in many
instances gives them a better standing
with their prhicipals than it would be
possible to secure by any other means.

Sir. Sage agreed to take these stocks at

a price which was considerably above
the market price. During five days Mr.
Sage paid out what few men in New
York were probably able to pay out
about $4,000,000 in solid cash. He kept
on deposit then, and he does now, $5,-

ability

money at the Im& Trotiers' Bank. Since that

excitement the probability is that Mr.
Sage has drawn out of this very business
on puts and "calls more money than
he then paid out. A great deal of the
stock certificates which were then put to
him he held and realized when the market advanced.''
000.000 in available

Their work is passed upon by one competent to express an opinion, and aleu
by one in whose statements the proprietors have confidence.
The employment of expert accountants is appar-

porters'

'

'

'

ently

ness

upon the increase, and the busicommunity will undoubtedly gain

thereby. TAe O^Ucc.

'

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'

The
ant

WHY MEN

functions of the expert acoountr

understood by the
community at large than it

FAIL,

are, perhaps, less

Pew

business

up

to their highest

Some

would be well to have them. They may

be summed up under several heads,
among which may be mentioned first,
planning; and remodelling books so as
to adapt them to special requirements
second, auditing books and verifying

fail

through

They are
unwilling to take the risks incident to
and fail through fear in venturing
on ordinary duties. They lack pluck.
Others fail tb:
igh imprudence, lack of
timidity, or lack of

nerve.

life,

the balance-sheets; third, adjusting and discretion,

I

or sound judgment.

sr^/f^y-^.

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within a certain period, at the option is selling when the privilege is sold. In
Got that?
of the holder.
a 'spread' the maker has more leeway.
"A 'call is a privilege bought of the If Western Union is selling at 70, to go
maker, at a certain price, and the owner back to the old illustration, the maker
of it is privileged to call for a certain of the privilege sells a 'spread,' say at
amount of stock at a given price, within 67 and 80. If it goes below 67 the holder
put the stock and make the difthirty, sixty, or ninety days, four or six can
months. If a man holds a 'put,' he has ference, and if it goes above 80 the
the right to deliver to the maker of the holder can 'call' at that price and reap
privilege a stock at a certain agreed the profits. But so long as the price of
price within a certain number of days. the stock keeps within those points the
Clear ? No ? Well, let's try once more. maker of the privilege is safe. To put
"Suppose Western Union is selling at it in another way, the holder of a strad70.
A man wants a sixty-day put on dle' will make if the market for the
it at 06, because he believes the stock is
stock he is dealing in moves at all. The
going down. He gives Mr. Sage. Mr. holder of a 'spread doe.'^n't make anyWhite, Mr. Kennedy, or Mr. Gould
thing until the market moves past cerper cent, on the amount of stock he tain limits. There is one thing more
wants to deal in A hundred shares is the maker of a privilege only receives
usual, and 1 per cent, is $100.
He re- the money for which he sells the privi(eives in return a slip of paper signed lege, while the holder may make thous
hy either one or the other of these gen- ands or nothing.
tlemen.
Then if Western Union goes
"The mention of 'puts' and 'calls'
below 60 within sixty days he may buy recalls perforce the exciting times two
it for whatever it is selling for below
years ago last spring, when the market
that price, and put it to the maker of went down with a rush and the holders
the privilege at the price agreed onOC of 'puts' issued by Mr. Sage invested
and receive a check for $C,COO The his ofBce like an army. After the above
holder makes the difference. Ah, you explanation it will he seen that their
understand ? If Telegraph does not go privilege of putting stock to Mr. Sage
below G6 the holder is out his $100 The were exceeding valuable. Their privi'call' business operates exactly in the leges were so many contracts whereby
'

'

'

'

'

'

'

'

They over-estimate the future, build air

castles, and venture beyond their depth,
fail and fail.

