Good news that little Philip Kendall is back home after his appendicitis operation last week. The Palmer Method of cursive ...

I have a missing person to report. It's someone many of you knew _ especially those readers at whom Seniority is primarily aimed. The name is Palmer. A. N. Palmer. I don't even know if A. N. was, say ...

Words are an essential means of communication, yet how we put them down in writing has been continuously shaped over time by technologies, cultural and business needs, and education. Once a universal ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Monique McGowan sharpens a No. 2 pencil, straightens her posture and sharply slants her notebook to prepare for her weekly lesson in cursive. She and other third-graders at ...

A third memory is of penmanship lessons, scheduled occasionally during the year. These were special occasions, because first there was a session of endlessly putting pencil to lined buff-colored paper ...