Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1891 — SHORT-HAND. [ARTICLE]

SHORT-HAND.

Ninth Lesson With a Few Oh* serrations on General Principles. A Practical Course tor Only 82.00. Send for Particulars. ———— sr peor. xlpos uoxax or set. loth, no. (Copyrighted.) JProper names are so numerous that a voeabtt* lary of them could not well be memorized; and this would be unnecessary, since tbe practical writer may readily invent sufficiently intelligible outlines for the most difficult of them, The halving principle, circles, loops, and other adjunctive signs should be employed more sparingly than when writing common words. Marks of punctuation are used only to 8 HmW ted extent in actual reporting. The semi-colon is usugLly Indicated by a space of an inch at more; the period by a cross. When notes are token at verbatim speed, little opportunity if allowed for punctuating, the only practical method being to leave spaces to correspond with the speaker’s pauses, and insert the proper marks afterwards when transcribing. Numbers are expressed in the usual manner, that is by the Arabic numerals, 1,2,3,4, etc. There is no pressing need for any different method of expressing numbers, since tho present method is as short as short-hand itself. This is shown by the fact that a column of figures can be written as fast as the numbers are called off. The reporter, when pressed, writes larger than at other times. Some persons take this as evidence that adarge hand is the most rapid. It proves just tho contrary. The really skilful stenographer when writing at high speed, is not flurried, and writes about as small a hand as usual. There can be no question but that the greatest speed will be attained ultimately, only by writing tbe characters near each other, cultivating a neat style, and writing as small a hand as practicable. A good fine-pointed, short-nibbed gold pen of mediumaizeisthebestforreportingpurpo6es.lt should be more or less elastic, depending on the writer’s lightness of touch. Good writing fluid la preferable to ink. EXPLANATION. A small hook at the beginning and on the circle side of a stem, indicates that l is to be added; for example, play, evil, lice L A hook on thd opposite side indicates r; see price, trump, Hue 2. The hooked stems are called double consonants. A circle on thor side of straight letters implies r; see spry, sober, line 3. In order to bring tbe hook on the left side (to signify r), f, v, and th are reversed; see over, thrice, etc. T,ln« 3. A circle may be written within a hook. Bee civil, distress, suffer. When the r-hook is pro fixed tom orn, tbe stem is shaded; see glimmer, trainer, lino 2. R and 1 are called initial hooks; the/and n hooks, which occur at the end of letters, are called final. Fis attached to straight stems only, and is written on the circle side, as in puff, line 4. This book is used for e also, as in above. The n-hook is put on the opposite side of straight letters, and is also attached to curves. See lines 4 and 6. A circle written on the n-hook side of a straight letter at the end of words. Implies n; for example, pines, chance, (but not density) line 6. All these hooks should be small and light. Exercise.— Black blame claim close globe pledge total gray grow break pray dray loiter pry trail cry drill keeper phrase favor Friday throw strike stray spree sample cough crave bluff grove strive grieve pain stain bean bone dine twine taken turn bench lone mine tin. abstain expense distance. Sentences. 1. Every rose has its prickles, ft Every path has its puddle. 3. Variety is the very spice of life. 4. For the upright there are no laws. 5. All cruelty springs from weakness & Wise judges are we of each other, XXV TO PLATE 9. 1 Flay able evil olvll fleeces shelf devil Majel. 2 Price breezes trump catcher glimmer trainer exaggerate distress. 3 Spry sober suffer over thrice pressure measure cigarette. 1 Puff spine above brain stiff strain cuff clown. 6 Flown thine assign ozone shine hen rp plain sustain. 6 Pines chance density lonesome extensive behavior reference sister. Translate lines 7 to 15.

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