CHARACTER IN HANDWRITING.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1568, 22 March 1887, Page 4

CHARACTER IN HANDWRITING.

Tuere are people who claim to read character from handwriting. As the writing of every nation is distinguished by certain strong national peouliarit'es it is easy for an expert to decide to what nation a." Titer belongs. It is said that certain large characteristics which are common to men, but in different degrees, many be seen in every handwriting. A certain number of men are calm, evenlived, sensible,, and practica 1 . Men of that class are almost certain to write plain, round hands, in which every letter is distinct y legible, neither very much slanted forward nor tilted backwards ; no letter very much bigger than its neighbor, nor with hea'ls much above or tails much below the lettprs not so distinguish- d ; the letters all having about' the Bamo general uprightness, and the lines being true to the edges of the paper,* neither tending upwards nor downwards. Exact businesF-'ike people will I>«vh an exact hind" riling. F'int-istic minda revel in quirks and treamers, particularly for the capital letters, and i his quality is not unfrequent in certain business hands, as if the writers found a relief from the prosaic nature of their work id giving flourishes \,o certain letters. Firm, decided, downright men are apt to bear on the pen while writing, and to make their strokes hard and thick. On the contrary, people who are not sure of themselves, and are lacking in selfcontrol, press unevenly, and with anxious-,

looking, scratchy hands. Ambitious people are apt to be overworked; thoy are always in haste, and either forget to cross their t's or dot their i's. They are also apt to run the last few letters of every word into an illegible scrawl. Flurried, troubled, and consciencetwinged persons have a crabbed and uneven handwriting.—lron.