Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1883 — American Handwriting. [ARTICLE]

American Handwriting.

Statistics are needed of the American handwriting before any generalization is attempted about it. Thqse who are in the way of seeing specimens of it from all parts of the ' country, from clergymen, clerks, farmers, lawyers, doctors, agents, merchants, etc.—always excepting the people who write like the writing-master—declare that they have no general characteristic, except that the handwriting is sprawling, flourishy, unformed, that it lacks neatness, compactness, solidify. Is this only a fancy, or is the writing’ a sign of superficiality and carelessness and exaggeration ? There is variety enough. We certainly have not the uniformity that in German or Frenoh writing enables us to tell, its nationality at a glace. we mistaken in saying that the English hand, generally speaking, is a hand of more culture, finish, neatness? We signed the Declaration very well on the whole, bat we have hardly as a people lived up to it .—Chflrlet Dudley Warner, in Harper’s Magazine.

Choose always the wary that seems the • best, however rough it may be. Custom will render it easy and agreeable,— Pythagoras.