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The Best System of Shorthand
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COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT SHORTHAND
TYPEWRITING GREENSBORO, N. c, June 30, 1908.
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Dear Sir: I understand that you are introducing a commercial course into the State Normal School, of which you are principal. This Toeing a similar school, our work may te-of interest to you. Out of an enrollment of 560, the Commercial Department here carries from 10 to 12 per cent. We use the Isaac Pitman system, and the results are good — the puhlic pronounce the work a success. At our last Commencement, May 26, we gave two Reporter's Certificates for veriatim work. To show you the highest expression of our work, I am mailing you a copy of the State Normal Magazine, in which you will find some verloatim work, notahly the sermon by Dr. White, of Atlanta. Less than a half-dozen words were changed in the manuscript, the work "being so well done. The environment of this place, coupled with a standard shorthand system, produces the results indicated. Scarcely a year passes that we do not give one or more certificates for verbatim work. If we had one of the light-line systems, the results shown in this magazine could not have "been done. You are inter- ested in putting the best before your students and there is no system superior to the Isaac Pitman. Respectfully ,
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Vol. 33
SEPTEMBER, 1908
No. 1
EDITORIAL
XOTHER school year is upon us. Teachers arc back in the school room with coats of tan which give evidence of the manner in which they spent their vacations. They may, too, some of them, have difficulty in inducing their muscles to de- scribe the circles between two ruled lines on a sheet of paper after the magnificent sweep of the arm grasping the tennis racquet or the tip of an oar. But the finer touches will soon come back, and mingling with the energy and enthusiasm developed in the open air will make every teacher a host in the battle for education.
All the pupils are not yet here, but they are coming. Those on hand for the first day of the new school year dis- play an eagerness for the work which augurs well for the final results. During the bright, sunny days of September, and when the crispness of early October frosts is in the air, there will be ill-concealed yearnings for forest, field and stream, but the energies that would be applied to sports will be directed with telling effect upon their studies. They feel the spirit of conquest and their eyes already flash with the victory they see ahead.
Owners enter upon the school year with hope and confi- dence. They have passed through a long period of doubt. The younger school men, perhaps, who have not been called upon to weather such gales as that in which they suddenly found themselves last Fall, felt almost discouraged when the tight- ening of the money market caught them between two mill- stones, cut down their incomes and made credit difficult to obtain. But they have learned lessons in business which never were taught them in the business schools they attended, and they will be better able to impart their knowledge to others.
There is optimism in the air. Every branch of industry feels it, from the little place of business on the corner to the mighty railroad system, with the terminals on either ocean. It is not coming back with a rush, but with a steady uplift which promises permanence. All this, the business school proprietor knows, means prosperity to him. As business ex- pands there will be a greater demand for his pupils, the salaries paid them will be better, and the attendance at his school must increase.
More pupils means harder work for the teacher, but he, too, feels the thrill. Perhaps on account of the uncertain con- ditions prevailing early in the Summer he has accepted a posi- tion at less salary than he felt himself capable of earning. More pupils may mean harder work for him, but it also means a raise in salary at the end of the year, even though it may not come before. Then, too, there is the satisfaction
which comes from training young men and women for a work which the world is waiting to have them do.
To the pupils themselves the inspiration of returning confidence is greatest. The young man or young woman who enters a business school does so with a definite purpose in view — that of entering a business office. So when the wheels of industry begin to turn in their accustomed manner, when the forces in a thousand offices are strengthened to meet the demands which will be put upon them, the pupils feel confi- dent that when they have mastered the lessons of the year there will be awaiting them the opportunity to put their theories into practise.
Throughout the country, school rooms have been re modelled and courses strengthened. Instead of waiting for the business world to demand these improvements the school proprietors have wisely taken the initiative and determined to make their pupils so proficient that business men could not afford to do without them, even in dull times. In this respect temporary misfortune may prove to be a blessing.
The Journal feels th.e inspiration of the season more than ever before. .At the time when the general depression in business was greatest it was making preparations for the best year of its career. A course of lessons in business writing such as had never before been. attempted, was planned, and with this issue of the magazine our readers are given an oppor- tunity to see for themselves if we have not eclipsed all previous efforts along this line. The eye of an expert is not needed to determine the practicability of these lessons. They speak eloquently for themselves.
Teachers should start the year right by urging their pupils to subscribe for some business paper. Compared to the re- sults obtained in increased interest and efficiency, the cost is trifling. Every trade has its organs, and no man would ex- pect to succeed in any line without careful attention to the literature pertaining to it. The Penman's Art Journal is the trade organ of business education, not of penmanship alone, but of all the allied branches. It is invaluable to teacher and pupil. ^
We are just taking our thirty-third degree, and in the coming volume will be gathered the harvest of thirty-two years of experience. Don't neglect the opportunity to give your pupils a share of the benefits to be derived from a care- ful study of the artistic forms and graceful lines of the copies to be given during the coming year, not to mention the gen- eral contents of the magazine, which is always interesting and always instructive. Start your clubs at once. Beginning right is half the battle. Well begun is half done.
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HORACE G. HEALEY. EDITOR 229 BROADWAY. NEW YORK
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The above is a reduced fac-simile of the Penmanship Certificate awarded by the Penman's Art Journal to those who complete any one of its courses in business writing. It is a handsome specimen of the art of penmanship, printed on beautiful azure tinted parchment paper, 16x21 inches in size.
It is signed by the class teacher, the conductor of the <:ourse of lessons in The Journal, the secretary of the Self- Help Club and the editor of The Journal.
The conditions under which the certificate is awarded are as follows :
I. Every candidate must be a subscriber to The Journal.
H. R. Shafer.
The man behind the Pernin Shorthand Institute Co.. Detroit. Mich. Fourteenth of a series of "Men Behind G;-eat Busi- ness Enterprises Closely Associated with Commercial School Interests."
2. He must well and faithfully do all the work assigned in connection with any series of lessons in business writing.
3. A final specimen of his writing must be sent to the editor of The Journal for approval. (Home students will be required to send a page of their practice work taken from each month's lesson.)
The Journal's certificate has now been in use for five years and hundreds of them adorn the walls of leading schools of this country. They are rightfully prized very highly by the holders as a tangible evidence of earnest and conscientious work faithfully performed.
A fee of fifty cents is charged to pay for inserting the name, the name of fne school, and to defray the expense in getting the proper signatures.
We hope to have the pleasure this year of issuing a large number of these beautiful certificates.
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A VOLUNTARY TESTIMONIAL
Pittsburg Academy, Pittsburg, Pa., July 17, 1908.
Gentlemen — I am in receipt of your recent favor in which you grant penmanship certificates to eight Pittsburg Academy students.
These certificates have been unusually helpful to us dur- ing the past year in the way of arousing enthusiasm in our classes. Heretofore we have given gold medals and prizes of various kinds in order to .secure better work from our students, but we have never succeeded in getting anything like the results that have been secured this year from the certificate plan.
In giving certificates the standard should be high; and it is certainly an excellent idea. I am telling my classes that you require a strong business movement and at least a fair degree of accuracy.
Of course, the Penman's Art Journal has been useful to us in other things than penmanship, but this is where it has had greatest usefulness. I wish to say that during the coming year I shall turn vou in as many subscriptions as possible. Yours truly, E. T. OVEREND.
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This photograph, taken August, 1908, shows Edward C. Mills, the noted Script Specialist, iust as be appears when doing his work. Mr. Mills is now Associate Editor and member of the Journal staff. He is a model for the young men of America, not only as a penman, but in every other way.
