Penman's Art Journal . right from the shoulder. (The two forearms formnearly a right angle.) The cut here given shows therelative position of arms, paper, and desk. Resting theleft forearm on the desk, turns the left side slightly tothe desk, though the position is essentially a front posi-tion. If the edge of the paper be kept parallel to the frontedge of the desk the slant will be medium. Penmen donot quarrel about slant. The chief thing about it is tohave it uniform. Morement Exercises, Prom the first, pupils should be drilled in simple armmovements, and the foundations laid for a style tha
Penman's Art Journal . right from the shoulder. (The two forearms formnearly a right angle.) The cut here given shows therelative position of arms, paper, and desk. Resting theleft forearm on the desk, turns the left side slightly tothe desk, though the position is essentially a front posi-tion. If the edge of the paper be kept parallel to the frontedge of the desk the slant will be medium. Penmen donot quarrel about slant. The chief thing about it is tohave it uniform. Morement Exercises, Prom the first, pupils should be drilled in simple armmovements, and the foundations laid for a style thatlooks beyond the school-room standard that is easy toread. Here are Do you recall seeing such arm-freeingvertical systems ? I do not. Only single lines of lettersare given for movement practice; no continuous, flow-ing movement from left to right and return that bringsthe arm into full play. A fair hand-writing with com-mand of the arm when a boy quits school is much morevaluable than the plainest, half-written, half-printedhand, without command of the arm. Vertical writing sets the little ones to work with theirfingers and keeps them there all through. It is wrongand denies them what is due to them. Dont teach intoor toward finger movements, but teach away from andout of it from the beginning. There will be enough ofit in the best method of teaching without courting itand catering to it by writing the vertical style. Kx-perimenting with young children in vertical writingis bad business for the children, however much it mayplease school oflBcials. Father Spencer. With the next issue we shall begin to print in theNews Edition of Tub Journal a sketch of
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