The herald., 1911-07-06

The above is the plate showing the transcript in shorthand of Bar
answers Barnums description, full o workshops correctly used- per
First I, u; call you sS n attention IN. to s the fact 1s s5s' ,t 5hs yG a sSsssRs 2 as
have n o time for vowsLsigns with Pnman Shorthand h@ THE THE EE ATT
WHY WAIuH At ThE To YOU 9TT IS IS r MAT4 YOUR GER' EYE. YOUR 1N = SGS MUST BE-
TRAINED SO THAT YOUR EYES MMo 1sIT ,, Suppl PLY TT. THE ELY lSVi is lca
the novels. We set forth here proposition of shorthand which dehes
S'"' It is S selenen,al;- The reading power , O.: any system is based on tn"
Here elsa i; a another 81 c trSis DG TTis SPEED is BASED ON THE SPEED
From these two a1oms it is impossible to get away
script OF OF what m tT Joker Barnum says, as transcribed in the Ptman system
Notice. please Sc, that hath the so yssy h Fset snT sst T thTee a Wer %sl ae al as a f Ta aS',
and the Pit%an system ste M U ndsftd 5ne% Wb bsm sbon T5s "si Is be o x "a In' in IL, t IA FIRST
position and in the he, last I position m IR %.' each h time tim f sps" Is as snere I ne p EogIdGe
reason. conceding for the sake OF argument that the "r' is in the first
Visible 81 ei xhy Gt should oUi ne not be- be- "oner?" It is however, far" o
tn the v t5aip Ssnt Il in Rs rdsn" In !n tine rs@SI POSITION tn ia eTet ay"s we'll diTt indicates SdiScat sOG the
word. You have "6s' and "ns;n and and require s ire n n o flight no ot imasI matinp to 10
literally and meaningiessly open" with the 20" long, S in mode" or
nPs short tss@ "pn i'fis a the h second position spells upon: because t is on
idai eircls-s for con, :" al r." cut half its length thus, adding in Id I'd an a
lsss after aSnt the %n~-"hoo X Here. ' tsoD, aPs = soDsonans signs suialns
the he, experienced ENC ed ts EYE " IN s sead NJ is % on %erdsign for So "hare "1v," in rs other he
words uTd G% is II III have" "A" is the dot tin the first position; Particular" is
somewhere concealed about its person: and the p" is begun with n no. o.
a." spelling "pHtlcula1" Another ~ or sign NIB" H6a. tvG We sounds Un SS to
learned and 50 stored ed ava; in n the memory. When the first eleven words
S learn m shorthand %aa SS1 Thoroughly" S@s ash "" ;" re found to contain seyen words that
s sss.1 ABSOLUTELY 'soGsss; a s9 r p ts as Ia sslshns It a is sS ' or ' ss a at large a se'a ad 'aa n s 's
l.ense OF humor. This system cannot be taken IN and carried Is a side
lime One who learns 1t has to dedicate himself to it as did Dickens. An
lotbe, thinrt this system cannot be mastered and allowed to rust. Speed,
accuracy, a working order of the possession is maintained by constant
practice and that alone.
There are sxtyeight words in the resto of what P. T Barnum here
Isad her are over forty workshops in this number. Capacious men,
lo-y at his RAFT don O think, to know this language o Inc n arcs
and circles thoroughly-a big wordsign tore-house necessary; and you
Icannot ause know, when you are writing $50 words a minute to re-
cali how 81 have been" as "a Is" that" particular" ETC., are writ
t @n P Pitman is almost impossible with night students;
It is strange, almost remarkable, hat an analytical genius such a
must have been the mind that invented and evolved Pitman system did
not reflect that the two greatest impediments in his system were inhict-
led upabated o. all the men and women who studied and the compara-
hvely few who mastered his system:
A lack of vowel power.
A diminution of speed proportoned to the number Of vowel signs
used.
Net result-an absolute necessity If a enormous dictionary OF word
signs.
A difficulty Of mastery increased by every word-sig1.
A MULTIPLICATION, IN THE CASE OF EXPERTS, OF WORD
lsIGNs so GREAT AS TO MAKE THE WRITING OF EACH EXPERT A
system OF HIS OWN, BASED ON PITMAN. BUT PECULIAR TO THE
WRIT Err AND ABSOLUTELY UNDECIPHERABLE BY ANY ONE
ELSE.
As a matters f m W knowledge know that Spenceran Charter
Isb,rtband al be learned with onefnh the study required for Ptman;
In "a be written faster than Pitman-it makes fewer strokes In writing
lanv given matter-an it "a be read with an easel eve claimed for Pit
, man. In fact, people knowing the system, correspond In II and read each
others writing as though 1t we're longhand or Roman print.