LESSONS IN FREE-ARM 3IOVEMENT WRITING
HIS course of lessons is the result of tlie combined efforts of Edward C. Mills, the noted Script Writer, and Horace G. Healey, the Editor of The Journal. Every feature has been tested in the crucible of the class room, and nothing but tbe pure metal remains. We promise tbe highest possible improvement to all who conscientiously follow the course. It is ex- pected that pupils .will do at least one hundred pages of practise work each month. Certificates will be granted to all who meet the necessary requirements.
MATERIALS.
PAPER — Use a good quality of paper, eight by ten and a half inches in size. Whenever the time can be had to do so, the paper should be ruled into quarters, as shown in the lessons. The quar- ters may be indicated by check marks, making the middle check mark first. A little time can be profitably spent in eye-training of this nature. Have at least two blank sheets under the one on which the writing is being done.
PENS — For Business Writing use a business pen. Any of the following will give very satisfactory results : Esterbrook, Business and College, No. 453 ; Hunt, University. No. 59 ; Glllott's Magnum Quill, No. 601 F ; Spencerian, Commercial, No. 3. Use a new pen at every lesson.
INK — Use a blue black fluid ink. the darker the better.
AMODXT OF WORK TO BE DONE.
From one to five pages of each lesson should be written, whether it consists of a Letter, a Word or a Sentence. All Product Work should be filed away for grading and comparison.
JIONTHLY SPECIMENS.
At the beginning of tbe course, and on tbe first ilonday in each month, each student should prepare two specimens of writing, one to hand to the teacher, the other to be retained by the pupil him- self. These specimens should be worded as follows :
City, State, Date
This is a specimen of my best penmanship.
Nine men went mining in a mine.
A set of capitals written in two lines.
Signature of the writer.
HOW TO PRACTISE.
Assume and maintain a correct position at the desk. Take paper and check off into Quarters. Practise dividing these Quarters into Eighths. This will be necessary in order to have a definite guide as to proper direction for the down strokes. Then "STOP, LOOK AND STUDY." Do not plunge ahead blindly and trust to luck — letting your hand do your seeing and thinking. The eyes are to see the letters, the head to understand them, and the band to make them. Read the brief instructions carefully. Be sure that you understand them. The first line shows the make-up of the letter; the second, how to practise it. You should devote at least one-third of your practise time to tbe first line, and two-thirds to the second line. Always count, either aloud or to yourself, whilp practising. Later on in the course it will be possible for you to keep tbe count and not move your lips.
Cut Showing Position of Paper and Arms with Relation to the Desk. At the bottom of the 'paper are two figures in circles, 1 and 2. Place th.e arm on top of Figure 1 while making the exercises on the first half of the line, and on Figure 2 while making the exercises on the second half of tbe line.
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FREE CEKTIB-ICATK.
A Free Certificate will be awarded to one pupil Id each scliool who. in the Judgment of the teacher, has made the greatest im- provement. These Certificates are to he awarded March 1. 19U9.
POSITIOM.
Study carefully the five points in Position, Body, Arm, Hands, Pen and Paper, by referring to the large cut showing Mr. Mills at his desk sitting just as he does in doing his most accurate script work. This photograph was taken during the month of August, 1908.
■WRITE IN COLUMNS FOR HVORD PRACTICE: After writing the first column, draw the paper toward you and write the second. Eventually, you will have copies that will train you to write across the page.
FORM.
Kurm is taught concurrently with Position and .Movement. The type form of the Letter is used as the basis. This is done that learners may see the resemblance existing betA'ecn the two forms In Shape and Proportion.
SPEED.
That the desired quality of line may be obtained, It is very necessary to make the exercises at the rate of speed indicated. High speed should not be attempted at first, but should be a resultant acquirement.
PRACTISE WITH DRY PEN: With a dry pen go over the outline very carefully of each letter. Repeat this fifty times. It will accustom the muscles and nerves to the Letter Track. Each letter has a little track of its own, and the muscles must be accus- tomed to making the trip. These tracks are very narrow.
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Copy X. In making the penmanship journey, the first thing to do is to get on to the right track. With paper checked off into fourths, place the arm an the sheet so that it crosses all lines at right angles. Let the hand move up and down ten times in a perfectly straight line in the middle. Move to the right (No. 2, and repeat; then to the feft (No. 3). This is the chief thing mat is new in Free Arm Movement Writing. Master it, and you are on the right track. Bui you could not write with this up-and-do ini motion alone.
i.y ■^. v>iiu aim piaccu across miuuie of bottom line, swing pen back and forth to middle check mark. It the pen were allowed to continue across page, it would follow dotted line. Move arm to end of bottom line on page and make second exercise. This is not a new movement, as Copy 1 was. But ijou tould not write wtith this from-left-to-right motion alone.
Copy 3. Let us invent a line that will go up and down and from left to right at the same time. We repeat Copy 2, and divide the up-and-down-line No. 1 and the lateral line No. 3 with the Oblique Line No. 4, and we have just what we want. This line will be our compass. Let us master it. But lotice ! While it is midway between lines No. 1 and No. 3, it touches the middle of a square made up from one-half of the fourth in which it is made. This |>bservatlon will be our guide for determining the right direction for all straight strokes.
Copy 4. After the line has been divided into fourths, we shall go further and divide each fourth into the squares mentioned in last copy. Make the jtraight line from middle of top line to lower left hand corner. This line we shall u.«e as a "post" or "support" on which to rest other exercises. Observation >Jo. 2. As we make this line we notice that each time we draw it toward the middle of out bodies, and on a line directly straight with our eyes.
Copy .■>. Writing is not niji de up of straight lines only. We must have '^ome curves. We therefore bring to our aid a figure called the Oval, because t is shaped like an egg. We shall now take a page filled witli the straight line and around each throw an oval, going around ten times. The straight line s a support to keep the oval from falling down.
ake it alone, to see if it can stand by itself.
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PRELIMINARY DRILL, IVO. 1: Place the arm on the
tabic so that the fleshy portion only touches. Close the hand as tight as possible, and let it move in and out of the sleeve as far as the elasticity of the muscles will permit. Be very careful that the arm does not swing at the elbow. Count as the arm comes back. The hand will go in and out of the sleeve much as a turtle's
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head goes in and out of its shell. The rate of speed in all these drills should be three per second.
PRELIMINARY DRILL NO. 2: Rest the arm as in Drill
Xo. 1. but open the hand. The muscles will aot be so enlarged. Keep your eye and your mind constantly upon the forearm.
Copy 7. Make the oval standing by a post, and then let it walk alonj least, you must practice more on Copy 5.
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Copy S. As soon as the oval can walk alone, try the straight line. First let it stand still for a while to get its balance, and then walk off grade to the first check mark.
Control. In all the foregoing exercises, we have been developing Movement and Direction. There has been very little Control as to size and lia tion. It is now necessary to take a step into new territory, that of controlling the little skill we have developed. We sliall call this new step the Sei Degree ; the preceding one being termed the First. The Second Degree in Control will consist in bringing the exercise down to one^halt the former hei and at the same time not permitting the fingers to move in the least.
Copy 10. (Tliircl Degree.) — Obtain proper direction as before, but make extici'-es out hilt fpace high lines. We have the movement under sufficient control for the Capital Letters.
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Copy 11. (Fourth Degree ) — Bi sect each fourth and from the middle of top line to lower corner draw straight line, just as in all former e cises. .Make three exercises to a space — aftoiuiid make four. Movement is now brought down to scope of Small Letters
, ,. '^""J'.-'?- (Movement Applied.) — If you will look at Copy 11 again you will see that it evolves into letter forms — the e, i, v. and w, or one-s or the alphabet. This is the first stage in the Application of Movement — a Specific or Appropriate Drill for a Letter. The Second Stage is to hitch Movement to a Letter Form. Our simplest small letter is e. Notice how closely it resembles the printed form of the letter. The first line teaches the I or the letter; the second line shows how to practise it — a specific drill in first quarter, and three groups of five letters each in remaining quarters hundred and fifty per minute. = «- o -i
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PRELIMIA'ARY DRILL NO. 3i With tlie arm still moving PRELIMINARY DRILL NO. 4: While the arm is still
like the turtle's head, in and out, let the finger nails drop down moving in and out of the sleeve and the finger nails scratching the
on the paper or desk so that they will scrape. It is very im- paper, lift the two first fingers and let the nails of the third and
portant that the ends o£ the nails only should rest upon the desk. fourth fingers rest upon the paper only.
