Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette . re of busi-ness exacts even more than its possessionin a positive degree; it demands a living,speaking style, one that is intelligible atsight without exception. Americas im-petuosity will suffer no needless expendi-ture of time. Legible writing serves alsoanother important purpose in preventingerrors. Some of the most vital mistakesmay be made through the careless build-ing of a single word. To possess this iiioslessential quality in the fullest degreewriting must be proportionately large,round, well shaded, have very little if anyslant, and be clot
Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette . re of busi-ness exacts even more than its possessionin a positive degree; it demands a living,speaking style, one that is intelligible atsight without exception. Americas im-petuosity will suffer no needless expendi-ture of time. Legible writing serves alsoanother important purpose in preventingerrors. Some of the most vital mistakesmay be made through the careless build-ing of a single word. To possess this iiioslessential quality in the fullest degreewriting must be proportionately large,round, well shaded, have very little if anyslant, and be clothed with the relativesimplicity and neatness of print. Writing must be easily executed to pre-vent undue and needless fatigue. It mustalso be rapidly executed to economizetime and to correspond with dispatch inbusiness. But all speed should be givenan intelligent limit; it ought never bo becultivated to the destruction of form or afair degree of accuracy. To produce greatest facility and rapidity•jf execution requires simple forms, join-. The methods in vogue for acquiring sbusiness hand differ but slightly, if at all,ELS to essentials, and as a rule only in pointof application or according to the degreeof individuality possewd b\ the , other things being equal, themore one stamps his method with himselfthe better. The great original forcewhich such teachers as Plato and Aristotlethrew out upon the world of thought issaid to have come from their having tomake and test their methods as they wentalong. And it may be so with us, though modest degree, if lake Photo-Engraved from Flourish by A. W. Dahin, Syracuse, N. V. the air to one on paper. In either case-speed is retarded, and. the very objectworked for defeated. Indeed, this Saint-Vitus-like affection seems to be a morecommon ailment than what is usually* writers cramp- or pen-. It is not motion but itsquality that determines the real degree ofspeed, or that truly facilitates in work. It ness, any more than
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