Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-02-26
OUR SHORTHAND CLASS
CONDUCTED BY ELDoN MORAN

Apractical course in twelve easy lesson.
Pitman System. Membership only 81.
Persons wishing to Join should remi,
promptly. Information cheerfully give,
Address Secretary University Extension
Box go, st. Louis, Mo.
FIRST LESSON.
Who should learn short-handf
Everybody, particularly all student,
business and professional men, int.lIi.
gent and thinking people generally who
have much writing to do.
1t will pay.
You will find shorthand useful In .
hundred ways, even though you attain
only half the speed necessary for YER.
batiln reporting. Shorthand Is exceed.
ingly useful, wonderfully interesting.
and Is fast growing into popular favor.
You can learn it-even II you are no.
wards. 1t requires little time and pa.
thence, and these you have.
The course OF lessons here begun will
enable the learner, II instructions are
carried out, toiwrite short hand correctly
anu Win Ialr rate OF speed.
Only one lesson win be given each
week. That will be sufficient however.
and every learner Is urged to master each
lesson thoroughly before beginning with
the next. Spend an hour or two each
day, or whatever time you can spare. in
practicing the characters, writing each
one over and over again many times, I'M
til you become as familiar with them as
with your A B C's.
Every person who studies these les
sons, and becomes a member OF the Spe-
cial Class, will receive cards Of introduc.
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 hand 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 win,
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
scrap book in proper order for reference;
or better still. preserve the papers con.
tanning them.
Halt an hour or more should be given
to practice every day. Write each lesson
over and over many times until YOU feel
that you are master OF 1t. Shorthand is
splendid accomplishment, and the edit
or wishes you only success in this under
taking.
After studying the lesson, copy Plato 1
no less than ten times, using good pen,
black ink and foolscap paper.
Compare your work freque tly with the
engraved characters, and be careful to
a han nd l.
closely together, pronouncing them aloud
as you write them. Occasionally read
over what you have written. Remember
the three rules: 1. Practice, 2. Practice,
3. Practice.
Observe carefully the following points:
Make the characters, o. 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 b extends below the line. The
rule is that the first downward letter
should rest on the line. b, and are
always struck downwards, and g to the
right. Just as you write each letter
speak its name aloud. Thus, while you
are writing line l, say b, b, b, and line Q,
d. d, d, etc; The letter in line is called
gay instead OF g. The letter l should be
made sharp. pointed, and the two lines
composing it light, not heavy (see lima
~. Is always so written as to point
straight down. The letter o should be
very short-only ohe-fourth OF the length
of d: o is struck at a right angle with
the letter beside which IL is placed. For
example, in line 10 slants to the right
In beau, to the left in Job, is horizontal
In dough, and vertical in go Zine 15). 1t
IS 80 written as to point directly away
from the letter, or stem, near which IL
occurs. B, d, J, G, are consonants, and l,
o and a, vowels. The letters, or marks,
which express consonants, are called
stems; while the dots, dashes and small
angles are called vowel signs.
KEY TO PLATE1.
Line II. BY die Guy eyed bide gibe
guide abide. Is Beau dough ode bode
Job goad obeyed doge. IA Bay aid Abe
lay gay jade guage babe. Is Day age Joe
go obey ago abode Dido.
Plate I.