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CHAPTER LXIV 321 "star" you can put to better use, or make similar changes, perhaps giving up a pound sterling mark you will never use for an exclama- tion point that will be better than the con^bined period and asterisk. In getting a machine scheduled to your special needs (and at no additional cost) you will get a machine direct from the factory. This not only means a new machine instead of one some months out of the shops, but it means a higher serial number that may in turn mean a higher exchange value when you come to get another new machine, for you always will trade in your old machine as part payment for a new one. A typewriter company does not expect to receive the full hundred dollars in cash. If you can order through some municipal officer or through an office using many machines you may have still more discount. 10. As a rule a rebuilt machine is about as good as a new one, if you know how to pick them, out, and will cost much less. There are some companies that sell out their old models through some clearing house, but there are also some fraudulent advertisers trad- ing on this fact. If you buy a factory clearance be assured that you are dealing with a reputable concern. If you buy a second-hand machine buy of a dealer and not from a "poor widow lady" who is going south for her health. The dealer will be there if you want to talk to him about the machine later on and there will ,be less prob- ability that you will need to seek such conversation. 11. Get a machine with an automatic ribbon shift if you can. You will probably have to take a two color ribbon, but you can overcome this by getting an all black ribbon and using both tracks for black. Your working ribbon should be a record and not a^ copying ribbon. The latter will smear in handling and presently the script will need recopying. From the first it will annoy the reader. 12. If you have the time to do things properly, do not pitch in and poke the machine with two fingers. You may form a habit hard to break. Get a book on the touch system and learn that. Most companies have these instruction books. If they do not supply one with the machine you take, get a sheet of tough paper, white or yellow. ]\Iake a diagram of your keyboard, outlining the keys with a silver dollar or the top of a tin can. Mark in the letter or letter and character as the case may be. Place that back of and slightly above the machine. Now learn to strike the keys by looking at the chart and not at the keyboard. No one ever learned to play the piano by looking at marks on the keys. Because there are marks on the keyboard it does not follow that you must look at them. Many machines are now made with .both marked and blank keys, as you prefer. Get hold of some book that will give you finger exercises that are similar to the scales used in piano practice and learn the correct fingering. It will pay in the end, for you will then be able to write without thinking of the machine and give all your attention to what you are writing.