The Lamar register., 1892-02-13
FIRST LESSON.

FIRST LESSON.
Who should learn short -handf
Everybody, particularly all students,
business and professional men, intelli-
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
bntim reporting. Short-han is exceed
lngly useful, wonderfully interesting,
and is fast growing into popular favor.
You can learn it-even IL you are not
geniusi Nor will you regret it after
wards. 1t requires little timc and pa
tience, and these you have.
The course of lessons here begun viii
enable the learner, II instructions are
carried out, lo,write shorthand correctly
and with a fair rate OF speed.
Only one lesson win DO 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, un-
til you become as familiar with them as
with your C's.
Every person who studies these les
SONS, anu DtcOnles UemDeF OF lne Spe-
cial Glass, will receive cards of introduc-
ton to several other students living in
different places, with whom he may car
ry on n correspondence, making use OF
short hand characters. Corresponding
In shorthand affords most excellent
practice, and helps tho 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
n ND n Mt I IN n
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-
cise 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.
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. Shorthand is
splendid accomplishment, and the edit
or wishes you only success in this under
taking.
After studying the lesson, copy Plato l
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
write a small hand, placing the words
closely together, pronouncing them aloud
as YOU write them. Occasionally read
over what you have written. Remem Der
the three rules: l. Practice, 2. Practice,
3. Practice.
Observe carefully the following points:
Make the characters, or letters, all the
same th,-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
are writing limo 1, say b, b, b, and line 2
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 il light, not heavy (see line
9). / is always so written as to point
straight down. The letter o should be
very short-only one-fourth of the lengtt
the letter beside which IL Is placed. Fol
example, O in line ls slants to the right
in beau, to the left in Job, is horizonta
in dough, and vertical in go (line 15). Il
is written as TO point directly away
| from the letter, or stem, near which il
! occurs. b, d, ], &, are consonants, and
o and q, vowels. The letters, or marks
| which express consonnnts, are called
stems; while the dots, dashes and small
KEY TO PLATE /.
Line II. By die Guy eyed bidc gibS
guide abide. 13 Beau dough ode bodi
job goad obeyed doge. IA Bay aid ABB
| Jay gay jnde guage babe. Is Day age Joe
90 obey ago abode Dido.