The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-09-28


the trace of the correspondence between the and
the other The most offense against legibty is
that of whose hands appear to be too clumsy and
heavy for anything delicate than smith-work What
instrument they write with is mystery to uscerain it is
that any wooden skewer would equally we'll serve their pur
pose Where there is difference whatever between up
stroke and downstroke unless it be that the former the
thicker of the two there of be sufficient motive
to give dsncness of form to each letterand hence the
handwriting of the class of persons aude to is sort of
chanwor of irregular the meaning of which gives
fullest scope conjecture. resembles man speaking with
his mouth full There is nothing artcuate about the mode
of utterance either Or it puts you In mind of racing
in sack stumbling is the style of progression Usually
moreover these fluffy penmen seldom seem to be able to
travel in straight line. They always falling from the
horizontal into the and obque and before they
get the end of their sheet OF paper their lines drag down.
wards peoples voices do in singing But there is
another class unintelg1ble They clip their
words Beginning clearly enough with the first letter two
of each wor they too impatient to be able to finish 1t
with the like You have syllable or perhaps syl-
liable and half lucid daylight terminating however in
confused twzze which merely denotes that ought to
follow but that the writer does not think worth his while
to signify what There who speak in this STYLE and
very tantalizng style it is who enunciae half sentence
and bolt the other half first raising expectation then baulk
ing it. The trick, for is only trick of habit is most
irritating one And there is also opposite class-olks
who fancy that exuberance of urshes tends effective
penmanshp At every salient point their pens curvet and
kick up their heels like unbroken nags Their text is
laid with ornamental work. and every word exhibits quaint
curvnear devices to run away with the readers attention
Now well that it will good purpose to
moraze on the Nobody is likely to mend his pen
really must for quienes SAKE take revenge upon people
who much trouble Human railty cannot stand
such provocaon at least without expressing itself in that
form of maedicon which suit the 1t will
hurt the cacographers and it will greatly relieve to
fire at them round yoey of abuse. Wesay that ELIGIBILITY
of hand writing an inexcusabe oensea of misde-
meanor that deserves whipping and in certain instances
under cognzance should object being told off to
nhict the chassemen generally of aziness, and
what is almost equally reprehensb careessness in respect
to the yexation inflicted npon other people Men have no
right thus to draw at sight upon other folks time and temper
They wrong themselves thereby and they wrong their
respondents AS those who write for the press they
perhaps that their GEOGRAPHY dimnishes the fair
earnings of composto who remunerated for the
time they lose in spelling UNANIMOUSLY engmatica
manuscript But, there might well preach to the
chartered berne the wind the various classes of
miserable penmen 1t is wenigh the only fraternity that
be put to shame and either cannot will not
try mend their doings. They ought to be doomed
months hard labor the treadwhee of the copys and if
this will make them sensible of their demers to be made
spell the MS. of ponderous tome the writing of
which is execrabe that the author himself
be certain of his meaning