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MANUAL OF HANDWRITING

sprawl over the desk we have the nearly upright position, free from even the tendency towards an unhealthy or painful attitude. It may be safely asserted that since all unnatural positions are

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Position in Sloping Writing (Front View)
Position in Vertical Writing (Front View)

Fig. 7.

precluded from the System, Vertical Writing strictly fulfils every Hygienic requirement.

When we turn to the actual achievements of Vertical Writing, as exhibited in the evidence of numerous teachers in schools of