This paper is the official organ of the Western Penmen's Association.
Tenth Year. CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, APRIL, 1893. ).i
FOR COMMERCIAL SCHOOLS, NORMAL SCHOOLS, ACADEMIES AND HIGH SCHOOLS. "THE AUTOMATIC MAN,' Sells AUTOMATIC SHADING PENS AND INK Spelling and Letter-Writing.—Cloth, 204 pages. Twenty-fourth thousand. cheaper than any other dealer in the United States. Price $1.00. A handsome and popular book. Typewriting Instructor and Sten= You can get the best and save money by buying ographer's Hand=Book.—Cloth, 96 pages, two colors, $1.00. Used in the largest jof him. C. P. ZANER SAYS: and best schools. Plain English, a practical work on language, discarding most of • •* .* Your book of alphabets and designs is the uninteresting subject matter in the average grammar. Handsomely bound in cloth, the finest I know of'and actually worth $10. All go cents. IN PREPARATION:—Shorthand, a model phonographic text-book, aspiring artists should have a copy. * * " containing many pages of finely engraved notes. Commercial Law, a complete Descriptive circular and sheet of 18 different shades of shading ink sent free. treatise on business law and legal forms. Bookkeeping, a book giving modern C. A. FAUST, Galesburg, 111. forms and methods, illustrated with elegant script. A copy of either book sent post paid at price given above. Specimen pages free. For rates to schools, address the publishers, THE PRACTICAL TEXT-BOOK FOR SALE. CO., CLEVELAND, OHIO. A well-established business college, in a growing Western city. Well equipped; good attendance; healthy climate. For further information, ad dress, "BUSINESS CHANCE," DEMENTS P1TMANIC SHORTHAND! Care Western Penman. Are You Fully Informed in Regard to the World's Congress of The flodern Text=book on Shorthand. Graham Stenographers ?
Elucidated. Pitman Elaborated. If not. you should read THE NATIONAL STEN= OGRAPHER, which contains a department de voted to that subject. A report of the Congress A second edition was necessary before it had been on the market four months,. vill be given in full in a special issue, which alone Send for free descriptive circular, Price $2.00. Special discounts to schools. Send well be worth the price of a year's subscription. for teachers' examination price. Address, $1 per year, 10 cents per copy. One sample copy 5 cents. ISAAC S. DEMENT, Address, THE NATIONAL STENOGRAPHER CO., 116 Dearborn St. Chicago, 111. 505 Royal Insurance Building. CHICAGO, ILL.
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C. A. Faust, the automatic pen worker, has resigned his po- THE WESTERN PENMAN continues to please all lovers of sition in Brown's Business College, Galesburg, 111., to locate in penmanship. We pity the man who is content to practice Chicago during the World's Fair. writing or to teach writing without it. — The Accountant.
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LESSONS IN BUSINESS WRITING. BY G. E. NETTLETON. LESSON 7. PLACE before you for practice this month some samples of the copies I use in my advanced work for lines and page writing. Combining as they do, capital and small letters, they form excellent material for the work of advanced pupils. Of the forty-five minutes devoted daily to penmanship class work, I consume about twenty or twenty-five minutes in movement exercises such as have appeared in this course of lessons, principally those in lessons one, three and four, and the remainder of the period is given to page work, and letter writing, bill making, etc., from dictation. No one is so far advanced that he will not be benefitted by a few minutes vigorous practice on any of the exercises of lesson one. They all require, and the practice of them will help to develop, that strong, easy movement which shows so plainly in all good writing. If you aspire to become a good business writer remember that you must first learn to make perfectly and easily the simple foundation movement exercises by practice, practice, PRACTICE, not because it is fun, but because you are possessed of that bull dog sticktoitive- uess, that will prompt you to practice to succeed, but without which you will fail, surely fail.
In all movement exercises, combinations of capitals, and word and line writing see to it that the arm moves to the elbow. Make that the hinge; don't turn and twist the wrist; try to keep it straight.
IT; When you begin to practice on this lesson don't attempt to get the whole business in one day. Practice fifteen or twenty minutes on some of the movement exercises in lesson one, three or four, then take the first line of copy in this lesson, study it carefully a few minutes before you begin to write it at all. When you do begin, put in about one solid hour writing pages of it, occasionally stopping to compare work and copy. This will soon stamp upon your mind a perfect photograph of the form of the line throughout, and what is more, you can make it.
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In the same manner take each succeeding line, giving a whole day, or such tims as you have to practice each day, to one line. • After you have completed the last one, begin at the top and go through again, in the sams manner, and yet again. By that time I will have another and more difficult lesson for you. ^£&6^i^^As,
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PEN TEXTING. of triangles having angles of about 45 ° and 60 ° , Soennecken's round writing pens No. 1, a straight penholder, some Gillott's BY W. T. PARKS. 303 pens and some coarser ones, good unruled papeF, India ink, LESSON 8. a very pale blue writing ink, a little of pale blue shading ink, a READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE BEGINNING. T square, and a blue pencil. If you have no triangles and don't care to buy any you can make some from heavy paste board. No. 1.—Write the word "Boarding" with a No. 5 shading '^M&&? pen, using the light blue shading ink. After it dries take a common pen and fill in the left edges, darker part of elements or sections of the letter, with black ink. Take a 303 Gillott is lesson we give you a few and finish as in copy, beginning at top of letters. The lines ications of rapid lettering to should be made free hand and be parallel. Don't try to make headings and display lines. them straight as they look better when slightly waved. To If one expects to do all make the background, use a ruling pen and a T square. Wave kinds of pen work for the lines should be substituted for the straight lines in the back trade and receive a fair ground but should be further apart. compensation for his serv- _ ices, he must learn to do No. 2.—The body of the letters in the heading, "Rates of nice looking work and do Tuition" should be made with No. 1 Soennecken; the shadow it very rapidly. The slower was made with same pen using a very light blue ink; the short styles muslg ve place to that lines representing it, were drawn with a 303 pen and black ink. more rapid in the bulk of In engraving, the blue disappears, hence you see only the short our work, as the majority lines that were drawn across it. This was explained in a pre of our people are not willing vious lesson. If the work is not to be engraved you should use to pay for it; moreover, the black ink verv great y diluted. This produces a beautiful effect. more rapid styles may be In the latter case the parallel hair lines used in the copy to made equally or even more represent the shadow should be omitted. The background, shadow of paper, etc., needs no explanation further than that a attractive, at least we have found it so. coarse pen should be used in making them. For this lesson you will need a straight edge or rule, a couple No. 3.—The three steps are illustrated in 1, 2 and 3. First THE WESTERN F=>E:i>I]VIAI»4.
