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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.

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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 some of the re- Aults fram this system. that the Telegraph pubilehes together with this explanation, three photographs inken from the Marion Richardson "Tencher's Book". which clearly illustrate the results of the new methods.

The basle idea behind the Marion

contained in the creation of rhythunic pattern movements. preparation for handwriting just os

Richardson system of handwriting is These form the

naturally as prattle is the natural

preparation of speech.

FIRST PATTERNS

to

It is claimed that before a child is ready to take on Interest in letters, he should be given the simplest of these patterns and encouraged practise them, and to invent others by combining and playing with the given movements. But so doing the child will tench himself the rhythmic control, the swiftness and #ghtness

́d partant.

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It was cold, Heat, biting trashe, foggy withal and Servoge could "hear the people in the conce ouinde go whœging upana down, beating their hands sywn their breasts and stamping their fat upon the paveines & stons, to warm then the city clocks had. only just gone shire, but it jus quite dark already-it had not. ften liber all day and candles were flaring in the windows. of the neighbouring offices,

of touch, which are the foundations like riddy smears upon the

of good handwriting.

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The "Teacher's Book" gives number of Illustrations of the pat- terns suggested, and then goes on to describe how, from this foundation, the children should be taught to make capital letters. For example, the V and W are made with one con- tinuous zig-zng movement. The first stroke of the M should be a down-stroke: the rest of the letter is made without lifting the pencil. A is mode with two down strokes and one cross-stroke.

It is also explained that U,C,G,O,; and Q are all mode without lifting the pencil, except for the tall of the Q. 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 to the internal shapes rather than to the outline.

By the time the child is 61⁄2 years of age, he should have begun to make use of writing, and he should be given coples to trace, as this will rapidly form and establish his hand writing, because it so simplifies the process that I frees him to give his whole attention to guiding his penell. Afterwards he should be impress- ed with the importance of correct spacing, and be taught a convenient rule that the distance between words is little more than the space of one

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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.

smalt o, and the distance between the lines the space of three small os.

INK-WRITING

The Tailor

you love to sew and

My father is a tailor he cut out the collers

maky coats and suits he are very hard work.

makes a lot of hats to the cools have to be.

sell and a lot of boys' long you have to pat.

caps he works every day buttons on the coats

on making suits and you have to use a

guls cools and girls hats he has to use a big needle. suving machine if you

he has in sew the peases. have a babe bit of saving together he has to put you do it with a needle the coltin on the conts and a strong peace of thread.

and the ribbon cuth mens hats it is hard

Charles Levine | work to do you had

to sew the ribtion on ordse it will 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.

TELLS OF MINING Fur Wraps On COMPANY PLANS Summer Frocks

The statutory nireting of Selinsing Consolidated Mines, Lid., was herlei at the registered office of the rupa- pany, Prince's Building, yesterday

shareholders, Addressing

Chairman, Mr. B. B. Bassett, said:

ness.

thu

that

For Ascot

The weather

London, June 15.

in

lo prevent many ladies from putting their summer coals over fur dresses at Ascot.

southern England, but not so hot s

RADIO BROADCAST

Z.B.W. Orchestra Recital From the Studio CHILDREN'S HOUR

Broadcoal Radio Programme

by

In northern England rain is full- ZBW on a Frequency of 845 kes. ing in many districts, but Glasgow and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 pin.

downpour, auct escaped a hold n

large & 8-11 pm, on 9.52 m.c's. per second. crowds attended the Glasgow Empire

12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service Exhibition, which hos now been

from Intercession

St. John's attended by over 3,000,000 people.-Cathedral. Reuter,

Crooks Songs by Richard

"As you are aware, this meeting has been called pursuant to Section 112 at the Hongkong Companies Ordin- ence, 1932, under which we are in- corporated, and which requires every public company shalt

of the members. general meeting

within called the matutory meeting, three months of commencing bust- We received our certificate to commence business un March 18, The statutory

been in report has your hands for the requisite period and contains all the information re- quired by the Companies Ordinance. I would also draw your attention to to the list on the table before you, which shows the names, descriptions and addresses of the members of the company and the number of chores held by them respectively, which list is open and accessible to any member during the continuance of the meet-

ing.

PACIFIST SPEECH

HECKLED

of

12.30 (Tenor),

O Song Divine (Arthur St. Ives-- Gordon Temple); A Dream Of Porn- dise (Claude Lyttleton-Hamilton Gray); Killarney (Falconer-Balfe).

