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VOL. 2, Chicago, April, 1885. NO. 1 •TH E- A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of Penmanship. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, 60c. PEfl YEAR. WORTHINGTON & PALMER, Editors and Publishers, What Will Be the Age of a Penman! .Surely I cannot tell. But I can tell to a certain extent on what his age depends. And 5$|l a view to extract a few vital principles^VI have chosen this rather anam ol>»£;OT«bj ect. I have a cr»ubt in my mind whether the penman born in '80, willj in fifty years hence, be as active as the penman of '80 is now. The reasons for this are obvious. The penmen we are making now cannot present a biography written on a hide tanned with the log-cabin switch, and made tough by feeding the .owner, on johnny- cakes and b&ked beans, as many of our old-time veterans can testify. It is the laying of a good foundation of a healthy constitution that gives the promise o^ a long life—the building of such a physical frame that defies disease in all its hideous presentations. Wg can, therefore, draw an inference that all things being equal, it depends in a great measure on how we are raised, to give us the assur ance of what may be our age in the future. Fifty years ago there were no soothing syrups, paregorics, and other nostrums to forcibly quiet the little squealing cherub's albuminous brain whenever the mother, or in to-day'slanguage, lady of the house had .a visitor inthe'parlor, or the nurse was tormented witlr-a*. tooth-ache: Then, the adage was not''Za^Aahd grow fat,'' but cryv&nd grow iLwSjRmensions; i. e., "you little prospective scribe, get all the oxygen into your diminutive lungs you can, aerate your precious little bit of blood through nature's scientific apparatus for ventilation—your big mouth; cry, yell, kick, jump, eat all you can and what you like; no rules for indigestion; we've knocked dyspepsia out in two rounds; hurry and get big, we need you to help the old man clear the backwoods for summer corn." Mother did not have two or three nurses to take care of the darling boy, and a special physician to prescribe (?) whenever baby dear was cutting its first teeth. Mush, in place of condensed milk, and corn-cake and apple dumplings in place of extra prepared farina, and Mellin's food for infants, was, with a double ffrti on of out-door exercise, what made a constitution defiant to almost anything nSorbific. If you live according to the order of the presenVday^hat is, a small and insufficient breakf astf at 9, a cramming dinner of from five to ten courses of-all kinds of indigestible stuff, wound up, perhaps,..wilhaglass or two of some home-made foreign liquor, which at its best is worth nothing, at 4 in the afternoon, and a supper of almost similar magnitude at 9 or 10 at night. I say, my young friend, if you live according to this fashionable mode, (the unfashionable being equally as bad, they eat and drink whenever they are hungry, or when they have it), you can conclude with yourself that you will die a young old man. In defiance to all enlightenment and advancement of medical science, and the large number of doctors in the land, people, in their mode of living and raising children, become more deteriorated every year. There is no more the rosy hue on the cheek of our school-boy that was there fifty years ago. Instead of having three or four branches to contend with, they have now ten or twelve. The brain that ought to have all possible comfort and the physical constitution all possible > exercise and sunshine during the process of development, is now overworked and restrained by the more •scientific order of things. Do you wonder why our young men and women of the present day are so wan, pale and deliGate that you can almost see through them ? I do not. Where is the fire and bloom of their age? The avaricious monster, Fashion, has extinguished it, without mercy. Where is the family, school or academy, where health and superior strength of body and mind is f&und ? I know of none. ^ do not wish to be understood to be one who is opposed to education or the advancement of our young. Not "at all. I V .V
Object Description
Title | Western Penman, Vol. 2, No. 1 |
Description | Issue of The Western Penman, a publication of the Western Penmen's Association. |
Subject |
Penmanship -- Periodicals Penmanship -- Study and teaching Western Penman's Association |
Local Tags |
digitized Western Penman Penmanship Journals |
Date Created | 1885-04 |
Decade | 1880-1889 |
Journal | The Western Penman |
Volume and Issue | Vol. 2, No. 1 |
Publisher | Worthington and Palmer |
Place of Publication | Chicago (Ill.) |
Category | Journal issues |
Collection |
Zaner-Bloser, Inc. / Sonya Bloser Monroe Penmanship Collection |
