Are You a Good or Poor Penman? 



If you can't judge your own handwriting 

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By M. McGuire Telford 



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A STANDARD chart prepared by the 

 Russell Sage foundation in New York 

 city and distributed at a nominal 

 price enables any person to judge easily and 

 accurately his own or' another's hand- 

 writing. The scale is on a sheet of heavy 

 paper measuring nine by thirty-six inches. 

 It contains, twenty-four samples of writing 

 of eight different degrees of excellence. 

 These are of three slants— vertical, medium 

 and extreme. Each of the three slants has 

 eight samples for the eight different grades. 

 Proceeding from left to right each sample is 

 better than the preceding; moreover, the 

 gradations are equal. 



The samples are marked at the top 20, 

 30, and so on up to 90. In actual practice. 



however, writing is usually marked on a 

 more liberal scale. Grades ranging from 60 

 to 95 are indicated in the circles at the top 

 of the same samples. The three slants on 

 the scale include more than 95% of the 

 ordinary writing of adults; in fact, 65% of 

 all the samples studied are included in the 

 medium slant. 



In measuring the quality of a given 

 sample, the method is to slide the sheet 

 along the scale until writing of similar 

 quality is found on the scale; then a 

 glance at the top of that division tells the 

 grade. Where many samples are to be 

 marked, as in school or other examinations, 

 two methods are used. The first is to 

 compare each sample with the chart as 