12.40 Darnabas von Geezy & IILs Orchestra.

(Continued from. Paye 1.) Roosevelt and the New Deal, in a Flag Day address to-day, said that if

Fresh Breezes (Borchert); In Merry Mood (Haringer); Black Orchids Congress was not so overwhelmingly (Richartz); Adun--March (Olivieri). Democratic it would seek the peachment of President

im-Espann-Waltz (Waldicufel): Roosevelt tanet-Waltz (Willy Richartz). for his fallure to invoke the Neutrality

1.0 Time and Weather. Act in the Sino-Japanese conflict. 1.03. Mendelssohn-Concerto In E

fear that the

the He expressed United States would be involved in a plan to quarantine and police Asio before 1940-United Press.

1.30 Reuter

&

Cas

Rugby

Press,

Bc- The with

1.40 Variety. Orchestra Like Bananas cause They Have No Bonce... Original Hoosier Hot Shots

wocal chorus; Banjo Solo-Mcd-

U.S. COPPER FOR JAPAN

leyTarrant Bailey (Banjo) with Some- Vocal-There's Orchestra; Washington, June 13. thing In The Alr

(From *Banjo Resentment of peace organisations on my Knce');

Goodnight, which recently made representations Love

(From Stowaway).

My

"You will note from the statutory Mr. Fish charged President Roose-Minor, Op. 64. report that we have paid for thevelt, Mr. Cordeil Hull and Mr. Nor-

Played by Fritz Kreisler (Violin) Selinsing Mine. in Pahang, F. M. S. man Davis with "preparing the road and The State Opera Orchestra con- out of the proceeds of our share issue.to war with their persistent demands ducted by Dr. Lee Blech I should also add that Mr. T. E. that the aggressor In the Sino- Gillingham, one of your Directors Japanese conflict should be punish- Weather and Announcements. with the necessary technical quali-ed." fcations, has been looking after our Interests in the F. M. S. since the Inception of the Company.

We have

received a form of General Management Agreement For the child between 7 and 9, from Messrs. Nielson & Co., Inc, who Ink-writing should be introduced

are to be appointed Mine Managers, und a child's first pen should write as mentioned in the prospectus, and nearly as possible as a pencil writes, it is the intention of your Board to and therefore without marked won-complete the appointment on behalf to the Department of State against Ruth Etting with Orch. Accomp.; trast between thick and thin strokes. of the Company forthwith.

American aid for the Japanese war Fiano Solo-An Evening With You It should be stiff, square, and if pos- "In accordance with the require-machine, mounted anew to-day in Slow Fox-Trot (From Co

"Colleen'); sible, trench-pointed, that is, having ments of the Companies Ordinance, the light of the latest figures showing I've Got Two Lips Quickstep.... the writing edge slightly turned up now formally open the meeting for the United States' exports of copper Gerry Moore. (Plano) in strict Donce so that it will write smoothly and discussion on any matter relating to fur

April.

Tempo under tho without pressure.

the formation of the company or Copper exports during the month Victor Silvester;

Orch-The arising out of the statutory report." tutalled 78,000,000 lb., of which ap- Happy Mountaineers (Tyrolean Alps There being no discussion, the Chais-proximately 32,0000,000 lb. were sent ley-Basli); Memories Of man formally proposed the adoption to Japan, 14,000,000 lb. to Great Bri- (Tyrolean of the statutory report, which was toin and 5,000,000 lb. to Germany, earried,

The 32,080,000 lb. sent to Japan re- presents the highest figure yet of this essential war material-Reuter

Patterns are again emphasised for children between 9 and 10, and these take the form of fundamental writ- ing rhythms, and of small letters, The letter patterns are made by writ- (Continued on Next Column.)

Sundcok

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Frances Mitrey bocant was too on March 30th 18351 in the rectory of " in Brabant. His father was a quiet dignifiers endinary man, from wshour vincent inherited nothing but a huming desire to enter the church. This devine forms the kitckground to cer post ast. His mother gave hiru his appearance, his sensibility, and such powvent ashad to serve him through life. Her forback suggests that she was a peasant, hit the belonged, like her himband, to a culliured middle class Vincent looked like a peasant, who by an unkindly trick. y fall had become a loresman, and for this reason perhaps he muer appeared to rest advantage. He was starved. His drama1ɔ a drama o sanntion. Vincent imnged for almash. welything a man can img for and it so hopened that the objects of his desires did not appear to him to be altogether. unattainable, hi the light in which he regarded them, his desires were as legitimate and reasonable as his right to soun #ially wage. The first article of his jalthy wasn't believe". Tus jaily was not a toy forhis leisure, but, Vinscribir only dimano

•syon life. Thloneed was far more imperiosta than any' material demand of his physicah ponses to a result he stared all litz lige from the manundi he became comeciono has excrolance the pitsiga of heroget navar lagt hamu the world. beat him a's Dom Quixote was beaten, but the world's

init hio pandey were more actical than the duedo o

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This is by a girl of 17, who used this style of writing

In hor school Certificate examination, having written in this way since she was 11.

