The St. Johns herald., 1894-04-19
DICTATED PUNCTUATION.
How the Story Read When the Type
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Hoy the Story Read When the Type
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 s'When I first began dictating to a typewriter" said a man who writes for the papers, addressing New York Sun reporter, T thought that I must dictate all the punctuation complete. and my dictation ran something like this:
 '' Young Adolphus von Gwilt leaned back upon the blue plush seat of the palace car and looked out upon the feeting panorama period He had loved the fair Adeline Otville comma and she had loved him comma but the old man had kicked semicolon that is comma you understand comma he had not actually kicked Adolphus comma but he had kicked fguratively speak ing semicolon and the disconsolate Adolphus was now travelling to assuage his grief semicolon he was on his way to the worlds fair period paragraph
 '' Just now he felt hungry semicolon thanks to youth and good health his appetite never deserted him period So Adolphus went forward into the din- ing car to breakfast period no semi colon and he ate a good square meal comma as he generally did semicolon and then he went back to his section in the sleeper period paragraph
 '''As he entered the car he saw some thing that made him almost doubt his eyesight period no semicolon it was the form of Adeline Otville period And she was in the next section back of his com ma and had been ever since the train started comma and he hadn't known it which was not very remarkable comma after all comma for the train had started very late the night before com ma and he had not come aboard until the last minute period It seems that Adeline that is I mean Miss Otville was travelling for her health comma no a period She comma like Adolphus com ma had been very much torn up by this misrepresentation of Adolphus on the part of the old man comma and her father had thought that it would be a good thing for her to travel semi colon and by the commonest accident in the world she and Adolphus had met on this train semicolon it was just one of those things that happen every day comma but it did not strike these yonng people in that commonplace way semicolon to them it was the most delightful thing they had ever heard of period paragraph.
 '''Quote Adolphus scare mark close quote cried Adeline comma the color rising to her cheek and she herself rising from the blue plush seat quote Adeline scare mark close quote cried Adolphus comma hurrying forward to meet her semi-colon and then they sat down together and looked out at the flying panorama comma or more strict ly speaking comma I fancy they looked at rthen fleeting panorama in each others eyes period And then they set about seeing if they could not in some way fix things up with the old man period Quote You know comma Adolphus close quote comma said Ad- cline comma quote he said comma single quote Adeline comma you shall never marry Adolphus close single quote semicolon but comma dear comma papa is gentle-hearted comma you know comma and think we can bring him around after all close quote period paragraph
 "'It seems that the old man was at that minute in the smoSing-room talk ing cigar after breakfast comma and Adolphus followed him boldly period The old man gave him grand bluff at first comma but Adolphus was per- sistent comma and finally he got the old man, I guess you'd better make that gentleman, out into the car where Adeline was sitting period He was not proof against the combined attack of the young people comma and it need only be added that at last he consent ed to make them happy semi-colon and so this trip which had begun in grief comma ended in joy semi-colon when they got to Chicago they were married period That's all.'
 But soon discovered that this was all unnecessary; that all I really needed to do was to indicate the para graphs; that if I dictated intelligently the typewriter would do the rest.