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The Palmer Method of Business Writing / A Series of Self-teaching in Rapid, Plain, Unshaded, Coarse-pen, Muscular Movement Writing for Use in All Schools, Public or Private, Where an Easy and Legible Handwriting is the Object Sought; Also for the Home Learner

Chapter 100: LESSON 76
By A. N. Palmer
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The manual presents a practical system of business handwriting that trains a rapid, legible, and enduring hand through muscular-arm movement, correct posture, and disciplined practice. It argues against traditional copy-book drill, prioritizing whole-arm motion, comfortable penholding, rhythm, and frequent word-and-sentence practice over mechanical imitation. Lessons pair plain printed instructions framed as direct classroom talks with photo-engraved drills that preserve a working individuality. Exercises move from posture and ovals to flowing words, emphasizing study alongside repetition so the movement becomes habitual and transfers to all written work, producing handwriting characterized by legibility, speed, ease, and stamina.

LESSON 76

TO RELIEVE MUSCULAR TENSION

It is often advantageous to go over the path of the letter, or exercise, with a dry pen. This method is especially helpful to a student whose muscles are hard, and who finds difficulty in overcoming the tendency to keep the muscles of the arm and body in a rigid condition. This plan has been suggested in former lessons, and we consider it of sufficient importance to receive emphasis here.

Another plan which the author has found helpful to students who write with strained muscles, is to place a weight on the paper, and write with the left arm hanging down. The tension of the right arm is relieved at once.

Still another plan to relieve this tension, so common among beginners, is to select some easy drill like o or m, and make it across the ruled lines with the eyes fixed upon some object at a distance on a level with them when the body is fairly erect.

Drill 92

Small f is a little shorter below than above the base line, and is closed on the base line. A fair rate of practice speed is fourteen groups of five letters each, or seventy letters to the minute. Count 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7–8, 9–10, for each group.