Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-02-24
BOOK ON ONE GARD.
New York Penman Puts 1920
Words on Common Postal. "
Atn'ature chirosraphy Of George /.
30. REYNOLDS Enables Him to Perform
Feats Which Are Little Short
s&. Of Marvellous.


about hundred pages of a book, or
shy 10 columns Of a newspaper, on
one side of an ordinary United States
postal card, the work being done with
such skill that every word can be read
( easily, perhaps not by the naked eve.
put with the aid of microscope. This
+ Yves done by the winner of the latest
dne writing contest.
he wrote 13-word sentence ad-
i vert1s1ng a certain make of fountain
pen 1850 times on one side of q
standard postal card, 81 by 5h
inches, or total of 1920 words or
$4,000 letters. The card, when first
seen, appears simply as gray
|: smudge, and 1t is only after careful
scrutiny that it becomes apparent that
] there Is writing upon it, and very good
Writing 1t proves to be under the mae.
nttying glass. i>~-.<<.
The feat appears more wonderful
when the observer learns that the
work was that of a man in his eighty
nth year.
Inc new champion is George L.
reynolds, and his skill comes from a
long life of training, He is one of the
inventors Of the Spencerian system of
penmanship and from boyhood he has
studied all kinds of writing. He was
born In New York in; April, 1926, and
as boy went with his father to Spen-
GER Iioga county, this state.
chip, and, going to Oberlin, O., he
joined Platt R. Spencer, the originator
OF the Spencerian system, and with
spencer joined the faculty of Oberlin
college at the time that James A. Gar,
neld was president of the institution.
or his preparation he says:
I used to try and see how small !
could write on every occasion and
made 1t a hobby. It was about that
time that wrote the One hundred and
Nineteenth psalm, four pages of the
Bible, on a postcard, the whole in a
narrow half-inch band across the card.
Then I wrote whatrIocall my medley
70 small writing" s,a, 4s-' ,,g,rfcr1,
4 The expert displayed : a. large:
framed allegorical picture showing his
'torlcal events in drawing, but instead
or penl1nes the pictures on close OBJ.
,sservatfon ofeso1ved themselves. Into a
tcyclopedia Of history. There5were tens
q thousands, of tiny words hardly Wis
the TO the naked eye all constituting
9uch documents as the Declaration of
fndependeqce, the, constitution the the in
'sugural address and other Important
speeches of Washihgton.o Parts io5ff the
Zinc Douglass debates, parts0a of
celebrated addresses by Webster, Pat,
1ck Henry and Clay appeared there.
4nd there were IS chapters 4 from Il tthhe
Bible, Gwtthl the, Sermon on 2theT Mo,fitl
and Lineoln,s Gettysburg 3address.i! Al
Mr.. Reynolds is an ardent prohibition
tst there appeared the platform of that
party, and lastly an original poem by
his wife. This work took six months
OF arduous labor.
But all the time you have devoted
.to this work has. not profted eyou?"
4. KHas ID sq1ggesttedr 3snI sY2ft1 Vol yzsn
o "Well t!enjoyed: 1t! immensely as a
a h!a!o1bbyt Spencer and l. :, used to ed
swimming ct Geneva lake, near Ober.
Hin, I'd the summer evenings. /" II He i utsead
to take a stick and Practice Vwritins
'curves IN the sand 81 On the nbeach.
where he worked tout his famous 'sys:
YEN; g. EaNtiHd Syat1a2 oHs teit hua 1
fsHe took an ,elliptical :; stone i two!
II thirds as wide as It was long and used
that as. g basis. He got, his curves
from stones washed ~ tie ."i waves.
from wheat wviavlngo In The fields, ifrro5mn
spider webs III the meadows, ntakinx
everything FROM nature. : aIt vas sthe
only natural SYSTEM ever invented,W
l A!tqded the aged penman,s reminiscently,
TWn .lH asked whether, he :, had any
as ESid d'SHHa n H>s 9gn d m9''nuts 'AM9eEf
sIae1 might say that I have gained ~
experience. Ifhave been !at IT sincela
hoy, 75tyears oago, and j actual find
that sIo Gan performs better .feats aas5I
gEoW, Older. expect to make a, better
record five years from now, when / am
so, and will do better Is Years from
nov, for I expect e. sbben a 'titihdLraed.s "0
tie lastyear che atmospheric
has been II hiledq with ia WAVE ! Of fine
writing demonstrations throughout tile
! ccto3yntry. latter AZ experts had come
forth with # ychalllsenges and records Il
came forth with mine, ry1z.;to. The
Lofd's PrayeF 20 fim%es hfr ep5eea.teed IL TIA
circle tie sizela of d ehveeGaennt fnfckel,
Fhat,is going some SINGER wrJts Tie
Lords Prayer onla Mxspenny piecd :as
es boy jof, ,tenn ysars,s aIliwrotet that
vat % sHtglln Peqnhonhed steel. pens ia
III these Years 1ig been imp mprey
81 fd1 dfagdtfes.! p Y IN Ely Work 'qse
iostadohafa ahtcf6s c66pef 80 Y aajdsted
That rcafnNtf1ta dAdsf IT, ItGf4mfSa11y
prepare thetHtrfate tof s1ny erapef. Sd
that thai owhsnsi trallad q down duader great
pressure Of h98 ts rollers 9lfg the seFfeseli
about as sni0oth end hard lS j aso glaisss
dlesan srfnd tHa punt ,dfo Sa 80 sh6arp
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