WOMEN IN CUSTODY

IN GREAT

SPY DRAMA

(Continued from Page 1.)

of

Med-

con-

Medley-Basil)....Rac Jenkins' Cosmopolitana; Dance Band Mutual Love (Arr. W. S. Poter); The Comical Fellow

(Arr. W. S. Porter)....Folk Dance Band dueted by Ronnie Munro.

2.15 Close Down. APPROVAL GIVEN

0.0 Studio The Children's Hour. 7.0 Vocal & Instrumental Varicly, WEST INDIES

Organ Solo-Six Hit Medley (No. 5); My Heart and I;

and: A little Ren- LABOUR INQUIRY

dezvous in Honolulu; Middle-dum- dee; Why did She Fall for the Leedor cluded capture long before the

Of the Band; Alone; Fancy

Meeting present case was brought to the Bridgetown, Barbados, June 15.

Croudson (Organ) You... Harry icnowledge of the public.

The Legislative Council and House with Electric Guitar and Vocalist; The authorities have now renewed of Assembly have both approved of Vocal+Leben Ohne Liebe,

Waltz their interest in the suleido last the statement of the Premier, Mr. (From Nie Wieder Liebe")....Lillan February of a former high German Neville Chamberlain, in the House of Harvey with Orch.: Ich Lass urmy officer, Otto Bettenschlog, who Commons that was found dead on a bench, shot in the head and heart, with two pistols in, his handa.

Stuttgart.

+

Korper Schwarz

be appointed to Investigate labour Bepinscln-Fox-Trot (From "Einbre- conditions in the West Indies,

cher'). Willy Fritsch with Orch.; Pepresentatives of sugar workers in Two Pinnos-Fox Trot Medley.... According to the New York Post British Guiano, who are striking to- Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye on two the woman now in custody sent back day, held conversations with Battenschlag's body to his home in Labour Commissioner in Georgetown, Vocal-Some Of My Songs

the pianos with siring bass and drums; (Mabel to diacuas steps for a

Little Spanish Town: The Federal Grand Jury is expect-

It Happened in Monterey; Who Mude ed to conclude its investigation of the strike-Reuter settlement of Wayne); In a olicked espionage activities in the the Colonies of the Bahamas (pop. Wayne at the piano with Violin and The British West Indies consist of Little Boy Blue?....Sung by Mabel United States within the next few 62,000) Barbados (pop, 185,000) and Cello; Orchestra-You're Always In days. Thirty-nine witnesses have already been questioned, and it is

(pop. 1.121,000). Labour My Arms (From "Rio Rita"); "Rio reported that 22 indictments may be disputes have been rito throughout Rita"Selection....Reginald

these eclonies in recent months. Teturned. Reuter.

ing a letter continuously along a line alternately the right way

up and upside-down.

The Teacher's Book" observes i that the object of these basle lessons "is to teach a swift and running hand which the child need never unlearn, but which will grow into something that is increasingly his own. There

ing

famaica

FRANCE USES MACHINERY OF DECREE

Paris, June 15,

to

A number of decrees relative

is no reason to fear that that by giv- air force expansion have been passed ing children writing copies we shall by the French Government. remove the characteristic personal They include provision for the differences between one child's writ- | immediate Increriso In air force another's. Happily. thear personnel by 3,000 officers and 60,- differences would remain, even if we 000 non-commissioned officers, and were foolish enough to try to effacemen. them. A child needs 'n model' nat A decree has also been passed only when he first learn to write, encouraging colton growing in French but also to protect him from sloven colonies, by a change in cotton taxes

favourable liners and affectation while his hond- | making them more writing is forming itself."

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Sunday Classical Concert

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Under leadership of

Geo, Pio-Ulski

Programme for Sunday, Juno 19, 1938.

1 p.m.

- 2.30 p.m.

PROGRAMME

Zampa. Ouverture

1.

2. Il Tango dell'Amore

5.

4. Tannhauser, Selcetton

Madchen Market

6. Ave Maria

7.

Los Campanilleros

.Herold. Italos. Waldieufel.

3. Himmelsfunken, Weltz

Wagner. Jakobi.

.Bach-Gounod.

King

and His Orchestra,

7.28 Closing local Stock Quota- tions.

7.30 London Relay-At The Black Dor'.

For Reservations

Mr. Wilkes at home in his own bar-parlour. Presented by Pascoe Thornton and S. E. Reynolds.

8.0 Time, Weather and Announce ments.

6.03 Songs by Webster Booth (Tenor).

(Continued on Page 2.)

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