Copy 13. The i is the next letter. Notice resemblance to type form. Practise as in Copy 12. One hundred and fifty per minute.
Copy 14. In all of these plates, the first line shows both the script and type forms of the letters ; also how to group them. The second line show w to practise the exercises, at the same time affording a guide as to size. Ninety per minute.
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Copy 16. There is not much resemblance between the script and t.vpe forms of the r. This Is the style of r to practise, however, for it can never mistaken for another letter. Sixty per minute.
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Copy 17. We have now made six letters, or nearly one-fourth of the alphabet. Be sure that you have used the movement in all. One hundred and ;y per minute.
Plate A. This plate shows how all the small letters should be practised across the lines to form the habit of spacing the letters automaticallv elve lines to each quarter is the correct size.
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PRELIMINARY DRILL NO. 5: Take up the penholder. Grasp it in the middle of the cork or rubber tip. Let the fingers all lie close together, as shown in cut 6, the penholder passing opposite the third wrinkle of the first finger, the first finger resting on top of the penholder, the second finger standing by the side of it, and the thumb pushing it up against the rest of the hand. Let the hand move in and out of the sleeve as before. Now take a sheet of paper and place it under the arm so that the pen will
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touch the middle of the paper, as shown in cut 6. Let the hand swing back and forth laterally over the beginning of the third line to the end of it. The middle of the sweep will touch the top blue line of your paper.
PRELIMINARY DRILL NO. 6: This shows how to hold the paper. Turn the page so that the top of it will be up. With the arm in this position, it points toward the upper left-hand corner of the desk.
Copy 18. We shall now use the letters in words, making the Third Stage in the Application of Movement. Make* a full page of each word,
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CET ALL VOU PAY FOR A Brief Talk to September Students
S a rule, when you go into a place of business to buy, the less you carry away for what you pay the better pleased the business man is. Schools are about the only institutions that are glad to have you take away all j'ou can carry, the more the better. If you don't get your money's worth it's your cwn fault, and the teacher is as disgusted with you now as you will be with yourself later on when you go over your list of wasted opportunities and find staring you in the face the fact that you have sinned away your educational birthright.
If you are attending a business school, remember that you have no time to lose. Life is short and art is fleeting, but a business course is one of the shortest things we know of, saving only the memory of a bad debtor. And educa- tional opportunities wasted make }'ou the worst kind of a bad debtor to yourself. You'll have to carry the account all your life, and it will look worse every time you look at it.
Don't waste any time beginning to get ready. It is but a year at the most, perhaps six months only, before you will be summoned before that august personage, the office man- ager, to give account of yourself. You may be confident of your ability when you start for his place of business, but unless you have been honest with yourself while in school you will feel as if you could crawl out through the keyhole with some room to spare before the keen-eyed man at the desk has finished talking with you.
There are a lot of things to learn before you can suit him. He has been educated up to an appreciation of good service. He hasn't neglected his opportunities to learn what a good office man ought to be able to do. You may be sure that even if you have let your opportunities for learning go by, he has been learning right along. He can usually tell the differencs Ijetween a competent and an incompetent man in about three minutes, and if you had hoped to pick up the necessary in- formation during the first year or two in the office while he was making up his mind about 3'ou you'd better wake up.
If you enter the business school without any knowledge of business forms you will find that there are. a thousand and one different things to become familiar with. There are card index systems, appalling when you first think of them, but soon mastered, if you apply yourself. And there will be enough machinery to stock a factory, all of which you must familiarize yourself with, if you are to be a success in your chosen field.
Don't be a wheelbarrow. Some people will never be a success unless some one else gets behind them and pushes A wheelbarrow is serviceable in its way, but it's hard work
keeping it going. There are seme men who owe their suc- cess to their wives. These are the wheelbarrow sort of men. .•\s a general rule, their wives don't think any more of them than the world does. Even a man's wife gets tired of push- ing a wheelbarrow in time.
Read the business magazines, subscribe for at least two of them. Then there will be no danger of your getting into a rut. Read everything you can find pertaining to your chosen field — business. Read the financial and business news in the daily papers. Read the news pages in which are chroni- cled the doings of the men who are the leading spirits in the business world to-day. You'll learn much which will be of service to you in preparing to be one of the leading spirits in the business world to-morrow.
Be honest with yourself. A good business man won't take less than a hundred per cent from any one else, and it is a good idea to start with yourself. Get the habit of ap- plication. There will be a thousand men trying to master the intricacies of the particular branch of industry you choose for your own special field. You may have to work overtime sometimes trying to figure out ways to get in ahead. You will need to concentrate.
This is an age of specialization. You will have to concen- trate your efforts, as well as your thoughts. Many a man has lost one prize he might have won by trying to get two or three at the same time. Better let the other fellow have part of them than to try getting all of them and lose all. This is too large a world for one man. Find your field and stick to it. It will probably look limited at the start; the whole world may look small to you when you begin ; but the longer you work the better satisfied you will feel that, when you have finished, there will be a good many things in your own par- ticular field for your successors to learn.
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It is with a great deal of pleasure that I contribute t'nis course in Practical Off-Hand Flourishing to the columns of The Journal, for it is from these very pages that I have ob- tained my skill and inspiration during the past twenty-fivo years.
It shall be my plan to give only such exercises as arc really practical and essential. Off-hand flourishing is still an important branch of penmanship, and I earnestly advise a who appreciate the artistic and beautiful to take up this course and follow it through with me.
In Plate l I have given eight elemental exercises. In Plate 2 I have some simple applications, showing how these movement exercises may be used.
Hold the pen as shown in the cut. Use the best quality of paper, a fine, flexible pen and black ink. Instructions wi be continued at length.
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Williamsport, Pa., July 21, 1908. Gentlemen — Every student in our shorthand department has a copy of The Journal, and we are using the lessons every day. We expect to get better writing next year than we have ever gotten before. Students like business writing and look forward to each recitation with interest. Very truly,
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During the coming year we hope to have contributions for this department from all the leading penmen. We want the best that the profession can supply. It is the plan to make this department one of the most interesting in the magazine.
EDITOR'S SCRAP BOOK
The Editor's Scrap Book continue to grow in favor and increases in size. During the past year hundreds of speci- mens from our leading teachers and pro'fessional writers have been received. During the coming season we hope for an in- creased receipt of specimens in the various branches of pen- manship— Business Writing, Ornamental Writing, Flourish- ing, and Pen Drawing.
' We have received from James Wild, Coliie, England, some excellent ornamental signature work.
E. H. McGhee, of Trenton, N. J., continues to contribut'2 his batch of well executed ornamental and business writing. Mr. McGhee's work is improving right along.
W. A. Bode, the well-known card writer, of Fair Haven, Pa., sent The Journal some specimens of his card work that rank among the very best.
J. W. Washington, now of Dorchester, Mass., swings a very skilful ornamental quill, as is noted from some miscella- neous specimens and card work he has sent us.
J. G. Christ, of Lock Haven, Pa., is still able to dash off a letter in the ornamental style that is a delight to the eye.
Some splendidly written cards have been received from E. E. Hixon, New York City: J. F. Siple, Philadelphia, Pa.: E. A. Tietze, Houston, Texas ; E. A. Dieterich, Cincinnati; •Ohio; M. F. Mitchell, Meridian, Miss.; J. J. Lynch, New- ark, N. J.
