The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-22
THE TYPE-wRlTINo GIRL.
Fact and Fiction About the Successors OF
the Stenogrsphers.

Fact and Fiction About the Successors OF
the Stenographers.
The stenographer is rapidly being
succeeded by the typewriter Men are
too clumsy to acquire great facility at
this sort of work. and it seems especially
suited to women. The advantages
which it possesses over the older fashion
is that the work is finished when the
operator has reached the end. A large
element of uncertainty enters into life
when one employs a stenographer.
With the type-writing girls it is differ
emit As rule they are busy copying
Supreme Court papers, which, by the
way. they lay aside without the slight
est regret, and they are apparently tho
only people who look with contempt
upon the Supreme Court, and begin at
once to prepare for work. The prepa-
ration is the longest part of it After q
few general remark5 about the weather,
she removes her rings one after the
other, looks at them carefully, places
them in an ordinary row beside the
typewriter, pulls hair-pin out of the
forward part of her bang, examines it.
and then thrusts it with unquestioned
belligerence into the back of her head.
Then she yawns prodigiously, leans
back in her chair and says she is ready.
When you begin she suddenly remem-
bers, rises from the machine, goes to
the wash-stand, toys with the faucets
for few moments, touches the ends of
her fingers to the towel, then comes
back by the way of the mirror.
l have become convinced by long
experience that the average female
typewriter never really cares to wash
her hands. 1t is a strategic subterfuge
for the purpose of affording her an OPP
portunity to look in the mirror. She
returns, throws herself carelessly into
the chair, and briskly puts a sheet of
paper into the machine. Having done
this, she withdraws the paper turns it
around and puts it in in that way. This
is system they never depart from
under any circumstances. She is not
ready yet, however. At this point it
becomes necessary to open u small
drawer at the right hand side of the
typewriter, fish out a more or less
snowy purse, glance critically and some
what sadly within, throw the purse back
again, and bring forth an ink eraser. q
rubber, fruit knife and half eaten
apple or peach. Some one will probably
interrupt her for quiet chat, and after
that, if you are still there, you will be
thoroughly startled. Once under way,
an expert typewriter is fully as fast as
the average stenographer, and when you
have finished debating you may take the
manuscript away with you. L have OBJ
served one popularity about the female
typewriter. She never makes a mis-
take. 1t is always the machine. If she
puts sixteen vowels in the word
Through, she first hits the keyboard
violently, then raises the roof of the
structure, pokes at the type with her
first finger, INDUCES in some airy crit
icism of the manufacturer, brings the
whole thing together violently again,
and continues to make the most grievous
and absorb errors with a face of utter
satisfaction and unruffled high spirits.
She eventually marries the managing
clerk of the law Office. - Brooklyn
Eagle.