Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1890 — Writing with Both Hands. [ARTICLE]

Writing with Both Hands.

Owing to the popularity of typewriters, penmanship is becoming a lost accomplishment among business men; but one gentleman of this city writes letters with both hands at once. He is E. C. Cockey, of the Western Union building, and he consented .to show a reporter how, to make a manifold machine of himself. “After endless practice,” he said, “*I at last found that I was capable of writing with both hands at once, and in this way I have done considerable writing of a business nature. Of late years, however, all my writing has been done by dictation to a stenographer.” Mr. Cockey drew a pad from a drawer in his desk and taking a lead pencil in each hand he wrote the reporter’s name toward the left with, the left hand, and toward the right with the right hand. "This is one way of writing it,” said Mr. Cockey, “but perhaps you would like to see it written this way,” and he ■ wrote the name upstjde down with both hands. Finally he wrote a long sentence simultaneously,with both hands. —New York World. • - v ' n . f The greatest evidence of demoralization is the respect naiu to stealth. *