make the letters simple with broad pointed pen as shown on also received the degree of M. C. from the National Normal of the left—No. i: then place a straight edge or rule about two Lebanon, Ohio. inches below the bottom of the letters and parallel with the Following this course he kept books for one of the largest lightly ruled blue line upon which they rest; fasten there with wholesale firms in Columbus, Ohio, and later, added additional thumb tacks or hold firmly. Now, take a triangle of 60 degrees artistic touches to his already superb writing. and place above rule; slip to right slowly drawing a line down It was at this period of his life that we learned to know Mr. and to right from all of the main points in the letters, as in Fahnestock well, favorably and intimately. We learned also dicated in illustration No. 1; which are indicated by the dotted that in 1881 he won the love of Amanda, daughter of Rev. J. lines so drawn. Use a blue pencil well sharpened. Next de N. Kauffman, who proves a loving, accomplished, christian cide how thick you wish the letters and mark on the straight edge wife. It has never been my good fortune to see a happier, of a piece of paper. The white to the right and below in illustra more devoted, companionable couple than they; each sharing tions 1 and 2 and the finished heading below (Penmanship De the other's thoughts, feelings and aspirations. They find life partment) show this. Such is indicated in illustration 1, by I'S. worth living. Next decide how wide you wish the shadow and make its width' on the edge of the little slip just to the right of the indicated thickness. No. 4, to the left represents the slip we used in making our measurements, 5 represents the thickness of the letter—the white, and 6 the width of the shadow. It is shown in the proper position, that is with its edge parallel to the slanting oblique lines already described. After taking all the measurements necessary take your blue pencil and draw lightly the lines indicated by having two short lines drawn across them 7, 8 and 9. Now, you are ready to put in the shadow as shown in illustration No. 2. After shadow is made, complete as in No. 3. You must look sharply or you will run the shadow or tint into the white—No. 10. When you are sure you understand all the details, try the heading "Penmanship Department." Now, let all try your hands on this lesson and send us some of your best work. If you will prepare a heading similar to any of the above only different wording we will have it en graved, provided it is worthy. Don't rush, but take time and do your best; you should spend at least a day on a heading; you should make each several times. PROFESSOR S. B. FAHNESTOCK. The well balanced gentleman of McPherson, Kansas, physic ally, mentally, and morally, was born April first, eighteen hun dred fifty-four, at Covington, Ohio. Being less acquainted with the boy than with the man we will pass on to the years of his maturity. One thing which impresses itself upon the student of his career and character is the fact that he must have borne PROF. S. B. FAHNESTOCK. upon the shoulders of the boy, the head of the man, for Mr. Fahnestock is a trifle over the average size, of splendid at the tender age of seventeen we find him teaching common physique, the possessor of a well balanced temperament, (the schools successfully. While the learning required may not moral and religious elements predominating), the owner of a have been so far above the average boy's ability, yet in connec cheerful, hopeful disposition, and in all the kind of a man well tion with the sturdier qualities of control and responsibility, he suited for teaching; carrying wherever he may go, an influence surely possessed enough of both to reveal the future of the man. for good; disseminating, at all times, encouragement and en After five years work as a teacher in ungraded schools we thusiasm among his pupils; and, by his straight-forward, simple, find him the following four years as principal of the W. Balti unostentatious life he awakes such 'sentiments in those about more, Ohio, Schools. From this position we find him on the him, which ever bears testimony to his excellent character. up grade to Superintendent of the Ansonia, Ohio schools, which Since 1889 Professor and Mrs. Fahnestock have been located position he resigned (after having been offered an increase in in McPherson, Kans., where the former is Superintendent of salary) in order to enter the mercantile business. In this ca Bookkeeping, Commercial Law, Commercial Arithmetic, pacity he did not find the work as congenial as that of teaching Drawing and Penmanship, and the latter, Superintendent of for we again find him at his books, but they were books of Shorthand. science, philosophy and literature, instead of mere accounts. Mr. F. is unusually proficient in Penmanship and Pen Art, One year in the Kansas State University, one in the Ohio and with his large supply of knowledge, gleaned from many State University, and still another in a leading Business Col sources and years, he makes the model teacher of Business, for lege as student and teacher, reveals to us the fact that ere he teaching Business requires methods the same as any other began teaching he had determined to still broaden his mental branch, when properly taught. horizon and further develop his executive ability along the line Realizing the difficulty of properly portraying a personage, of skillful management of the pen, for at this time he met the whose modesty does not crave applause, and knowing that i writer and received what he termed his "first instruction in cannot well overestimate his many excellent qualities of heart muscular movement," it being the best the writer had in stock and mind, I will close Test I underestimate, instead. by way of information at that time. Some time after thjs he Columbus, Ohio, Mch. 29, 1893. C. P. ZANER, THE V\rESTEF*N PENMAN.
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Saco's first special penman; this fascinating art seemed to open up to him new and greater possibilities. In the year of '86 he pursued his lessons under the guidance of Mr. J. E. Ricketts (brother of Prof. Ricketts of Chicago) who had now succeeded Mr. Pease. In the year following, Mr. Merrill became more thoroughly interested in penmanship, having first discovered that which has been the inspiration of so many of our leading penmen, viz:—the advantages of a free and easy move ment. This change was due to the efforts of Mr. C. E. Simp son, a muscular movement enthusiast, and a penman of excel lent parts, who had been elected to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr. Ricketts. From now on his improve ment was marked. In the fall of '88, being desirous of ob taining a commercial education and also a higher degree of efficiency in the art of penmanship, Mr. Merrill entered Gray's Business College, one of the most practical institutions of learning in the East, and while in attendance, was en gaged to assist Prof. H. W. Shaylor (an artist who needs no in troduction) at the college. Upon Mr. Shaylor's retirement in the spring of '89, Mr. Merrill was engaged as their permanent teacher of penmanship and bookkeeping. As Mr. Merrill expresses it, he is a firm be liever in the plain, rapid, unshaded variety of business writing. Being an excellent blackboard writer he causes his students to more easily understand and grasp the principles of his art. He always has a good word for the WESTERN PENMAN, being a great admirer of this excellent help, having been a subscriber for the past six years. He is a painstaking teacher, and a man who is held in the highest esteem by all who have come to know him, whether old or young. Popular among the students, The subject of this short sketch, Mr. A. R. Merrill, teacher with character above reproach and a true love and devotion for of Penmanship at Gray's Portland Business College, Portland, his work, he stands as a model teacher in his profession, and Me. was born in Saco, "Me. In this city he attended the public one for whom we delight to do a favor, schools, but evinced no special desire for penmanship until the PITT F. PARKER, year 1885, when under the instruction of Mr. L. E. Pease, Ass't Sec'y Y. M. C. A., Portland, Me.
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1^ p?r 518 ||||5|cf Mali's THE WESTEP2N PENTvTAN. 9"he Western SPenrnan. LIBERALITY UNPRECEDENTED A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of Penmanship. [Entered at the Postoffice in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for transmission through the mails, as second-class mail matter.] CLUBS! CLUBS! ! CLUBS! ! ! READ READ! ! SUBSCRIPTION,—SIXTY CTS. PER YEAR WITHOUT PREMIUM. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR WITH PREMIUM. WE WANT A LIST OF TWENTY THOUSAND HOW WE PROPOSE TO GET IT. A. N. PALMER, Editor.
