The Educator (Volume 45) - IAMPETH

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BROOKMIRE
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Descriptive, booklet
of Brookmire Services and
sample Bulletins on invest-
ment, business and economic
subjects mailed upon request.
Kindly adtlress Depl. 37
BROOKMIRE
Corporation -Jnvfjimfnl Counsilon and
AdmiTtistrattvt EconoTnisti-Founded 1904
551 Fifth Avenue. New York
SPELLING EXPERIMENT
Given by V. DeDan,
Atlantic City, N. J.
The following words were given to
30 First Grade children. Spelling
had never been taught. Any possibility
of copying was eliminated. I
feel these words were learned entirely
through contact with reading and
writing.
The number indicates how many
children wrote the word correctly.
a 30 the 15
I 29 ball 14
see 27 baby 13
to 25 am 13
it 25 run 13
no 25 big 13
is 23 dog 13
we 21 ran 12
he 21 on 12
my 21 doll 12
in 20 at 11
me 19 toy li
cat 19 saw 9
red 18 girl 9
boy 16 hen 9
vT^jPf Some of the best pen-
^^ ' * manship teachers in the
U. S. and Canada now agree that your
writing reveals your personality. Our
courses are approved by some of the best
business educators who test their training
every day. We will make you a $3.00
analysis of your ovin writing for only
$1.00, or send you an g-page lesson and
other literature free. Address, American
Institute of Grapho-Analysis, Inc., Linn
Creek, Mo. (If'e came to this beauty
spot by the Lake so you could come and
visit us.)
GASKELL'S COMPENDIUM
We still have a few copies of Gaskell's
Compendium left. Send your
order now before it is too late.
Price 50c
THE ZANER-BLOSER CO.
612 N. Park St. Columbus, Ohio
CLASS IN QUESTIONABLE
DOCUMENTS
Officials concerned in the detection
of those clever but somewhat crooked
lads, who think that the right document
can be signed by the wrong
person, without anyone being the
wiser; in other words, indulge in a
bit of forgery, will be aided in the
future by members of a club which
has just been organized at Peirce
School, Philadelphia, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Henry G. Burtner. Mr.
Burtner is the teacher of penmanship
at the school, but he has now ampli-
fied that subject by the inclusion of
scientific methods of determining the
authenticity of signatures which appear
on documents under dispute
wills, for instance. This teacher has
himself solved many such problems
and has seen justice done to malefactors.
The founder of the school,
Dr. Thomas May Peirce, was also a
handwriting specialist and gave evidence
at many trials in his day.
Members of Mr. Burtner's new club,
which meets weekly on Friday afternoons,
after the regular school sessions,
not only analyze dubious signatures
but submit the lettering of
typewriters to certain tests to determine
authenticity. The latest means
of such detection are discussed and
employed in practical demonstrations.
The whole subject of writing
throughout the ages will be studied
during the rest of this term. The
University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia,
will reveal the marvels of its
cuneiform tablets, writing on clay of
over 2,000 years ago, to this club's
members who will also be addressed
from time to time on the history of
papyrus ; cursive writing, that in
which the letters are joined instead
of being written separately; the invention
of movable type printing 500
years ago this year; the significance
of the British Museum's famous
Rosetta Stone, by which modern man
learned to read Egyptian hieroglyphics;
the ideograph writing of the
Chinese and Japanese and many other
subjects dealing with all phases of
chirography. It's a new idea for a
busine.ss school and has been very
cordially received by students, young
men and young women alike.
C. H. BONTE.
GOING LIKE WILD FIRE
In February we advertised some parts of the Spencerian Compendium. Orders flocked in by air and regular
mail and telephone. As a result we did not have enou£;h copies to fill orders and many were disappointed.
We still have a few copies of Part 8. If you will send 50c immediately, you may be lucky enough to get
a copy. This particular part contains some magnificent work. Two flourishes alone are worth the price and
are worthy of being framed. Another page contains fifteen signatures as skillful as any signatures ever
written. There is a page containing two sets of capitals and charming running, angular writing. One page
of roundhand is worth a place in your scrapbook. There is a beautiful page of initial letters and a large
double page lettering scale, showing the proper proportion, etc., of the Roman Alphabet.
The copies were engraved by hand and every page is a masterpiece. Don't miss it! Send 50c now to THE
ZANER-BLOSER COMPANY, 612 North Park Street, Columbus, Ohio.
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