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excellent advice,given in tomed to reference or court dictation) to that most able and well-con- maintain such speed. Again, premise that , ducted shorthand journal, the feat is possible and is an ordinary ao- The Stenographer . publishedcomplishinent. Among the army of sten- and edited by .Mr. Francis ographers can they, or a majority of them, | 11. llemperley, of Philadcl- read these notes without difficulty? We pliia, Pa., is contained in the reply emphatically, X«> ! Therefore the following paragraph. maxim of The Stenographer is one that “ Do not advertise to write at the rate should find an echo in every student's of one hundred and fifty words a minute mind. when you cannot read what you have writ- Hut The Phoxouuam will indicate a ten at the into of seventy-five words per method by which you can transcribe on minute.*’ * the typewriter at the continuous rate of To the initiated these words convey vol- seventy-five words a minute with perfect umes, and when we say the initiated we ease and accuracy; and we also state, mean the thousand employers who have without fear of contradiction, that this been hoodwinked into believing that good can he done by the aid of a few lessons, operators can be-had by answering an ad- and you can then so advertise without lay- vcrtisenient worded in some such style as ing yourself open to criticism. To prac- tise following*: u A rapid stenographer de- tice this method, you have only to learn sires a position ; can write one hundred how to use a phonograph. Schools are and fifty words a minute/* now open for imparting instruction in that This is humbug, and none know it to be art, and by giving close attention to the such better than the majority of people teachings one can learn in a very short who read this advertisement. Business jieriod of time. men rarely dictate over one hundred words We therefore advise those whose atten- a minute—frequently not over seventy : tion has been attracted to this advertise- and it is a physical and mental impossi- nient to ignore the suggestions therein bilitv [for a stenographer (unless aecus- proposed, and acquire a mastery of this