HANDWRITING.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 2007, 20 December 1886, Page 4

HAND WRITING.

There are people who claim to read Ben’s characters from their writing. As the writing of every nation is distinguished by certain strong national peculiarities, it is easy for an expert to decide to what uat ion a writer belongs Having settled that, eertain large characteristics, which are common to all men, but in different degrees, can be seen in every handwriting. A eertain number of men are calm, even-lived, sensible and practical. Men of that class are almost certain to write plain round hands in which •very letter isdistinctly legible, neither eery much slanted forward, nor tilted backward ; no letter very much bigger than its neighbour, nor with heads much above or tails much below the letters not so distinguished, the letters all having about the same general uprightness, and the lines true to the edges of the paper, neither tending upwards or downwards. llxact, busi-ness-like people will have an exact handwriting. Fantastic minds revel in quirks and steamer*, particularly for the capital letters, and this quality is not infrequent in certain business bands as if the writers found a relief from the prosaic nature of their work in giving flourishes to certain letters. Firm, decided, downright men are apt to bear on the pen while writing and to make their strokes bard and thick. Ob the contrary, people who are not sure of themselves and are lacking in self-control, press unevenly and with anxious looking scratchy hands ; ambi tious people are apt to be overworked ; they are always in baste, and either forget to cross their t’s or dot their i’s. They are also apt to run the last fe w letters of every word into an illegible scrawl. Flurried, troubled and con-science-twinged persons use a crabbed and uneven bandwriting.