Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-23
DSYCHOLOGYOF ERRORS MADE
 ON THE TYPEWRITER

 substituted for those of finer grada- ton.
 Writing one line over another or substituting single for double space, or vice versa, proves the thought 1 power too strongly concentrated upon the subject matter for proper adjustment of the triple forces men tioued. The thought control in this case has made both muscle and vision unduly subordinate. The mus cles have run the carriage Of the machine back to The starting point of a new line, but have not spaced l properly between the lines and the vision has failed 10 notice the error until the line has been written and ' the mischief done. Sometimes the vision fails in its duty entirely, and , the mistake is not seen until the whole page is typed.
 Should the mind lose its grip | on the muscular tension completely 1 the fingers run riot through sheer physical inertia and words are pro duced which are strongly suggestive ! of ayatism, and could only to be ! described as a return to the Ian | guage of prehistoric man or an at tempt to reproduce the grunts and cries Of animals
 The most difficult task for the author who turns from hand-written l composition to composing on the machine is this nice balance be- tween the three controls. He has ! been accustomed to writing words without much attention to the in dividdal letters which composed 1 them, leaving that duty to his | typist. Now, he must again spell | letter by letter, and at first he will find himself coming to 8 dead stop in the middle of an ordinary word without the least idea as to what letters follow, a word which he would write with his pen without an instants hesitation or percepti- ble mind query as 10 it's spelling. His greatest stumbling block will be the rounding out of his sen tence and paragraphing The sen ! tences in his infant typed copy will be short and jerky; the least waver of thought will mean a new one and his manuscript will be punct- uated almost entirely by periods. For Q time, the compound sentence es- lcapes him entirely, but it eventually tcomes back into use, and coIons and i semicolons are again utilized and faIl naturally into their proper 1 places.
 When he finishes a paragraph his brain is necessarily dwelling on the next one. and the chances are that he will at first type an almost solid,
 unparagraphed manuscript. With few next succeeding manuscripts will be paragraphed every line or two and unless a kindly editor straight ened them out would look queer enough in print
 In the transportation of letters uniformity is observed which sub stantiates the theory that all minds
 work alike under the same con minations of thought and muscular
 production. and also shows. thai
 the Jeff hand Is most apt to be dis
 obedient.
 The word most transposed is the and sn writing this most operators
 on the universal keyboard white Il
 with the right hand and with the left. The prevailing transposition is teh. You will find this in nine man uscripts out of ten. and you will find it at least once a day in some news . papers set by linotype operators. and sometimes several in the sam' paper.
 The left hand of all these different operators with it's brain transmitted , direction to press that particular [ key, pressed 1t before the right hand has completed it's work. The sense O Icsnsecutiveness Is deficient in tn l. left hand. but the sense of initiative Is also deficient, for never Is thu word transposed eth.
 [ The transpositiOn next most ire Quentig seen ia the trifling word ou and the prevailing tranaDosition |
 otu. Here again the letters Q ana u which should properly come lrs