New-York daily tribune., 1862-04-12
PENOGRAPHY.
nonody Can Anerd TO Use q Bnd Pen.

Nobody Can Aaord 10 Use B'd PEN
How many plendid train Of ideas has been iD'
serrup,ed and les, forever by the tripping of bad
zen! Hos many an editor, when The curIcns OF his
mvsc,ve was flowing freely and he was hatteIine
himself that that article would do the work for That
horrible monster over the way, OF the " imoeel'e
6eeretary," or the "Great Reviewer OF the Poto-
mac, las suddenly found lis page hespattered with
ink, his speech with very hard words, and his hap
piest VEIN ruined for that day-all because Of bad
pen.
How many merchant bas lost 2 profitable bar
gain because in the correspondence that was leading
70 it, while writing the decisive letter he lost hs
temper from using bad pen
How many an accountant has ruined q balance
sheet, the htOr Of weeks, by the unlueky spurer-
ing Of bad pen
How much Of success in every pursuit in lie above
that Of hod-canier depends upon having good peD
OF the millions OF men in che civilized world who
use pen for two or three more hours day, to
nearly every one The possession ei good pen is
worth in salary, in extra quality Or amount of
labor accomplished, from one hundred to hundred
thousand dollars year, while it is more conducive
than any other material substance of the sslne size,
which the wit of man has yetinvented to the exercise
Of the Christian virtues, all will admit who have
witnessed the profanity, silent or spoken, which is
provoked by an unlucky pen.
Nobody Can Afford to Use a Quin
Who has any regard TO the amount Of work which
live man ought to do in this world, in case he can
ind an equally good pen, which saves the enormous
expense of time required to make Quill pens In one
year, there have been sent from 81. Petersburg to
London, II 000,0 900 of quilts. No wonder that the
English people are slow" compared with Ameri.
cans. Where would she universal Yankee Nation
be in the scale Of material progress, if it had to
white up q ,000,o 600 OF quilts every year!
Nobody Can Afford to Use Steel Pens.
They are unequal, rarely good, and costly in every
way, and yet nine-tenths Of the woslds writing is
done with steel pens. A single house in Birming.
ham, located near the birmingham Idol Factory,
turns out 900 O,0OO,O 600 Of them every year. bor-
rible waste of valuable metal. For no man can
write well with steel pen, and even if he does find
that quits bis hand, after writing hour with it,
the action of the acid in the ink upon it, and ia posi.
tive wear, will change its point, and temper, and
elasticity utterly, that it is DO longer the same
pen, and there are not ten pens in goss, which
will suit any man who has even fair degree Of
decacy Of touch in wIitirg. They cost in actual
outlay, far more than the best gold pens; they cost
the inferior quality Of work produced with them
hundred times their cost in money.
Nobody Can Afford 10 Use Anything but Gold
Pen.
A pen, 10 he good pen, must not only be good
while il is new bat it must he permanently good.
steel pen may be accidentally good, bat it is only
the accident Of an hour. To perpotuate the good
qualilies of pen, it must be made Of a substance
which will not be cOnoded BY the acids of the INK
nor affected by the wear Of writing. Gold will re-
sist thGet 4cids, and the irdosmin with which ell
good gold pens are pointed viii wear for genera
tiOns.
Nobody can Afford TO Use n Rand-made Gold
Per,
Because handmade god pens are unequal in hard |
1ess and spring end temper If side is rolled or
hammered little harder than the other, as must be
he case with all pens made by hand it viii show it |
some way by the point that ride catching on the
0psr; it will show it, tso by the uncertainty with
which the pen moves-the disobedieHce which it
bows TO the will Of the writer-sometirnes slipping
yer the paper easily as to 90 far beyond where il
meant to go, and sometimes dragging " heavily ~
, fall short Of the intended mark or making
raigbt line wien it should make curve. Besides,
le hand processes require that the metal should be
orked in a state in which it ia impossible to bring
II the elasticity of which the metal is capable.
one of these faults are found 10 macluo-nla gold
ns.
body can Afford 20 use a Geld Pen with the {
roint soidered ON.
The points Of gold pens are spall particles Of v