THE WESTERN PENMAN has the largest circulation of any educational THE WESTERN PENMAN'S subscription pin has been placed paper in Iowa. Advertising rates will be given upon application. at the twenty thousand mark. That is a large list of subscri CLUB SUBSCRIPTION RATES. bers for a class paper like THE PENMAN, but compared with For the next three months subscriptions to THE WESTERN PENMAN will what it has already accomplished, it does not seem to be a be accepted in clubs at the following rates: , Clubs of from five to ten, per subscriber, 40 cents herculean task, and with the earnest co-operation of our Clubs of from ten to twenty, per subscriber, 35 cents Clubs of twenty or more, per subscriber 30 cents friends we can soon reach, and even pass, the twenty thousand SPECIAL NOTICE. mile-stone. No premiums will be given for subscriptions sent in at less than $1. THE WESTERN PENMAN PUBLISHING CO., We mean business, and to accomplish iour object we are CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA going to make some extraordinarily liberal offers for clubs. Read them. THE WESTERN PENMAN SOUVENIR. The following club rates are in force until further notice: A Captivating, Entrancing, Epthralling Work, Covering Clubs of from five to ten, at 40 cents each. all Branches of Pen Art. Clubs of from ten to twenty, at 35 cents each. Clubs of from twenty to fifty, at 30 cents each. URIN G the past few months there has been CLUBS OF FIFTY OR MORE, AT 25 CENTS EACH ! in course of preparation Sample copies of current numbers will be furnished to club a book which it has pleased its publishers to raisers to distribute among their friends and pupils In writ name The Western Pen ing for sample copies, mention the number of copies you will man Souvenir. need f> r distribution. It was the original intention to publish and mail this book be To every person sending a club of twenty or more, we will fore September, 1892, but one present a copy of THE WESTERN PENMAN Souvenir. delay followed another, and only a couple of weeks before Christ THE WESERN PENMAN PUBLISHING Co., mas was it completed and ready Cedar Rapids, Iowa. to mail. The Western Penman Souvenir is a beauty, and is worth five dollars of anybody's SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS. money. Nothing in a low priced pen art publication has ever been published that equals it in Some Interesting: Features for Future Numbers of "The Penman." any way. As an epitome of No one who has any desire to become a good business writer can business and artistic writing, plain and ornamental afford to miss future numbers of THE WESTERN PE.VMAN. lettering, pen drawing, flourishing designing and en . No one who desires to become proficient in all styles of pen-lettering grossing, it has no equal at any price. can afford to miss future numbers of THE PENMAN, containing, as they The Western Penman Souvenir can only be had will lessons by masters in the profession of penmanship, covering all as a premium with the Western Penman at One styles of plain and ornate lettering. Dollar and is not for sale in any other way. Lessons in pen drawing will be begun in the next issue of THE PENMAN. G. W. Wallace will continue the "Grab Bag" department, and we feel A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK. assured that this feature will prove to ie very interesting and beneficial. Mr. Wallace will also give frequent lessons in pen lettering, and will con The Western Penman Souvenir is a book of 96 pages and cover, the tribute other interesting features from time to time. same size pages as The Western Penman, Mr. Parks will continue his lessons in lettering for a short time, and The first thirteen pages are given to the admirable copies contained in Mr. Dennis will continue to delight the professional and amateur pen men with his masterly productions. E. H. Robins' series of business writing in THE WESTERN PENMAN, which C. P. Zaner, whose fame as an all-round penmin is worldwide, will- attracted such wide attention in 1896-91. In the next seven pages are begin, in the next number, a series of lessons in object drawing, including given the magnificent movement drills, and some of the copies appear suggestions in perspective. The drawings, which will be reproduced without reduction, will be complete lessons in themselves, and will not ing in A. J. Scarborough's popular lessons given through The Western be accompanied by printed instructions. Six advance lessons in this Penman. The next 12 pages contain specimens of business writing from course have beeri received. The first lesson is the development of spher Ira R. Harris, E. K. Isaacs, A. N. Palmer, W. I. Staley, E. M. Barber, E, ical forms; the second, of cubical forms; the third, of cylindrical forms; the fourth, of the Chinese ink cup; the fifth, of still life objects, and the H. Robins, G. E. Nettleton, J. M. Peterson, W. W. Fry, F. F. Fish, C. E. sixth, of the oak tree. Not only should young penmen study such a course Spayd, Alice G. Browne, F. E. Reppert, A. R. Merrill, L. C. Horton, W. carefully, but all school teachers who are required to teach drawing will W. Weir, E. M. Huntsinger, and H. L. Wallace. The Courtney series find these lessons of great value in their work. Mr. F. B. 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A MARVELOUS TEST. The proper posture of the writer; the holding of the pen or CHICAGO, III., April 3, 1893. pencil; the perfect concentration of the mind; and the hand The interest and enthusiasm which pre-eminence in any movement, all of which are of the greatest importance, was branch of human endeavor must always arouse, was well ex closely scrutinized and nearly everybody present was benefited emplified by the large and intensly appreciative audience which and displayed unbounded admiration. ! D. FULLMER. gathered at the Metropoliton Business College of this city on the evening of March 22. HYMENEAL. The occasion was an exhibition of speed in shorthand Wednesday evening, Jan. 11, the home of Mr. and Mrs. writing by Isaac S. Dement bafjre ths students of the college Elza Thompson, of Luther was the scene of a very happy event. and their friends. The occasion could not be otherwise for it was the celebration There were three things which were seemingly of equal worth; of the marriage event of their daughter Laura, to Prof. E. C. Mr. Dement's writing, the reading back of the notes, and Mrs. Reitz, of Maxwell, Rev. J. W. Thomas of the Brethren's Dement's reading. The world's record was broken in all three. church at Ames officiating. Mr Dement wrote and was timed several times during the The bride is a young lady, amiable, loving, and kind, whose evening. Three hundred and sixty-six words a minute was the winning manner and attractive ways cannot but command the lowest record he made. His last effort resulted in the wonder respect and confidence of all who may make her acquaintance.! ful record of three hundred and ninety-seven words a minute Mr. Reitz, the groom, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Z. Reitz, of on entirely new matter; on which test the reading back of his this place, and is a gentleman of exemplary character, studio notes was accomplished in just sixty-seven seconds without a ous habits and enterprising qualities. The infare was given single error. The audience was intensely enthusiastic, and the Friday evening at the residence of the groom's parents where result of each effort was greeted with hearty applause. a large company of friends and relatives of the newly wedded The reading back of his notes proved that his shorthand is couple gathered at the parental fireside and enjoyed the hour s as readable to him as print. hospitality and good cheer. The reading of Mrs. Dement proved to many the most in A table was spread with all the delicacies conceivable in the teresting part of the evenings entertainment, for many people culinary art and to which full honor and credit were given. had insisted that three hundred and fifty words a minute could Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Reitz will be at home at Anaconda, Mon not be clearly enunciated; but Mrs. Dement has forever re tana, after January 22, where both will conduct a commercial moved that false idea from their minds, for her articulation school. Mr. Reitz has made business science a study for was as perfect as if read at a much lower rate of speed. This several years and obtained his education at the Gem City Busi fact was proven by Mr. Dement reading back his notes ABSO ness College, Quincy, 111. The bride is also, an experienced LUTELY CORRECT and furthermore everyone of the entire stenographer and typewriter and will assist her husband in his audience could catch her every syllable. She was again and professional duties. We wish them a life of prosperity and - again the recipient of well deserved applause. happiness.