The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-17
GIRLS WHO PLAY
The Typewriter in Waltz Time May
Re Easily Detected.


Re Easily Detected.
Chicago Chronicle
well, I'd almost swear to that girls
| typewriting as quickly as I would to her
handwriting said a lawyer the other
day as he picked up a typewriter letter
which his young lady stenographer had
just left on his desk, and gazed at it
curiously.
She seems to play the typewriter a
good deal like she would piano, with a
nd of rhythm that brings her fingers
down hard at regular intervals and light
at equally regular spaces. Now, look
there. Do you see how every fourth let
ter has been hit hard and those preced-
ing gradually lighter until the first let
ter, which might almost be called faint?
I'll bet you 81 to 80 cents that she was at
dance last night and never missed a
single waltz. Here is the result This
morning she is playing her machine in
waltz time. oh, you can't fool me- even
If | am bald-headed and wear two pairs
OF glasses. Now, just let me prove part
of my proposition to you"
Then the lawyer raised his voice and
shouted: ooh, Lucille
Yes, sir, . responded Lucille, as she ap-
peared at the door with stenographer' S
notebook
Lucille, did you have a good time at
the dance last night?" he asked, exhibit
Ing the usual legal acuteness by not first
asking question which would allow the
witness to deny everything.
Why, yes, SIR Lucille stanmersti,
blushing to the roots of Eer golden hair,
which was not hanging down her back.
Did You miss any of the waltzes?''
NO, sir, not very many, 1 guess"
That's ALL said the attorney very
mildly. You can take things easy to-
day, for expect you are pretty tired
Lucille, somewhat treasured, but still
blushing, retired to her room ard the
typewriter was soon clicking away in
Kind OF long meter that would have
fitted slow Sunday school hymn.
Experts in typewriting have often
been called to the witness stand in
court said I. S. Barnes, manager of n
department i'll one of the large type
writing machine houses, 'but 1 think
it absolutely impossible that any naye
ever been called to attempt the feat
of identifying the work of any one. The
experts who have been called upon have
usually testified, 1 think, in regard to
speed or to touch typewriting,' which
1t at least a comparatively new thing
IN the work -
Touch typewriting'' is now being
"a 6AAI III dll O1 the nlSn-claSS business
colleges in Chicago, it is said. However.
the innovation is still so new that net
or typewriter in hundred In the city
can work by it. Touch typewriting is The
operating of a machine in which the KEYS
are not lettered. Beginners are given
lessons in the work in much the same
way as a compositor might begin the
location of the letters in the boxes of a
composing stand No letter is ever al
lowed upon the surface of the keys Les
sons, 20 in number as rule, are given
to the student. He sits down before the
/ blank keys and is told to find the loca-
ton Of six certain letters which are men
toned to him. The beginner iinds them
and plays them over end over again un-
til he has them firmly fixed in his mind.
The next day he is given four or six more,
according to the aptitude which he has
shown or the first day, and so the les
sons continue until the student has learn
ed the location of all the letters.