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THE HONGKONG.

TELEGRAPH,

THURSDAY, JUNE

16, 1938.

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 ill-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 come of the re- sults from this system, that Telegraph publishes together

The

with

Joan thunt.

ihin explanation, three photographs inken from the Marlon Richardson "Teacher's Book",

which clearly the new illustrate the results of methotts,

The baste den behind the Marton

Richardson system of handwriting

contained in the creation of rhythmic

pattern movements, These form the

preparation for handwriting just as naturally as prattle in the natural preparation of speech.

FIRST PATTERNS

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

encouraged {ར these patterns and practise them, and to vent others by combining and playing with the given movements. Bul so doing the chlid will teach himself the rhythmic control, the swiftness and lightness of touch. which are the foundations of good handwriting.

to

The "Teacher's Book" gives a number of illustrations of the pat- terns suggested, and then goes on to describe how, from this foundation, the children should be taught make capital letters. For example, the V und W are made with one con- The tinuous

movement. zig-zag first stroke of the M should be a down-stroke; the rest of the letter is made without lifting the pencil. is made with two down strokes and one cross-stroke.

A

It is also explained that UC,G,O. nd are all made without lifting the and Q

except for

for the tall of the Q. pencil. which is an added stroke.

The small letters are all made with an unbroken mavement of the pencil, and it is suggested that it will help the child to make good letters If he pays attention to the Internal shapes rather than to the outline.

Аде бустит

It was cold, bleak, biting "wentlit, foggy unthat and scroogt could hear the people in the crue outside go wheezing upansdown, beating their hands upon inur breads and stamjung thar fæt upon the pävenina dona tó warm thein The city clocks had ority puust gone fire, bastab and quite dark already, it had not. benter all day and candles

e flaring in the windoug

of the neighbouring offices, leke ruddy smears upon the petrable brown air.

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

small o, and the distance between the lines the space of three smali o's.

INK-WRITING

you hove to sew and cut out the collars. are very hard work. the cools have to be long you have to pat button's on the coats you have to use a seving machine if you

The Tailor

My father is a tailor he makes coots and suits he makes a lot of hats to nell 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 bule bit of sewing together he has to put ou do it with a needle the collins on the coats you and a strong peace of and the ribbon on the thread.

mens hot's it shard

you had. to sew the ribbon on orelse it will fall of

Charles Levink I work to do.

Here is an example of the Marion Richardson type of handwriting by Charles Levine. nged 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 25 second woman has been placed in pro- at tective custody for a fortnight almost point-blank range on the in connection with the United highway south of Castellon to-States' spy investigations.

whom woman, day.

Three Insurgent alr raids

between

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EXPLOSION

SHIPMENT DESTINED FOR HANKOW

1,300 Tins Destroyed In Junk Blaze

On enquiries being made t the Asiatic Petroleum Company to-day, it was learned that there

were 1,300 tins of aviation Hankow, the spirit, destined for

as aboard the junk which blew up

The Insurgents are now only 18 Federal authorities regard miles from Sagunto, strategic link in their most important material at the company's installation Loyalist communications

witness, has been living in a wharf at North Point last night. Valenela and Madrid.

The official said, "The spirit was were hotel adjoining one of the big carried out on Valencia to-day and Long Island aerodromes. Here to have been loaded on to the train for Canton to-day and thence would there were numerous casualues.

she made the acquaintance of a have been sent by rail to Hankow. Insurgent troops crossing the Rio number of airmen. She also

"It was purely a commercial ship- de Mijares on pontoons which were

ment and would have been delivered terried across the river under wither-kept a local bar.

established ng Loyalist fire firmly

The woman is apparently unac- to the company's premises at Han- themselves on the southern banks of quainted with the missing Dr. Grichl, how." the river, and have now captured whom Federal agents greatly desire He said that company oMcials Villareal, Almazora and Alcora. They to meet, but, according to the New were still investigating the cause of report that a "Lost Battalion of York Times, she knew one of the the explosion, which so far remained

agents Loyalists has started to cross the last directors of the secret

the mystery. cluded capture long unobstructed passea on a final re-

the treat to sanctuary in France.-United present case was brought to

knowledge of the public.

The authorities have now renewed the suleide last their Interest in February of a former high Germon artey officer, Otto Battenschlag, who was found dead on a beach, shot in the head and heart, with two pistols in his hands.

Proat.

NO BOMBING CASUALTIES

Valencia, June 15. Six Insurgent planes bombed the refugee crowded business district of For the child between 7% and 9, the city at 10.30 h.m. and 1 pm. to.. were, however, no introduced, dey. There ink-writing should be and a child's first pen should write casunities.

Alicante und Barcelona were also nearly as possible as a pencil writes, and therefore without marked con-bombed.-United Press.

GERMAN TROOPS CAPTURED trast between thick and thin strokes.

Barcelona, June 15 It should be stiff, square, and if pos-

A Loyalist communiqué announces sible, trench-pointed, that is, hoying

of seven German in- the writing edge slightly turned up the capture so that it will write smoothly and fantrymen on the Castellon front.

Although several German pilots without pressure.

have Inilen into Loyalist hands, these are the Best German Infantrymen to be captured since the outbreak of the civil war.Untied Press.

By the time the child is 6% years

have

begua ta of age, he should 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 simplines the process that it frees him to give his

Patterns are again emphasised for whole attention to guiding his pencil.