Thomas E. Cupper, of Albany, Ga., handles the orna- mental penholder with a marked degree of skill. Mr. Cupper is manager of tlie So. Shorthand and Business University.
Letters worthy of mention this month come from J. W. Baer, Phoenixville, Pa., and C. B. Adkins, Hartford, Conn.
Superscriptions written in the ornamental and business styles come from the following : S. E. Leslie, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; A. C. Sloan, Toledo, Ohio; John F. Siple, Philadel- phia. Pa. ; G. R. King, Los Angeles, Cal. ; W. A. Hoffman, Valparaiso, Ind. ; Oscar Ellefson, Olga, Minn.; F. W. Tam blyn, Kansas City, Mo. ; Adolph Mohler, Kewanee, 111. ; J. G. Christ, Lock Haven, Pa. ; G. T. W^iswell, Louisville, Ky. ; D T. Ames, IMountain View, Cal.; C. A. Zarker, Lancaster, Pa.; Amos \\'. Smith, Buffalo, N. Y. ; J. C. Barber, Providence, R. I. ; H. P. Behrensmeyer, Quincy, 111. ; P. L. Greenwood, St. Paul, Minn. ; J. W. Washington, Dorchester, Mass. ; £. S Watson, Williamsport, Pa. ; E. H McGhee, Trenton, N. J. ; J. D. Valentine, Pittsburg, Pa.; D. H. Farley, Trenton, N. J.
W. H. Wetzel, McKeesport, Pa.; M. B. Moore, Morgan, Ky. : C. M. Miller, Coudersport, Pa.; F. B. Hess, Brooklyti, N. Y. ; E. F. Whitmore, Washington, D. C. ; J. T. Evans, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. ; J. F. Bowers, Lake Arthur, N. Mex. ; C. W. Ransom, Kansas City, Mo. ; A. H. Ross, Albany, N. Y. ; J. D. McFadyen, Ottawa, Ont. ; George W. Ellis, Portland^ Ore. ; R. C. King, Minneapolis, Minn. ; W. C. Brownfield, Columbus, Ohio ; James A. Stanley, Lowell, Mass. ; C. E. Baldwin, Columbia, Mo. ; E. L. Brown, Rockland, Me. ; Sam Evans, Covington, Ky. ; H. McKay, Waco, Tex. ; A. S. Osborn, Rochester, N. Y. ; E. A. Dieterich, Cincinnati, Ohio : H. G. Reaser, York, Pa. ; A. M. Wonnell, Big Rapids, Mich. : J. H. Snyder, Arona, Pa. ; F. J. Anderson, Kansas City, AIo. ; A. R. Damon, Ayers, Me. ; C. B. Adkins, Hartford, Conn. ; J. H. King, Raleigh, X. C. ; F. B. Adams, Greenville, 111.; J. V. Machell, Philadelphia, Pa.
James Wild, Colne, England; Sister Mary Germaine, Monroe, Mkh. ; C. J. Gruenbaum, Lima, Ohio ; R. W. Ballen- tine, Albany, N. Y. ; R. A. Bivin, Sedalia, Mo.; W. A. Bode, Fair Haven, Pa. ; J. N. Fulton, Fort Wayne, Ind. ; Bessie Har- rison, INIcKeesport, Pa. ; Katharene Rosen, McKeesport, Pa.
From the Facile Pex of "Wiz.\rd" Court.vev, Ced.^r Rapid s. Iowa.
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T is wilh considerable misgiving that I have ac- "cepted Mr. Heale\'s very kind but persistent invitation to give a course of lessons in the Ornamental Style of Writing through the columns of the Penman's Art Journal. Having accepted the responsibility, I shalf do my best to make the .course as interesting and profitable for those who may choose io follow the same as it is within my power to do.
In presenting these lessons, I shall confine myself very closely as to style of letter and arrangement of matters to an old and well beaten path I have used for several years with
It is right and proper to get discouraged. It denotes progress; but don't let discouragement get the better of you Remember others have had the same discouragements and have finaHy made a success, and so can you. A student in Latin a few days ago was lamenting the fact that he was not progressing as rapidly as he thought he should, when Professor Carver, in a way peculiarly his own, of letting one down awfully hard without any physical discomfort, said, "Well, it takes two or three days to learn Latin." I might say it takes that long at least to learn to write well. Keep right on study- ing and practising carefully and thoughtfully. There may be
splendid success. The letters arc not intended to be mathe- matically correct in form, or to follow any particular standard; but are a graceful letter made with a free, easy movement, varying in form and embellishment from rather plain to the more ornate styles.
something in vvhat we call "Natural Ability," but I believe there is more in hard work, study and practice. A genius becomes a genius simply because he has the courage to stick to his work until it is completed.
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I think it would be well for all following this course to write a copy of some few lines, paragraph or something, also make a set of ornamental capitals, and keep these for future reference. Improvement comes so gradually, that in order to know at all times just how you are progressing you should have these specimens to compare with your work through the course.
Materials — In ornamental writing the oblique holder is indispensable. It is peculiarly adapted to the short, smooth shade necessary in such work. The 604 E. F. Gillott's pen. for all practical purposes, is the best. I always use this pen and later on for a very fine line and heavy shade, the No. i Principalitj' is the best.
The paper used should be of the best quality, with a smooth, hard surface, ruled H in. to H in. with very faint lines. I use paper manufactured by The Whiting Paper Com- pany, Crane's paper. Parsons', Berkshire. Others are very much of the same quality, ranging in price from 16 cents to 18 cents per pound. Always use a blotter to allow the fingers to rest on, they glide very easily over this surface and it also serves to keep the paper clean.
Inks — Arnold's Japan Ink one-half, with Arnolds' Writ- ing Fluid one-half, makes a fine ink, but needs considerable "doctoring" to keep it the proper consistency. India Ink diluted is also good, and for general practice work, economic fluid ink, such as Carter's and Sanford's, produce good re- sults.
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The National Shorthand Teachers' Association.
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Every student subscriber of The Journal is earnestly in- vited to contribute to this page. The best specimens received each month will be reproduced for the purpose of encourag- ing the students of writing generally.
That the work may show up to the best possible advan- tage, the following rules should be observed :
1. The writing should be done with jet black ink — -fluid India Ink preferred. This can be purchased at any stationery ■ store.
2. Send not more than two lines.
3. See that the lines are e.xactly eight inches in length. We hope to receive a nice lot of movement drills during
September.
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The above specimens were written by tbe following students : 1. S. M. Seelirist, student of C. A. Zarker, Pennsylvania Business College, Lanc.ister, Pa.; 2. Olive Sproule, student of S. O. Smith, Willis Business College, Ottawa. Ont. : 3. C. A. McCluggage, student of J. M. Latham, Gem City Business College, Quincy, 111. ; 4. Minnie
Stroh. student of E. S. Watson, Williamsport, Pa., Commercial College ; 5. Viola Wagnei-, student of E. T. Overend. Pittsburg, Pa., Academy ; 6. Nelson Williams, student of H. N. Stronach, North- western Business College, Spokane. Wash. ; 7. N. P. Johnson, student of S. B. Xorcross, Yankton, S. D., Business Institute
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The accompanying specimen comes from the pen of Miss Marie H. Harrison, McKeesport, Pa. It was written before .she had reached her fifteenth birthday. Miss Harrison is a pupil of W. H. Wetzel, Supervisor of Writing. This specimen should interest all the j'oung readers of our magazine.
STUDENTS' SPECIMENS
Specimens deserving honorable mention have been re- ceived from the following schools the past month :
Pennsylvania Business College, Lancaster, Pa. ; C. A. Zarker, instructor.
