Show SHORTHAND TOOTING th incompetence of lar flona to learn at t a ar S arif very few of th many he baudy ever horace greeley and tb stenographer there deal of witten and by those who dont concerning the possibilities and actual achievements oi shorthand writing not long go an elderly woman accompanied by ft child of apparently about thirteen years of age appeared before a justice at the jefferson market police court and told a pitiful tale she said that she waa a widow and chaille tha ille chil dought cr that to employment for the girl she had been induced to sand her to school of typewriting and shorthand he had paid professor sixty her hard earnings dmd had been informed and at the conclusion of a few moats tuition this child would be able to earn fair salary th pro cesor however hd ant his agreement and at the conclusion of the tuition she found herself with her i gone ans no pro baitT of the of the promises which had been made to her she was informed that if she had ny at all it was v ejel pr damages for breach of contract the new york sun is but a repetition of the by fajr jahe larger number who learn a ac but a tery feao f learn ever succeed in becoming competent stenographers detailed 00 graphically jhc thc david field which is said to be in fact the expel iunce of is a fair sample of the with which the learner has to contend few persons indeed liate the requisite perse i to continue ithe much needed practice in the face of discouraging re adulte which is essential before proficiency fici ency can possibly be reached of these failures hato been the start because of the of the learner on the uda andal and linov icille which are necessary to malco p competent it must bo lio merin inid hat hie subject iny possibly be presented for accurate reporting the entire knowledge is no se loCi literature or art kliick i or other appear in te coalso of speeches of of lectures of briefs of di of debate dictation is of course no stenographer i who is 0 thoroughly familiar cven of ins own language in all ants 0 f study as tie abbe of the t re 11 kinds a scientific are in fact bai yaw taji most reliable stenographers m thas lor any other country who caa he relied to give a verbatim report at sv congress erow fuli leshow foolish must it bethen for mere children for persons without even the rudimentary elements ele or undertake a business and yel schools and professors 0 and i that take the money 0 dupus wj att tempt this impossible task when a known atthe beginning that he money so is really thrown away by the pu pils it was related of the lato horace greeley that upon one anin competent employee at dictation a political mn greeley tacked aw sly fth great earnestness and UMI 4 with which lie ely familiar cuing the names oi anany prominent dubuc men inh present and past generations generation i referring to vari ous public measures of the times until he had reeled off as he a con sider ablo address it so that the stenographer was thoroughly un familiar with about every subject of which the had treated and his manuscript when presented for review prove ct obeso errors aej omission an name and misapprehension oi mr greeley kad said that H ya birely useless and with that force lor which mr greeen was renow neA who now hm the tribune 1 exclaimed what the dahho is stenography worth tharo every honest stenographer will admit that no person is able to report the most rapid to follow with accuracy an argument which consists of ances to tiac books qua rations which must bo re corad in practice whenever aea kor malcos use of many quotations itice barly of poetry or of statistics he sten ls albats te basup plied with taft quoted parts the very ebest stenographers the practical impossibility of one writer beag table ing with accuracy is so that ia the most important cases a of check always observed so that points which amsy he missed one writer will be caughtry caught by this is really not and it has been be absolutely essec thain many cases |