Afterwards he should be impress-children between 9 and 10, and these ed with the importance, of correct 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.) is little more than the space of one

UV. Practical

Frances M. Whitney

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almost jor deanala a drama of sunnition. Vincent Langedi wikything a man can log for, and it so happened brat the objects of his desinca didnot appear to him like altogether. unattainable. I the light in which he regarded them, his desires were as legitimicate and newwonable as his right to cam a daily evage. The find article of hilo jaith wasn't believe. This with was not a toy for his lecoure, int Vincent's only demonoid mpom lige. They need was far more impérioris, than any material demand of his physical pouca ho a result, he starved all libs liye. From the manual he became conscious of kako existence, the pangs of funnger never left him. The world. bead hinu ps. Done Quizzate sumo beatov, but the worksta Hiews and hio paretes were more aclónk than the deeds ty. Garstinites" hero. Buk here to no phantasy:Vincendi illucións: sudne alaiad tangible. Maisch! This dread of potability una dosim solasit the motive potuto imama zao great, that cita Syter His. downfalk his slared desires remain a force as immortal

noble as the agurations of the Spanish grandce.

JEENT VAN GOGH,

Biographient Study by

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

MJAJA RALLIES ARMY

Hendaye, June 15. General Minjo, the Loyalist leader, is massing 80,000 troops south Castellon in an effort to break the Insurgent offensive un Valencia.

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Reports from the front indicate that the Insurgents have been temporarily halted a few miles south of Castellon. It is believed that Castellon itself is not yet entirely conquered. Broken bridges across the Rio de Mijares, wrecked by the Loyalists after they retreated across the river, are serious-

who

before

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

The Ferl

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

KIDNAPPER AWAITS SENTENCE

Miami, June 15. Franklin Pierce McCall has been ly impeding Insurgent operations.-found guilty of the kidnapping of United Press.

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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

series of explosions or there were a just one explosion. He revealed that there were eight people aboard the Junk at the time it blew up.

one

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

The list of casualties follows:

Lai Ng, 48, married woman, died of burnis;

Kut Kau, 52. junk-manter, serious į burns;

Chow Yan. 18, toki, serious burns;

Kwok Fu-monk, Tak!, alight burns;

Ip Fook, foki, slight burns. The junk apparently crossed the harbour to the North Point Instalia- laden tion, where it joined other

Is bc- junks awaiting townge. It lleved that the cargo was destined for Canton.

by the No reason can be given four victims now in Queen Mary

the

Thic outbreak. Hopital for

0.50 explosion, which occurred at p.m., rattled windows in Kowloon, and was followed by an intense fre that lasted for into the night,

Outstanding courage was displayed

"Skeegio" Cash, 21-year-old son of NEARING SAGUNTO

Princeton garage-owner, Salamanca, June 15. He will be sentenced to-morrow. by Sub-Inspector Butcher, of No.

in Police Launch, who, with the private The Fourth Brigade of the Insur-

for kidnapping penalty gent army is stated to have reached Florldn in death by electrocution launch Yuet On, was the first on the to-day a point 20 miles distant from Reuter.

Sub-Inspector Butcher, aware Sagunto and 35 miles from Valencia. The body of the child was found!

scene.

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Music hath charms

Sunday Classical Concert

at Repulse Bay Hotel Under leadership of

Geo. Pio-Ulski

Programme for Sunday, June 19, 1938,

1 p.m. — 2.30 p.m. PROGRAMMĖ

1. Zampa. Ouverture

2. 11 Tango dell'Amore

3. Himmelsfunken. Wallz

4.

of

5.

By the capture to-day Villareal, some days after $10,000 ransom the danger from the fiercely blazing Ave miles from Castellon, the had been paid. Loyalists still holding out in environs of the latter city, estimated

the

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

of

Castellon itself is reported to have suffered Httle damage, since the In- surgents abstained from using artil tery in stormning the city. Trans- Оссап

ARMY LORRY

KILLS WOMAN

near

GAMING HOUSE FINE

Peraft to the other laden junks and to the A.P.C. installation wharves, nosed his launch into the flames and pushed the the blazing Junk away from danger zone with the bows of his craft. Crew of the police launch con- tinuously played a fire hose on their vessel to prevent it catching are.

Exploding tins of petrol scattered An Army motor lorry driven by M. Gray, of the Royal Army Ser- the highly inflammable material over vice Corps knocked down an un- the surface of the harbour. known Chinese woman in Waltauau Ing a letter continuously along a line Road,

the Kowloon Sports alternately the ight way up and Ground, yesterday afternoon, no- upside-down.

cording to a Police report made this

A the of $50 was linposed on Chan The Teacher's Book" observes morning.

Chuen, 30, broker, by Mr. W. that the object of these basle lessons The woman, who has not yet been Lockhart Smith at the Central Magis- "Is to teach a swift and running hund Identified, died on the way to Kow-tracy this morning for keeping a flat which the child need never unlearn, loon Hospital. but which will grow inte something that is increasingly his own. There Is no reason to lear that that by gly- NEW G.S.O. 2 FOR ing children writing coples we shall

HONGKONG remove the characteristic personal differences between one child's writ-

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

It In

that!

but also to protect him from sloven- Major Way has beca Staff Captain: Command, and lness and affectation while his hand-of the Northern

G.S.0.8 at the War Office. wrlung is forming itself."

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