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Sagreed between publisher an
ach matter is desired for the m
al as will interest the people thr
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OF BAD PENMANSHIP.
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orable as to steal his purse, the result is, how-
case theever, all the same.
ies will    Again, business men who would regard it a
ve them   great intrusion for another to trespass on their
time for even a half hour, will show the dis-
pondent   courtesy to write a letter to a correspondent
he news   which may consume hours and even days of his
'ublisher time in deciphering the same.
dent for     This evil would be less if it stopped here.
r article,  Unfortunately, however, it goes beyond and
d corre- afflicts the coming penmanship of our youth.
The boy that will pick up the half consumed
etropoli-  cigar and smoke out the balance of the stump,
oughout   thinking that thereby he makes a man of him-
re facts self, will look upon bad penmanship, when
Severe  executed by distinguished men, as an evidence
-Elope-  of genius, and is not unlikely to imagin. himself
s.  N6 cw  a great man, because he imitates their pot-hooks
Weather.  and scrawls.
'nomena.    Eminent men are liable to have faults. If the
of dis-  error is an illegible penmanship, this defect is
none the less a fault, because the man may have
distinguished reputation and redeeming qual-
ities in other directions.
* writing   Young writers should not therefore ape bad
r is very  penmanship as an evidence of genius. Of two
Bnt men, articles written for the newspaper, all things else
sly tres-  being equal, that one stands much the best
ters and  chance for publication which is most plain in
ct their  penmanship. Let the young author see that the
composition is not only correctly written, when
t[ eauses prepared for the press, but that it is so perfectly
to prin-  legible that its merit may be readily seen upon
.       examination.