The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-01
ADVANTAGES OF rYPEwRITING.
a French Physician on It's SUPERIOR
ity to PenmRnship.
From the Birmingham Post.

ity to PenmRnship.
From the Birmingham Post
Writing in the Journal dHygiene," DR..
Moreau. Of Tours. draws attention 10 what
he qualities as a. remarkable work by DR..
Bizzorero on the advantages which type
writing possesses over the old-fashioned
method of communicating IDEAS to paper
In the opinion Of the author. penmanship
is fraught with danger to the writer's
health in a variety of ways. To begin
with, the constrained attitude he is COM
PEELED to assume favors a distorted spine,
and especially seoliosis, together with We
nous congestion, headache, epistaMs, dys-
pnoea and compression of the abdominal
organs, leading 20 constipation and dys-
pepsia the latter disability being we'll
nigh inevitable should he sit down to write
Immediately after meals. The hands hav-
ing to execute dissimilar work. the pen
man cannot guide his pen without keeping
his eye glued to the point; and so his
vision is bound to suffer, asthenopia being
a frequent sequela, owing to the strain
of the accommodatOry apparatus. In adu4ts
vertigo and vomiting frequently compli-
power of accommodation is greater, the
complication to be feared is myopa.
The use of a typewriter according TO
Dr. Bizzorero, Is perfect remedy for all
these evils, and for the following reason:
The operator sits straight, with head erect
and arms al liberty. His lungs have free
play, and his abdominal viscera remain
uncompressed. His eyes undergo no
strain. for he is not obliged to keep them
fixed on a moving pen; in fact, after
little practice, he can turn them away
from the KEYS whenever he likes without
interrupting his work That distressing
complaint. writer's cramp, so common
among people who have to live by their
pens, has no terrors for the typewriter.
His occupation Is an amusement TO MN,
and without the least discomfort he can
return to it Immediately after eating.
But il is not to the healthy alone that
typewriting presents so many advantages.
Numbers of people who have the misfor-
tune 10 be palsied cannot use pen,
whereas they can express themselves
freely. thanks to the machine; ana many
sufferers from conjunetivisit, irritis or cho-
roditis. who have been forbidden to write
after the old-fashioned style, can in the
same way carry on correspondence with
their friends at a distance. If proof We're
wanting that typewriting has no injurious
effect on the eyes, it would be forthcom-
ing in the fact that the blind readily be-
come expert manipulators. DR.. Bizzorero
advances rapidity in writing as a hygienic
advantage but the legitimacy of the claim
is not very apparent. His contention IN
favor of legibility Is, however, more likely
to find acceptance, for, in truth, there are
many handwritings of which the attempt
ed decipherlng cannot but be highly inJu-
rious to the health of the unfortunate
persons whose sad fate it is to endeavor
to interpret the hieroglyphics DIR. Mo
reau observes in conclusion, that the
kneu of autobiography is not likely TO be
heard for some time to come. Bookeep-
ing will no doubt. long serve the cause
of penmanship, and what writer of blllets-
doux would intrust his lucubrations to a
mechanical typewriter?