The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-15

GIRLS, SHOW YOUR HAND.
Clear PenmdlShip is a De-
sirable Accomplish
ment.
HOW JERSEY CITY MAIDENS WRITE
How One Young Lady Nearly Lost
Her Lover-''lt Is Past Five
Read "Let Us Part
Friends"
HOW JERSEY CITY MAlOENS WRITE
"Show me how you write and
HI roll Won -vhat Won are

"Show me how you write and
I'll tell you what you are"
So say certain philosophers, who de-
clare that the only sure index TO charac-
ter is chirography. 1t is a trife alarming
to the busy women, whose main obJect Is
TO hurry her letters into the mail box, to
reflect that one of those same letters may
fall into the clutches of a handwriting
expert. who will analyze each SPRAYING
2 and unconsidered t and from these
gravely estimate her character. But we
all do it more or less. whether We pose as
experts or not. There is the girl whose
! letters are every one Of the same height,
| and nave a distinct flavor of the Spencer
ian copy book-we always think of a
damsel who tucks away her hair in quiet
braids, eschews bangles and hirtatlons,
and wears Waukenphasts. Then the girl
who hourishes. and makes one sympathlze
with the classic Greek wortny who
threaded the Labyrinth; she is prone TO
wind up her ideas in a taDgle of words.
aud utilize little bows for personal aud
domestic decoration. Then there is tne
writing that bears Business College.
stamped In every rounded letter and
every shaded curve.
Then there is the maid. horrible dictu.
whose ms and ms, us, VS., WIS. ELS. is
aud RS are exactly alike. just oolique
lines pointing toward the upper right
hand corner Of the page This young
person drives her correspondents TO
despair in trying to find out whether
Miss Blank accepts with pleasure" or
declines with regret" This alleged
writing is always the result or cuitiva-
ton. Nature is never responsible, any
more thar she is for the three-inch foot
of the Chinese woman. The writer has
great respect for the conventionalitle, Il
likes to carry out q fashion to the bitter
end; since it is the proper thing for girls
to write badly, she prefers TO write worse
of all.
CHIRoGRAPHY OF JERsEY CITY MAIDENs.
A study of the cnirography of some of
our JERSEY City bellies Is we'll worth the
time and attention the subject demands.
There are all possible sores and condi-
lions, from the martial angular to the
sprawllng loops of the girls who always
sign themselves Hastily. yours" To
begin with the alphabet, the signature of
Miss Mary Albeit is singularly fem and
decisive, with pronounced angular ten
denotes. Miss Lillian Hall, the dark eyed
fiancee of Leon Albeit, Jr., writes a
striking hand, with which as yet few
Jersey City folk are familiar. Miss
Minnie Bumsted's characters are indica-
tive of her acknowledgement aud
generous, with due attention to good
form. The Misses Post possess one and
the same style of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
with i~ncisive points and a reckless
disregard of space. Miss Maude Will
Jams notes show a dainty hand, halting
between angular and curved, and occa-
sionally breaking out into interesting
little curls and loops. Miss Maude Chill
toms penmanship is just sufficiently er-
ratio to be interesting, n her rs and ks
dance about the page as gracefully as
their maker. Miss Jean Mcbride has
modified the pronounced angular style
into a pretty, pointed hand, rather small
er than is usual and delightfully."- legible.
Miss Sadie Traphagen's ~penmanship is
also clear ana legible, with a complete
absence of loops and curls. Miss Lillian
Pearsall and Miss Maude Brett both
modify the angular, and Miss Anuie
Adriance displays a pointed style whose
loop letters have an almost German
sharpness as pleasing as unusual. Miss
May Shafer and Miss May Miller both
occupy a large amount of note paper
when thev write their dainty missives,
and Miss Margaret Throckmorton's pen
manship is noteworthy for its clearness
and leqibility.
There is said to be a young lady who
lives not u thousand miles from Van
Worst Park whose fiance lives in New
York City. They write to each other
every ddJ, WI UiO uogo "bGh Ia ooOo hSO
not call. She makes a practice of using
u simple up and down movement of the
pen for each and every letter, with the
result that her ideas are sometimes hard
TO make out. One day last week the
fiance came not. Three days passed., and
neither ne nor a letter appeared. The
maiden was at first piqued, then alarmed,
and finally despatched a second letter in
no. haste. Then the mystery was solved;
the first note was written in a particular
hurry, and only one sentence could the
Young man dig out of the chaos. He
read iG, 'Let US part friends" but the
fair writer fully Intended it for ut Is
past fve." Explanations and ana recon-
citations followed, but in future the
maide vows 10 c%onfine herself to the most
readable variety of copy-book round
hand. g
MEMS P~ENMANsHIP.
The ~pennIanship OF men seldom reaches
such heights of illegibility as are attained
by the other sex, probably because Il BUSH
ness mans hand must be above all things
readable. But doctors. we now have long
borne the palm for p~ot-hooks aud Cesnola
himself might we'll stand aghast at the
hieroglyphics on the average prescription.
Two notable exceptions TO thisr rule are
DIR. George Sheriff. and DR.. Mclaughlin
of the Heights. Every Jersey City must
clan knows the penmanship OF Mr.. Victor
Baier, which ubounds in copperplate
fiourishes graceful curves and dainty
~shadiugs and arouses in the inquiring
mind the desire to find out how he does it,
particularly as he al dispense with II
desk or table and merely balance the pa
per with his left hand while accomplish
ing his chirography with his right. Per-
haps a somewhat striking contrast to this
is the handwriting of Mr.. Walter Muir
heId-much copy hath made it wild. But
it is always used for a purpose, and a
good one, and this is more TO The point.
And on the whole, in spite of what X
perts may say. it is what is written and