AN ARGUMENT FOR VERTICAL HANDWRITING. 89 



teacher's fancy. The other eight weeks the class received some- 

 times two and sometimes three thirty-minute lessons per week.) 

 Let it be understood that these are not isolated cases, but that 

 every member of the class shows the same marked contrast. The 

 slanting writing is part of a composition, while the straight 

 writing was from dictation. 



Now let the reader hold the page farther and farther from him 

 until the vertical writing becomes indistinct, and then try his 



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eyes on the slanting writing at this distance. Unless his sight is 

 different from that of a large number of persons whom the writer 

 has tested, the universal verdict will be in favor of the legibility 

 of the vertical writing. The test becomes much clearer when a 

 short-sighted person, who wears glasses, takes them off and tries 

 to read the two styles of writing. To such people, so plain is the 

 proof that they wonder why straight writing has not been adopted 

 in the schools long ago. 



It is claimed that vertical writing can be more rapidly written 

 than slanting for the reason that the perpendicular of every right- 

 angled triangle is shorter than the hypotenuse, and therefore 



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