Show A USEFUL ART man being endow nod with the reasoning faculties denied to all terrestrial creatures of llo almighty at the earliest epoch macio endowments olten t hia benefit but not seldom atohi dati ment to express the mysterious workings of his mind wa giren him as a vehicle of llou plit aal sentiment bet PC 11 li m aul lilt fe lows oral in anut for longa gies have been UK OM in use at us atio iuliu family was limited and aliey lived beloso together on a narrowly circumscribed but as the ace was increasing and spread over anc fastnesses fast nesses of the continents and the islands of the sea other means of communication bad to be devised for the conTen ienco of the distant frienda and fellow creatures bad also arisen a desire yea even necessity for the making f records to transmit to future generations an unerring always reliable knowledge of the important laws and deeds thus writings originated at first in the crude form ot in but gradually developed into the useful and beautiful art which nowadays every person in a ciri lied community is almost compelled to practice Iti sno liere to dilate on the innumerable and in advantages of uie chi art attention to ono branch of it or shorthand this although attempted in earby aga has of late years become an important factor of publia life and business bu transactions and doing groat sers vice in ano inter cata of states and individuals its nature it twofold two fold it purposes to baa method of writing oa the one band while on the other reproducing ane as spoken in characters everybody is aware of the cumbersome conglomerations erat ions of vowels and consonants constituting english spelling and of the utter lack of consistency and congruence between the and ita written sign this evil in detill crying for abolition in the current writing of the and the press but pm ting by sound has taken a bold step to wards del c froia tho absurd shackles of our lUng ghisi oom statutes utes one of ite chief merits aa it is a powerful lover in public opinion to bring about and tle revolution in orthography which is bound to take place boer or lata the only rational system of reproducing sound in writing is to write as yon speak which ol 01 necessity ces sity having a characteristic sign for every individual sound and ill ways using that same sign for he same sound this i what does almost to perfection but it does more by simplifying the spelling of the spoken words and other processes of reduction it shortens the mechanical operation of writing so much that an able master thug transfix the speakers speak era thoughts on the paper almost instantaneously for this the useful art has been called rapid writing or more commonly stenography close writing it is useless to expatiate on the advantages of the ubiquitous short hand reporter he it is who preserves for the eulue generations and furnishes for unlimited nation the wisdom of state timen in legislative halls and the knowledge of the scientist on the lecture plat form the able arguments ot theja rist at the bar and the soul stin ing pathos of an inspired preacher but also in lowlier walks of life the usei falness of short band writing is great business correspondence can be carried on with much greater rapidity facility and ease than under the old estem the author cah col collate his notes si dorable saving of taeao and friend ship will be more willing to tend its greeting and feelings to the absent if the mechanical occo area pon dence is reduced in short there is no vocation of life at least in the domain bof busi ness and profession prof estion alic re s teno graphy or doea not materially lighten the drudgery of mechanical labor and thereby seimu activity lii standpoint we cannot tle suggestion of this useful and art be made nt least an our higher education matter in ita truo li to tho aubol authorities and alio advanced and n tho degree alai the armor open for tue learning of shorthand tho latter ivill arvail them gehres thereof tand a not inconsiderable fac toyio tic equipotent for a in business soi jino aturo pr public life |