closing books in terms of partnership,

dissolution,

agreements,

fourth, unravelling

etc.;

and,

books and accounts and

which are in a tangle. Under the first

of these heads the expert occupies a
commanding position as compared with
the ordinary book-keeper, from the fact
that he has wide and varied experience,
and accordingly can do more than even
an equally competent man who bos been

Others, again, fail through lack of application and perseverance. They begin
with good resolves, but soon get tired of

that and want a change, thinking they

can do umch better at something else.
Thus they fritter life away, and succeed
Others waste tune and
at nothing.
restricted to ordinary lines of practice. money, and fail for want of economy.
Under the second head the expert's sys- Many fail through ruinous habits totematic training is a continuous safe- bacco, whiskey and beer, spoil them for
guard against errors and frauds, and a business, drive their best customers
satisfaction as well to those in charge of from them, and scatter their prospects

cash as to those interested in the profits.

Under the third head the expert sees
that all questions of depreciations, renewals, drawbacks, doubtful debts and
other contingencies are duly considered,
while under the fourth head his trained
and practiced skill finds clues in a mass
of confusion, and soon determines the
shortest way out. The position of the
expert accountants is like that of the
lawyer; absolute secrecy is, of course,
an inviolable obligation. Many bookkeepers feel that the work of the expert
accountant is, in a measure, opposed to
their own. The reverse of this is the
case. Frequently book-keepers are far
less appreciated than their real merits

of

success.

Some

brains, education
vailing.

They

fail

and

lack

for

fitness

want

of

for their

a knowledge

of

human

nature and of the motives that

They have not (lualified
actuate men
themselves for their occupation by pracSfliool Supplement.
tical education.

Some look upon successes and failure^^

as lucky accidents or calamitous miss
chances, and wonder what the next tuin
of fortune's wheel is to bring them.
Others profit by both, and by studying
their causes, and the laws which govern
them, become wiser and more able to
insure a permanent
in the future.

and steady

succe(-><

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

Thk

sick list who is willing to learn, and one who tal faculty. This well done, the complican learn. The poor writer who pos- cated work will take core of itself, and
while giving such instruction he should
appeared sesses these two elements can take
bear in mind that familiarity with the
By Clark & Johnson, Proprietors. Erie, earlier. He promises to not do so courage.
language of the book does not imply
Pa., and Buffalo. N Y.
again therefore our readers will find
knowledge of its meaning. When comARITHMETfC.
single copies of Tbb
the pai)er out on time herealter.
plicated work becomes a necessity there
mulled to aoy addreBs oi
is
no more use for a teacher If he hae
By J. C. Ryan, Teacher of Accounts In Clark s
pie copies antll rurtber d
DuKiNG the winter months extra College, Buffalo, N. Y.
thus far done his work well.
The
skillful teacher will show the concare
should
be
exeix-ised
to
see
that
The
object
of
all
Business
College
RATES.
students is to prepare themselves for the nection of each new topic with the
the body is sufficiently clothed,
H rear.
ordinary business of life, and such being topic already mastered, and thus make
order that good hep.lth may be
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the case, it should be thfl object of the the pupil realize that he is dealing with
joyed, for there is no greater blessing
teacher to teach only such parts of principles already learned; but varied or
Qnartor Colnnm
:,
lu,
'Im to liny one.
One Inch
arithmetic as are CBsential to such prepa- extended, he will anticipate the difficulfnlll further notice we will given redoctioa of 39 s
ration, and to teach them in such a ties arising in the lessons, and give suoh
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manner that the student may acquire explanations beforehand as will enable
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Teachers too
given on Reading Matter Kalea.
On the other hand it shows bad taste, considered is what parts of arithmetic often expect luore of pupils than is reaAll advenisements of |6 or less must be paid in
and the one who can write plaimst are essential to the business man, and as sonable. They should remember that
the average young man,entering upon a they are dealing with immature minds,
ami fastest is the better penman
business career, is found to be deficient and must not think that pupils will
SPECIAL
Practice upon plain forms, writing at in arithmetic,
I would recouimend that readily grasp ideas that seem plain and
rapidly as possible with the muscular the primary elements be first thoroughly clear to themselves. Patient repetition
mastered. Of course it is not to be sup- of instruction is an excellent virtue
movement.
B from all pans of the country, and e
posed that a student entering upon a teaching; thoroughness will secure moi
persons subscribing before January 1st, 1S87, will r
In a recent issue The Rochester Com- business course knows nothing of this rapid progress than long lessons. If at
When a c;nb
cclve a copy one year for
cents.
cents eacl
s to 10 ta sent.
will be furnished for
memnl Review acknowleges its mis- part of arithmetic, but practice is re- any time it becomes necessary to intro-^
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takes us shown in the September quired to make him quick and accurate.
Rapidity and accuracy are the two most ted, the teacher can, by exercising
number of The American Penman,
essential things the business man knows. little energy, furnish such as will have
and
claims
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satisfaction because the And aa we are
constantly dealing with the desu-ed efl'eet, and furnish it at a
Penman republished its opinion of parts of things in nearly all that remains time when needed. While if he adopte
remitting One Dollar we wll
unlU further notice, mall a copy of Volume First o
the use of the text-book he will engage
life scholarships. Well, we are satisfied of commercial arithmetic, fractions deClark's Progressive Book-keeping and the Aubrioai
serve a more careful study than any in complicated work too soon, and thoftj
Pbmuan tor one year, or we will present a copy o too, and are heartily glad that the

