Some purpose, some Meaning there must surely be in the
differences in handwriting between one person and another. n some future century perhaps character reading will be
tight with the alphabet. At present we are very much in lie dark on the subject, in spite of a voluminous and rather fantastic literature. In Studies in Handwriting (Ansbaeher, 48' (I41.), Graphysique " gives us twenty specimen plates of he characteristic " hand " of persons in various walks of life, Rich as a dog-lover and a dancer, a M.F.H. and an optician,
Poet and a pig-breeder—the latter's occupation being
xeMplified (so he gravely says) by the crop of curly tails in s handwriting. A swimmer, again, would appear to produce
wave-moulded effect with his pen. One lives and learns. roan a purely practical point of view, however, it is fairly-
airly certain
certain that a great deal can be ascertained from the slant of a person's handwriting and the way they address envelopes. Many employers judge applications largely on the appearance of the letter, This book is worth looking through by -those whose interests take them into calligraphic or cheiromantic circles.
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