San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-02-26

a practtcal course IN Twelve easy lessons.
Pitman System. Membership only g.
Persons wishing to Join should remit
promptly. Information cheerfully given.
Address Secretary University Extension,
Box s22, St. Louis. Mo.
FIRST LESSON.
Who should learn short-hand7
Everybody, particularly all students,
business and professional men, intelli-
gent and thinking people generally who
have much writing to do.
1t VIII pay.
You will dad shorthand useful in a
hundred wayl, even though you attain
only half thu speed necessary for YER
batim reporting. Shorthand is exceed
ingly useful, wonderfully interesting,
and is fast growing into popular favor.
You can learn it-even II you are not
a genius! Nor will you regret it after
wards. 1t requires a little time and pa
tience, and these you have.
The course of lessons here begun will
enable the learner, If instructions are
carried out, to write shorthand 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
the next. Spend an hour or two each
day, or whatever time you can spare, in
prGcticing the characters, writing each
one over and over again many times, I'M
I'll YOU become as familiar with them as
with your A 3 C's.
Every person who studies these les
sons, and becomes n member Of the Spe-
ci7l Class, will receive cards OF introduce
ton TO several other students living in
different places, with whom he may car
~ en- a correspondence, making use of
shorthand characters. Corresponding
in shorthand affords most excellent
practice, and helps the learner greatly.
Cards OF introduction viii be issued as
soon as three or four lessons have been
learned.
Have you Joined the class? Send your
name and address at once il you have not
already done so, and g lesson blank will
be mailed TO you. Write plainly.
You are recommended 10 get two or
three friends 70 study with you. Read to
zach other, practice together, and criti-
else one anothers' work.
You ars advised 10 put tho lessons in a
scrap book in proper order for reference;
or better still, preserve the papers con-
tanning them.
Hall an hour or more should be given
10 practice every day. Write each lesson
over and over many times until you feel
that you are master OF it. Shorthand is
a splendid accomplishment, and the edit
or wishes you only success in this under
taking.
After studying the lesson, copy Plate 1
no less than ten times, using good pen,
black ink and fooiscap paper.
Compare your work freque tly with the
engraved characters, and be careful to
write a small hand, placing the words
closely together, pronouncing them aloud
as You write them. Occasionally read
aver what you have written. Remember
the three rules: l. Practice, 2. Practice,
3. Practice
Observe carefully the following points:
Make the characters, or letters, all the
same length,-rather short, not too long.
Piace 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
rule is that the first downward letter
should rest on the line. 3, and are
right Just as YOU write each letter
speak its name aloud. Thus, while you
are writing line l, say b, b, b, and line 2,
d, d, d, etc. The letter in line is called
gay instead of z. The letter 1 should be
made sharp pointed, and the two lines
it light, not heavy (see line
81. 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, in line Is slants TO the right
in beau, TO the left in Job, is horizontal
in dough, and vertical in go dine 49,. It
is SO written as to point directly away
from the letter, or stem, near which it
occurs. B, d, ], &, are consonants, and 1,
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.