. Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide . re is no choice, nn. we are expected to what everyone else las condemned, it ia n that our tff trts a d the least, and our result* the poorest, bee luse we are consciousthat the very worst mlst follow, and so donot try. Skilled workmen invariably usethe best tools. Let thoe who expect excellent or supe-rior results conclude that the diagonal hi Id-er properly usoil will serve a purpose thatthe straight never has or cin. I d) not as-sert that the straight holder in the hands ofthe skillful penmau cannot bo u*ed to a de-cided advantage. I do not conte
. Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide . re is no choice, nn. we are expected to what everyone else las condemned, it ia n that our tff trts a d the least, and our result* the poorest, bee luse we are consciousthat the very worst mlst follow, and so donot try. Skilled workmen invariably usethe best tools. Let thoe who expect excellent or supe-rior results conclude that the diagonal hi Id-er properly usoil will serve a purpose thatthe straight never has or cin. I d) not as-sert that the straight holder in the hands ofthe skillful penmau cannot bo u*ed to a de-cided advantage. I do not contend that astrai^ht scythe-handle cannot be used ad-vantageously. I simply assert that the di-agonal bolder, like the crooltfd scythe-han-dle, ia a very valuable improvement, andboth are to be appreciated alike fur the su-perior qualities they possess. The adoption of the oblique holder by thefraterbiiy prerludes the possibility of a sup-position that the 0[igiual verbiiim directionsfor holding the straight holder are the samestraight holder. rity tion of tl e pen is about the same as that give a by the oblique. • 1 he ad- vantages claimed for the ob ;que hol- der are, that the pen IS ma letoslact in the fai le degree ^r linh the _htholder, and the penbeing made to standequarely on thepoint all the time,the durability of thep-^n is greatly in-cFfased. Just Eo;but while this is anaccepted facta upport of The .iblique pen-holder is a produc-tion of iliis Nine-teenth Century, and is as much a pieceof mechanism to be proud of, because ofits utility, as anything else. Because itsuse is not universal is no argument againstI the purpose of everyone is no cause of the representative bu:our country do not use it, doein the least its merit or domepoor writers generally discou:will not lessen its usefulness,not U3»d iu all the bu npla^ Ueges in Illi-At first, theI be used only oblique holder was desliby the fe professional pibut, like all other predictions of an ignorantand un
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