The ArneriGan

Penrnafl*

Published Bi-Monthly at 30c Per Year,

editor has been

on

for u few days, otherwise

CAN

Penman would

thi;

The Ameri

iiave

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....

INDUCEMENT.

2fi

2f)

It

8 of

Sook-keeping
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to

any one sending

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Review can find so much comfort in

such an article. Strange, isn't it

The specimens

sutiscrlptlons

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forwarded to
to give cash

all

premiums

prefer

to those securing clubs,

and

this rule will be Invariably followed.

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and practice.
to

subscriptions.

the subscription price

KvicHY young
in life
titm.

is

only thirty

Subscribe now.

))er year.

man

seeking a start

ought to have a business eduIt is the best capital with which

to begin.

Considerable interest is being

manifested in commercial education

Many

just now.

of the Business Col-

leges rejiort the fullest attendance ever

known.
__

Clark's Business Colleges, Erie

and Buffalo, are liberally patronized,

and there seems to be a growing intt-rest in

commercial education every-

wliere.

Teachers of accounts who have

luil

seen a cojjy of Clark's Progressive

There are

any

live teacher.

put forth the

Some

efibrt.

if

yeai-s

common

fractions.

It is true that some of the subjects of

which I have spoken do not properly
belong to commercial arithmetic, but as
I have already stated, a great many of
our students are found to be very deficient in them, and such being the
it becomes a necessity to give some
tain how his daughter was getting
attention to those parts as well as to
along with her studies. The principal
others.
informed the fond parent that his
The question now arises: How can
daughter would do considerable better they be successfully taught? and right
if she had the capacity.
"Well well! here I will venture the assertion that if
never mind that, I will buy her one," the text^books were abolished entirely,
and a part of the time which is geneagerly remarked the flither, and he
ally spent in class by solving compUwas greatly enraged when he found cated problems, which
by such manout that it would take more money agement the student will never unthan he could command to pur- derstand, was spent by the teacher
together
with
his student in discuschase it.
ing thoroughly the subject of their
It seems strange that in this en- lesson, and the remainder in solving
lightened country there are so many practical examples mentally, together
who cling to the belief that good with as much blackboard work as the
teacher may deem necessary.it would be
writing is either the result of practice
found much uiore advantageous to the
alone, or else of a special gift from
student, and he would thereby become
Either
God.
opinion is too erroneous a mathematician rather than a mathefor consideration, and we only call at- matical machine.
!