— Tribune, Maxwell, low>i. One hardly knew which most to admire; the wonderful read ing of Mrs. Dement or the writing of Mr. Dement. Mrs. THE PACKARD CLUB GIVES A DINNER. Dement proved herself to be the most rapid reader in America, The Packard Club, which consists of the graduates of Pack and was afterwards heartily congratulated by many of the ard's Business College, gave a dinner in honor of Mr. and audience for her almost marvelous feat. Mrs. S. S. Packard and G. W. Brown, of Jacksonville, 111 , A few evenings before this in a private test, she read and last night at the St. Denis Hotel. S. S. Packard is chairman clearly enunciated four hundred and three words a minute— of the executive committee of the exhibit of the Business a feat which many may possibly doubt, but which can be re Educator's Association of America at the World's Fair, and G. peated. Her reading was almost as marvelous as Mr. DeW. Brown will be in charge of the exhibit. The question ment's writing. Mr.' Dement closed the evening's entertain mark is"the emblem of the club. No function is therefore con ment with some remarks on arbitrary shorthand which he sidered as conforming to its ideas unless some information is strongly denounced. gained. After the toastmaster calls the club to order it is cus The thought has occurred to me; what is the result of speed tomary to listen to a specialist on some smbject of general in exhibitions on a school, and as this may interest many of our terest, and then to ply him with such questions as may bring readers. I will give you a few thoughts that suggest themselves out additional points. The topic at last night's dinner was to my mind. "The Business College at the World's Fair." About 100 I consider such an exhibition highly beneficial to a school, members of the club and guests sat around three long tables, inasmuch as it displays the possibilities of shorthand in the from which banks of red roses spread a hospitable glow. At the hands of an expert. head of the middle table sat C. M. Miller, president of the club. It proves that shorthand is written rapidly in exact propor Mr. Packard spoke of the functions of the modern business tion as one becomes thoroughly familiar with the art. JSijf-^ college He said he felt concerning such an education as It shows that shorthand must be written with the same "Zach" Chandler did at a certain election. He wanted to ease as longhand. The mind acts rapidly in writing longhand "claim everything" for the business college: He laid stress on account of its familiarty with longhand characters, and this upon the practical end such a school had in view, and he principle applies with equal force to shorthand writing. This quoted Horace Greeley as saying that there were 2,000 men in fact,, brought prominently before a school, demonstrates the this city who could not get anything to do for want of a practi absolute necessity of thoroughness in elementary work, and cal education. He ended his remarks: "I stop with reluctance. forever dispels the illusion—for such it is—that the primary I'd like to talk all night" amid the heartiest applause. work of a shorthand school can be slighted; for it cannot. G. W. Brown explained the nature of the exhibit at Chicago, "without imperilling the stenographic salvation" of every and described the main feature of the entire educational de student thus slighted. partment. The Business education Association has received The careers of all such eminent men in the profession must 100 feet frontage on the main aisle of the educational depart also be interesting and beneficial to the school. They impress ment in the Liberal Arts Building The business college will the fact upon the minds of the students that success can only have one of the few "objective or picture" exhibits. They be achieved by earnest and constant effort. Success is not the will conduct a bank, a mercantile establishment, and other result of ' 'inspiration" as some people seem to think. In every business in view of visitors. The Rev. Dr. William Lloyd, of case REAL and EMINENT success is the result of hard work, of the Central Congregational Church, spoke on the ' Packard. indominitable perseverance, of constant plodding toward the Idea," or the question mark and its good results. He was fol goal of their ambition, coupled with a natural adaptibility for lowed by Sarah Spencer, of Washington, D. C. John S. Wise, their chosen work. As Mr. Dement says; "practicing for made some clever hits on Chicago's incogruities. Others who speed is a matter of pure business." spoke were Colonel A. H. H. Dawson and William H. Lloyd. The importance of "details" which is too often ignored, was Among those present were George J. Reesing, Byron Hor- by this exhibition brought out prominently, and the necessity ton, Louis F. Washburn. Anthony E. Hellwig, Mr. and Mrs. of reducing shorthand to its FINEST SCIENTIFIC POINT. To do J. D. Odell. B. B. Singleton, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bogart, Mr. this, and to attain to the highest standard of proficiency, and Mrs. J. L. N. Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Wise, Washington places shorthand among the arts and will take as much time Malcolm, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. C. Foye, and Mr. and Mrs. C. as many of the other learned professions. H. Dennison.—New York Tribune. 16 THE WESTERN £»EMMAM_
OLD TIME SIGNATURES.
HE following article was reproduced from the Chicago Tribune of March 5, and in line with the article last month by Frances Bennett Calloway, will no doubt prove interesting to our readers. Exponents of graphology, which is the art of reading handwriting, lay claim to a perfection in their science which is equally interesting. They say that the well equipped graphologists should be QUEEN ELIZABETH LATE IN LIFE. able to say at a glance whether a manu The writing master who taught Queen Elizabeth as a little script or document was written in the girl had made a long step in advance of those who came be fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth or fore him. He rejected the old models, which were based on eighteenth century. And on a little monkish scripts, and invented a hand of which Elizabeth study, declare the votaries of the science, throughout her reign was a splendid exponent. It was a hand they should be able to tell in which remarkable for beauty, delicacy and clearnesss. It would be quarter of the particular century it was a noticeable handwriting even in this day. The mass of docu written. ments which her reign has furnished historians show the great It is an interesting fact that these by extent to which the style prevailed. Courtiers wrote it as part gone centuries, as is the case now, of their offerings of flattery to the Queen. Manuscripts left by many personages removed from the dead great characters, her contemporaries, would in their penman level of humanity broke away from all ship seem to show that Elizabeth's influence was felt even when teaching and had a style of handwriting they picked up their pens to write. peculiarly their own. This class of in In the signature of Mary Queen of Scots there is no sign of dividuals has found few representatives the masculine strength which appears in the handwriting of i ff?!$^<2f&$iti//. RICHARD in. . LOUIS XII. OF FRANCE. among the monarchs who have occupied the throne of England. Elizabeth, despite its grace and elegance. Graphologists teach Richard III., for instance, historians agree, was a man of ex- that ambition is denoted by writing which ascends at the right traordinary strength of personality. But he did not break away of the line, and perhaps that characteristic of the beautiful and hapless Queen is shown in her signature. Certainly there is femininity and grace in the writing, and song and history have told of these qualities of Mary the Fair. - HENRY VIII. CATHERINE DE MEDICI. from the prevailing style of penmanship of his day. His auto graph shows all the characteristics of the queer, crabbed hand The scrawling signature of another woman—Catherine men wrote toward the end of the fifteenth century. To the de Medici—is as unlike Mary's as the characters of the two non-scientific reader of signatures there is an apparent contra women. Catherine was Regent of France during the minority diction in Richard's handwriting. It does not seem to express of her son Charles IX. To her history has imputed all the the terrific energy of the tyrant King, to whom "thought was corruption and cruelties of the reign, including the massacre of action half performed." Bartholomew's day, August 24, 1572. She was a royal person age whose writing was strongly individual. There is strength The signature of Henry of Richmond, who ascended the and determination