Penman's Art Journal (Volume 2) - Iampeth

F. A. Smith, penman, at the BofliDesf
rsity, KocheBt«r, N. Y., incloses in a
ritten letter eome supe •ior Fpecimei
plai and flourished cardu.
T. R. Williams, Penman at the Iowa City
Oommercial College sendfi a letter written in
elegaot stj-le. In grace, symmetry, and the
correctneSB in forms of the letters, it is rarely
exeeUed- He also incloses a very Bkilfiilly
executed piece of flourishing.
F. W.
street. St.
graphic medley of eight specimens of his pen-
'^0S0S^^,
B. E. Kerr is teaching olasqes at Amador
City, Cal.
.r. p. Holcomb. Mallet Creek, O., is one of
our live penmen. Hie letters are models in
easy, graceful, and rapid business writing.
The Daily Reginter, of Rockford, HI., gives
a well-merited and complimentary notice of
penmanship executed by H. C. Clark, who
has recently become a partner in Mrs. Allis
Cook's Commercial College at that pli
R. J. Mrtgee. an accomplished penman and
teacher, and one of the proprietors of the
Toledo (O. ) Business College, hos recently
entered into a life partnership with Miss Maggie
Turner, of Wheeling, W. Va. Long live
the/rm ; may it grow in pronperity.
Horace Russ"U,
THE PENMAN'S AET JOUENAL
Paragraphs.
Perfumed iok is now used for sentimental
notes.
Soulouqne, formerly Emperor of Hayti,
could not write his own name.
The reason why figures can't lie is. that
they are either running and moanfing np,
or are in a standing account.
Cuttle-fish.
A skilful penman of the 16th century
presented to Queen Elizabeth a bit of
paper of the size of a finger nail, on which
be bad written the Ten Commandments,
tlie Creed and the Lord's Prayer, together
with the name and the date of presenta-
The brave Abbe, confined in the Castle
d'lf, an ancient fortress on an island in
the harbor of Marseilles, wrote a book,
with his own blood for ink, a pen made
is reached when at the finale the pen
catches in the paper and spatters the fair
page.
Two young Frenchmen, twin brothers,
iu 1870, made the discovery uf a rich
violet ink, but i^ere prevented bringing it
into market from lack of funds. Many
days they str-iggled with poverty, and
one dark, bleak Saturday night, peuoilesa
and friendless they were compelled to
It is said that just before Alpbouso
divulge the secret of its manufacture, as
drawingn. The scenes represented are 'Trial took to himself a queen, one of his court-
of Queen Catharine ," " Peterthe Great saved
an offer of five francs was made them.
iers wanted to make Alph-a-bet that he
by his mother;" "Cromwell refusing the
This enabled them to start for the goal
Crown of England;" "Cleopatra before Julius waa A-B-Ccher of her heart.
of prosperity,
CtDsar;" "Joan
and in little more
of Arc
than two
in Prison;" "Last Miss Mary Anning discovered, in the
moments of Marj- Queen of Scotg ;" "Plot to
years they retired from business worth
poison Emperor Frederic II. frustrated
lias by limestone of Lyme Regis, a pen and
his
upwards of half a million dollars.
daughter ;" '* Hudson receiving his com- ink which must have been embedded in
mission from the Dutch East India Co," No the solid rock, ages before the advent of The style of invitation cards is one of
one who has not seen Mr. Wiesehahn's pen
drawing can begin to imagine the marvelous man upon the earth, and yet tliey were extreme simplicity. Monograms are dis-
skill br- 1ms displayed in the execution of both in an excellent state of preservation carded ; ouly plain script is fashionable.
thus. vHi;. II,. .i)q>cnr faultless in spirit, and were proven to be the property of And this is true of visitiug cards.
I
. acm I .[i, and dehcacy of exe-
Loligo—a distant relative of the present
attorney, and fm
Attorney for New Yorl
niar)'2(> to MisK Josf|
of Judge Hilton, the I
ministrator cf tb'. -t.
Stewart & Co i,. -
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the splendid ifsi.i
WestThirty-fon.'
deuce opposite tl.. [. i>
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pro Hsmg
sentedto the vonni- cnn
. Mr> - .-. T. Ste
presented a verj' fine set of silverware. Among
the guestj were Samuel J. Tildcn, Gov. Rice,
of Massachusetts, and numerous others. Mr.
Russell is a brother of Prof. Russell, bo well
known to the readers of the Journal.
Prof. H. P. Smith enters the employment of
Messrs. Ivison. Blnkeman, Taylor 4 Co., as
General Agent for White's Art Studies, which
were noticed in our last number. Professor
Smith was formerly connected with the firm
of Potter, Ainsworth & Co., as Agent for
Bartholomew's Drawing and P. D. and S.
Copy-books. More recently he has been employed
in the pubHc schools of this city as
teacher of drawing, and is the President of
the Drawing Teachers' Association. We congratulate
Messrs. Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor A
Co. in seeuring.a gentleman of so much experience
and large acquaintance to represent
their series of Dmwmg Books, and Professor
Smith in connecting himself with so energetic,
liberal, and honorable a firm as that of
IWson, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. is known to
We are rch
we are imable
to answer. He, or any one else who knows
will confer a favor by furnishing the desired
information.
