The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-12
.OUBER BITS or DICfATIoN
TYPES THAT GALL ON TIE PUB.
LEC STENOGRAPHERS.

me MAJ with the LM9S AOur AcS o. m
Uhnamed Play-An HOUI's WeFk n Tel.
inE "A1y DeaP LuIu' what tho Tilted
Lsvsr Theagbt -BsnhruDtey WSrk.
Nearly all the public stenoEaphio oficeS
ara owned and run by women. Men leave
this branch Of commerclalism 20 wonnSA
because Il ia hard work and tho profits
are ANAL. But the work has some COM
pensation, perhaps, IN the number q queer
persons who stray into Q public ofice.
For instance. the young man who walked
into q public office downtown and said he
wanted to dictate a letter to the machine.
An operator was assigned to him. . young
and very pretty girl. He began. not with
out irSt having noted with an approving
Glance the youth and fairness OF his tenn
porary assistant.
sMy dear Lulu he began. and then the
operator woke ZIP, for abe knew by ex-
p~erience that this was one OF the funny
ones.
He dictated steadily for an hour and
un~inteFruptedly poured out the walls OF
his wrath upon his dear Lulu. 1t seemed
that Lulu had-jilted him 10 marry some
one poorer, and whom he got through
telling Lulu what he thought OF her for
jilting him. anyway. he began to draw
parallels between tho gifts and social po-
sition he could offer her and the lack which
marriage with the other would mean.
But he would not have her think that he
was pleading TO be taken back. No, q
thousand times no. He never vished.
in fact, 70 gaze again upon the oounte-
nance Of one 90 fair and yet 20 false. OF
such a deoeitful, ~treacherous, unprinclpled
he hesitated there and asked the pretty
operator II she thought Lulu would feel
hurt by these epithets. The operator
thought that any girl would be Hattered,
because 1t showed how much he really
cared for her.
AT the end Of an hour he had reached his
last word and a. he took the ton pages from
the operators hand he squeezed her fingers
and asked IL abe were fond Of violets.
Another young man, who 10 anxious 10 be
the American Shakespeare. has been q
source Of revenue TO one public s~tenographio
once for the last SIX years. de 70 writing
q play about Robert Emmett, and he has
been writing 1t for six years. When he
first appeared with q bundle Of closely
| written manuscript the entire od1oe force
hAaved a sigh. he said he was n no hurry.
however, 90 It was done In slack moments.
with the result that In about q month he
got the finished copy Of the whole play.
except the first aot. which he had not yet
brought In.
Less than o week later the young play
wright returned, still without the hrst act,
but with tho rest Of the play to DO entirely
At different intervals thereafter he In
4 yariably brought the four acts beck TO be
| reoopied. Last winter he finally Walked
N with the first act. The girl to whom the
ar aT' th ct tit ys. .R gfSs@ E 2S s0Sy sP sSs a1 asEssts
all the fancy typewriting stunts she
when the author returned she showed
Il with a good deal Of pride.
He. stifened at once. n taking the
bundle OF papers from her. remarked In an
icy tone: 'Thank you very much for
naming my play for me; had not yet
named IL myself
He IL stilf coming back TO have the first
act rewritten, but he carefully leaves ct
home, anything which might look like q
The greatest source of revenu to q pub
lie s~tenoKrapher In reference work, but the
last wear or 90 has seen q falling OF In the
rates, and especially In bankruptcy eaaee.
But the bankruptcy. cases are usually
| titles Of these cases nearly always contain
a foreign name and very frequently tbs
bankrupt knows 90 little Of the English
language that an interpreter has TO be en-
ployed.
The difference between what the bank
rupt apparently says and what the inter
prefer Gays he says is often remarkable:
On one occasion a trustee raid TO the in.
terpreter: ASK him II his wife is still alive?'
The interpreter repeated the question In
Hebrew, and then the entire Toomful eat
back and listened while q torrent OF words
poured from the bankrupt's lips. Minute
after minute passed, n there seemed 70
be no chance Of the b~anhrupt's wonderful
e~Ioduenco oeasing. ooh. that's enough, ,
cried the referee impatiently, swhst doeC
he sayf'
sNo,'T answered the interpreter.
But where the bankrupt Ia not a foreigner,
his inyariable answer TO each and every
QUESTION 10. Il don't know
A trustee will ask:
when did your father dief'
Answer. Il don't know
Question: swhere did he die?'
Answer: Il don't know"
Question: Were you there when he
| died2'
Answer: Il don't know