STEADMANS' WRITING 



Muscular Movement 



8 Pads — one for each year — each containing 40 sheets, 80 pages, or 3^^ 

 times as much as the ordinary copybooic. Price, each, 1 5 cents. 



STEADMANS' Graded Lessons in Writing train the 

 child to maintain a truly healthful position, and to use 

 the large muscles of the upper arm and shoulder as the 

 motive power in writing. As the ability to write automatic- 

 ally is acquired, a correct sitdng habit is inculcated; stoop- 

 ing over the desk, cramping the lung space, bringing the eyes 

 so close to the paper that they are permanently injured, be- 

 come impossible. The child is no longer subjected to the 

 harmful tendencies of former days. 



'^ This system teaches the child to write a good, characteristic 

 hand that will remain with him through life. The course is 

 presented in eight pads. Each pad is a complete cycle, 

 covering the work for an entire year, and containing forty 

 sheets, eighty pages, three and one-third times as much as 

 a copybook. Each page presents a central idea, around 

 which the lesson is constructed. The drills constitute a ser- 

 ies of graded, specialized, physical culture exercises. These 

 exercises are so devised and arranged that the pupils are led, 

 by easy gradations, from the simplest forms and letters to the 

 more complex. Each drill is based upon the movement re- 

 quired to form the letter or letters under consideration during 

 that particular writing lesson. 



^The work is simplicity itself. It teaches an easy, graceful 

 style of free handwriting with full play for the writer's indi- 

 viduality. It requires no extra exercise books, no teacher's 

 manual, no blank pads, and no additional paper. Any teacher 

 can teach it with ease without further assistance, and any 

 child will find no difficulty in performing it successfully, and 

 in acquiring a handwriting that is legible, rapid, and automatic. 



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