The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-25
= THE FAITHFUL TYPEWRITER, .
New York EveninC Sun.

New York Evening SUM-
Typewriters have a great education
al value. a value indeed which manu-
facturers doubtless include in the
price they charge for tho machines.
I'm the old pen writing a blot we'll
placed would always save the writer
a search in the dictionary. II YOU
didn't know how TO spell a word you
either blotted the place or slurred ov-
or the whole epistle and wrote "in
haste" at the bottom. This always
endears. and always will endear. the
pen TO men who don't know how to
spell. With the typewriter one is
Obliged to spend valuable time yer
the dictionary. which is a most unin-
tercsting book. a constant compan-
ionship with a typewriter-not a typ
st-has a soothing, elevating influ-
ence over a man. No hard-drinking
nerves must he in good order, or YOU
will strike the wrong letters and
mangle your copy. There is no jeal-
ousy about the typewriter. 1t never
resents i%ntidelities. One leaves it, say.
for a change and takes up his pen.
He will find his pen dry. and nib hent
and the ink thick, but the typewriter
is always the same willing, ready as
sociate. If YOU wish to emphasize a
WI w 'dii uduS VII tlle " pew EIIeT
without offense. But try the same
thing with a e 1t splutters and
cracks and sticks into the paper, maxi
ing n amount OF protesting blots.
When YOU buy a typewriter. ii is as
we'll to let the man at the Office teach
YOU how to use it. Otherwise there is
sure to be a fight between you and the
machine. After n unexpected squirt
it probably will refuse to do anything.
IL ,r C,~ % -,s- -
grammatical OF to furnish YOU with
ideas.
And every now and then it will
rims a little bell jeeringly, as if to call
your attention to the fact that it is
there. In a weeks time you may be
able to rattle off a few lines of Brown
ing or Esperanto If You are an adept
at that lingo. Still the typewriter is
really mans econd best friend. When
YOU are lazy or inclined to forget that
will o the wisp which men call am
bition sit before Your typewriter, put
a shee Of paper in and lot your fling
ers stray over the keys until the soul
of the machine wakes within it. Then
it will throw itself with ardor into
your mood. 1t will force you to work
and will second YOU to the best Of its
ability. 1t is never dismayed by re-
suits. 1t simply lays. We got through
a good spell of work that time. didn't
We: Shouldn't be surprised IL some
editor would want another story like
that soon. Some day when editors are
clamorous and YOU have a secretary
and dictate things dom let him touch
me. Have an up-to-date machine if
You like. but keep me in your study
corner for the sake Of old times. when
We did that frst story, and as time
went by, and the touch of your fling
ers on my keys grew weaker and
weaker and your face thinner and
thinner one supreme gray dawn the
word fms came. Do YOU recall how.
YOU fell back in your chair and how.
FOR weeks afterward your voice sound
ed strangely wild? Do YOU remember
how o staggered in with a letter one
day and told me the story had beer
accepted by an editor, that the way
a open to love, hope and happiness?
All! You couldn't nave pulled through
without me then. could you?"
Yes, there are more things hidden
in the typewriter than are dreamt of
in everyday philosophy.