Show typewriting SKILL demonstrated AT J THE HIGH SCHOOL J k 4 V in early assembly wednesday students ot of the high school were entertained by an exhibition ot of expert type writer walter operation by miss bessie friedman miss friedman executed a series ries ot of one minute te tests ats which demonstrated mental and muscular control difficult to conceive her initial test resulted in an attainment ot of a speed ot of tine one hundred and forty words a minute without error on a familiar sen sentence she accomplished a speed of two 21 hundred undred and twenty five tite words amin we ute writing from dictation which necessarily involves an added loss of time she was able to write without error words read at the rate of ona hundred per minute and could maintain a speed of one hundred and thir ty ity two words per minute while adding a column of five figures five figures wide that few operators attain such skill Is attested by the tact fact that miss friedman Is considered the most rapid woman operator in the world but that such attainments are quite within the reach ot of many Is shown by the tact fact that she attributed her success to a large amount of determined practice and some native ability miss friedman Fri odman interspersed her exhibition hibi tion with some very pertinent remarks mentioning the fact that when writing atthe at the rate ot of one inured and forty words a minute the operator was repulsed to perform twelve or thirteen strokes per second and the machine was required to pass through twenty six equivalent strokes to produce the required key action miss friedman ledman Fr did all of her writing on the mhd underwood machine and the durability accuracy of movement and dependability of this typewriter was well demonstrated when miss Fried friedman nian wr wrote ote at a speed of one hundred and thirty two words per minute on an underwood which had been in school service tor for eight years |