You may have such experiences provided you the basic handwriting analysis, as you will find it in the following pages. You may be skeptical, and there is nothing that the profession of graphology will like better than for skeptics to be convinced.

This benefit and protection for you is after all the justification for writing this book, and because I began the research and stumbled onto the key that makes scientific handwriting analysis possible, it is necessary for me now and then to talk about myself.   Forget that part, will you, and keep in mind that we are both devoting our time to graphology, and what it can do for you in increasing your happiness, your cash in the bank, and your happiness in getting along with people while you earn your living.

You may have noted that I frankly admit that I stumbled onto the key that made graphology possible. Actually, the start came simply because I got to Sunday school ahead of time. The little one room school house served as the church, and there was a long blackboard across one end of the building. On this particular Sunday one of the older boys who had graduated from the eighth grade had come back over the week-end and was writing strange symbols on the blackboard.

All of the early arrivals were properly impressed at how those mysteri­ous strokes could mean words. That was my introduction to shorthand, and when I went home after services it was with the deep-rooted determination that if anyone else could make those strange curlicues mean words it would be equally possible for me. Somehow that resolution made when I was eight stuck until I was sixteen and could get my hands on the first short­hand book.