Teachers of Penmanship.
You should learn to teach drawing. Your
chances for obtaining lucrative situations
will be doubled thereby. Teachers of
Penmanship make the best teachers of
iJrawing ; fhey learn to draw rapidly. See
advertisement, Industrial Art Education,
and send for circular.
Every penman and admirer of fine
penmanship wants the Joornal. If you
know of any such who does not take it,
tell them about it or send us their names
and address, that we may mail them speci-
The illustration upon this page was floarished
by Jackson Cagle, penman at Moore's
Business College, Atlanta, Ga.
of a piece of iron hoop, i nd by the light
of a lamp made out of shreds of cloth
soaked iu grease obtained from his food.
In a New Jersey Court, evidence of
inebriety was deduced from the handwriting
of the defendant in tb»» ca..e, on
the ground that all men are eiuier drunk,
or sober, and that tlie said defendant
when sober, could never have written his
name plain enough to be deciphered by
auy chirographical rule whatever.
31,000 reward to the penman who
never beard the remark, 'Your writing
is beautiful, veiy beautiful, btit, the best I
ever saw was a piece done by Zerubbabel
Gumption"—and this to you, who had
his scrawls aud knew him to be a
pretentious idiot
!
The latest French toy is a minature penan
the face of which is of a material
permitting the greatest mobiUty of its
features. The machinery, although quite
-^-uple. produces, when wound up, a
movemeot of the hand ou paper previously
adjusted, like that of a tyro in penman-
ship ; and the face expresses the varied
emotions of agony, of joy and self-adoration,
so appropriate to tho occasion. But
the ohmoi of ludiorousnesa of expression
In Eogland the better the position of the
people the more simple their cards. No
coronet or crest ever appears on the cards
of the nobility, gentlemen or ladies. A
gentleman, entitled to the prefix of Right
Honorable, or Honorable, never has it on
his card. A glazed card is only fit for a
care? without the r.
In this country the population of a town
can be determined by the style of cards
In the large cities the plain-
est kind of plain writing upon a plain
white card is required. In towns of 1,000
or 2,000 inhabitants cards faintly tinted,
and ornamental capitals, or flourished
desigus, written or printed in black ink ;
and 1" townships where there are from
three downward to (he sqnare mile, pro-
fuse ornamentation in fancy colors with
gold and silver, written or printed upon
strongly tinted cards.
Business Writing.
Our frieud Hinmau inquires in th*. last
issue of the Jouhnal, " Who will study
the wants of the community, and supply a
style that, when formed iu school, will not
break up and desert one when rapid business
writing is required ? "
I believe that some few of our teachers
are doiug this very thing, and doing it
well. I also think that with many of us
our '
' exact " writing as shown iu our copy-
lines, &c., interferes greatly witlj the stu-
dent's progress, so far at least as rapidity
goes. When we become "independent"
enough, as he expresses it, to give our pupils
for copies such writing as has been
done easily and rapidly, even if the work
be faulty in form, it will not be long be-
fore the pupil will acquire the ueces^a.y
to produce writiag of that
Let it be understood that what the
j
—
business man requires is legibility anrf rapiditt/,
and to these it is not undesirable
to add bea'ily when it detracts nothmg
from the other two.
The simplest forms, too,—tbosti that are
made most easily, — are the best and
the handsomest. The tendency among
the beet writers now-a-days is to make all
the forms as simple as possible.aud waste
no time on flourishes, or graceliues , in a
busiuess hand writing.
I am glad to see in the copy books evidence
of a decided change in that respect,
the letters being much more simple than
formerly, and there is more system in their
arrangement. The next few years will
probably work still gieater changes iu the
style of to-day. a. a. g.
Practical Lessons in Writing.
In the present lesson we complete the
analysis of all the letters in the alphabet.
In lesson No. 6 we shall consider some of
the otiifr essentials to good writing, such
as spacing, slope, bight, connections,
movements, positions, &c., &c. In subsequent
lessons we shall present some
practical bints, with examples for practice
in flourishing and ornamental and artistic
writing.
Fifth Principle, or Capital 0.
Hight, 3 spaces. 'Width, 2
Distance between two
eiuiitiating point,
J space above base. Ciirvfs upon the right
and left equal. Count 1. 2, 1.
1 »/0
VK)
^ combines Prins. 3, 2, 3, S.
^"" hight, 3 spaces. Hight of
u-^- base, 2space8 ; width of same, \\
spaces. Length and width of top, J the
length and width of base. Between left
curves in base oval ^ space. Small loop at
right angles to main slant. Count 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 1.
[ ^-^^
I /[
B combines Prins. 3, 2, 3, 2,
J
3. 2, 3. Full bight, 3 spaces.
''^l y Full width, 2 spaces. Point of
beginumg, 1\ spaces, and of termina-
tion, \ space above base. Between left
curves at half-higbt, J space. Hight of
small loop, ) space. Count 1, 2, 3, \.
/Ot' C combines Prins. 3, 2, 3, 2.
I
'
jC^ Pull hight, 3 spaces. Hight
'^— of beginning point, 2J spaces.
Width of large loop and Bpaces to its
right aud left, each ) space. Lower end
of loop, \ space above base. Count 1, 2
3,1.