Penmanship and Romance

Matrimonial Penmanship

A knowledge of the art of deducing character from handwriting is especially valuable for those who are contemplating matrimony, or in the choice of friends or acquaintances. In fact, the calligraphy of one’s intended becomes, as it were, a semaphore, flashing its signals of safety or danger to anyone who will accept its message.

— William Leslie French, Woman’s World, April, 1914.

He Married the Girl Because Her Handwriting “Charmed” Him

Miss Hannah Sperber, of No. 460 Grand Street, became the bride today of Benjamin H. Cohen, a young businessman, who fell in love when he saw her handwriting in a letter seven years ago, when she was a girl of fifteen, and he was nineteen years of age.

Cohen saw the letter, which had been written to a friend, Miss May Cousins, of Brooklyn. He was told the writer was a girl living in San Francisco. “I’m going to marry that girl some day,” the youth said. “I don’t care how much you laugh at me; that handwriting has charmed me.”

Cohen wrote. In time photographs were exchanged. Then, somehow, Hannah persuaded her parents to come to live in New York.

The marriage ceremony was performed by Rabbi Heller.

— New York Journal, June 5, 1914.