Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1891 — SHORT-HAND. [ARTICLE]

SHORT-HAND.

The Third Lesson. ‘ H—* —■ A Practical Course for Only 92X10. Bend for Particular*. PREPARED ESPECIALLY FOR THIS PAPEB BY PROP. ELDON MORAN of ST. LOUIS, MO. (Author of the “Eeportlng Btyle” Sense of Stenographic Instruction Books. (Copyrighted.) If you meet with any difficulty, or If you do net find Short-hand clear and easy at the start, do not for that reason throw down your pen. You can afford to be patient. Do not be overly anxious about the next lesson. It will come soon enough. Meanwhile, learn this one still better. Study, write; read, practice; work away. The oftener you copy the characters the better you will understand the principles. Obstacles melt away before an earnest worker. Leave no lesson until you are certain that you have mastered It, and can say “yes” to these questions: Do you understand the principle? Can you write It In the required time? Can you read it afterwards? Have you written It as it was read to you? Speed In short-hand is of no consequence unless what is written can be read afterwards. Legibility, or readability, depends in part upon the accurate forming of the characters. TO do this it is not necessary to write them slowly; on the contrary experienced stenographers produce the more perfect outlines with a somewhat rapid movement, just as an experienced penman executes the most graceful curve by aquicb stroke, rather than by 6lowly drawing it. The student should learn at the outset to write the characters rather than draw them. Nevertheless the beginner needs time at first, and ought to form each character a number of times with care and deliberation until the outline Is firmly Impressed upon his mind before attempting to write itquiekly. Afterwards write it rapidly, and continue doing so until it can bo done both accurately and, quickly, Introduction cards will be Issued with this lesson to all members of the Special Class. EXPLANATION. Vowels are written at the beginning, middle, and end of tho stems, In what are called the first, second and third places. The sound of a dot oi dash depends on the place it occupies. A third place vowel, occurring between two Stems, is put by the second, as <nn, in cowed, line 9. There are likewise, three consonant positions; Ist, above, 2d, %pon, and 3d, through, or beneath the line. The circle s should be made small as possible, and always be placed an either the upper or right-hand side of the stem. If a begins a word, it is pronounced first, altho a vowel may be at the left of it. See tide, line 8. Manyof thercommonest words are expressed by abbreviations, called word-signs. See lines 11 and 12. These should be copied a great many times, and committed well to memory. First— Copy Plate 3 ten times. Compare and correct. Second—'Write lines 3to 10 as the words are Ktad to you from the Key. Carefully compare your writing with the Plate, correct and continue writing until mistakes cease to bo found. Third -Practice on word-signs until you can write the list easily, forwards or backwards, as it is read to you. Practice on the Plate until you can write it in four minutes. KEY TO PLATE 3. Figures 1 and 2 show the direction of letters, the rule being toward the centre. Fig.’3 shows their attitude and relative length. 3 Bee tea key gee eke peak peep deep. = 4 Joy -toy coy Boyd bough chow out outeb. 6 Days goes pays pose chose froze "buys joys. 6 Side seat soap seige sage soak sake sate. 7 Spice space seed sakes skies spokes spikes - • : _ 8 Dow stow cows base chase - scow beak cope. 9 Beach cheek keep keyed cowed gouge coke bestow 10 Cages lietakes beseech beseigo beside decide outside decays. ~ r—--11 Signs— Common come give together which advantage is bis os lias. 12 I high how the a all two (or too) already before ought who. Translate lines 13,14, and 15. Pate J.

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