Here are additional pictures from which you are expected to learn more
about the best position for muscular movement writing. See the right
(square) turn of his right arm at the elbow; the position in the seat;
the position of the back; the distance between the boy and the desk; the
positions of the left arm and the left hand; and the distance between
the eyes and the paper.
In this lesson you should review all that was said in lessons one and
two about important beginning steps, position, muscular relaxation, and
penholding. Practice movement (running the writing machine) a few
minutes without the penholder, then slip the penholder into the right
hand from the left, and practice the movement without touching the pen
to the paper, still watching the arm closely, and giving more attention
to correct position and movement than to anything else.
Are you comfortable in your seat; do your arms feel comfortable; and are
you holding the penholder lightly in the hand without pinching it? Give
close attention to these things.
In the next lesson more particular attention will be given to
penholding.