The Educator (Volume 45) - IAMPETH

Practice on Unruled Paper
Mr. H. F. Reed, head of the De-
Veaux Lower"^chool, Niagara Falls,
New York and Director of Penmanship,
sets aside one period a week
for instruction in writing on unruled
paper. Mr. Reed holds that much
of the writing a boy will do when
he leaves school will be on unruled
paper. Either for business or social
reasons every boy and girl will,
at sometime or other, find it neccessary
to address envelopes. In our
business life one frequently finds it
necessary to write on unlined paper.
Brief and important telephone messages
as well as instructions and
orders are ordinarily written on
small sheets of unruled paper. News
reporters invariably take their notes
on blank paper, and a physician generally
writes his prescription on a
small unruled blank.
Mr. Reed begins his special instructions
in the sixth grade and
carries them through the eighth.
Blank sheets of paper are cut to the
size of envelopes. The sizes are varied
so that the pupils receive exten-
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