Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07

lose my place, because I never take my
eyes of the copy, / just simply read
along lmost as rapidly as l should Il l
were not transcribing.
'G place my typewriter SO that the lower
bank Of letters Is on a level with my ell
bows, l always sit erect and move as I
find Il comfortable. This, / think, h
merely a matter OF comfort. for two OF
my nearest competitors sit In an entirely
different attitude; one absolutely erect,
not moving by a hairs breadth in an
hour; the other IL all bumped over his
machine, Personally I think a woman
should always sit as erect as possible to
preserve her health and figure.
strength In the hands and arms IL the
most valuable requisite one can possess.
Exercises or homework which employ the
muscles OF the arms and hands are very
valuable, and every typist should give
some attention to this matter.
THE stroke should be a sharp staocato
blow to the key. The finger must not
llnger on a letter. l take the letters off
my machine and substitute celluloid caps,
as being more comfortable for the finger
tips.
"ln closing I want to lay stress upon
the necessity OF having the typewriter alb
solutely clean. I am astonishcd when |
go into business offices to see tho condl-
ton In which the average operator keeps
his machine II is impossible TO work
fast on a dirty, sticky typewriter, and a
blurred letter ls a disgrace to the operator
and to the firm for which II is written"
8
suitors Around the Sugar ParreI.
Coming home from a swarm Of %suitors,
Mrs. william Hays Chapman, the young
willow OF a Brooklyn dry goods merchant
who died about a year ago and left her
Sl0,O 900, O0O, was a passenger on the MRure-
tanla, arriving from Liverpool.
Rumors Of her engagement to a num-
Der Of titled men IN Europe were cablod
from abroad fequently during the sum
mer. Mrs. Chapman denies all OF the
rumors, although In regard to the possi-
billty Of her engagement to General A.
De Teherep-Srirldovitch of the Russian
army she was not so positive. Az to
the reports that she might marry Lord
Falconer or Lord Kinters, she said they
were not true.
"Of course they asked me-" she re-
marked, as did a great many others, but
I could not marry them all, could 1? 1t
was really dreadful the way l was be-
sieged. Pleaders for the advancement OF
bankrupted lords and dukes sent me let
tiers, and some Of the men in want wrote
to me themselves. had TO change my
address and hide from them all.
There's nothing Of a serious nature do
ing with the lords, though rumor has
had me engaged to Them she said. adj
justing her Paris hat and deity scold-
ing into n place a lock Of marvellous
hair with her slim gloved hand.
But the general-ahl He is such a
general. He is the greatest man in Rus
STA and so gallant, and so courteous and
so NOBLE
But are you engaged TO Hmm" bra
zenly asked the reporter.
Mrs. Chapman studied the end of her
tapering foreflnger, tapped her shapely foot
on the spotless deck and smiled ever so
cOquetlshly.
We'll, now am II" she countered. You
see.' she went on. the general is comlng
here next month"
ITO marry YOU" interjected the reporter.
"Um-m-m," purred Mrs. Chapman. And
he's such a fine man."-NewY York Herald.
Arms and the Broom Handle.
Thu high priestess Of sweeping, busting.
washing, etc, on the woman's page has
broken out with a cheering bit of news