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Show TWENTY WORDS IN THE LEAD Cleveland Lawyer's New Stenographer Kept Well Ahead of Him When j He Dictated. A Cleveland corporation lawyer has a new stenographer the second Dew-one Dew-one in a week. Strange to say, he didn t discharge the first ono because she was incompetent, but because she was too good Let him tell It. "This girl came to me well recommended, recom-mended, and when 1 dictated a test letter, I found her extremely rapid and accurate. So I employed her on the spot. She fell right In with tho work, and 1 decided that I had found a treasure But on tho third day 6he gave me a shock "I was dictating an opinion In a com plicated infringement suit, and It was very important that it should be accurate ac-curate in every word and phrase This was the third draff I had written. writ-ten. In fact At one place I Interrupted Inter-rupted myself and said to the stenographer. steno-grapher. '"Am I speaking too fast for you. Miss Jackson ! Are you getting my I words down correctly?' "Oh, I'm getting thm all right,' she answered smiling 'And you don't 6peak nearly as fast as I can take. I'm about twenty words ahead of you now! ' " "There's such a thing as being too good." Cleveland Plain Dealer |