Front--Set Writing Copies no Longer the Rule--Formal
Handwriting--Education's Effect on Writing--Handwriting and
Personality--The Character and Temperament of Writers Easily
Told--Honest, Eccentric, and Weak People--How to Determine Character
by Writing--The Marks of Truth and Straightforwardness--How
Perseverance and Patience Are Indicated in Writing--Economy, Generosity
and Liberality Easily Shown in Writing--The Character and Temperament
of Any Writer Easily Shown--Studying Character from Handwriting a
Fascinating Work--Rules for Its Study--Links in a Chain That Cannot Be
Hidden--A Person's Writing a Surer Index to Character Than His Face.


A person's handwriting is really a part of himself. It is an
expression of his personality and his character and is as
characteristic of his general make-up as his gait or his tone of
voice.

There is always a direct and apparent connection between the style of
handwriting and the personality of the writer. Another familiar
evidence of this is the fact that no two persons write exactly alike,
notwithstanding that hundreds of thousands of people learned to write
from the same copy-books and were taught to form their letters in
precisely the same way. Thus, it will be seen, if handwriting bore no
relationship to personality and temperament and was not influenced by
the character of the individual, we would all be writing the beautiful
Spencerian copper-plate we were taught in our school days. But, as it
is, not one in fifty thousand writes in this manner five years after
leaving school.

Like speech or gesture, handwriting serves as a means for the