Show SHORTHAND NOW A NECESSITY it ift mas has be in important I in 1141 the a 3 world ht at large larce 17 tho the bureau bure C education at washington has done a good piece of work says th tb aich bosto it herald erald in the monograph aph w which his has just been sent out from the printing office on shorthand instruction anil and bract practice j p in 1884 1684 it it published a circular of anfor matignon mati onon QU tile alie teaching practice and literature literal iare of shorthand twenty thousand th on c copies were distributed and ani other edition of equal size has been exhausted the present work furnishes not only an account of shorthand in foreign country countries and in the united states hut but aca nearly ra y th the c lull full statistics of instruction from ibsh up to tile summer of 1891 in this country with an account of alie extent to which stenographers have been emp employed loved in courts in legal decisions ci and in other public services there are thousands of shorthand societies in germany france and england and in this country whose work is to disseminate a knowledge of tile the art and the introduction of shorthand into the public schools is to be one of the next steps in secondary education the typewriter is next to shorthand bort hand as a laborsaving labor saving instrument ailt und and the shorthand systems and the principal typewriting machines irive hive already wrought a revolution not only in the courts court but in the busine busin offices office in 1 the writing lone done for new neap apers and in every department of life viere cre writing is indispensable until speed can be rea reached clied on the typewriter typewrite r equal to that which can be obtained by expert stenographers bt erb stenography will take the lend lead as a system by which the spoken word can call be taken oon down oo n exact ly as it is uttered and made to serve the purpose for which it is designed it is such an aid in all sorts of business transactions that we could no more go back to the old habits than we could go back to the stage coaches which fifty years ago conveyed our grandfathers across the country in this country the number of persons receiving instruction in shorthand from july 1 1889 to june 30 1890 was 57 and of this number 5 were males and females all these were taught in schools and classes and out of the whole number were instructed by mail in schools and classes in which shorthand was introduced during the scholastic year ending june SO 1891 the number of persons taught orally rall was waa which with those by mail made a grand total of of those taught orally 2474 were males and 1658 were females this is as near a correct statement of statistics as mr rockwell has been able to arrive at and it shows the vast extent and uno of shorthand instruction in this country in all the departments of life stenography has come to stay and typewriting has come to stay with it and the two combined with the telegraph and telephone have been greatly instrumental in accelerating the progress of ideas and facilitating the methods of business and the production of literature |