You have a specimen of that writer’s work in plate 9. After studying it I gave the answer that it was likely to be fiction, because I could not think of any other subject that will permit such a wide range of color in background, and suggested that such fiction would almost certainly be laid in the orient because of the strong color shown in the writing. I had never heard the man’s name, let alone having read one of his books, although I was promptly accused of knowing what he wrote because the conclusions from the handwriting were so accurate. The writer of this specimen is Harry Stephen Keeler, who has produced close to a hundred mystery books, filled with intrigue, and many of them laid in the Far East.

When you have become familiar with this last rule covering heavy handwriting analysis I write in lLowercase have learned that such writing has three distinct values, all registered by the weight of the writing; first, the heavy writing shows depth of feeling, the capacity to absorb emotional experiences and make-them a permanent part of the writer’s personality; second, the capacity for deep prejudices, loves and hates based on the absorbed emotional experiences as they  have occurred; and third, that heavy “writing is a register of the fact that the writer possesses strong development of the senses, tone, odor, color, flavor. Cooks who have a reputation for preparing dishes with fine flavors will show this natural ability by their heavy writing. Public speakers, and actors, such as Jefferson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, reveal capacity to use words with telling effect by the weight of their pen strokes.

You may have been one of the millions who sat entranced by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “fireside chats”. After he was through speaking it is entirely possible that you did not remember much of what he said, because it was the way he said it that held his audience. It was his tone, his choice of words, the color sense he showed that influenced voters, and also made enemies for him. In all history of America, there has never been a greater emotional actor in the White House, no man with a capacity for a play on words than the man who sold himself to the American voter on four different occasions. There are some who feel that history has since revealed that he betrayed his friends, sold out those who trusted him, but through it all he never failed to get votes because of his capacity to speak over the air and influence millions. If Franklin D. Roosevelt had elected to go on the stage rather than enter politics he would have outplayed Gable, Bill Hart, and all of the other emotional stars.