The herald., 1911-12-07

The aoov. is tn. plat. showing tn. transcript IN shorthand of Bar
answer. Barnums description full of workshops correctly used-a per
entirely Sf''t si net as ssl Soa' s siSsRsG nm to v ias % 9Ss ss taking shs yG ~ s5sssS. ; ore
have 10 tins for voveIslgns with Ptman shorthand. THE REASON
V WHE AT TAH re YOU you IS Sc r MATH Y PEac EYT. r TE H4 4NsT1 Tc1S M SYSTF RE
TRAINED SO THAT YOUR EYES ALMOST SUPPLY THE 1Nv1sIBLE
the vowei. We st forth here ont proposition Of shorthand which deaes
r,. 1t i: s' en- S"ssi .Tnsa !sa Snn p, eo" ;oM Of any system is based o the
WITH Here WH il = '9 ToH ca iL2'i po T 1TS SPEED is BASED ON THE SPEED
From these two sHioms it is impossible to get away.
.,nt Now, II, THIS ist ash R.-Dn clear ar and sels tNes lie ,S us get 1t the tran
Notice sI PLEASE S, that hath the so vS.y first Tst three rec, T 1shss ar written IS a word,
s soSns the Plt%sn system st 9s T 56sn,d 5nfT Wh rsfr s6on There ERE is M not "sa a hint of of a. vowel TI
of PfI seonstPS in s az yd des P9sed0i in this IN each "Fr time %fa spsn Is Ia there rns pSSg5aSs
reason. coneedi1s for the sake of arsument that the "r' is in the first
p pOsiaon visible TS e% Shy pI it should ouS O not be- be "on hl@Pa 1 n is s'h however sSere ~ is %et fe
the trained eye in Pttman. for the reason that that house there is a house
word. You have IBIS" and ms" and require no fight of Imagination to
literally and msaninglessly open" with the 20 long, as in mode" or
In P9 short. , sns spn LONG is , he second sc oR1 positions o11 Spells u.s. Upon" Gr "?:n bes ssna,t it Is Is. c sS:
issi s = 8 t1 e: asos.~ :" Ut half a its t I length 5' thus 11 40 Hsso "s tn aad d,
read after the "n"NhooR. Here. then, re re he s oDs'"an signs ST. a' guiding il
the experienced e 81 oi e y in 5ed aHs .'on TerG i~n FEC !spn IT" is the
Is ~ have" "A" is the dot in the arst position Particular" is
somewhere concealed about its person. and the p" is begun with IN r.
az d spelling .% ,p%aenla1n another HO,ngc. ~ o, d sts.n "HD" vowel l sounds to
what now is really a wordsisn' It is something that has to D e
i Of ts' .s %aa xa0 . says sss hts a nSoG 2gu ,s that tat sUsfs g0s e1e Ds1 vo1ss should 9S.a
hay: absolutely t. to e. Fs IN 1 = ssSd,t it I is to be 'ssn at a Stance that he is
sense of humor. This system cannot be taken On and carried as a side
line. One who learns it has to dedicate himself to it as did Dickens. An
other thing, this system cannot be mastered and allowed to rust. Speed,
a working order of the possession is maintained BY constant
practice and that alone.
There ae sixty-eight words in the rest of what P. I. Barnum here
said. There are W forty workshops In this number Capacious mem
DRY at this gait, don't you think. to know this language Of lines and arcs
and circles thoroughly-a big wordsign store-house necessary: and
cannot pause you know when you are writing $50 words a minute to re
t sa n Pitm.n is almost @t' impossible with night students. etc., ar writ
1t is strange, almost remarkable, that an analytical genius such g
must have been the mind that invented and evolved Pftman system did
not reflect that the two greatest impediments in his system were inhct-
ed undated o n all the men and women who studied and the compare
lively few who mastered his system:
A lack of vowel power.
A diminuuon of speed proportoned to the number of vowel sign.
used.
Net result-an absolute necessity oil an enormous dictionary u vord-
A difficulty Of mastery increased by every wordsiga
A MULTIPLICATION. IN THE CASE OF EXPERTS, OF WORD
SIGNS so GREAT AS TO MAKE THE WRITING OF EACH EXPERT A
SYSTEM OF HIS OWN. BASED ON PITMAN, BUT PECULIAR TO THE
WRITER AND ABSOLUTELY UNDECIPHERABLE BY ANY ONE
ELSE.
AS a matter Of my own knowledge I know that Spenceran Charter
shorthand an be learned with oneffh the study required for Ptman.
IAN be written faster than Pitman-t makes fewer strokes in writing
any given matter-and It a be read with IN ease lew claimed for pit
man. In fact. people knowing the system correspond in It and read eab
others writing as though it we're longhand DR. Roman print.