Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1914 — Knew His Peculiar Method. [ARTICLE]

Knew His Peculiar Method.

Sometimes the worst of handwriting becomes intelligible when one grasps the rules, for a man’s script—partic* uraly an author’s—is frequently mad® difficult, chiefly by his deliberate or unconscious inversion of the accepted* rules of calligraphy. Henry Ward' Beecher had a daughter who acted as copyist, and she read him with ease simply by remembering three princlpies—that in her father's manuscript rip dotted letter was meant for an "1,” no crossed letter stood for “t," and that no capital letter ever began’, a sentence.