The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-03
TIE SIMPLE, BUT USEFUL PENH0LDER Very Few Things Are Pro- duced in Greater
 Variety. NEW STYLES PREVAIL Odd, Cheap, Costly, Artistic and Everything
 Else.
NEW STYLES PREVAIL

A simple enough thing a penholder might seem to be, but of all things few are produced in greater variety
 Penholdens such as are more com monly used, that is, other than those of silver or of gold, are now made in hundreds of styles or variations, A single American manufacturer of lead pencils and penholders makes nearly 200 styles of penholders. To this now almost endless assortment new styles are constantly added.
 Those penholders of the kinds more commonly used, ranging in price at from one cent to 25 cents each, are sold in this country to the number of mill lions annually, and American penhold- CTS are exported to all parts of the globe.
 There are penholders that can be bought at wholesale as low as 40 cents a gross; such retailing at one cent each, and of theee great numbers are sold but what with the general spread in the country of wealth or of com fortable means, and the general spread of the present day desire for something better, there are probably now sold as many penholders of kinds that retail for three or five cents, penholders that have grace as we'll as utility.
 When penholders were first intro- duced, with the introduction of steel pens, those assigned for common use were all very plain and simple, the al- most universally used pennolder being of wood, straight and round and of q uniform diameter and stained red, and having at one end little bent cylinder of thin sheet steel, into the open end of which the pen was set.
 Now penholders are made, as to the handle part, straight, swell and taper, and in various other shapes, and the tips, as they are called, in which the pen is held are made of steel, or brass, or nickel, or cork, or rubber, And then there are penhoiders with the ham, dle all of wood, with the tip at the ex- treme end not gripped in the writer's hand, but little embedded ring of metal through which the pen is insert ed into the handle: and there are pen- haoldens all of ilardsrubber, these made also of many different sizes and shapes and of many colors
 Wooden pehholders are made of ce- dar or of whitewood, some finished in the natural wood pblished, and some stained, and many dipped or painted. There are to be foupd such penholders in all colors.
 And the tips are In almost as great a variety as to shape or finish. There are metal tips, plain and futed and spiral and embossed, and these in vari4 ous colors or varlcolored, or gilt; and cork tips of various shapes and sizes, and rubber tips likewise, and rubber tips that are called pneumatic, being not solid but hollow, and so yielding under the fingers. ~ Among the penholders that might be called odd shaped are some with the grip part of the handle triangular, and others with the grip part of the handle, or the whole penholder, made in the shape of half hexagon. Such penhold- CTS are used by draughtmen, designers and card writers, who want penhold- CT that, picked up and held In their &C., customed manner, will present the pen to the paper always in exactly the same way, so producing uniform re- suits. And there are writers who pre- fer such penholders because they don't turn in the hand and so don't need to be held so hard.
 When 1t comes to silver penholders you might find of these in single stock penholders of a hundred styles, ranging in price from $1 to $5: pen holders of various sizes and of various shapes, including octagon, and twisted, and of many kinds of finish, smooth and engine turned and engraved, and etched, in designs of many patterns, which may be purely ornamental, or perhaps of distinct styles of Renais- sance, Empire, George IT., to match ink wells, paperholders or other be- longlngs of desk sets.
 And of gold penholders, including