Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1914 — DON’T MUMBLE YOUR WORDS. [ARTICLE]

DON’T MUMBLE YOUR WORDS.

Or Chew Your Cigar—At Least Not When You Are Dictating. Before you condemn your stenographer be sure she wae not too timid to ask for a repetition of what you said way down in your throat or with a cigar tightly clasped in your mouth. ‘1 once knew a competent young man who lost his position in a railroad office,” says a writer in the Bookkeeper, “because the official who did the dictating, gave more attention to his cigar than he did to hie articulation. “Then some men have a habit of pacing back said forth as they dictate. When they make the turns or stand looking out of the window you can imagine the result, especially if they also smoke. Of course the wise stenographer explains that Bhe failed to hear and understand, but many are too timid or foolishly proud to do this, and they are stigmatized as incompetent”