in every line of her nervous style, tending throne as Henry VII., is in striking contrast to that of the toward a more business-like hand. crafty monarch whom he overthrew on Bosworth Field. Henry's signature is gigantic. The letters are over an inch in length. James I. was under 40 when he was crowned, but his auto It is one of the most royal of any of the signatures made by graph looks like that of an older man. He was not a good pen- England's rulers and at the bottom of a crown warrant is an impressive sight. Henry VII. wrote a better hand than most of the educated Englishmen of his day. The cramped and c huddled style in vogue when he became King lasted through his reign, and there are strong suggestions of it thirty years later. Henry VIII., his son, then King, wrote his name as illegibly as his father's signature was clear. Henry's signature LOUIS XVI. looks like an effort by the grand and pompous monarch to re man, nor was penmanship an accomplishment of many men turn to the ante-writing days when sign manuals were given. whom he drew about him. There was probably method and a desire to strongly express Charles I. wrote a hand somewhat like that of his father, individuality. His penmanship was readable. Numerous James I., only rather more modern. The style in his day was written relics show that other persons wrote in the same general further toward a running hand. Here and there were men style. It was the fashion to imitate the King. whose penmanship was of character used and admired in the The autograph of Anne Boleyn, Henry's second wife, shows nineteenth century. Oliver Cromwell was one of these. His a similarity to the penmanship of her husband. Anne was not autograph is one of the most noticeable in the collection in the long enough at court to have conquered so difficult a task as re British Museum. It expresses robust strength and greatness. forming her handwriting unless she was a more assiduous Writing had become an accomplishment much more general student than history has shown her to be. The probability is when William III. came to be sovereign of England. The that the writing masters of Henry's reign who set the style had running hand was used by many people, but for all that there taught both her and her husband. was great individuality in William's penmanship. His signature, THE: W^ST^E^I^ i^^MMAtsi. tt graphologists say, unmistakably shows his soldier character. not omit an affluence of flourishes which tell of the vanity That is to say, he wrote it in a fashion which appears in the which consumed him. czi '•-' ~\ signatures of many great soldiers in all ages. The Duke of When George IV. was King the youth of the country were Wellington's signature is fairly illustrative of the military style taught several styles of penmanship. Among the handsomest of handwriting to which graphologists refer. It is easy to see of these perhaps was that known as the fine Italian hand. that the Iron Duke wrote his name quickly. Napoleon handled Queen Victoria learned this and has written it beautifully. In his pen in the same way. His signature, after he had become polite correspondence of 1892 the Italian hand survives with certain angular modifications. But Queen Victoria writes it MARIE ANTOINETTE. Emperor, was dashed off without regard to plainness. In Napoleon's younger days an exact and handsome writing was the style of the French monarch. Louis XVI. wrote his name in the same general style which QUEEN VICTORIA had been used by several of the Louis family who preceded now as when she was a young woman, and in the nervous, deli him. His signature was a more delicate bit of writing than cate tracery of her signature there has appeared little change that of Marie Antoinette. She learned to write in an entirely for fifty years. different style in which there was not so much grace as the method which her husband was taught. A PRACTICAL SCHOOL. The autographs of the men who were the leaders in the French revolution are interesting studies. They strikingly il Educational establishments seem to be among the last to ap lustrate character. That of Robespierre, however, would seem preciate the utilitarian spirit of the age, hence their graduates to present one of those contradictions which graphologists frequently encounter the merciless flings and scuffs of the prac have to grapple with. It does not show the ferocious cruelty tical, keenly competitive business element. Fortunately there which was his dominant trait, at least not to the non-expert. are exceptions, and one of the most pronounced is the Northern 7i^^£/*^ s*r* o4^^c^0^^^y^ It is easier to associate the idea of such a monster with the Illinois Normal school and Dixon Business College, Dixon, 111. writer of a big, bold hand like Danton's than with the writer of This institution is known throughout the length and breadth of the land on account of its practical work, and the thousands of bright young men and women it attracts annually in the various courses. While the twenty-four teachers permanently employed in the Northern Illinois Normal School are as good as money can procure, while the courses of study are suited to these modern times, and while every facility for rapid advancement is fur nished, the expenses have been kept down to a minimum. Our friend, W. H. Beacon, is in charge of the Pen Art School, a guarantee of a high grade of instruction in that de partment, while C. C. Rearick, another man we feel honored in knowing, has charge of the Business College part of the hr^" stitution. In the person of Mr. Rearick the Northern Illinois GEORGE IV. Normal School has a commercial teacher who stands at the the style Robespierre used. His autograph was small and deli very head line in his profession; a man well balanced mentally cate almost as a woman's. and morally for the responsible position he holds, it is no won The last of the four Georges wrote a hand which was common der that he is held in high esteem by all his pupils. in England at that time. He did not write it remarkably well, We cannot speak from personal acquaintance of the teachers either, but in his signature, especially as Prince Regent, did in charge of the many different courses of study in this great 1± THE WESTTEFM^ PENMAN. educational institution, but we know that they are instructors A PLEA FOR LESSONS FROM MR. MADARASZ. of national reputation. In J. B. Dille and C. W. Boucher, respectively, principal WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky., April 8, 1893. and associate principal, the Northern Illinois Normal School FRIEND PALMER: There is only one penman in this wide has two of the most sagacious and skillful educational leaders world to-day whose writing suits me in every particular, and in the land. that penman is Prof. Louis Madarasz, of Cedar Rapids. His penmanship comprises the following: Good form, freedom of movement, grace and beauty—dashing. 1, for one of THE Prof. W. H. Whigam, for four years at the head of the business practice WESTERN PENMAN readers, will be more than pleased to have department of the Cedar Rapids Business College, and later in charge of the exchange department of the Bryant's Business College, Chicago, has Prof. Madarasz give a course of lessons in his elegant writing purchased, in connection with Samuel Willev, who was for six years su through THE PENMAN, at the expiration of Prof. G. E. Nettle- perintendent of Bryant's Business College, the West Side Business'Col- lege, Chicago. The name of this new firm will be Whigam & Willey. ton's course.of business penmanship. I remain, From close association with Prof. Whigam for a term of years we were Very respectfully, SAM EVANS. afforded the best possible opportunities of studying his personal charact eristics. We always found him uniformly courteous to all, untiring in his zeal in his chosen work, and always ready to help worthy pupils in and out of school. There is not in America to-day a more thoroughly quali THE EXHIBIT OF AMERICAN BUSINESS EDUCA fied all-round commercial teacher than this same W. H. Whigam. The West Side Business College is one of the oldest business training schools TION AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. in Cnicago, and has always been liberally patronized. With two such thoroughly-alive business educators as Whigam and Willey at its head, On this and the following page are given views of the active and still its further growth is assured. exhibits of business.education at the World's Fair, Chicago. This magnificent display of American business education has been brought about after almost insurmountable obstacles have been over OUR ADVERTISERS. come by the committee having the matter in charge. To S. S. Packard, O. M. Powers, and G. W. Brown the business colleges of this country are We call attention to the advertisement of