1938-06-16 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1998,

NEW METHOD OF HANDWRITING IS BEING TAUGHT LOCAL CHILDREN

ARMY SCHOOLS ADOPT RHYTHMIC PATTERN SYSTEM

A

Claimed To Be Means Of

Banishing All Bad

Handwriting

NEW and revolutionary method of teaching children handwriting has come to Hongkong, and is to-day be- ing employed in the military schools here. Known as the Marion Richardson system, it has many outstanding fea- tures which experts agree combine to make a person write more legibly, and to learn to write very much more quickly than through the ordinary methods employed in the schools.

It is claimed that so effective is the system, that if properly taught, it will forever banish bad and l-formed handwriting. Based on natural movement, it is said to be the answer to the harassed employer's prayer for decipherable handwriting.

So interesting are some of the re- suita from this syster, that the Telegraph publishes together with this explanation, three photographis taken from the Marion Richardson Teacher's Book", which clearly illustrate the results of the methods.

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The busie klea behind the Marion Richardson system of handwriting le contained in the creation of rhythmnic pattern movements. These form the preparation for handwriting just an naturally as prattle is the natural preparation of speech.

FIRST PATTERNS

to

It is claimed that before a child in ready to take an intereal in letters, he should be given the simplest of

encourage:f these alterns and practise them, and to lavent others by combining and playing with the But so doing the given movements, child will teach himself the rhythmle control, the swiftness and lightness of touch, which are the foundationa of good handwriting.

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The "Teacher's Book" number of illustrations of the pat- terms suggested, and then goes on to describe how, from this foundation, the children Lhould be taught to make capital letters. For example, the V and W are made with one con- The tinuous zig-zag movement. first stroke of the M should be a down-stroke; the rest of the letter is made without fling the pencil. A is made with two down struktes and one cross-stroke.

Joan Hunt.

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their

was cold bleak, balung weather foggy withal and Servoje conte hear the people in the cour outside go wheezing upara doun, beating their hands

Lupton breasts and stamping their feet. upon the pavemins deng to warm them the city clocks had only just gone there but the quite dark already, it had not fteri fượp 5 all day and candle were flaring in the windows, of the neighbouring offices, time muddy

smere upon the. palpable brown dir

A transcription from printed book in ink, hy Joan Hunt, aged 8 years. The writing is strong, but not yet quite as free an it would have been in pencil. This child has been writing for ono year.

smail o, und the distance between the lines the space of three small o's.

INK-WRITING

ریا

you love to sew and cut out the collers.

are very hard work the coats have to be I long you have to paut buttons on the coats you have to use a suving machine if you

The Tailor

My father is a todor he makes coats and suits he makes a lot of hats to soll and a lot of boys. caps he works every day on making suits and girls coots and girls hats he has to use a big needle he has to sew the peases. have a little bit of serving together he has to rul you do it with a needle the collins on the coats and • strong peace of thread:

and the ribbon authe mens hats it is hard

Charles Levink] work to do you had

to sew the ribbon on ovelse it with fall of

Here is an example of the Marion Richardson type of handwriting by Charles Levine, aged 7 years. The composition was written in pencil and the writing is vigorous and well formed.

POUNDING LOYALIST RETREAT

Relentless Advance By Insurgents Continues

Hendaye, June 15. Three Insurgent warships slowly cruising a few hundred yards off the shore shelled re- treating Loyalist troops

WOMEN IN CUSTODY IN GREAT SPY DRAMA

U.S. Investigations Near Completion

New York, June 15. it is revealed that 21 second woman has been placed in pro- at tective custody for a fortnight

AVIATION SPIRIT WAS FOR CHINA

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SHIPMENT DESTINED FOR HANKOW

1,300 Tins Destroyed In Junk Blaze

On enquiries being made at the Asiatic Petroleum Company

almost point-blank range on the in connection with the United to-day, it was learned that there highway south of Castellon to-States' spy investigations. day.

The Insurgents are now only 18 miles from Sagunto, strategic link in Loyalist communications Valencia and Mudrid.