Gem City Business College, Quincy, III. ; J. M. Latham, instructor.
Pittsburg, Pa., Academy; E. T. Overend, instructor.
Drake College, Newark, N. J.; M. F. Bellows and J. H. Park, instructors.
Ad Astra Writing Class, McKeesport, Pa.; W. H. Wet- zel, instructor.
Orange Union High School, Orange, Cal. ; Alfred Hig- gins, instructor.
Williamsport, Pa., Commercial College; E. S. Watson, instructor.
Northwestern Business College, Spokane, Wash, ; H. N. Stronach, instructor.
Connecticut Business College, Middletown, Conn.; .E. /. Wilcox, instructor.
Cowling Business College, Ottawa, Ont. ; J. D. McFadyen, instructor.
Los Angeles, Cal., Business College, E. A. Bock, instructor.
Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, Mich.; A. M. Wonnell, instructor.
London, Ont., Collegiate Institute ; J. A. Buchanan, in- structor.
Grammar School No. 2, Pottsville, Pa. ; J. M. Schropc, instructor.
Lima, Ohio, Business College, C. J. Gruenbaum, in- structor.
Douglas Business College, Uniontown, Pa. ; H. C. Joy, instructor.
Cambria Business College, Johnstown, Pa. ; I. D. Beals, instructor.
Heffley School, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; F. B. Hess, instructor.
Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa. ; H. F. Sanger, in- structor.
Walter Toepfer, Toledo, Ohio.
Ornament.al Signatures, by L. Madarasz.
Ornamental Writing, by J. W. Washington, Dorchester, Mass.
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The original documents of the official returns referred to in the paper "Shorthand in the Offices of the United States Government," read before the Eastern Commercial Teachers' Association by Mr. Fredric Irlaiid, Official Reporter of De- bates, United States House of Representatives, are open to inspection, at the office of the Phonographic Institute Conpany, Cincinnati, by all who may feel interested. These reports, duly signed by the chief clerks of the several departments of the United States Government, show that out of a total of 1579 shorthand clerks employed in the departmental offices 796 are writers of the Benn Pitman System. The proportionate use of other svstems is shown as follows :
(Benn Pit- man, 796 writers, 50.4 5^. ^^Km iMunson, 00 wruers, 5.4 (<f. ^^ Isaac Pitman, 67 writers, 4.2%. ^^ ^'regg, 66 writers, 4. 1 ^. ^m Cross, 45 writers, 2.8^. , ,
■ Barnes, 25 writers, 1.59^. * -.
■ Pernin, 25 writers, 1.5% •
All others (totaling 14.S cf^), less than 1 (fc each.
This means that schools teaching the Benn Pitman system have, during the last five years, furnisht more than half oi the successful candidates that presented themselves in all parts of the country for the United States Civil Service E.xamina- tions as clerk stenographers.
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What the Multigraph Does
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In the narrative of the genesis and development of Phonography many things are related with which every teacher ought to be fully acquainted. His teaching will be more convincing and more interesting the greater the knowledge which he possesses of the life and work of the inventor of Phonography, and of the circum- stances under which the art was developed and brought to its present perfected state. The invention and im-
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NE month of the school year is already gone and the start has been made. Well begun is half done in most schools — the most difficult task of the season is already accomplished. Run- ning a school is very much like the manage- ment of a machine, it takes an expert to set it up and make it run smoothly from the start, but when the parts are all properly adjusted it can be kept in motion by any one of good intelligence and proper devotion to his work. The organization of a business school in the Fall is especially trying, for whereas the commercial department of the high school takes its pupils from the other grades without any break in their attendance, into the business school, especially the school in a smaller town, is poured a stream of young men and women, fine young fellows, energetic young women, but most of them out of touch with the school life.
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shop, store or on the farm, and their minds have not been moving in the educational groove. They have to adapt themselves to the new environment, and this adaptation, with the best intentions in the world, is not the work of a moment. The young women may have been helping at home, or, more probably, teaching school, and the change from teacher to pupil is likely to result in just a trace of friction. But is there anything more inspiring to the teacher than to look out over a room full of these young men and women, every one in deadly earnest and determined to make the most of his or her opportunities ! The teacher in the business school in the city has the advantage, to be sure, in securing material fresh from the public schools, but many of them are immature and incapable of grasping the real purpose of life, even if disposed to do so, while others are there because they are sent and not because they are filled with a desire to master such studies as will enable them to be of service in the business world. The material from the country and village may be raw, but the quality is
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The one thlns^ of which The Journal Is proudest Is that nine-tenths df the school proprietors and teachers that take the trouble to put it In the hands of their students at the clubbing rate think enough of the paper to send in their own subscription year after year for the New* ^Edition at one dollar.
there, and underneath is that determination which makes .success not a matter of doubt, but only a question of time.
The young man who has been hard at work on the ■farm or in the shop earning the money to carry him through "his year at the business school is not there because some ■one has sent him. He sees in the business school an opening
from the narrow life he has been leading to broader fields •of usefulness. The young woman who has taught in the
rural schools at thirty dollars a month for eight months in "the year, paying her board out of that amount, sees ahead ■of her a position of responsibility in some business office. "Is it, then, any wonder that the teacher feels the spirit of
the occasion and i"nakes common cause with his pupils in the 'fight for knowledge ?
Reports from all over the country indicate that we were -not mistaken in our prediction last month that the opening -of the school year would show a good condition of affairs. Since school opened we have received reports from schools in all parts of the country indicating that the opening attendan-.-e is fully up to the average. Whatever temporary depression there may be in some lines of business, the young men and -women of the country appreciate that it will not last long and are improving the opportunity to fit themselves for the -unusual demand for trained assistants, which is certain to -come within a few months at the most.
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passed, there are unusually strong calls for bright young men and women, and there is not the slightest reason for believ- ing that the present occasion will be any exception to the general rule. Business school men fully appreciate the fact that no financial disturbance in this country can produce more than a temporary lull in the activities of the country, and wisely hold that the best time for them to prepare young people for positions in the business world is just before the dawning of a new era of prosperity. The business school men of the country seem generally to have grasped the full significance of the situation and are anticipating the clear business skies which are sure to smile down upon us within a few months at the most.
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It is a noticeable fact that after every period of doubtful ^business conditions, such as that through which we have just
"Allow me to congratulate you upon the appearance of the initial lesson in Business Writing in the September issue. It is the best introductory lesson I ever saw in any penman- ship journal." — H. W. Flickinger, Philadelphia, Pa.
"The September issue is just received, and gives promise of a most helpful year to the student of business writing. The picture, 'Mr, Mills at His Work,' is the most inspira- tional thing I have seen, and teaches the lesson of position in a way that cannot be ignored or forgotten." — Chas. E. Benton, New Bedford, Mass.
LESSONS IX FREE-ARM MOVEMENT WRITING.
HIS course of lessons is the result of the combined efforts of Edward C. Mills, the noted Script Writer, and Horace G. Healey, the Editor of The Journal. Ever.v feature has been tested in the crucible of the class room, and nothing but the pure metal remains. We promise the highest possible improvement to all who conscientiously follow the course. It is ex- pected that pupils will do at least one hundred pages of practise work each month. Certiflcates will be granted to all who meet the necessary requirements.
MATEEIALS.
PAPER — Use a good quality of paper, eight by ten and a half inches in size. Whenever the time can be had to do so. the paper should be ruled into quarter.s. as shown in the lessons. The quar- ters may be Indicated by check marks, making the middle check mark first. A little time can be profitably spent in eye-training of this nature. Have at least two blank sheets under the one on which the writing is being done.
