Character in Handwriting.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 194, 12 March 1887, Page 4 (Supplement)

Character in Handwriting.

There are people who claim to read men's characters from their writing. As the writing of every nation is distinguished by certain strong national peculiarities, it is easy for an export to decide to what nation a writer belongs. Having settled that, certain large characteristics which are common to all men, bat in different degrees, can be seen in every handwriting, A certain number of men are calm, even lived, sensible and practical. Men of that clasa are almost certain to write plain, round hands, in which every letter is distinctly legible ; neither very 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 upward nor downward. Exact, busines9-like> people will have an oxaet handwri ing. Fantastic minds revel in qui'ks and streamers, particularly for rho capital letters, and. this qu \hty is not infrequenc in certain business hands, a* if th • writers found a relief from tho prosaic nature of their work in giving flourishes to certain letters. Firm, decided downright men are apt to bear on the pan while writing, and to make theh\strokeshard a -id thick. On the contrary, people who are not sura of themselves, and are lacking ia self c ntrol, press unevenly, and with anxious looking scratchy hands. Ambitious pc >ple areTapt to be over-worked ; they are always in hate, and either forget to cross thoir t's or dot their i's They are also apt to run the last few letter* of every word into an i legible tcr.xwl Flurried, troubled, and conscience twinged persons hay« & crabbid and uneven handwriting,— St. Nicholas.

The u Echo " remarks that the services of the Btaiter are nob valued at a very high rate at New Zealand race-meetings, if ono oan judge from the honorarium of threo guineas voted to the gentleman who filled that position at the last meeting of North Canterbury Jockey Club.