F. M. Sisson, in this number especially indebted for the success of this exhibit. These three gentle of THE PENMAN. Mr. Sisson is an excellent card writer. men have been untiring in their efforts, and liberal in the use of their time The commercial"text-books published by O. M. Powers, Chicago, are and money. They would not at any time admit the possibility of a failure, thoroughly practical, being the finished products of many years' labor in and the greater the discouragements the greater seemed their enthusiasm this special field by one of the most successful business college men in and untiring zeal. America. Prof. Powers, their author, is thoroughly impregnated with Mr. Packard, as chairman, has left his school in New York, frequently, the advanced business ideas of the times. At the head of the Metropol and often at little more than a moment's notice, to come west when some itan Business College, an institution that is not excelled by any similar new danger threatened the undertaking, and give it his undivided atten school, Mr. Powers has shown himself a keen, sagacious business man, tion until the troubled waters were again calm. Mr. Packard came west as well as a successful business educator. Even had we never seen these last winter, traveling from city to city for a number of wesks in the inter text-books, the logical conclusion to be deduced from the facts surround ests of this exhibit, and stirring up enthusiasm wherever he went. ing their production would have been that they must be practical. Teach Personally, we feel very grateful to Mr. Packard and his associates for ers looking for nineteenth century text-books on the subjects treated, are what they have done for business education. referred to Mr. Powers' series. The first of the accompanying cuts shows the active part of the ex C. A. Faust, the automatic pen artist, treats his patrons so well that hibit; that in which a complete routine of business is carried on with the they come again, and come often, Faust is a leader in his business. participating schools, advanced pupils from these schools being in charge of the office work, under the direction of G. W. Brown, who will give his Dement's Pitmanic Shorthand is steadily gaining new friends, and on entire time to the conduct of the exhibit until the close of the fair. its calling list can be found many of the greatest business schools of the In the second illustration is shown the still exhibit, in which are the country. It is a book that is admirably adapted to the home learner, as finished products of tne schools exhibiting. Each school taking part has well as to the school-room. purchased a beautiful case, in which are shown catalogues photographs The Pacific Excursion Co.. with offices at Oakland, Cat, Chicago, and of rooms, pupils, and faculty, together with written work in bookkeeping, New York, are making a specialty of excursions to all the noted coast re examinations in the various subjects taught, written work in shorthand sorts of the Pacific, to the Sandwich and other islands of the Pacific, and and typewriting, and, in fact, every-hing relating to the work of the dif to Alaska. Mr. Depue, the president of the company, was at one time a ferent schools that would be of interest to the public. pupil of the editor of THE PENMAN, and. we can recommend him as an up Our readers are cordially invited to visit the Business College Exhibit right, honorable gentleman. Among the business undertakings of this when attending the World's Fair. Mr. Brown and his assistants will take company will be the running of excursions to the World's Fail, during the delight in explaining every detail of the work undertaken to those who - spring and summer months, from different points. Our readers who con are interested. template such excursions as this company handle, will do well to corre Tne Business College Exhibit is in the Manufactures and Liberal Arts spond with Mr.* Depue. Building. Active Exhibit, American Business Education, World's Fair THE; WESTEFRN IRENrVIArSL. 13 Still Exhibit of American Business Education, World's Fair. The LARGEST, the BEST EQUIPPED, and the RECOGNIZED LEADER of NORHAL SCHOOLS. •HMHIHI •2a£a a(3 « to a 0 Ja *s"o c'sS ^^ rrTrTiimfi'iTi^ir iii^ilihiiMM 1 IIIIIIIMMI in iT~\\\ii*¥in^*-^,^rrvnftMni^F*rma^am™mmmm^*^mm~ |l|l|l|Miir ''""'"'" MIIMMJ 2.0 ^acu Greater preparations are being made for the Spring and Summer Sessions than ever before. r» Spring Session opens March 28, 1893. Summer Session opens June 6, 1893. PLAIN LIVING AND HIGH THINKING—HEALTH AND SUCCESS. flJD A Pays Total Expenses, both Sessions, March 28 to August 12, for Board at New Boarding Hall, Suite of Rooms and 1 \\j\j TuitionTuition; ; oorr $5$555 paypayss foforr th thee samsamee aatt ththee LadiesLadies' ' ResidenceResidence. . $27.5$27.500 paypayss onone esessio sessionn aatt NeNeww BoardinBoardingg HallHall, , $33 for one session at Ladies' Residence. Low Rates in Private Families. A term or two of Normal Life, Normal Energy and Normal Methods make Successful Teachers. Hundreds of our students are sent to the best p'ositions to fill the demands made directly on the institution by boards of education and business men. Public opinion and patronage pronounce this thi people's school. The Dixon Business College operates the most elaborate Actual Business Department extant. Send for sixty-paged Catalogue and name the department in which you are interested. Mention this paper. Address, J, B. DILLE, Principal, or C. W. BOUCHER, Associate. M THE WESTERN F=>EI LESSONS IN MODERN LETTERING. looking at the copies will help you not a particle. You must get down your pencil, pen and paper, and carefully copy them. BY G. W. WALLACE, LINCOLN, NEB. That is the only way. This style is a valuable one to have in your head—more so NO. 2. than you will realize until you are suddenly called upon to do some display work a few times. HE stiff and careful styles of Send me your work. lettering which ten years ago sufficed the penman, in this day of broader development must be supplemented—if not supplanted—by styles combin ing rapidity with strength, harmony, and novelty. Penmen now-a-days have a broader field . Not only are they expected to do the finer styles of engrossing, but all such work (requiring modern lettering) as blackboard deco ration, bulletin work for Sun day schools and day schools, newspaper headings, designs for all purposes, and even small signs—all these things requiring styles of lettering com bining quickness of execution with legibility and a bold, strik ing effect. They require a style for the most part plain as to Topics of General or Special Interest to Readers of surface (nearly all ornament being placed behind the unadorned "The Western Penman." letters, thus preserving a sharp contrast). The style illustrated herewith is much better suited to black CONDUCTED BY G. W. WALLACE, LINCOLN, NEB. board work in colors, to - small or large sign work with pen or brush, and to rapid, bold execution with coarse materials, than Jimmie Ward, Tenn.- -Would you advise the use of the to fine pen work. It is better when seen from a distance (not fountain pen in ornamental penmanship? necessarily half a mile), for which reason we call it the poster Ans. In sketching out of doors and for general drawing in style. doors, yes. Use a moderately fine one, filled with some good In practicing this with a pen, use the large Falcon, or some liquid drawing ink (thinned down a little if necessary). For thing quite as course. A delicate, overworked effect is all out designing, a Falcon pen is better, while for figures from nature of place with this bold, ' 'rough and ready" style of lettering. we use a Gellott 303. Notice that none of the styles of finish are weak or so placed C. Roush, N. Mex.—What are the chances for a good travel as to obscure the form. Originate others for yourself. ing card writer? Is my work good enough? - Permit me to say to the learner that there is just one way to Ans. The cards sent are not bad for a shaded style, but as get any good out of this or any other similar lesson. Merely visiting cards they are obsolete. Fashionable people (about the THE WES-rEFSN F^ENIVIAN. 15 Flourished by H. S. BLANCHARD, Hopkinton, Iowa. only people who use many cards) can't be induced to use a beautiful effect. A good goose-quill is excellent—much supe spread-eagle card style. They want writing done after the rior to Soennecken's broad pens. The automatic pen is de manner of the steel engraver. It looks now as though card cidedly superior to either of them in every way. By writing writing as a business, had "gone where the woodbine twineth." to school officers, you should be able to make diploma filling a Penmen can't compete very long with soulless engravers, who profitable source of revenue this spring. will furnish 150 delicately engraved visiting cards and a steel plate, all for one dollar. This is less than half what the scribe Anna L. B., Iowa.