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were

The official said, "The spirit was to have been loaded on to the train for Canton to-day and thence would

1,300 tins of aviation The woman, whom the spirit, destined for Hankow, Federal authorities regard as aboard the junk which blew up their most important material at the company's installation witness, has been living in a wharf at North Point last night. Three Insurgent air raids were hotel adjoining one of the big carried out an Valencia to-day and Long Island aerodromes. Here there were numerous casualties. she made the acquaintance of a

Insurgent troops crossing the Rlo de Mijares on pontoons which were number of airmen. She also ferrted across the river under wither- kept a local bar. Ing Loyalist Are Armly established themselves on the southern banks of the river, and have now captured Villareal, Almazora and Alcora. They

The woman is apparently unac quainted with the missing Dr. Griebl, whom Federal agents greatly desire to meet, but, according to the New

have been sent by rail to Hankow.

"It was purely a commercial ship- ment and would have been delivered to the company's premises at Hon- kow,"

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report that a "Lost Battalion" of York Times, she knew one of the the explosion, which remained HONGKONG Loyalists has started to cross the last directors of the secret agents who unobstructed posses on a Bnal re- eluded capture long before the "I have no reason to doubt that it treat to sanctuary in France.--United present case was brought to the

knowledge of the public.

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NO BOMBING CASUALTIES

Valencia, June 15. Six Insurgent planes bombed the refugee crowded business district of the city at 10.30 am. and i p.m. to-

wen!, however,

It is

is also explained that U,C,G,0. and are all made without lifting the, pencil, except for the tail of the which

is an added stroke, The small letters are all made with an unbroken movement of the pencil, and it is suggested that it will help the child to make good letters if he pays attention

the Internal shapes ather than to the oulilne.

By the time the child is 0 years of age, he should have begun to make use of writing, and he should be given copies to trace, as this will rapidly form and establish his hand- writing, because it so simplifies the process that it frees him to give his whole attention to guiding his pencil. Patterns are again emphasised for Afterwards he should be Impresi chlidren between 9 and 10, and these ed with the importance of corrcet take the form of fundamental writ- spacing, and be taught a convenienting rhythms, and of small letters. rule that the distance between words The letter patterns are made by writ-

(Continued on Next Column.) js little more than the space of one

For the child between 7% and 9, ink-writing should be introduced, day. There and child's first pen should write casualties. nearly as possible as a pencil writes, and therefore without marked con- trast between thick and thin stroken. It should be stiff, square, and I pos- sible, trench-polated, that is, having the writing edge slightly turned up so that it will write smoothly and without pressure,

UV. Practical

17 yea

Francea M.Whitney

Winscout was born on March 30th 1835, in the rectory of Zandert in Brabant. His father was a quiet dignified Bodinasy man, from whem Vincent inherited nothing but a burning desire to enter the church. This desire forma the background to". pir first asti His mother gave him his appicananes, his sensibility, and such poisirs nshad to serve him landgle tye. Her portrait suggests that she was a passint, but she belonged, like her henband, to a cullivred middle class. Vincent looked like a peasant, who by an unkindly briek o jaku hast become a torneman, and for this reason pertimus. he, never appeared là kést advantage. He www tarved. Hip dramasi a drama `of polimeration Vincent longed for almost everything a man can long for, and it so funpipered that the effects of his devines dick not appear to him lobe altogether. unattainable; ↳ the light in which he regarded thism, his desires were as legitimate and reasonable antis right: to carn a daily longe. The findt andets of his faith was- I butive", This guilh was not a boy for his lébure, but Vincento only demand sipom lije, trèsneed, was far mon imperious than any? materine demand q his physical scioraña a maidk hi stared all his, lic From the manunt he became cometious his existence the paigo of hunger never left him. The world beat film as Don Quixote was heartin, but the world's blows and his panies, were more nclúint than the needs of Cervantes hero, but here is no phantasy; Vacent's illudona weet Almon tangible: Nnion [The thread of probibility was strai

mother power was no great, bat cuen sylor his slánite desires rengin a jerse as inmondat We no the aspirations of the Spirish,

VINCENT VAN Jock).

Biographient study, by

This is by a girl of 17, who used this style of writing In her school Certificate examination, having written in this way since she was 11.

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Alicante and Barcelona were also bombed. United Presa,

GERMAN TROOPS CAPTURED Barcelona, June 16. A Loyalist communique announces German In- the capture of seven fantrymen on the Castellon front.

German Although several

pilots have fallen into Loyalist hands, these are the first German infantrymen to be captured since the outbreak of the civil war-United Press.

MIAJA RALLIES ARMY

Hendaye, June 15. General Miaja, the Loyalist leader, Is massing 00,000 troops south of Castellon In an effort to break the Insurgent offensive on Valencia.

