fS IN PENMANSHIP. 



109 



arlit-r . (!'.. rt -, an. I .ompuriiiK' together your power of -\. 

 aa it waa at <liIlVr<-nt p 



It i, r:illn to show yon in an example how an 



humhl.' thi-uio may be well treated in oomp<>Hit.ii>ii. 1 take for 

 tli>< i>urpo80no of Pontalozzi's "Paternal Iimtruotiono." It in 

 on the domestic business of 



BAKING. 



Baking, like all cooking, is a fruit of civilisation. The savage 

 know* of no preparation for hi* food ; he eaU everything raw, like the 

 brutes ; and uiv.inliwrly he eats it like them, with brutal greediness. 

 A ]>ru]T ii.-t ie possible only when the food is prepared by art. 

 Baking, therefore, and every other sort of cooking, is a far more impor- 

 tant business than at first sight it appears to be. By baking we 

 procure the most wholesome of all nutriment that bread which, a* a 

 commoc necessary of life, we daily ask of God iu the most coiupruhen- 

 ire of all ]T.iyi'rs. 



It may be tuefol to beginner* to Me the MOM thought ex. 

 pruned in limple proposition* that u, proportion* or sen- 

 tences, not baring more than one subject and one object 

 BAKING. TV* tame in nmple tenter, 



Baking is a fruit of drilisation. Indeed, all cooking is a fruit of 

 civilisation. The savsge knows of no preparation for his food. The 

 savage eat* everything raw. The brutes eat everything raw. The 

 brutes also eat with greediness. With similar irosillnses does the 

 savage take his food. Art may be employed in preparing food, lu & 

 proper diet food is prepared by art. Baking, therefore, is an impor- 

 taut business. Indeed, cooking in general U aa important business. 

 Cooking U thought to be important. Still more important In reality 

 is baking. By baking we procure the most wholesome of all uutri- 

 incut. By baking we obtain bread. Bread is a common necessary of 

 life. We daily ask bread of God. We ask bread of God in the most 

 comprehensive of all prayers. 



COPY-SLIP NO. 20. COMBINATION OP THE LETTERS 1, i, t. 



COPY-SLIP NO. 21. COMBINATION OF THE LETTERS m, U, t. 



COPY-SLIP NO. 22. COMBINATION OF THE LETTERS t, 1, IU. 



COPY-SLIP NO. 23. COMBINATION OF THE LETTERS m, 1, 1. 



LESSONS IN PENMANSHIP. VII. 



OTJR readers, who have accompanied us thus far in our lessons 

 in Penmanship, finding that they are now beginning to form 

 letters composed of the bottom-turn, the top-turn, and the top- 

 and-bottom turn, with comparative ease, may bo wishing to 

 hasten on a little more rapidly, and to be trying their hard at 

 writing capitals as well as the small letters. This is a laudable 

 wish, without doubt, and one which will be gratified in due 

 time ; but, for the present, our learners must bo content to 

 advance slowly, remembering that slow progress is the surest 

 and safest method of attaining proficiency in any art, as the 

 pupil is thereby saved from the danger of hurrying on from one 

 point to another, for the sake of novelty, before- he is thoroughly 

 grounded in the rudiments of the art that he is seeking to acquire. 

 Many who now find themselves able to make a thick down-stroke 

 of uniform breadth throughout, such as is found in the letter 

 I, would lose much of the facility with which they are now imi- 



tating the copies we have placed before them, if they tried to 

 copy capital letters at this stage of their instruction. The reason 

 i is this, that the letters which the pupil has hitherto been copying 

 I consist, for the most port, of a straight stroke, while there is 

 ! not a single capital letter that is not formed of stceeping curvet, 

 i which cannot be made in a sufficiently graceful manner, unleaa 

 tho learner has obtained that pliancy of wrist, freedom of exe- 

 cution, and command over his pen, which can only be acquired 

 ! by constant practice on the simpler letters. If he were 

 ! now to try to trace out the curves, that form the letter A. 

 | he would find that his hand would begin to shake, and hi.-; 

 ! down-stroke be crooked and ragged throughout, owing to tho 

 1 change of direction in which he is compelled to torn bis pen ; 

 I and when he returned to the easier letters, he would further 

 ! find that the check he has received had rendered him less 

 i able to write letters that ho had previously formed with ease. 

 For this reason we continue our copies in large text, aa 

 exhibited above. 