tention to

it

to

is

in

show the

folly of peo-

The
it

nearly every instance the jjoor

discourage the student entirely. Its c

will do very well, but th^
teacher who depends upon it for anything else will some day awake from an
ignorant sluiuber only to find that Wb
work, regardless of his many efforts, has

great deal of time is generally spent

committing rules and formulas, and
solving problems by their directions.
This I consider one of the greatest
stumbling blocks that can be placed before the student.
I would not advise
their use under any circumstances.
Time spent in this way, as well as in
teaching a student to solve some complicated problem, is no better than
thrown away.
in

apprentice system in the mechanical

trades is broken down, and the hope of
the country for mechanics and artisans
for the future is in the new system of instruction which is so rapidly becoming
popular. But many who are advocating the new order of things enthusiastically have in the past put themselves
on record as opposed to the commercial
schools of the country. The prejudice
which has existed against business
schools, upon the part of practical business men in the past, has been almost
phenomenal and while it is not at present so apparent as it was a few years
since, it still exists to an extent to warrant mention. The facts of the case are
that the business schools of the country
the pioneers in the direction
of practical education that is, they
among the tirst to institute practical training in the direct lines in which
;

a young man's life is to be spent and by

which his livelihood is to be gained.
The commercial schools have greatly
improved in the last ten or fifteen years,
and to-day there are many of them occupying positions that it seemed impossible for such institutions to attain even

a short time since. The graduates of

the best schools of this class at present,
instead of being the laughing stock of
the business men, as were some of those

who took diplomas in the

mand positions comparable

past,

com-

in responei-

and importance, to those secured

by young engineers and graduates of
:olleges devoted
to (he professione.
This is as it should be and we allude to
these facts only in the sense of showing
bility

who wish to excuse their horthe rapid progress that practical educaby putting foith either
tion is making. r/ie Office.
one of the argument's just cited, and if
A young lady book-keeper, who ha
they were to st<jp and think a little
:st married, says that there ,'ihall be r
while, they would not be quite so unside door to her house. She proposes to
reasonable. The secretof good writing
The instructions of the teacher should keep her husband on the single-entry
rests on two conditions, viz.: a person be such as will tend to develop the tnenstem. Burlinf/fott J'Vee Press.
writers

render.

if

he may engage will require it.

study
Next comes percentage, in which
others everything necessary to complete th
they were course is involved. It is the terminus of
all that comes before it, and should at
all tunes be taught in connection with

Book-keeping ought to send for it, as

writer has generally observed that
the work will certainly meet the ap-

Let every teacher, whether he be

engaged in commercial or public
school work, aim to do his be.it by his
pupils.
Thej' will always remember
him kindly for any (avois he may

dare say

invert the terms of the

divisor when dividing by a fraction ? we
would find that nine-tenthsof our teach-

many

ple in holding to such opinions.

pTOvjil of

go back and ask the ques- as a guide

result of careful

ago a wealthy resident

The itinerant ]icnman is happy of the State of Pennsylvania sent his
daughter
away
to scliool, a commendtht'se days.
able act in itself, but she had been
The American Penman appears in school only a few weeks when the
with this issue as a Bi-Monthly, and father called on tlie principal to ascerfonts

to

Why we

dicate

that could do just as well

Renew your

we were

of improvement
in this ^sue of the Penman iners had never given it n single thought.
what any young person can do Too umch stress cannot possibly be been a complete failure.
if he places himself under proper in- placed upon the subject.
It
The present is the age of practical edstruction.
Neither Mr. Scheithe nor necessary that the student should have ucation. Manual training
schools are In
Mr. Powers possess any ability more a thorough knowledge of denominate some measure superseding those in
numbers, as a great many industries
which theory is taught exclusively. The
than the average, and their improvewhich

shown

given the one sending the club on

other part of the subject.

tion.

rible scribbling

J
'

THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

HOW

HE FOUND THE ERROR.

down and

into a deep sleep, this letter is simply the loop and the terminating in a flattened loop resting
from which I did not awake until 9 last part of the n united.
on the base line.
ou Monday morning. After a
The student should avoid falling into
The
consists of
sixth

lay

fell

o'clock

hearty breakfast I Iiastened to the of- the error of making a curved or shaded
feeling like a new luan.
It seemed line for the downward stroke in forming
if a burden had fallen from me, and
the loop, and in the A he should notice
1 was walking on air.
But when I that the last downward stroke is a
reached the door I drew back
Had I straight line on the main alanf and conbeen dreaming ? No. There was the sequently parallel to the downward
memorandum in my hand. Trem- stroke in the loop.
blingly I opened the book, and. sure
In the / we have the loop, a /eft curve
error of $5, insiguitlcant enough in it- enough, there was the error. I never upward one and one-fourth spaces, an
I did not want to
oval turn and right curve downward
self, but to a book-keeper, as big as told how I found it.
*500or 15,000. Having five assistants, be laughed at, and then I was certain and to the left onp-half space, and a
that I was not dreaming on that Sun- straight line downward to the base,
I set one of them at work to find the
" jVew Vurk Tribune.
terminating in an oval turn and right
mistake. He failed to discover it, and day morning
curve. The last downward line should
after three days I put another man on
LESSON IN PENMANSHIP.
be straight and but one-half space from
its track, then a third, a fourth, and at
the loop.
They were
last, after a week, a fifth.
S. A. DRAKE.
BY
All of these letters should be thorall capable men, and searched diligentoughly studied and practiced alone,
ly for the missing $5. but were unable
No. :i.
after which they may be employed in
to find it. They worked together all
Most students of penmanship, at the short words. It is not well to practice
the next week, but accomplished nothThe figures stood as before. $5 beginning, find themselves handicapped upon a great variety of forms at one
ing.
out of balance, and then I set to work by an awkward position and an un- time- A single short word is sufficient
myself. Night and day we pored over eteady, spasmodic movement, which must to occupy the student's attention for
the big books, but still discovered no
before they can achieve half an hour at a time.
change.
The matter began to annoy
learning real pen?nan8hip,
The h inverted presents the form of
me exceedingly, for never before had I and in consequence of this fact it will be the letter i/. The first part consists of
known such an experience.
found necessary to give much attention, the left curve upward, an oval turn, a
" For a whole week the sis of us at the outset, to establishing a suitable straight line downward to the base,
toiled in vain, I could not sleep for position and movement. For this pur- another oval turn and right curve ap-

The

book-keeper of one of the

larf^est sewing-machine maniifHcturin^
coiiipanieg in this city refuses to beHeve
in occult philosophy, and is unable to
account for an experience that he had
some time ago.
"In balancing luy
books," he said, "there appeared an
Ilea*!

fice,

as

the
principle
curve drawn from the top
to base, terminating in an
oval turn
The last downward stroke is
but slightly curved.

and a

left

downward

While we have endeavored, by a minute description of each letter, to impress upon the learner's mind the forms
he should imitate.he will discover that he
must depend chiefly upon a close ami
critical study of the letters as presented
in the copies, in order to fix firndy in his

mind the

he hopes to gain suffimake. One must have n

lorni

cient skill to

clear comprehension of what constitutes

a correct letter beforu he can execute

such

letter.

He

can never learn to make

making something

beautiful letters by

very different.
The general style of
letters that is accepted as the standard
by masters of the art of writing, is that
best adapted to the purpose for which it
is intended.
Into these forms there
enter all the elements of desirable penmanship as far as mere form is concerned. They possess beauty, legibility
and simplicity, and admit of easy ancl
rapid execution, and these forms every
student of writing should thoroughly
master.