Source |
Helen Gallagher McHugh Special Collections Zaner-Bloser, Inc. / Sonya Bloser Monroe Penmanship Collection |
Access Rights | Public |
Identifier | westernpenman02-01 |
Type | Text |
Format | image/tiff |
Language | eng |
Rights URI | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
Rights | Public Domain (United States) |
Date Added | 2018-02-02 |
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Title | westernpenman-b01_0077 |
Date Created | 1885-04 |
Decade | 1880-1889 |
Identifier | westernpenman-b01_0077 |
Transcript | VOL. 2, Chicago, April, 1885. NO. 1 •TH E- A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of Penmanship. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, 60c. PEfl YEAR. WORTHINGTON & PALMER, Editors and Publishers, What Will Be the Age of a Penman! .Surely I cannot tell. But I can tell to a certain extent on what his age depends. And 5$|l a view to extract a few vital principles^VI have chosen this rather anam ol>»£;OT«bj ect. I have a cr»ubt in my mind whether the penman born in '80, willj in fifty years hence, be as active as the penman of '80 is now. The reasons for this are obvious. The penmen we are making now cannot present a biography written on a hide tanned with the log-cabin switch, and made tough by feeding the .owner, on johnny- cakes and b&ked beans, as many of our old-time veterans can testify. It is the laying of a good foundation of a healthy constitution that gives the promise o^ a long life—the building of such a physical frame that defies disease in all its hideous presentations. Wg can, therefore, draw an inference that all things being equal, it depends in a great measure on how we are raised, to give us the assur ance of what may be our age in the future. Fifty years ago there were no soothing syrups, paregorics, and other nostrums to forcibly quiet the little squealing cherub's albuminous brain whenever the mother, or in to-day'slanguage, lady of the house had .a visitor inthe'parlor, or the nurse was tormented witlr-a*. tooth-ache: Then, the adage was not''Za^Aahd grow fat,'' but cryv&nd grow iLwSjRmensions; i. e., "you little prospective scribe, get all the oxygen into your diminutive lungs you can, aerate your precious little bit of blood through nature's scientific apparatus for ventilation—your big mouth; cry, yell, kick, jump, eat all you can and what you like; no rules for indigestion; we've knocked dyspepsia out in two rounds; hurry and get big, we need you to help the old man clear the backwoods for summer corn." Mother did not have two or three nurses to take care of the darling boy, and a special physician to prescribe (?) whenever baby dear was cutting its first teeth. Mush, in place of condensed milk, and corn-cake and apple dumplings in place of extra prepared farina, and Mellin's food for infants, was, with a double ffrti on of out-door exercise, what made a constitution defiant to almost anything nSorbific. If you live according to the order of the presenVday^hat is, a small and insufficient breakf astf at 9, a cramming dinner of from five to ten courses of-all kinds of indigestible stuff, wound up, perhaps,..wilhaglass or two of some home-made foreign liquor, which at its best is worth nothing, at 4 in the afternoon, and a supper of almost similar magnitude at 9 or 10 at night. I say, my young friend, if you live according to this fashionable mode, (the unfashionable being equally as bad, they eat and drink whenever they are hungry, or when they have it), you can conclude with yourself that you will die a young old man. In defiance to all enlightenment and advancement of medical science, and the large number of doctors in the land, people, in their mode of living and raising children, become more deteriorated every year. There is no more the rosy hue on the cheek of our school-boy that was there fifty years ago. Instead of having three or four branches to contend with, they have now ten or twelve. The brain that ought to have all possible comfort and the physical constitution all possible > exercise and sunshine during the process of development, is now overworked and restrained by the more •scientific order of things. Do you wonder why our young men and women of the present day are so wan, pale and deliGate that you can almost see through them ? I do not. Where is the fire and bloom of their age? The avaricious monster, Fashion, has extinguished it, without mercy. Where is the family, school or academy, where health and superior strength of body and mind is f&und ? I know of none. ^ do not wish to be understood to be one who is opposed to education or the advancement of our young. Not "at all. I V .V |
Date Added | 2018-02-02 |
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