Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-02-11
FIRST LESSON.
who should learn short-handY

Who should learn short hand7 N-~
Everybody, particularly all students,
business and professional men, intelli-
gent and thinking people generally who
have much writing to do. .Ett
1t will pay.
You will find shorthand usefui In q
hundred ways, even though you attain
only half the speed necessary for YER
batim reporting. Shorthand is exceed
lngiy useful, wonderfully interesting,
and is fast growing into popular favor.
You can learn it-even II you are not
genius! Nor will you regret it after
wards. 1t requires little time and pa
thence, and these you have.
The course OF lessons here begun will
enable the learner, il instructions arc
carried out, toiwrite short hand correctly
and with fair rate OF speed.
Only one lesson will be given each
week. That will be sufficient however,
and every learner is urged to master each
lesson thoroughly before beginning with
day, or whatever time you can spare in
practicing the characters, writing each
one over and over again many times, un-
til you become as familiar with them as
with your A y C's.
Every person who studies these les
bOHS, anu DeCOIneS u member OF the Spe-
cial Class, will receive cards of introduce
ton to several other students living in
different places, with whom he may car
ry on correspondence, making use of
shorthand characters. Corresponding
In short affords most excellent
practice, and helps the learner greatly.
Cards OF introduction will be issued as
soon as three or four lessons have been
learned.
Have you joined the class? Send your
name and address at once II you have not
already done SO, and lesson blank will
be mailed to you. Write plainly.
You are recommended to get two or
three friends to study with you. Read to
each other, practice together, and criti-
else one anothers' work.
You are advised to put the lessons In a
scrap book in proper order for reference;
or better still, preserve the papers con-
tanning them.
to practice every day. Write each lesson
over and over many times until you feel
that you are master OF it. Shorthand is
q splendid accomplishment, and the edit
or wishes you only success in this under.
taking
After studying the lesson, copy Plate
no less than ten times, using good pen,
black ink and foolscap paper.
Compare your work freque thy with the
engraved characters, and be careful to
write small hand, placing the words
closely together, pronouncing them aloud
ns you write them. Occasionally read
5ver what you have written. Remember
the three rules: 1. Practice, 2. Practice,
3. Practice.
Observe carefully the following points:
Make the characters, or letters, all the
same length, -rather short, not too long.
Place them quite close together, and do
not get them crooked. Each stroke
should rest precisely on the line. In line
Joined extends below the line. The
'ule is that the first downward letter
ihould rest on the line. b, d and ara
always struck downwards, and e to the
right. Just as you write each letter
speak its name aloud. Thus, while you
are writing line 1, say b, b, b, and line 2,
a, d, d, etc. The letter in line is called
gay instead OF e. The letter / should be
made sharp pointed, and the two lines
composing it light, not heavy (see line
~. is always so written as to point
straight down. The letter should be
very short-only one-fourth of the length
Of d. o is struck at a right angle with
the letter beside which it is placed. For
example, o in line 10 slants to the right
In beau, to the left in Job, is horizontal
In dough, and vertical in go Zine 49,. 1t
is SO written as to point directly away,
from the letter, or stem, near which il
occurs. B, d, !, G, are consonants, and |,
D and a, vowels. The letters, or marks,
which express consonants, are called
stems; while the dots, dashes and small
singles are called vowel signs. /