PENS — For business Writing use a business pen. Any of the following will give very satisfactory results : Esterbrook, Business and College. No. 453 ; &unt. University, No. 59 ; Gillott's Magnum Quill, No. 601 F ; Spencerian, Commercial, No. 3. Use a new pen at every lesson.
INK — Use a blue black fluid ink, the darker the better.
AMOUNT OF WORK TO BE DONE.
From one to five pages of each lesson should be written, whether it consists of a Letter, a Word or a Sentence. All Product Work should be filed away for grading and comparison.
MONTHLY SPECIMENS.
At the beginning of the course, and on the flrst Monday in each month, each student should prepare two specimens of writing, one to hand to the teacher, the other to be retained by the pupil him- self. These specimens should be worded as fohows :
City. State. Date.
This is a specimen of my best penmanship. Nine men went mining in a mine. A set of capitals written in two lines.
Sifrnature of the writer.
TREE CERTIFICATE.
A Free Certificate will be awarded to one pupil in each school who, in the judgment of the teacher, has made the greatest Im- provement. These Certificates are to be awarded March 1, 1900.
FORM.
Form is taught concurrently with Position and Movement. The type form of the Letter is used as the basis. This is done that learners may see the resemblance existing between the two forms in Shape and Proportion.
SPEED.
That the desired quality of line may be obtained, it is very necessary to make the exercises at the rate of speed indicated. High speed should not be attempted at first, but should be a re- sultant acquirement.
PRACTICE WITH DRY PEN.
With a dry pen go over the outline very carefully of each letter. Repeat this fifty times. It will accustom the muscles and nerves to the Letter Track. Each letter has a little track of its own, and the muscles must be accustomed to making the trip. These tracks are very narrow.
HOW TO PRACTISE.
Assume and maintain a correct position at the desk. Take paper and check off into Quarters. Practise dividing these Quarters into Eighths. This will be necessary in order to have a definite guide as to proper direction for the down strokes. Then "STOP. LOOK AND STUDY." Do not plunge aiead blindly and trust to luck — letting your hand do your seeing and thinking. The eyes are to see the letters, the head to understand them, and the hand to m<Lk€ them. Read the brief instructions carefully. Be sure that you understand them. The first line shows the make-up of the letter ; the second, how to practise it. You should devote at least one-third at your practise time to the first line, and two-thirds to the second line. Always count, either aloud or to yourself, while practising. Later on in the course it will be possible for you to keep the count and not move your lips.
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Cuts 1, 2, 3, 4 show the position of the hand in the various physical training drills which constitute a very important part of proper hand and arm training. During the first few months of practice much time should be devoted to this kind of work— the pupil letting his penholder lie upon the desk, devoting aril of his attention to the muscles of the arm.
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Plates 5 and 6 show how the pen should be held in the hand. Notice how the fingers all re-enforce one another, how the wrist is raised from the paper — the hand glides on the ends of the nails of the third and fourth fingers. Turn the page sidewise when studying cut 6. Notice how the top of the penholder points over the right shoulder just a'^ a person wou'd hold a gun
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In our previous lesson all the exercises and letters were based upon what is called the Direct Movement Drill— that is, the drill in which the pen moves under the right side of the oval— contrary to the directions of the hands of the clock— on its first upstroke. Among penmen this . is known as the Right Curve. This is the easiest and most natural way to make the oval or circle. The acquired or artistic way to make the circle : is to go from the left side like the hands of the clock on the first upstroke. This is known as the Left Curve. Ask the artist or mathematical draughtsman to draw a circle for you, and he will always make it in this way— by going from the left side — while the average person would draw it as he would an O. The ten lines which make up this month's lesson are derived from ovals which begin with this indirect motion.
Be very careful in dividing the paper into quarters to see that it is done accurately. Use large check marks for the quarters and small ones for the eighths. The direction of the straight line is shown by making the stroke from the middle of the top line to the lower left-hand corner.
One hundred pages should be written this month— five pages on each copy. To excel it will be necessary to write even more than this; but the student who is carrying a full course in any school will not have time to do much more than the five pages. Do not permit a large amount of practice work to take the place of thoughtful study.
It is necessary that one copy be completed before another is taken up.
Copy I— Capitals— First Degree Movement Drill. Divide the line into quarters by using check marks, then sub-divide these quarters into eighths. Draw a line from the first check mark to the middle of the bottom line, then make a straight line exercise going up and down ten times Around these straight lines throw ovals going in the same direction as the hands of a clock. Always finish going up. Proceed with the next in the same way, making eight ovals to the line.
Copy 2— Divide into quarters as before and make the indirect oval going around ten times Three ovals to the quarter
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^9°Py 4— Second Degree— Capitals. Make the guide line or post and then execute the drill, as in the First Degree, but only one ruled-space high. -H if ty down strokes to each quarter. Three down strokes per second.
Copy S—Third Degree. Make the guideline or post as before, but make the compact oval and straight line i'ltty down strokes to the quarter. Three down strokes per second.
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Copy 6 — Fourth Degree Oval. Notice how the guiding line is found. It is obtained in all these exercises by drawing a line from the middle of the top line to the lower left-hand corner. Always begin with the traced oval and then gradually let the hand move across the paper. These drills bring the movement down to the scope of the small letters, which we will now proceed to study.
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Copy 7 — yi. The method of procedure in learning these letters is first to notice the resemblance existing between the script form of the letter and the printed form. One form is made to show the lines and spaces which make it. The count is also indicated. Following the Grand- father Letter is shown the type form and then the small script form. In the succeeding quarters five letters are joined in a group. The Grand- father Letter, as well as the printed type, should be drawn very slowly. This is to aid in obtaining a correct idea of the shape of the letter. When the letter form has been mastered from the first line, then proceed to practice as shown in the second line. This plan applies to all the letters. Each letter is preceded by an appropriate movement drill. Three groups of each letter are placed in one space, making nine groups to the line. It is better to place but one movement drill in a quarter. For the n count one, two, and make ninety per minute. , v:. ■>/.. v: ■
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Copy 10 — V. This letter resembles the last part of an n, but it has a little finishing stroke which extends to the right from the upstroke. Be careful to keep this finishing stroke quite straight. This is shown in the smaller form of the letter. Count one for each letter, and make one hundred and fifty per minute.
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Copy II — o. The script form of this letter is almost identical with the printed form. Care should be taken to not retrace any lines too far. Count one two, for each letter, and make ninety per minute.
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By Stella Marie Smith.
Study the Warp and Woof of the Fabric of Your Life, if you would succeed in life.
'■Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him"
Laziness is one of the great causes of failure in every department of life. From the kitchen to the parlor; from the school room to one's chosen vocation; from early infancy to old age, it requires eternal vigilance to choke and kill the Lazy Habit.
Each reader of these lines. I will venture, is saying: "This lesson is not for me, but it will just suit Sally Jones."
Do not deceive yourself. Read on. Sit still; close your eyes and turn the search light inward. Go back to your earliest childhood; think of your surroundings then. Who were your parents and associates? What sort of dispositions had they? Were they truthful? Were they temperate? What was their treatment of you? How did their treatment affect your thought and actions?
Come up along the line of years and review your whole life. Keep that life as one picture, clearly, before you. Con- template it impersonally, dispassionately, as an outsider might, whose interest is merely that of one gathering in- formation for the writing of a nation's history.
Sit quietly; contemplate this picture, and you will see the events-, one by one, gradually emerge from the shadowy past, range themselves in their proper order, and at last you will have before you a clear-cut picture, a tapestry portray- ing all the high lights and deep shadows which have made up your life's experience.
Now, take up, thread by thread, stitch by stitch, the warp and woof of the picture. Do not sit and cry over the sor- rows and hardships you find there; do not wander off into dreamland and live over again the romances that are past; do not despair over what "might have been;" do not let your heart bleed with remorse ; do not allow bitterness to blind you to the value of the wrongs that others have done you.
