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Show PROFANITY AND STENOGRAPHY. Just now a controversy haa arisen in New York City aa to whether a man haa a right to swear in the presence of .a woman stenographer. That is a difficult quettion to aettle. A man has no mor-tl right to swear at any time, but then it ia almout i" possible to write certain letters vithout being a little bit profane. And then it haa been told us that sometimes the ladies themselves, in transcribing transcrib-ing shorthand into beautiful 'print, use occasion- ally a swear word. The question arouses all the dctp. points of theology, and it is one which cannot be settled either in or out of court. A man's business busi-ness ia often perplexing. All men re not accustomed accus-tomed to dictating to stenographers, apd a great many, when they try, make a botch of it. Theta is a story of a man who, under great provocation, gavt out some terrible invective in describing a certain transportation company; that when he had finished, a lady standing near, wearing a. poke bonnet and a demure ' face, softly addressed him with, "I thank thee, air." And our conclusion is that each man should be permitted to mske his own ttrms with his stenogrspher, ann if she is willing, thst he should swear a little occasionally in doing justice to the many subjects that come under his attention, the outaide public are not interested. This ia troublesome world that we live in, and we have high authority for the fact that the heart of man is filled with wickedness and perversity. Most stenographers understand this and they are willing to concede a little to their employers if, in order to do absolute justice to a subject, they sometimes give expression to words which are not quite according to the Chester-fieldisn Chester-fieldisn code. |