Show JOUR J- J OUR ll ND CLASS CONDUCTED CONDUCED BY I MORAN OJA A practical course coure In twelve lessons Pitman System only f. f 2 Persons wishing to foin should remit promptly Information chee dUly given Address Secretary University Extension Box ox 3 St St. Louis Luis Mo ISY Who should learn lear short hand I Everybody particularly alt all students student business and aDd professional men muon intelligent intelli rent gent and thinking people generally who have hae much writing to do do It I will wl pay S You will wl find short hand useful In a hundred ways oven t though ough you attain only half hal the speed sped necessary for verbatim ver ver- reporting Shor Short hand is I. exceedingly exceedingly exceed exceed- useful wonderfully I interesting and Ind Is fast fat growth growling into int popular favor You can learn it even It-even even If i you aro not notI nota a I genius I Nor wall wil you regret gret It after after- wards It I requires a muo time and patience pa pa- hence tience and these yota you have tence The course of ies hero cro ero begun will wl enable the tho learner J jf 11 Instructions are carried out write to e hand hand t-hand correctly and with a fair rate rat of speed peed ped Only one lesson wUl wOl too o given each week week That will wi be b jB lent however and every learner is to 10 master each lesson leson ever thoroughly before with wih i the tho the next Spend Bend an h u or tw two each day or whatever time you can spare in practicing the characters writing each one over and over n nn n times until un tin- til iii t you become as familiar Ith with them as a with your A AB B Cs C's Every person peron who these lesIons lessons les lea sons Ions and becomes a member of the Special Special cial Class Class Classi lass will i receive cards a f 1 Introduction Lion tion ton to t several other students living in indifferent indifferent different places with whom he may carry car cay ry r ron on on a correspondence malt mall mal ing log use of r shor short hand hand characters Corresponding I in short short hand hand affords most excellent practice and helps the tho tle learn leun er greatly greaty Cards ci of 01 introduction an will bu bi issued as soon oon as three or four lessons have ave been learned Have you Joined Joined the class clat Send nd your name and ad address ress at on onca-if onca i yu havo not a lesson blank Will Willbe willbe wil wilbe be mailed to you Writ Write plainly You are recommended to got go two or br S three thre friends to study with you u. u Read to each other practice rt together and criticise crt cise one bt work You are advised to put the in a n scrap book in proper order for for reference or b better still ai preserve the tho papers containing con con- taming them Halt half Hal an hour or or more should bo be b given to practice eT every ry day Write each ea lesson over OTer and over many times until you feel that you are master mater of it Short hand hand Shor-hand is isa a splendid accomplishment and the editor edit edit- I or wishes you only success in 1 this under under- taking After studying the lesson copy cy Plato Plate 1 no less than ten tn times timet using ming a good pen black ink and foolscap p paper Compare your world work work with tho the thoen en engraved ons-aved raved characters and be bo careful to write a small smal hand placing the tho words closely together pronouncing them aloud as as' 1 you you write wrt them diem Occasionally read road over what you have havo written mitten Remember the three rales 1 Practice 2 Practice 3 a. 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