Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-20 | Page 6 | Six-Year-Old Girl Uses Typewriter like Veteran

Year Six Six Y Old ear Girl Uses Typewriter Like Veteran II All Ii i- i iTT TT a aRLi r h I hr r 1 Li x I IA A i 47 P Reta Louise Elder PROVO PROVO Before Before Reta Louise Elder year old daughter of Mr and Mrs J. J F. F Elder of Raymond Alberta Canada knew the al alphabet alphabet al- al t she began learning to use the typewriter Today Todar a year later she boasts a speed of 97 words per minute from practice material and 50 ne net words p per r minute in an official I speed test in Provo The Th year old child with her parents visiting relatives has been offered contracts to travel for exhibitions She was en route with her parents in Au August to demonstrate demonstrate dem dem- her ability as a typist atthe at atthe atthe the international Toronto exhibition when she was stricken with typhoid t fever and had to abandon the trip Her father began teaching leaching her herto herto to type when she was 5 he said I because he b believed it a good method method method meth meth- od of learning the alphabet and taking an interest in n reading and writing which she was soon to begin begin begin be be- gin in school She has practiced an average of an hour a day since then he be said S Her typing has helped her greatly in reading which she proved by reading a paragraph from a book selected at rand random m from several by her father Four and five s syllable syllabic words were taken without a waver by the 6 year 6 ear Reta likes swinging sleigh riding riding riding rid rid- ing and dancing She doesn't like arithmetic and while school in general general general gen gen- eral is s not bad sh s very fond of recess the youngster declared