. Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette . nd capital, showing them sothat one may see at a glauce the propor-tions of the letters as shown upon this dia-gram. You can thus see proportions at aglance. Forms must be memorized. Oneshould be abl» to reproduce the alphabetfrom the mind at will. Learners shouldbe specially exercised in thinking the al-phabet. Old Senator Wadeof Ohio, thenJudge Wade, came to my fathers office atone time, and said, Mr. Spencer, I wishyou would make me a capital Z, I nevercan think how to make that letter. Myfather gave him the Z, and he carried it inhis vest pocke

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. Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette . nd capital, showing them sothat one may see at a glauce the propor-tions of the letters as shown upon this dia-gram. You can thus see proportions at aglance. Forms must be memorized. Oneshould be abl» to reproduce the alphabetfrom the mind at will. Learners shouldbe specially exercised in thinking the al-phabet. Old Senator Wadeof Ohio, thenJudge Wade, came to my fathers office atone time, and said, Mr. Spencer, I wishyou would make me a capital Z, I nevercan think how to make that letter. Myfather gave him the Z, and he carried it inhis vest pocket, and whenever he wantedto make a Z he would take that modtl outand look at it. But there were other de-fects in the Senators education. Hedidnt know how to spell. When hispartner wanted him to write carefully sothat it could be read, it was found thatWades spelling was not according tostandard authorities. He made this ex-pression in regard to spelling. I dontsuppose any of you will adopt the form ofexpression, or the sentiment expressed:. Pn, f. H.;xni C. Spenr, first, but soon become relaxed and pliant.Now, turn your hands over, palms up, fingers together. ? We wish to get controlof the hand; begin at the end joints ofthe fingers and gently close the hands.Then open again. Make easy work of it.We have not time to go through more.Now, imagine you have paper in front ofyou on your imaginary desks, and bringthe left hand down on the corner of it andslightly stitTen the elbow to maintain thebody in position. That is a convenient, natural brace. Close your right handagain. We wish to bring the fingers inposition for writing. Open the firstfinger, let end of the thumb cross it be-tween the middle joints; open the secondfinger, not quite as far as the first; openthe third aod fourth fingers just a little.Now, usina the pronator muscle, let usturn the arm and hand slowly until theback of the hand mces the ceiling above.Now, let your hand come down upon thenails of the third and fourt