| Show wemer alf of some per it of the many the study ever y horace greeley an anrce rhe A stenographer there is abood deal of nonsense written and talked both by those who know those who dont concerning the possibilities and actual achievements of shorthand writing not long ago an elderly woman accompanied by a child of apparently about thirteen ears af age appeared a at the jefferson marked told a pitiful tale she said that she was a widow and that was her only daughter that in order to procure some employments forthe girl she had been induced to to a school of type writing and shorthand she had to the professor sixty dollars of her bard earnings and had been informed and atthe a few months tuition this child would be aba bolc ama fair professor f however had failed TO carry out his agreement and at thea conclusion of the tuition she founds herself with her money gone and no probability of the fulfillment of the promises which had been made she was informed jbf the justice that if she had any remedy at ah it was in a civil suit for damages for breach of contract the experience of thi says the new borte sun is but a repetition of the experiences of by far the larger i number of those who attempt to learn it is a fact that but a very yew of those who begin to learn ever succeed in competent the detailed so graphically and amusingly by charles story of david copperfield which is said to bo in fact th experience of dickens himself as a fair sample odthe difficulties with which the learner has to contends few persons the requisite parse continue the much needed in the face of which is essential before proficiency fici ency can possibly be reached many of these f allured might have been predicted from fhe start because of the utter disqualification of the learner on account of the lack of the preliminary study and training and knowledge which are necessary to make a competent stenographer it must be borbein bor nein mind that tho sub may possibly be presented foe accurate reporting comprise the entire field of human knowledge there is no department of science literature or art which may not some cimei or other appear in the course of speeches of arguments of lectures of briefs of dissertations of or of dictations there is of course no stenographer who is so with the vocabulary evan of his own language in all departments of dy asto be abla anthe spur to report ao kinds of scientific master there iare in fact but very few of the stenographers m this or any other country who can be belica give a verbatim iTe port of a scientific congress hove ientile bow foolish fod lish children 7 for pen sons even the rudimentary elements of education 0 o undertake to qualify th such a and yet there are shorthand schools and of shorthand money of pupils vrho abc tempt task alica itis it is irown atthe money so es Is really thrown away by the pupils alt was related afi the greeley poa one occasion iian in employed to aake at dictation a political speech mr greeley talked away greata earnestness spona with was entirely famil the 11 names of many prominent in the p rejeb i and pass generaU referring to various af pf ie mes ahe had reeled off ashe supposed ya ona on a addrena ad dresa ritso happened 11 the stenographer was unfamiliar with abent every subject of which the great philosopher had treated anahis manuscript when for review proved fb errors and omissions anil misspelling of name and misapprehension of what had said that it was entirely useless and with that force for which mr greeley was renowned among 2 who knew huh the founder tribune exclaimed what the deuce is stenography worthy s are lubits to shorthand ekesy honest will admit that no person is able to report the most rapid speakers or to follow with accuracy an consists of many refer ances to books and contains quotations which practice wherever a speaker makes use of many quotations particularly of poetry or of statistics the stem is always anxious to be supplied with the quoted parts among the very best stenographers the araci tacal possibility of one writer beia able to record the most difficult speaking with accuracy is so well recognized that in the cases a af pf check always observed so conits missed by one will ht this is really jiovan hasten 1 l st be absolutely absolute lv aft assep ual in many cases |