TTff
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/^^

thinking of the error, which now

seemed as big as a mountain on m;
shoulders. I did not enjoy my meals,

and when Saturday night came I was

miserable and utterly broken down in
body and mind. My employers insisted
upon my dropping the matter. It was
too small, they

said,

to

worry over.

thought differently. My reputawas at stake.

"On the third Sunday after the search
was begun I got up late, after a sleepless night, and started out walking for
My mind was on my books,
exercise.
and I paid no attention to the direction
My surprise, therefore, was
1 took.
genuine when I found myself at the
door of the company's office in Union
Square, for I certainly had not intended to go there. Mechanically I put my
hand in my pocket, drew out the key,
opened the door and went in.
As if
in a dream, I walked directly to the
office, where I turned the combination
and unlocked the safe. There were the

But

tion

ward one

pose, chiefly, the preceding lessons pre-

sented

space, to which
inverted loop.

many movement exercises, though

is

and two spaces in the copies all involve the use of the
sixth principle. From the middle point
formed by adding a right of the downward stroke in this principle
curve to the lower extremity of the a right curve is carried upward one
space, where an oval turn is made, from
straight line in the loop.
The b is like the /, except that the which a straight line is drawn to base,
added right curve, one space in length, another left curve upward two spaces,
an oval turn, a, straight line to base teris carried upward one-half space from
minating in an oval turn and right
the straight line and completed by a
curve completes the letter M.
horizontal right curve carried well downIn the /iTwe have the sixth principle,
ward. The last two curves should not
a compound curve carried downward
be so joined as to form a loop.
In forming the h we have a loop to from the top to the middle of the first
which is added a left curve carried up- part, a small loop and compound curve
ward one space, and uniting, in an aval to base terminating in an oval turn.
turn, with a utraight line carried down
The Q consists of the sixth principle
to b.ise. terminating in an oval turn and with the lower extremity of the last
one-half space in width
in length.

The

is

books, a dozen of them in a row. I did

not consider for one moment which to
pick up. It was no act of volition on
my part that my hand moved toward a
certain one and drew it from the safe.
Placing it on the desk, I opened it, my
eye ran along the column of figures,
and there before lue, plain as day, was
the missing $5. I made a note of the
page, put back the book into the safe,
and went home. It was then noon. I right curve.

It

will

be observed that

downward

TO THE BOYS.

added on

they involve the use of the simpler eleThe inverted loop added to the first
mentary principles of small letters and part of the a constitutes the letter
g.
capitals, thereby serving two ends.
The y consists of a right curve upward
Having studied the simpler forms of joined to the inverted loop and having a
letters presented in the preceding les- dot one
space above the angle.
sons, the student is prepared to enter
In the f the straight line of the direct
upon the study of the extended letters,
loop is carried below the base two spaces,
those involving the use of the fourth
where, in an oval turn, a right curve is
principle, or extended looj}. This prinadded on the right side and carried upciple consists of a right curve carried
ward one-half space above the base
upward three spaces, an oval tarn at the
line, at which point it touches the detop, a straiffht line downward crossing
scending line and is finished by a horithe ascending stroke one space from the
zontal right curve. The lower loop is
base line. The straight line is drawn
one-half space in width.
on the main slant, or fifty-two degrees
The capitals M, K, (^ and A' presented
from the base line. The loop should be

stroke carried well to the

left

Boys, are you looking out for your?

Are you saving all the money
you can ? Are you using your spare
time to the best advantage 1 I have no
doubt but you all would like to make
your mark in the world and become influential and respected citizens.
But
whether you obtain the object of your
ambition or not lies within yourselves.
Of course, it costs a great deal of selfdenial and a vast outlay of brains and
muscle, but the reward you will reap in
selves

life will more than compensate for

your work.
you are economical in the use of
your money, the time will come when
you will have an opportunity to strike
out for yourselves. But if you haven't
saved your money and are not ready,
tlie opportunity will pass on to some one
else, never to return again.
So, boys,be
wide awake to your own interests. See
how you stand. See if you are on the

after

all

If

right road to success. If not, get there

as soon as possible. If you have fast
companions, give them up at once.
(iive balls, theatres and the like a wide
berth. Spend your spare time in im-

Take up some useand interesting study, and at the end

how nmoh you have
gained by looking out for yourself. Try
it awhile, boys, and see how it works,
American Grocer.
proving your mind.

ful

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THE AMERICAN PENMAN.

