Show OUR SnORT nAND CLASS CONDUCTED BY ny ELDON ELDO MOR NA N A practical course in twelve easy les Jes sons Bons Pitman System Membership only Persons wishing to Join should remit promptly Information cheerfully given Address Secretary University ExtensIon Extension Ex Ex- tension Box Dox St St. Louis Mo SECOND The Tho many hundreds ol or exercises which have been prepared for correction Indicate Indi cate the great interest taken In these lessons lessons les les- sons and tho results are aro certainly en en- Nearly every overy mall brings numerous letters Jetters from almost every state from Ohio to Oregon and from Minnesota to Texas Wo Yo understand fully tho reluctance which restrains many earnest learners from sending Bonding exercises to be inspected by bya a person who Tho is believed behoved to bo very ery critical cal and very severe 1 Now be assured that is all a mistake 1 I Your own o exorcise exercise may provo prove the but best If 11 there is any point you do not fully understand ask about it Questions in regard to the lesson lesson les les- son will receive careful attention al although al- al though sometimes it is to the best interest inter est of the student to O postpone o the answer nb until l a few more lessons have been learned This course of lessons is adapted to persons of all ages agea In many cases as a means of assisting and encouraging their children parents take up tho study with them tl is so useful an accomplishment that we firmly believe that any person who will go to work and acquire a knowledge of It will be well repaid in the end for the and work given on to it If you havo not Joined the Class and intend to do so it would be well to act promptly You will then receive l the full l t t lih tho individual dil lessons s which hauthor h the theauthor author will give you by mail maU You are requested to read the announcements in regard to our study home class 11 if you havo not already donoso or for lor in formation CAUTION You write too tod largo All beginners do Make your characters third one smaller Use black ink and the tho best quality of paper Some practice with a pencil is useful but a pen should bo be employed mostly Do not send in an exercise for correction tion until you have haTe spent at least two or three hours in writing it over and over Then state the number of times you have copied it also how many hours you have given ghen to practice Numerous exercises have already been prepared for correction Many of of these wr-e wr executed correctly and artistically indicate the great interest taken Inthis in inthis this course and the results are gratifying We Vo understand the feeling of reluctance which restrains many an earnest learner from sending an exercise to bo be inspected by a person who is ved helio-ved to be very critical and very severe Now be assured this is all a mistake Your exercise may provo the very Tery best Questions concerning concerning concern concern- ing the lesson will bo be cheerfully answered Copy Copy Plate 2 ten times It is very important to make the li ht letters I as thin and light as os possible The shaded strokes b a d J g etc should not bo bovery very cry heavy enough so only for tion In writing any word as Jacket t k see line Une 8 do not lift JUt your pen from the tho paper until tho word Is entirely finished Be De careful BO so write t vertical I that is straight up and down It is a common error to slant it making it apI appear ap ap- pear like ch The stem cb cn is lor tor convenience I called chaI chay cha- I I Second Second Frequently Frequently compare your work v with ith the Plate looking closely to see if 11 Itcan it itcan can be improved in any way It should correspond as to shading straightness of stems and the nearness of the signs to each other In size the tho letters may be as small and ought not to be much lar larger er than those given en in the Plato Plate The vowel owel dot a and dash duh o 0 should always bo be placed at the middle of the stem Write mostly with a II pen it is superior to a pencil in every wa way Third Third Read Head one page of your writing without reference to the tho key Better Detter still read each page you write Line 5 for or example would be read thus pe-chay pe hay cha chape pe pe etc Shorthand is written by soun sound Only as many letters Jetters are employed employed em em- as there are distinct sounds heard thus fo foe na nay lo 10 low Vj 10 lelo felo fellow iel- iel low ow do dough fab fabi fable mi lest mixed kwH kwil quill Chere are no silent letters Jetters as b in lamb Each letter is used only when its particular lar ar sound is heard thus p I is la used in pio io but aut not in sophist spelt pelt In copper pronounced coper p occurs but once Hence Rence the usual manner of spell spell- ng a word has nothing whatever to do in determining the way to it in short short- land hand Fourth PrACtice Fourth Practice on plato plate 2 till you rou can copy it in five o minutes KEY TO 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