The herald., 1911-07-06

noNG the foremost novelists OF the world and time VI. Charles
used a system to which 1 Am going to devote reverenial atten-
IKE Robert Fultons steamboat it was the first system-at least
The only difference III rent m is that : Rrsvs achievement ut is , G1Gus;ti0naSly
H sd ps Fulton's craft grew. The parent Pitman did not. 1t re-
gn IrA O. which Sir Isaac was knighted. to attain a result whose simpli-l
91 ease, e GHARTIER S. system % o Shorthand. II Remembers naan sns tSos aD words wrds
R isaNT APPROACH TO THE SUBJECT ENTIRELY DIFFERENT."
n,vtd CopperfeId (Which is. most of the time, simply a character
.s BY Dickens for his autobiography thus describes the trials and
rSal ,n prepare al N himself to report ParIiament~AND THERE is NOT A
nan WHO ATTA LH5 = THIS HIS PR0Fl c 1avr IN = PlrM IN WHO WILL
M Np TTEEF. TIME HE HAS TAKEN AS LONG.
Il . DGpsn which hh cost me ten and sixpence. and plunged into a sea Of
rpsrny that brought me: in ma a few weeks, to 1t the confines nt of dist,ao-
can't such a thing, and in such another position something else entirely
a mssSs consequences that resulted from marks like flies legs: the ire
nndous sn ece11 o 81 a u before re = in m Dy s peepe WI ent I haS grope @' m @SW ws
S Ssy t through these difficulties and had mastered the alphabet. which
s rm called arbitrary characteristic most despotc characters 1 have
ever s d driven everything else out Of it; then. beginning again. I forgot
them; while l "a picking them up: I dropped the other fragments of the
H' TMs IS Charles Dickens own account of his struggles with what may
Iii S a vivid and rue picture . the struggles of the bss. and bright
aGsT xrT Es G HI SRfS P fi IN SPITE OF EFFORT r.: OTHERS rRnHa
SUCH AS TO ENABLE THEM TO TRANSCRIPT 1T ACCURATELY AND
TO EXAMINE VII TINS Is $50 soITo LAYB EFoR 2, YOU eT,E why VT IT
81 : s IS So TRE T atm oFE THESE MaHD coMPhR SfnVfE AaAkr sEsArlhA SfS-
Sir Isaac Prman wa born in 1913.
IN 1887 he published what he called "stenographic soundhand"
II The system, the invention of a trained. logical and wel-ordered in
.nst reflects those intellectual qualities.
You car trace the mental process by which Sir Isaac devised the al
Jaba which once ruled the stenographic world.
Sir Isaac, a graduate of the British Normal College fell back on the
asmaly useful circle; the angle or slant of straight lines. and finally sue
sMed in composing a alphabet. itself easily remembered. but. used as
h bmthand system. presenting difficulties 1t requires months and years
Nn mmter SC thoroughly IS to be able to take testimony. speeches, etc.
With It. In some instances, a neaVy percentage MS mastery u never
attained.
Let's look into this, first tracing the steps Of Sir Isaacs pioneer
york, and then anayze why this system, having n o reference to English
mailing to the ingrained habit OF the mind by which people spell and
vhs in longhand, requires 70 much study and work of the student OF 1t
Mre he car master II.
II Sir Isaac took Q circle and cut 1t up into as many parts a would en-
II he ont TO use the segments o arc IS symbols for consonant sounds
\ Without confusion. This Is indicated by the points checked on In the
Turn We to Figure l