—Should slates be ruled for head, base would have to charge. Migratory scribes still sometimes reap and slant lines in public school work? Can anyone, without a goodly harvest in Lonelyville and way down by Wayback natural ability, learn public school drawing? Xroads, but the lot of the city card writer who can do nothing else is, indeed, a mortgaged one. Ans. The slate, that relic of the educational stone age, ought never to be used in a school, anywhere. If you must Geo. B., Kan.—I notice that most penmen now make loops use it, rule it wjth a steel pen from which the nibs have been of 1, b, etc., nearly four spaces high. Why, may I ask, do they broken. The slate-pencil is the greatest foe the pen has to depart from the Spencerian three-space standard? day. I've never yet seen a teacher who couldn't learn (and en Ans. You are right. In business writing as well as in or joy) public school drawing, when properly taught. There is namental, the majority of good penmen to-day make loops from such a wonderful and such a growing demand for it that it is a three and one-half to five spaces high. This is done, not by en matter of surprise that so feV take it up. Salaries to special larging the loop, but by decreasing the height of the standard ists in this line are double those paid the average-grade teacher. unit, i. e., of the minimum letters. Writers are finding that a It is something any teacher can readily learn. running hand is just as legible and far more rapid than the stiff, longer, standard letters. The day is probably not far A. Y. Clayton, Del.—I notice that all engrossers use the distant when copybook makers will see the advisability of using English round-hand, large and heavily shaded. Would you some such measurement as the best writers are now using; i.e., advise the business college penman to learn it? fit space and a half for r and s, three spaces for t, d and p, and four for the loops. Many teachers are now using these meas Ans. Yes, Aside from the "teaching style," the engrossing urements. After all, size in writing is a matter largely of in hand is worth more to the penman than any other style-«f- dividual temperament. writing. A prominent Chicago penman told me that, while he had not in five years earned as many cents with Spencerian Jonquil, N. Y.—What style of lettering is used in filling in script, he had earned several times that many thousand dollars diplomas? Also, what are the best pens to use? with the shaded round-hand. You will need it on diploma, Ans. Modified Old English and other texts, nicely tinted resolution, invitation, album, and display work. Follow the and shaded with Sepia or diluted India ink, do very well. excellent lessons of Mr. Dennis in THE PENMAN. YOU could Sometimes small rustic capitals are substituted, adding a very have no better guide. i6 THE: VST:E:ST:E:I=?N j=»:E:NrviAiM„ $ Salesmen and agents can make $$ bv carrying $ IF YOU REALLY WISH TO $ aa£ using our "INSIDE LINE."" Worth $ $ many $ $ to all business men; it costs only 25c. $ $ delivered to persons cutting this out. Satis- $ FOR &f\LE. $ faction guaranteed. Address, "Traveling $ $ Salesman," Peoria, 111. Hornellsville Business 8c Short ARE YOU THE MAN ? A thorough and competent normal teacher, with some capital, can secure a whole or a half interest hand College. in an old estabiished business and normal school. Your name written in all the possible combina Good location, fine building, large patronage. A tions on a package of the best Wedding Bristol rare opening for the right man. Rooms containing 4,000 square feet of flooring Address, "BUSINESS," (3,500 square feet in use), well carpeted. Rooms cards in ideal style, making a batch of magnifi Care of editor Penman, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. lighted by electricity. Rent of rooms, $15 per cent signatures for 51 cents. These are revela month; cost of lighting, from $3.50 to $4 per month. tions of off hand muscular writing. No compejition within forty miles of the city. Branches taught: Bookkeeping, Shorthand and v^Arsr iz>. Typewriting, and Telegraphy. Income of the school from $3,000 to $4,000. Run The Cleveland Bindery, Publishing Department, ning expenses from $1,000 to $1,200. Special Offer No. i. 196 Seneca Street, Cleveland, Ohio, wants the Will sell the above College, including furniture On receipt of $1.00 and ten 1 cent stamps, the names of all teachers of Bookkeeping, on postal and fixtures (inventoried at $850), good will, and following specimens, etc., will be sent prepaid: cards, and will send sample pages of "Normal all told, for $1,800; $1,500 down and the rest in six Two sets of capitals, written worth $ .50 Bookkeeping." months' time. One brilliant black ink recipe " .30 Address. A. N. Palmer, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, or, Two specimens of flourishing " .50 H. C. FORD, Bevel-edge cards, with name..'. " .60 PENMAN WANTED. Hornellsville, New York. One sheet of signatures " .10 There is an opening in one of the large business Total worth $2.00 colleges for a high-class penman. Must be ex Twenty Years a Telegraph Operator. Address: L. 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Two thous each locality to sell my celebrated Hand-Painted Scholars, to send a postal card request for and dollars buys it, one-half cash. Address, Crayon Portraits. Send for Price List. GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY, their explanation of WHEREWITHAL, °r Care A. N. Palmer, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. H. A. GRIPP, German Artist, Tyrone, Pa WHAT YOU WANT, • WSSL THE WESTERN I^ETIMMAM if J0S6DH GlllOft'S STEEL PENS. 1 " .-IDO YOU Use |§l •'• I Gold Medal, Paris Exposition, 1889 THE MOST PERFECT OF PENS. I Writing Paper ? PPT T 44 FRF I Learn t0 do all kinds of \JL I I TIL,IVL ! automatic pen work in a ^=1 Of course you do. Do you have difficulty in obtaining a good quality and in a week. Twelve lesions by mail forSi Everything M sufficient variety? Are you unable to get paper unruled, rueld and special wide fresh from the pen and guaranteed to equal the tts; ruled? If so send five cents for our sample book of fine writing paper. This will wqrK of any ether penman. Send 15 cts. for a beautiful flourish, worth 50 cts. • Auto, pens and £S bring our slock to your door and you will have a chance to see and test the paper you ink furnished away down. Try me one for luck, boys W. N. GIFFORD, Publisher of the Excelsior Writing Chart and 1 """ Principal of Western Normal School of Pen Art, Rector, Ark. a Penmanship Supplies. \\y Wallace and Kinsley are penmen of excellent taste and good judgment. Proba- !)2) ably what suits them might suit you, We keep their selection and possibly you might FOR af\LE5>. )]]jj like some of the implements and supplies they use. Pens, Inks, Papers, Pencils, BUSINESS COLLEGE, located in a growing \(y India Ink, Drawing Utensils, Air Pencils, Cards, Bristol Board, etc. Send for price town of 6,500 inhabitants. Established in 1877. vlh list. You have to buy these on faith—no samples. Eighty students last year. Will be sold ;it a rea sonable price if taken within 90 days. Address, '"P.," m Commercial Supplies. Care Western Penman. jYH We manufacture books and blanks of all kinds, and as we own our own printing Wrj. office, we can and do print your name, name of school, etc., on the covers, put in any MCPHERSON COLLEGE. |Mi] number of sheets you want, make the books to order, and make them an advertise- Ten Departments, 19 Teachers. Expenses Rea Mjl mentfor your school, at a less price than you can buy inferior "ready-made" books sonable. All departments under the supervision jTj and blanks. We handle everything used in the most complete business college. Send of enthusiastic and experienced Instructors. Cat j^jj] for samples and prices. alogue free. For specimen of FINE PENMANSHIT send three two-cent stamps to M Typewriter Supplies. ftp] Everything in this line we keep and can send you at short notice. Try us. IS Printing and Lithography. (fn Fine quarters, splendid new machinery and equipment, skilled workmen, intelli- jvK gent supervision, the best ol paper and stock. J\fl ARTISTIC WORK.—We not only do artistic printing, but we can handle your Im lithographing, book-binding, ruling, engrossing, etc. Penman, or S. Z. SHARP, Pres., McPherson, Kan. jvj« Send us your copy for estimate. jljw J&S5" Send for our complete catalogue. jJS^END me 60 cents and the next train will bring you a copy of the PEN- I HAWTHORNE PRINTING AND STATIONERY CO., HAN'S LEDGER. I 65 Lessons in 5ho thand 25 cts. LIFE OF MARK TWAIN SE;,SKS I will mail you my book containing 65 lessons in Can get the BEST ED CLEMENS PUB. CO., Box 2329, SAN FRANCISCO. one"of the best systems of SHORTHAND for only UCATION for all Prac 25 cts. Just the thing for -home study. Try it. tical Purposes at Learn Shorthand. It pays better than anything else in the clerical profession. 