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,
miniature chirography of George l..
reynolds Enables Him to Perform
Feats Which Are Little Short
of Marvellous.

ABOUT hundred pages of a book. or
Say 10 columns OF 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
, was done by the winner of the latest
line writing contest.
he wrote 13-word sentence ad.
Verus1ng certain make of fountain
i pen 1880 times on one side of
standard postal card, 81 by 5h
1nches' or a total Of 1920 words or
o1'ooo letters. The card, when first
seen, appears simply as a gray
smudge, and it is only after careful
scrutiny that 1t becomes apparent that
uere IS writing upon it, and very good
w1!S1ng it proves to be under the mag
mfying glass.
Inc 1eat appears more wonderful
wnen the observer learns that the
WORK was that of a man in his eighty
fifth year.
The new champion is George L.
Aeynolds, and his skill comes from a
long life of training. He is one of the
inventors of the Spencerian system of
penmansh1p and from boyhood he has
studied all kinds of writing. He was
porn In New York in April, 1925, and
as a boy went with his father to Spen.
Ger, T1oga county, this state.
he became a teacher OF penman-
snip, and, going to Oberlin, O., he
joined Plat R. Spencer, the originator
OF the Spencerian system, and with
Spencer joined the faculty of Oberlin
college at the time that James A. Gar
field was president of the institution
OF his preparation he says
i used to try and see how small
cou1d write on every occasion and
mace 1t hobby. It was about that
t1me that wrote the One hundred and
Nineteenth psalm, four pages of the
b1Dle, on a postcard, the whole in a
narrow half-inch band across the card.
Ihen l wrote what l call my medley
IN small writing"
The expert displayed large.
framed a1legorical picture showing his
torlcal events in drawing, but instead
Or PENNIES the pictures on close OBJ
.servat1on resolved themselves into
cycloped1a OF history. There were tens
OF thousands of tiny words hardly Wis.,
ib4e to the naked eye, all constituting
such documents as the Declaration of
Independence, the constitution, the in
saugural address and other important
speeches of Washington. Parts of the
l1nce1n-Douglas Debates, parts of
celebrated addresses by Webster. Pat
f1ck Henry and Clay appeared there.
ana there were 10 chapters from the
bible, with the Sermon on the Mount
and Lincolns Gettysburg address. As
Mr.. Reynolds is an ardent prohibition
ist 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
Ito this work has not profted you?"
T., vas suggested.
We'll, I enjoyed it immensely as a
hobby. Spencer and used to 90
swimming at Geneva lake, near Ober.
hin, In the summer evenings. He used
to take stick and practice writing
curves in the sand on the beach.
where he worked out his. famous sys-
tenn. ....
HE took an elliptical stone two.
thirds as wide as 1t was long and used
that as a basis. He got. his curves
from stones washed by the waves.
from wheat waving in the fields, from
spider webs in the meadows, taking
everything from nature; It was the
only natural system Fl ever invented
ADDED the aged penman,. reminiscently.
When asked whether he had any
method le of doing his own minute work
he said: u y ~ ";''' '.''|7'!
Il might say that I have gained by
experience. have been at 1t since
boy, IS years ago, and i actually find
that l can perform better feats as j
Grow older. I expect to make a better
record five years from now, when am
80, and will do better Is years from
now, for expect to be hundred ::
LUZ AAA6 tA0 Ac1oC yOd1 tAS dLuOSpu0To
has been filled with q wave Of fine
writing demonstrations throughout the
country. After II experts had come
forth with challenges and records I
came forth with mine, VIZ: The
lords Prayer 20 times repeated in a
circle the Size Of a five-caennt nickel.
That is going some, since I wrote the
Lords Prayer ON a 1sixspenny piece ais
o. boy of, ten, years. but i wrote that
iXEdttt With a quill pen NO steel pens in
9Szi q theses Year.. lave been 1t mproy
thg Fmy7 facuhttes.. In my y Work IL Use
iostatdoniaty 1dfcroscope' 50 adjusted
That 1tcan write Under It" Ichenifcally
prepare the surface tof my paper, Sd
that that {, when rolled down under great
Pr pressure of hot hot rollers the surface IS
abost as 1 sH9oth anP9d hssFSd af g@ass
Me and grind the point down So sharp
that It can scarcalv1 fs6 seeri If (1er NV