The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-03-12
Jour SHORTHAND CLASS.
CONDUCTED BY ELDoN MORAN.

practical course in twelve easy lessons
Pitman System. Membership only $2-
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, int,lli-
gent and thinking people generally who
have much writing to do.
II will pay.
You will find shorthand useful In
hundred ways, even though you attain
only half the speed necessary for YER
batim reporting. Shorthand Is exceed
ingly useful, wonderfully interesting.
and lie fast growing into popular favor.
You can learn it-even II you are not
wards. Il 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, to,write 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
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, un-
til you become as familiar with them as
with your A B C's.
Every person who studies these les
sons, and becomes q member OF the Spe-
cial Class, will receive cards OF introduce
40 nth tIpAa mt % wiz o. a
different places, with whom he may car
ry on a correspondence, making use OF
shorthand characters. Corresponding
in shorthand 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 classY Send your
name and address at once II you have not
already done SO, and a 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
scrap book in proper order for referen e;
or better still, preserve the papers con-
tanning them.
Hall 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 it. Short hand is
splendid accomplishment, and the edit
or wishesyou only success in this under
taking.
After studying the lesson, copy Plate I
| no less than ten times, using good pen,
black ink and foolscap paper.
Compare your work fre9ue lily with the
engraved characters, and be careful to
write small hand, placing the words
closely together, .pronouncing them aloud
| as you write them. Occasionally read
| over what you have written. Remember
| the three rules: 1. Practice, 2. Practice,
| g. 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 b extends below the line. The
rule is that the first downward letter
should rest on the line. b, d and are
always struck downwards, and g to the
| right. just as you write each letter
speak its name aloud. Thus, while you
d, d, d. etc. The letter in line is called
gay instead OF &. The letter should be
| made sharp pointed, and the two lines
composing it light, not heavy (see line
81. is always SO written as to point
| straight down. The letter should be
very short-only ne-fourth OF the length
OF d. is struck at 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 15). 1t
is SO written as To point directly away
from the letter, or stem, near which Il
occurs. b, d, ], g, are consonants, and !,
and a, vowels. The letters, or marks,
| which express consonants, are called
stems; while the dots, dashes and small
angles are called vowel signs.
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KEY TO PLATE 1.
Line II. By die Guy eyed bide gibe
guide abide. 10 Beau dough ode bode
Job goad obeyed doge. IA Bay aid Abe
| Jay gay jade guage babe. Is Day age Joe
60 obey ago abode Dido.
| Plate /.
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