Reports from the front indicate that the Insurgents have been temporarily Ihalted a few miles south of Castellon, It is believed that Castellon itself is not yet entirely conquered. Broken bridges across the Rlo de Mijores, wrecked by the Loyalists after they retreated across the river, are serious- ly impeding Insurgent operations. United Press.

The authorities have now renewed their interest in the suicide last February of a former high Germark army ofleer, Otto Battenschlag, who was found dead on a beach, shot in the head and heart, with two pistols in his hands,

According to the New York Post the woman now in custody sent back Battenschlag's body to his home. In Stuttgart.

The Federal Grand Jury is expect- ed to conclude its investigation of alleged espionage activities in the United States within the next few Thirty-nine witnesses have days. already been questioned, and it is reported that 22 indictments may be returned-Renter.

KIDNAPPER AWAITS SENTENCE

a mystery.

а Was

normal accident. In the twenty years I have been in the oll business there have been many of them," he said,

At present, he said, the company as to whether had no information there were a series of explosions or just one explosion. He revealed that there were eight people aboard the Junk at the time it blew up.

The company regretted that one person had been killed and others Injured in the explosion.

The list of casualties follows:

Lai Ng. 48, married woman, died of burns,

Hul Kau, 52, junk-master, serious burtis;

Chow Yau. 18. fokl. serious burns:

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Ip Fook, tok, slight burns. The junk apparently crossed the harbour to the North Point Installa- laden tion, where it joined other junks awaiting towage. It is be- lieved that the cargo was destined for Canton.

No renson can be given by the

Queen four victims now in

Mary the outbreak. The Hoopital for

9.50 Miami, June 15. explosion, which occurred at Franklin Pierce McCall has been p.m., rattled windows in Kowloon, found guilty of the kidnapping of and was followed by an intense fre "Skeegie" Cach, 2-year-old son of that lasted for into the night, n Princeton garage-owner,

Outstanding courage was displayed

Sub-Inspector Butcher, aware

of

NEARING SAGUNTO

Salamanca, June 15. He will be sentenced to-morrow. by Sub-Inspector Butcher, of No. 6 The Fourth Brigade of the Insur- The penalty for kidnapping In Police Launch, who, with the private gent army is stated to have reached Florida ls death by electrocution launch Yuct On, was the first on the

scene. to-day a point 20 miles distant from Reuter, Sagunto and 35 rulles from Valencia, The body of the child was found By the capture to-day of Villareal, some days after a $10,000 ransom five

milca froin Castellon, the had been pald. Loyalists still holding out in the environs of the latter city, estimated at 5,0

5,000 troops, have been deprived of any possibility of retreat, and their early surrender is expected.

ARMY LORRY KILLS WOMAN

the danger from the fiercely blazing craft to the other laden junks and to the A.P.C. Installation wliarves, nosed his launch Into the flames and pushed tho the blazing junk away from danger zone with the bows of his craft. Crew of the police launch con- Castellon itself is reported to have

tinuously played a fire hose on their vessel to prevent it catching fro. suffered little damage, since the In- surgents abstained from using artii- An Army motor lorry driven by Exploding tins of petrol scattered Jery in storming the city.-Trans-M. Gray, of the Royal Army Ser- the highly inflammable material over Occan,

vice Corps knocked down an un- the surface of the harbour. known Chinese woman in Waliaunu

bear the ing a letter continuously atong n line Road,

Kowloon Sports alternately the right way up and Ground, yesterday afternoon, ac- 'upside-down,

cording to a Police report made this The Teacher's Book" observęs morning.

GAMING HOUSE FINE

A fine of $50 was imposed on Chan Cuen. 30, broker, by Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith at the Central Magis-

that the object of these banke lessons The woman, who has not yet been "is to teach a swift and running hand identified, died on the way to Kow-tracy this morning for keeping a flat which the child need never unlearn, loon Hospital.

NEW G.S.O. 2 FOR HONGKONG

but which will grow into something that is increasingly his own. There is no reason to fear that that by gly- Ing children welling coples we shall remove the characteristic personal differences between one child's writ-

It in ofcinlly announced that ing and another's. Happily these differences would remain, even if we Major J. Rt. Way, R.A., at present in has been appointed were foolish enough to try to efface Singapore, them. A child needs a model not 5.0.2 at Headquarters Command, only when he first learns to wrlie, Hongkong.

but also to protect him from sloven Major Way has been Staff Captain liness and affectation while his hand-of the Northern Command, writing is forming itself."

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