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Show Had to Use Long Hr.nd. "To tnko down dozens of letters In long hand Is a quoor oxperlenco for an expert stenographer," said tho New York young man with a pencil and note book. "But that wa8 what I did when I held a hospital position. The Jotters wore written ror tho chnrlty patients. My work was supposed to be confined to the superintendent's office, of-fice, but when a man too til to wrlto his own letters expressed n wish for nlT amanuensis I was put on tho Job owing to my facility for picking up nnd trnnscrlblig languages. Almost a third or the letters I wrote In tho wards wore taken down In long hand. Many of the patlonts of Polish and Russian birth hnd a dread or shorthand. short-hand. As soon as they saw I was doallng in myaterlous dots and dashes they got scarod. Thoy felt suro that I could not report them properly by means of signs and they began to lklget. so In order to pacify them 1 wrote out tho message In long hand right under their eyes." |