This is a busy age — you cannot so waste your time. In- stead, put yourself in the attitude of the surgeon who studies his subject in order that he may help. He makes the in- cision in the smooth white skin with firm nerve, and steady gaze, intent only upon removing whatever he may find there that would impair his patient's future health.
In this way only can you improve yourself.
Study from books is good, the example of others is good ; effort is good; but, without knowing the warp and woof of your life's fabric you cannot reach the highest point of your natural capacity. For, not knowing this fabric, thread by thread, and stitch by stitch, you cannot to-day fully appre- ciate the influences which have made you what you are. You
cannot positively know those characteristics, peculiar to your- self, which may prove the greatest stumbling blocks on the road to success. Nor will you be able to recognize and make use of those qualities within you, which, if cultivated, would make you superior (after weeding out the imperfections), to other beings.
We all feel sure that every human being is divine, but the divinity within you is surrounded and overshadowed by the weeds sown there constantly since your infancy. Your father, your mother, every human being who has come upon your horizon, has the same weeds enshrouding his or her divinity, and as they pass you, the pollen is wafted from one to the other, and the weeds grow more rank.
We are all divine, and each individual might shine in the world as the stars do in the firmament would each pluck out the weeds that hide his divinitv.
But in order to find the weeds you must examine with infinite patience and scrupulous care, the warp and the woof of the fabric called vour Life.
The lazy person will not go to this trouble, and the coward is afraid to. But you, who are to tread the paths that I have trod, are not a coward, and if you are lazy you do not know it. y'ou will sit down and study this fabric, as I have asked you to do. After spending, daily, a half hour in this contemplation, you will be so familiar, when you read my messages monthly, with the warp and woof of your fabric, that when I say "Look for such or such a stitch," if it be there, you will instantly find it. Then, together, we shall follow the thread.
We cannot destroy the fabric already woven, but we can change the color of the threads and diminish their num- ber as the weaving goes on.
I shall try to take up those stitches and threads which may prove a hindrance to your progress in the business world. One stitch at a time is all I think I can cover each month.
Now, sit right down, plan your time so that you may be able to set aside one half-hour of each day — early in the morning or at night — when you can shut yourself away from all outside influences and contemplate this Fabric of your Life — from your earliest memories to the present. See where your first lie is woven in, and why you told it. Find the stitches of maternal or paternal discipline and their effects. Who were your childhood friends? What did you talk about? How did you pass your time? Did you go to church? to school? to the factory? Did you work in the fields, or in the city? What did you learn? What did you there?
Find these stitches and follow them through the Fabric — see what figures they have wrought there.
Practice this contemplation and search, daily, and next month we shall be able to work together.
Exercise D. The body of small c is made with one stroke In Exercise 12 you have the modified r. The introduc-
as shown in principle marked with arrow head. Cut the tory stroke extends a little above the head line. The hair-line
shade on the left of the letter, having the right downward across the top rests on the head line, and should be about
stroke nearly straight. one-half space in length. The shaded stroke is the same a.s
Exercise 10. The first part of the w is exactly the same that of the e and c.
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as the u. It can be finished with a loop or dot, whichever you prefer. Do not make dot too heavy and the shade on the loop too heavy.
In Exercise 11 we take up the first part of the standard r. It is exactly the same as the first part of n and ««i. Lift pen at the top of the hair-line stroke, retrace with shaded stroke; terminating stroke and shaded stroke can be made together without lifting pen.
Exercise 13 is given again for practice.
Exercise 14. The first part of the .r is exactly the same as the v\ the dots added to hairlines should not touch the base nor top lines. The second style given is made from two small c's; the first one is inverted, as you can see.
Exercise 15 is given for a review.
Practise from the copies in the third plate, observing that some of the work is open, while other exercises are very compact.
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QUALITY NOT QUANTITY
XE of the beneficial effects of education is to broaden the mind and enable it to grasp greater problems : in fact, the knowledge actually learned in any school beyond the basic three i Rs, without which the individual doesn't rise much above those members of the animal kingdom which amble along on four legs, is not one-half so valuable to the pupil as the habit of thought which one acquires in the course of his merely incidental mastery of certain subjects which in all probability he will never have occasion to put into prac- tical use. And one of the things which must be learned by the pupil if he is to make the most of life is that cheapness does not depend on what we pay, but on what we get for what we pay.
This may be applied practically or otherwise. We may pay too much in cash for a worthless article or we may pay too much in experience for information that ought to have come more cheaply. If we loan a mere acquaintance a sum of money and he neglects to repay it we may be getting at a small cost knowledge of human nature which will some day prevent our playing into the hands of the rascal who would relieve us of sums a hundred or a thousand times greater. If we trust some one with .our good name in a small matter and find that person faithless we may get very cheaply, although it cause us hours of mental discomfort, experience which will prevent our making the same mistake in a matter of moment which would involve the labors of a lifetime.
In no instance should there be greater care exercised in discriminating between what is cheap for the price or would be dear at any cost than in investment made in an education. One education is all most people can afford time for, and no one wants an inferior article at any price. If the young person in search of a business education is satisfied that he can secure just as good instruction for seven or
eight dollars a month as for fifteen he would be foolish to pay the higher price, but if this difference in cost means the difference between no position on completing the course and profitable employment, or if it means the difference be- tween five and ten dollars a week upon graduation, even if it means only the difference between fitness for promotion and unfitness for broader work though there may be no dif- ference in beginning salary, the pupil could not afford to accept the poorer quality if it were offered him for nothing.
A suit of clothes may be purchased for $4.98 or for five times that sum. If the lower price is paid the purchaser may be sure that the garments are made of shoddy material, that they will never look well and will soon give out; the purchaser of the more expensive suit, if he has spent his money wisely, has something that will give him long service, keep its shape, stand cleaning and be worth in the long run more than five times the price asked for the cheaper clothes. On the East Side milk may be bought as low as three cents a quart, while for the highest grade of the same article one must pay eight cents a quart; yet when the water is taken from the three-cent milk and the liability to disease from its use figured on it will be found that even ten cents a quart is a low price to pay for the better quality.
The untrained mind finds difficulty in grasping the dif- ference between quantity and quality, and were it not for this unfortunate habit of mind fakes and fakers would soon dis- appear from the surface of the earth. The first step is to grasp the full significance of the statement that cheapness does not depend on what we pay, but on what we get for what we pay, and the second is to learn to discriminate be- tween the meritorious and the worthless. In nothing can it be said with more assurance that the best is the cheapest than in education of any kind, for what we put inside our heads is always of more importance than what we put on the out- side of our bodies.
Product Work by F. W. Martin. Boston, Mass.
EDITOR'S SCRAP BOOK
",5. HEWEN, of the Massey Business College, I Jacksonville, Fla., one of the veterans of our (profession, certainly retains his nerve remark- jably well. He can get out a business letter that [will pass muster among the best.
F. A. Glenn, of the Tyler, Texas, Commercial College, swings a very graceful ornamental quill, which fact we note from a signature to a recent letter received from that school.
The Journal acknowledges receipt of some ornamental signatures executed by A. J. Williard, of Middletown, Va., which show that Mr. Williard is an artist in this line of work.
Ben Kupferman, the card writer and pen artist of Rox- bury, Mass., favors us with a reproduction of a resolution he recently completed. The work is of a high grade, and does credit to Mr. Kupferman.
Fred Lafontaine, of Bristol, R. I., gets out some very neat and attractive cards. He has sent us quite a variety, and we are going to give them a conspicuous place in our Scrap Book.
Merritt Davis, the penman of the Capital Business Col- lege, Salem, Ore., improves right along in his ornamental pen work. He is to be congratulated on the appearance of the cards he enclosed in a recent letter.
