Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1887 — Handwriting Tells Nothing. [ARTICLE]

Handwriting Tells Nothing.

I showed a letter one day to a lady who was thought to be a great authority on such matters. She loaded the handwriting with every species of abuse. It was the writing of a badtempered man, of a stupid man, of an ignorant man; there could be no relieving feature whatever in such handwriting as that. “And now, madam,” I said,“will you look at the signature?” It was the signature of Macaulay.— Nineteenth Cen'ury.