SMILE

WHENEVER YOU

"BUSINESS."

The combined capital of the firm of

the Rothcbild''8 is now placed by persons who pretend to know at the sum of
!(;l,000,OOO.O0O, one-half of it gained withThe definition of business, which is
in the last twenty-five years, and the
the basis of our study here, of all our
business. If not, his more judicious and
whole of it in scarcely more than a centhought, and which will be the inspiraenterprising competitors will secure the
tury. The founder of the famiy and
tion of your activities after you have
very customers who should have been
and fortune was Mayer Ansel, a poor
passed out of this institution, is comprehis.
Putting all else even, the courteous
hensive. It is the soul of all worthy
dealer will catch and hold the most
human efforts. Love of life impels
patrons. There is hardly any one who
The minister's wife sat on the frontevery person born into the world with a
would not prefer to deal with a pleashealthy organization to make some ef- porch mending the clothes of one of her
ant, genial busines.** man in preference
numerous progeny. A neighbor passingfort to sustain himself in such condition
to one who is solemn or sour. People
as will make life worth living. Not con- that way stopped in for a friendly chat.
are fond of being entertained, and if a
tent to live simply, he has a desire to A large work-basket half full of buttons
trifle of that commodity be thrown in
the floor of the porch. After
He therefore lalive better and better.
with the wares the purchaser will be
remarks of a gossipy nature, the
bors to improve his condition, and expepleased and not only return, but bring
rience teaches that the best conditions visitor said
other customers.
We don't mean, of
"You seem to be well supplied with
of life are only to be realized where
course, that they sliould go to an exthere is constant improvement.
Now buttons, Mrs. Goodman."
treme or do aught that would be de"Yes, very well indeed."
the means of improvement are the
grading, but there is a very safe dis"My gracious! if there ain't two of
forces of nature about us, and material
tance between fawning and civilty The
our hands. the same buttons that my husband had
one has no relation whatever to the which nature furnishes to
I'd know 'em
Out of this we are to build our homes, on his last winter suit
other and never can liave.
clothe our bodies, and supply our daily
Every business man, and in fact every wants.
" Indeed 1" said the minister's wife
By the application of these
man, will find it best to be pleasant forces and use of this material, we have calmly, " I'm surprised to hear it, as all

CAN.

BusinesB is a const-ant struggle, an evei

continuing couipetition for the lead
Some men go up, but many go down
It behooves every mi n to take all honor
able means to draw trade to bin place o:

When things don't go io suit you

And the world seems upside down,
Don't waste your lime in fretting.

But drive away that frown;

[ENtracl from an

'

cer, of

aililrcsa delivered by R. C. SpcnMilwaukee. Wis., Defare lua students.]

Since

life is oft

'Tis

much

pciplexing,

the wisest plan

To bear all trials bravely

And smile whene'er you

Why

can.

should you dread the morrow.

And

thus despoil to-day ?

For when you borrow trouble

You always have

It is a

to pay.

good old maxim,

Which should be

often preached

Don't cross the bridge before you

Until the bridge

is

reached.

You might be spared much

If

you would keep

The thought

in

sighing

mind,

good and evil

Are always here combined.
that

There must be something wanting,

And though you roll in wealth

You may

miss from your casket

That precious jewelhealth.