1 give lessons by CLARK'S MAN FROM MARS ^^"jSTSSyS- mail; write for terms and first lesson. Situations CLEMENS PUB. CO., Box 2329, SAN FRANCISCO. procured competent Stenographers. The Lincoln College of Shorthand and Typewriting of the Lin Business College, coln Normal University is the leading Shorthand ERIE, PA. Schrjol in the Wgst. Hundreds of graduates in Elegant Rooms; Modern Methods; Experienced good paying positions. Address, Teachers. Its graduates succeed. Special ad Fine Card Writing:. vantages in Shorthand and Typewriting. Wi ite Lessons by Mail. 12 p. Illustrated Price List Free. W. T. LARIMORE, Principal, Lincoln, Neb. for catalogue. H. C. CLARK, Pres., S, M. SWEET, Sec'y. RUSHFORD, N. Y. i8 THE WE^-TE:F*rE:N]ViANI. FINE WRITING MADE FINER with A. N. Palmer's Fine Pen No. 2. One- fourth gross box, postpaid, 30 cents. WESTERN PENMAN PUBLISHING CO., Cedar Rapids. Iowa. \JL/AMTFn A P°sitiou as Teacher of Pen- Ill 111 1 LL/ manship and Bookkeeping in 3 hrst-c ass literary college or university, where j could devote at least half of my time to the study of literary branches, which studies I would accept as part payment for my services I have been teaching penmanship for three years in public and high schools with good success. C. G. FF.CHNER, Golinda, Tex. A Serxaticral UHhmahrl No chemicals or Dry-plates, More fun and entertainment than any $85 CAMERA. You Tpssthe ball, everybody laughs! atisfaction or money returned. Order at once. CHAS. FRENCH & Co. AUGUSTA, ME. DEPARTMENT 5. fl GREAT OFFER. • CouQting House rrnE:; Containing 336 pages, 8%xi2I inches . A high grade text-book for first-class Business Colleges. Now in its 12th thousand. Revised edition now in press. Sample pages sent free. Sample copy sent on receipt of $1.50, or wholesale price. Soot-few! Of\TON'S BUSINESS SPELLER, Containing 300 lessons of 25 words each, is also in press, and will be ready for the trade within 60 days. is the name of a handsome monthly journal A sample copy will be sent on receipt of wholesale price, 50 cents. The manuscript for Caton's Business Grammar and. Correspondence is also com published in the interests of office men. pleted and it will be published soon. Price 50 cents a year. • Other works on Business Arithmetic, Commercial Law. Commercial Geography, Shorthand, Type writing, and Mechanical Drawing, are in course of preparation. For full information, address, M. J. CATON, IOO 90 Euclid Avenue, CLEVELAND, O. 3)0 lO tblO home, selling LIGHTNING PLATER FOR SfVLE. an d p 1 at i a g j e weir j, watches A business college in a city of nearly eighty Lessons tableware, &c. Plates the thousand inhabitants; a fine commercial center; finest of jewelry good as no better location in the country. To a first-class new, on all kinds of metal business college man the school will be sold for with gold, silver or nickel. $5,500; small cash payment, and balance on easy in No experience* No capital. Every house has goods need terms, or a reasonable discount for all cash. An ing plating. .Wholesale to inexperienced man cannot buy it at any price. agents $5. Write for circu Address, C. D. C, Business, lars. H. E. DELNO & Care Western Penman. Co., Columbus, O- is the name of one of the most valuable and MAKE WRITING A PLEASURE, BY USING: interesting books ever published. It con tains 100 pages of useful information for men, women and children. It is printed in three colors, bound in handsome cloth bind BEFORE BUYING TRY A RAPID WRITER. ing, and worth more than its price as an addition to the library, aside from the value THE "RflFJD WRITER" FOUNTAIN PEN. of its contents. Unconditionally warranted. Double Feeder that never fails. The best and cheapest. Latest im provements. Best Gold Pens. Write to learn how you can test free. No One Should Be Without It. Arthur J. Barnes, Law Reporter. St. Louis, Mo., says: "The 'Rapid Writer Fountain Pens' are the most delightful pens 1 ever tried. The touch is like velvet. It will write a hair line and will shade The price of "100 Lessons in Business" with ease?" R. W. FOUNTAIN PEN CO., Washington, D. C. Box 606. is $1, and thousands of copies have been sold at this price. On account of a special arrangement with the publishers, however, THE PEN! we are able to offer a very liberal induce ment to our subscribers, and until further All .Penmen Should Use notice will give a year's subscription to THE BQOK-KEEPER and a copy of "100 LESSONS ESTERBROOK'S IN BUSINESS" for the small sum of 75 cents. Under this offer you receive $1.50 in ioe easiest writing pen on the market. 30 cts. value for only 75 cents, satisfaction guar NO. A 1, will bring you a box by return mail. Try them and be happy. .Xrf'v\, anteed. Do not fail to take advantage of it. A fine and very elastic pen for flourshing and orna Western Penman Publishing: Co., Address, mental writing Ask your stationer for them. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, THE BOOK-KEEPER CO., Tne Esterbrook Steel Pen Co.* DETROIT, MICH. North Camden, N. J., 28 John St., New.York. THE WESTERN r=»EvNrVIAI>I_ ig- IN ONE WEEK You can learn to write Old English German Text German Round Hand And many other useful alphabets, by using my system of self instruction. Suitable for any pen. 29 LESSONS On the best paper made, nicely bound and put up in a neat Imitation Leather Case. Price, $1.50. A Copybook of 40 Pages. With every stroke on every page outlined, 6 lines fl Strong Endorsement from One ol America's Finest to the page. Price 50 cents. SHADING PENS All-Round Penmen. All kinds and sizes. Supplies of all kinds. All LINCOLN BUSINESS COLLEGE, \ orders filled promptly. Linco'n, Neb., Dec. i, ISQ2. ) Prof. L. Madarasz, Cedar Rapids, Iowa: J. W. STOftKBS. My Dear Sir: I have just received your "Gems of Penmanship,'1'' and on opening them I found that they were far beyond my expectation. Manufacturer. Milan, Ohio. I have had in my mind for some time that I cou rd write myself, but not being very much conceited, I find that these "Gems" take out every spark of conceit which I had in me. The delicacy of touch I belt eve is not to be excelled. The grace and beauty are truly beyond any thing I thought could be accomplished by any penman. I will remit you more money for other work, as my ambition is to come up somewhere near the best—Madarasz It is my expeelalion now to- pay you a short visit during the Holidays. Learn to write a nice, easy, rapid and artistic Wishing you success at the head of the penman's profession, I am, hand, or teach writing successfully at home, dur Yours very truly, F. B. COURTNEY. ing spare moments, bv following the copies and in structions in SPECIAL OFFER NO. i. SPECIAL OFFER NO. 2. On receipt of Si and 10 one-cent'stamps, the fol Upon receipt of a postal note for $1,75 the follow' 214. Common-sense Lessons m Busi lowing specimens, etc., will be sent postpaid: 2 sets' of capitals, worth % .50 ing articles will be sent prepaid to your address: ness and Artistic Writing and 2 specimens of flourishing " .50 2 sets of capitals, written worth $ 1 brilliant black ink recipe " .50 2 specimens of flourishing, Rapid Lettering. Bevel-edge cards with name " .65 1 brilliant black ink recipe, Sheet of signatures...., " .10 18 cards with name written, Eighty large, well-filled pages. Over 250 square Morocco card case, inches of elegant copies. More simple, sensible Total worth $3.25 Oblique pen-holder, 2 penman's papers, instruction than is contained in any three similar 11-CENT OFFER! Sheet of signatures, publications. Substantially bound; full-page gold Samples of my (poorly?) written cards, with a side stamp. Very highly commended by ZANER, complete circular of my specialties, wherein are Total worth, $3-35 WEBB, WARE, CHAMPLIN, PALMER, AMES prices given on articles especially g-ood and useful to students in penmanship. GIESSEMAN, ROBINS, HARMON, SPENCER and dozens of other world-famed penmen. J&S- Send in your order NOW and get the best. Most say it is undoubtedly the BEST—most ruthful, comprehensive, simple, sensible and use ful book ever published on penmanship. PRICE, 75 CENTS. 70r if not pleased return it and get your money. Write for descriptive circular and testimonials. Address, Principal of the School of Penmanship, Pen Artist, Principal Southern College of Penman Cedar Rpids Business College. Cedr Rnlds. town. ship, Nashville. Tenn. SUCCESSFULLY Bookkeeping 'Pen TAUGHT BY HAIL manship, fJiam-,. OR PERSONALLY. . mar, Arithmetic, SHORTHAND An Art Education for 25 Cts. I SHORTHAND1 etc., well learnd, by our system of teaching by mail. TRIAL FREE. 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