The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-31
facts of Interest
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department must be written in ink and
accompanied by name and address.
Both will be held confidential.
Correspondents will please write the
names of their places Of residence IN
full. Letters go astraY daily because
the address is given merely as =" CITY.
There are forty-five of these United
States and many cities in each State.
No. l.
In the Daily News of June Goth L no
tice inquiry made by "F. a. S." as TO
the best system of shorthand TO ieaFh'
and beg leave to express an opinion.
/ think the Graham system pest. al
though perhaps 1.lore difficult to master
a stenographer sees the merits CT 1t over
other systems latter once learned.
graduated little over q year ago from
a business college, and was taught the
Benn-Pitman system of shorthand. Dur
ing my course [ was always consulting
books on shorthand when opportunities
offered, and became convinced that era
hams system of shorthand is the best.
1t contains shorter outlines and contrac-
tons that are simple TO understand. You
perhaps understand that shcTthand shouid
be as short as possible. if speed is to be-
considered; that shorthand is used for
swift writing, and that if there IS
shorter way to write an outline of
word it should be chosen rather than
the longer, when the shorter outline is
sufficiently suggestive Of the word or
words it represents. In my case tparCOn
personal mention as soon as Il mastered
a few of Graham's simple contractlons
I noticed that did not have to put forth
as much exertion to keep up with my
CO
result that I learned more of the con-
fractions. and now write about half as
much shorthand as when I graduated
from the business college to represent
the same amount of longhand. | should
also like to make mention to IF. a. s.,
if she contemplates taking up the study
of shorthand, to endeavor to make her
notes as small as in the textbook she
is to use She viii find that small out
lines are quite essential fer speed. Also
TO not allow much space between each
outline These two things are spoken
of in all the text books, but too often
unheeded
If ..F. A. s." will send me her address
shall have sent to her pamphlet
demonstrating the superiority CT Ora
hams system. BROWNIE.
No. 9.
In response 10 your uISiS oii Dciiall u
vour correspondent, ''Y. L. l send you
the addresses of three institutions Tor
the treatment Of inebriety
The Richard Gundry Home, Harlem
Lodge, Gainesville, Md, DR.. Richard +.
Gundry.
2 Walnut Lodge Hospital, Hartford,
Conn. DR.. T. D. Crothers.
3. DR.. Givens Sanitariun, Stamford
Conn, DR.. Amos ]. Givens.
There are plenty more and any physl-
clan would gladly supply addresses to
your correspondent. 5 j. b., NJ u.
No. g.
Your approval Of the logic of 'R c.
VS." recent letter in which the abstract
is oddly confused with the absolute
should not pass without comment, espe-
cially as your prcfounder nature refused
to accept the authority OF your trained
intelligence. I am glad your aesthetic
sense rebelled against the Liberalism
which .R. C. W. in his worship or the
conventional, would have imposed upon
it. while himself commencing the very
thing to which he objects
If any one thing more than announcer is
a, product of custom and tradition. gram
matte usage IS that thing. slaylsh adj
herence to it is a foe TO elegance and
style, without in any way a!dlnS the
cause of truth Yet "R. c. v. insists
upon such adherence to- what is pure
convention as if it were the absolute of
the absolute.
Everything is truth of its kind, and
there is good in everything yet 1T is
difficult to conceive of anything that IS
always and only good. Tc' the greatest
natures and to the finest intuitions some
liberty of selection must be allowed
Only narrow intelligences, which cannot
be trusted with freedom, must be held