San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-03-04

SECOND LESSON.
The many hundreds of exercises which
have been prepared for correction indI-
cate the great interest taken in these les
sons, and the results are certainly en-
couraging. Nearly every mail brings
numerous letters from almost every state
from Ohio to Oregon and from Minnesota
to Texas.
We understand fully the reluctance
| which restraints many earnest learners
from sending exercises to be inspected by
a person who is believed TO be very criti-
| cal and very severed Now, be assured,
| that is all a mistakel Your own exercise
may prove the best. II there is any
! point you do not fully understand, ask
/ about it, Questions in regard TO the les
| son will receive careful attention, al
! though sometimes il is to the best inter
/ est OF the student 70 postpone the answer
until few more lessons have been
/ learned.
This course OF lessons is adapted TO
! persons of all ages. Ia many cases, as a
means OF assisting and encouraging their
children, parents take up the study with
them. Shorthand is so useful an accom-
piishment that we firmly believe that any
person who viii 20 to work and acquire
knowledge OF it will be well repaid in the
end for the time and wOrl, given to il. II
YOU have not Joined the Special Glass and
promptly You viii then receive the full
benehtoi the individual lessons which the
author will give YOU by mail. You are
requested TO read the announcements in
regard TO our home-study class, if You
have not already done SO, or write for in
formation.
CAUTIoN.-You write too large. All
beginners do. Make your characters
one-third smaller. Use black ink and
the best quality OF paper. Some practice
with pencil is useful, but pen should
be employed mostly.
Do not send in an exercise for correc-
ton until you have spent at least two or
three hours in writing IL over and over.
Then state the number Of times you have
copied IL; also how many hours you have
given to practice.
Numerous exercises have already been
prepared for correction Many OF these
were executed correctly and artistically.
They indicate the great interest taken in
this course, and the results are gratifying.
We understand the feeling OF reluctance
which restraints many an earnest learner
from sending an exercise TO be inspected
by a person who is believed to be very
critical and very severe. Now, be assured
this is all a mistake. Your exercise may
prove the very Sest. Questions concern /
ing the lesson will be cheeriully answered. /
tirst-Copy Plate ? ten times. II is
very important to make the light letters
as thin and light as possible. The shaded
strokes, b, d, ], e, etc, should not be
very heavy, enough so only for distinc-
ton. In writing any word, as jacket, /
G-k-t, see line 81 do not lift your pen T!
from the paper until the word is entirely Z
finished. Be careful so write vertical I
that is straight up and down. II is /
common error to slant it, making it APP !
pear like ch. The stem CHI is for conve- !
nience called ebay.
SecOnd-Frequently compare your work |
with the Plate, looking closely TO see if it /
can be improved in any way. 1t should /
correspond as to shading, straightness OF !
stems, and the nearness of the signs TO I
each other. In size, the letters may be as /
small, and ought not to be much larger 1
than those given in the Plate. The vowel /
dot a and dash o should always be placed /
ut the middle OF the stem. Write mostly .
with pen; it Is superior TO pencil in
every way.
Third-Read one page OF your writing
without reference to the key. Better
still, read each page yea write. Line 5,
for example, would be read thus: pc ebay,
etc. Shorthand is written by
sound. Only as many letters are en-
ployed as there are distinct sounds heard;
thus 10, Zoe; M, nay; To- low; felo, TEL
low; do, dough; fabl, fable; iotograf,
photograph; mlkst, mixed; xviii quill.
There are no silent letters as in lamb. I
Each letter is used only when its particu-
lar sound is heard; thus p is used in pie
but not in sophist, lspelt sotst). In
copper, pronounced CoperI, p occurs but
once. Hence the usual manGer OF spell-
ing word has nothing whatever TO do n
determining the way 10 write 10 in short
hand. Fourth-Practice on plate till
you can copy ii in five minutes.
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