Box Elder News Journal | 1913-01-09 | Page 2 | Twenty Words in the Lead

TWENTY WORDS IN THE LEAD V cleveland lawyers new stenographer kept well ahead of him when he dictated A cleveland corporation lawyer has a new stenographer tho the second new one in a week strange to say lie he discharge the fini one because she was incompetent but because she was too good iri him tel te 1 it this girl came teye well gerom becom mended and when J dictated s ost letter I 1 found her extremely rapid and accurate so I 1 employed her on the spot she fell right in with the work and I 1 decided that I 1 had found a treasure but on the third day she gave in me a shock 1 I was dictating an opinion in a complicated infringement suit and it was very important that it should bo be accurate in every word and phrase this was the third draft I 1 had written in fact at one place I 1 interrupted myself and said to the stenographer am ain I 1 speaking too fast for you miss jackson are you getting my words down correctly oh im getting them all right sh she e answered smiling and you dont speak nearly as fast as I 1 can take im about twenty words ahead ot of you now theres such a thing as being too good cleveland plain dealer