The Youth's Educational Cabinet

Excerpt from The Youth's Educational Cabinet: A Work Designed for the Home Education and Amusement of Children Any one whose arms are not crippled or deformed may become a good and rapid penman. Practice is the one essential. Three things are important: proper position at the desk, correct way of holding the pen; and geting the best movement. Proper position AT the desk. - The desk at which one writes must be of such height that when sitting erect with the feet firmly upon the żoor, and the elbows on the desk the shoulders are neither elevated nor depressed. There are two positions recognized: the front position and the side position. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.