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whom he comes in
Kind words not only turn
in making friends and patrons, (rood will is a
Which I consider worse).
recognized stock in business, and it is
But whether joy or sorrow
Fill up your mortal span,
but the result of fair dealing and kind
i'will make your pathway brighter
treatment. Courtesy and civility, withTo smile whene'er you can,
out any reference to one's goods, draws
people to us in every avenue of life, and
the lack of them as surely drives them
COURTESY AND CIVILITY IN BUSINESS' in the opposite direction, and he who
does not regard the feelings and tastes of
Tliere are many who seem to be the the people may as well shut up his busiembodiment of perversity when the ness doors and seek an employment
And though you're strong and sturdy
You may have ao empty purse
(And earth has many trials

to

those with

is

of the world a comfortable place

which to live, a grand theatre of adThe mental grasp of our activities, industries, commerce, institutions,
relations and affairs tax heavily the
powers of the great men of the world.
Men who have the capacity to organize,
direct and sustain these enterprises.hold

in

tivities.

'

question of courtesy in business

made

contact.

away wrath, but work wonders

men- where association with others

is

proper order these elements, but they

give direction to vast multitudes of
human beings who have not the capacity to direct themselves the workers
of the world who are guided and inspired by the captains and leaders of
in

not business.

They seem to have an idea necessary Qein City Journal.

The little time you will spend in busiwhen they put a price on their
ness preparation here will, I trust, fit
goods and offer them to the public they
you to take a broad view of the world
Henry Ward Beecher once said, "When of activities in which you are to enter,
are proposing to give them full value

tioned.

of these buttons were found in the contribution box,

I thought I might ag
well put thera to some use. so I what,

must you go

?
Well, be sure and call
again soon." Uerchaiit Traveler.

THE CENTRE OF POPULATION.

The centre of population of the United States is steadily moving westward,
at the rate of about Bfty miles every ten
years. The following is the centre point
at each census:
179022 miles east of Bftltimore.
180018 miles west of Baltimore.
181040 miles northwest of Washing-

that

for their money, and that is all the peo- you educate a farmer you educate his
ple have a right to expect. They argue stock, his crops, you increase his prothat they propose simply a fair exchange ducing powers and the value of the
and that is all that is necessary. They property he invested in. When you edclaim that they don't sell their atten- ucate mechanics, you educate better
tions, don't want to sell them, only want products, finer things for the market.
to sell their goods. They imagine that When you educate men, you educate all
they are trenching upon their own dig- the material round about that comes
nity and self-respect, and declare that under their hands." This is being reathey will not fawn upon and toady to lized more and more every year and our
buyers and humiliate their own feelings schools are being filled to overflowing
of pride.
thus showing that education is a necesSuch persons are not very likely to sary and a good thing in all classes of
succeed in business to any great extent. business. School Viaitor.
I

and

will

enable you to occupy positions

of the highest usefulness

bility

in

the

world

of

and responsibusiness, and

182016 mUes north of Woodstock, Va.

183019 miles west by southwest of
Moorefield,

W. Va.

1840 l(i miles west of Clarksburg, W.

Va.

185023 miles southeast of Porkerstuake you ultimately, in the best sense of

burg. W. Va.
the term, business men and women.
180020 miles south of Chillicothe. O.
187048 miles east by north of Cincin"You say not well, my friend, if you
think that a man who is good for any- nati.
1880-8 miles west by south of Cinthing at all, ought to take into account
the chance of living or dying, and not cinnati,
rather, when undertaking anything, to
"Those in best repute seemed to me
consider only whether it be right or
not far from the most deficient; while
wrong."
others held to be inferior, were really suRene* your subscription.
perior, aa faras wisdom wasconcerned.'*

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Scholarships good in either College. Students may enter at anv time with equal advantages.
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The Institutions are in direct communication with the leading business men in all parts of the country, [and students
are helped to the best positions obtainable, as graduates from these Colleges have no difficulty in securing honorable and
lucrative employment.
The Faculty are gentlemen of well-known ability and experience, and the propnetors will be pleased to furnish information to those interested, upon application, either in person or by letter.

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