S. E. Leslie, of Eastman College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., gets out a card that is a delight to the eye. Mr. Leslie's ornamental writing takes just as high rank as his business writing.
We are in receipt of a packet of business writing from Charles F. Zulauf, of Scranton, Pa., which certainly has the touch of the master.
J. G. Christ, of Lock Haven, Pa., continues to contribute to the Scrap Book specimens of his ornamental work that give evidence of his skill in this line.
F. B. Adams, of Peoria, 111., sends The Journal this month some excellently written cards with white ink on a black stock. They show up very well.
From F. D. Turner, of Florence, Colo., a former student of W. C. Schuppel, we have received some nicely written specimens. Mr. Turner is making good progress in his busi- ness writing.
Well-written superscriptions in both the ornamental and business styles continue to come in. This month they come from S. G. Broadwater, Nebraska City, Neb. ; J. G. Christ, Lock Haven, Pa. ; P. W. Costello, Scranton, Pa. ; R. W. Bal- lentine, Albany, N. Y. ; H. N. Stronach, Spokane, Wash.; H. A. Grant, Schenectady, N. Y.; D. H. Farley, Trenton, N. J. ; M. E. Bennett, Pittsburg, Pa. ; J. W. Washington, Bos- ton, Mass.; L S. Preston, Stapleton, S. L; J. C. Barber, Providence, R L ; C. A. Zarker, Lancaster, Pa. ; Merritt Davis, Salem, Ore.; W. S. Scanlon, Des Moines, la.; S. E. Leslie, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; E. A. Lupfer, Columbus, Ohio; E. S. Hewen, Jacksonville, Fla. ; A. J. Williard, Middletown, Va. ; J. J. Bailey, Toronto, Ont. ; F. W. Martin, Boston, Mass. ;
R. J. Bennett, Detroit, Mich. ; William B. Wahlin, San Fran- cisco, Cal. ; O. J. Hanson, Grand Forks, N. D. ; L. C. Mc- Cann, Mahanoy City, Pa. ; W. W. Bennett, Minneapolis, Minn.; H. L. Darner, Columbus, Ohio; W. J. Elliott, Toronto, Ont. ; T. J. Atwood, Houston, Texas ; Ben Kupferman, Rox- bury, Mass. ; Fred Lafontaine, Bristol, R. L ; W. H. Patrick, York, Pa. ; A. W. Dakin, Syracuse, N. Y. ; H. McKay, Sioux Falls, S. D.; S. C. Bedinger, Sedalia, Mo.; A. E. Cole, Red- lands, Cal. ; F. J. Weaver, ./Arkansas City, Kan. ; Henry Car- mean, Ogden, Utah ; E. E. Kent, Springfield, Mass. ; H. C. Spencer, Boston, Mass.
Signatures by S. E. Leslie, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
By H. L. Dar.mee, Columbus, Ohio.
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RECENT JOURNAL VISITORS
P. W. Costello, Engrossing Artist, Scranton, Pa.
Fred Lafontaine, Bristol, R. I.
G. De Felice, Kinsley-De Felice Studio, New York.
Fred S. Field, Flushing, N Y.
Reed Carradine, New York.
W. E. Dennis. Designer and Engrosser, Brooklyn, N. Y.
A. C. Doering, Wood's School, New York City.
E. .\. Newcomer, New Jersey Business College, Newark,
N. J.
R. S. Cunningham. Bridgeport, Conn.
W. E. Coleman, Sacramento, Cal.
F. B. Hess, Heffley School, Brooklyn, N Y.
D. H. Farley, Trenton, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. McLeod, Cedar Rapids, la.
C. C. Hughes, Newark, N. J.
J. C. .•\llen, Eagan School of Business, Hackcnsack. N. J.
F. P. Baltz. High School of Commerce, New York.
Earl A. Rishor, Bridgeport, Conn.
John J. Conway, Newburgh, N. Y.
W. L. Cochran, Wood's School, New York.
NEWS NOTES
Miss Annetta M. Page has been chosen as liead of the shorthand department of the Parsons, Kan., Business College.
W. H. Patten, of Shenandoah, Iowa, goes to the Merrill Business College, Stamford, Conn., as head of the com- mercial department.
Oscar Sarsfield is a recent addition to the staff of the School of Commerce of Highland Park College, Des Moines, la.
Charles A. Ehlers, of West Alexandria, Oliio. is now with the Tri-State Business College, Cumberland, Md.
Miss Anna L. Dobson, who graduated from Eastman Business College last year, is in charge of the commercial department of the Reidsville, X. C, High School.
Miss Florence I. Powers is teaching shorthand in tlie Stratford, Conn., High School.
Miss Nettie C. Gilmore. Vho tinished a course in the Gregg School, Chicago, last year, is teaching in Thompson's Commercial College, Minneapolis.
C. E. Dwight, .Xbilene, Kan., is in charge of the short- hand work of the Tri-State Business College, Cumber- land, Md.
E. V. Graves, Chillicothe, Mo., is teaching commercial branches in the St. Louis, Mo., Business College.
C. A. Robertson, last year with the Massachusetts Col- lege of Commerce, is now in charge of the commercial de- partment of the MacCormac School, Chicago.
F. X. Delehanty, of Philadelphia, follows R. V. Snyder
in fhe Mahanoy City, Pa., High School, where he is in charge (if the commercial department. Mr. Snyder goes to the .Vutley. X. J., High School for similar work.
A, C. Doering is a new teacher in Wood's New York School, Fifth avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street.
Miss Lorena Lane will have the shorthand department of the Sheldon, Iowa, Business College this year.
William Pugh, formerly with the Wisconsin Business College, Fond du Lac, Wis., has charge of the commercial department of the Schissler School of Business, Norris- town. Pa.
L. A. Newton is at the head of the commercial depart- ment of the New Britain, Conn., Commercial College.
E. D. Pennell, formerly with the Adrian, Mich., Col- lege, is now in the Minnesota School of Business, Minneapolis.
Miss Mary Bingham is the new commercial teacher in the North Tonowanda, N. Y., High School.
C. A. Reid, of Dallas, Texas, goes to the Gainesville, Texas, Business College as commercial teacher.
F. N. Fazel, of Osceola, Iowa, is a new assistant in the School of Commerce of the Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, S. Dak.
W. J. Goggin, of Gardner, Mass., recent graduate of Tufts College, and also a Fitchburg Busiijess College grad- uate, has taken a position as assistant commercial teacher in the Cambridge, Mass., Commercial College.
H. B. Cole has resumed his duties as principal of the conuTiercial department in the Quincy, Mass., High School.
LIFE OF SIR ISAAC PITMAN
X'ot only writers of Isaac Pitman shorthand, but all who practice phonography will be interested in the story of the career of Sir Isaac Pitman, which is now being placed on the market by Issac Pitman & Sons, of 31 Union Square, New York. To the shorthand enthusiast, whether teacher or amanuensis, nothing could be more absorbing than the story of the life and work of the inventor of phonography and the circumstances under which the art was developed and brought to its present perfected state. No pains have been spared to tell the story of the system completely and thor- oughly in association with the everyday life of its originator. The work will be ready about October 25, and will con- tain about 400 pages. The price, in cloth, gilt, will be $2.00. Purchasers who send their orders direct to the pub- lishers on or before October 25 will be presented, free, with .1 high-class reproduction of the memorial portrait of Sir Isaac Pitman, which has recently been accepted by the Trus- tees of the National Portrait Gallery. London. The size of the portrait, mounted, is I7/'2X23J<^ inches, and will be sent by mail in strong cardboard tube.
PEACE ON EARTH. GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN"
The Commercial School Man as a Citizen
DUCATORS gL-iK-rally owe mucli of whatever success they may have in their work to their stajiding in the community as citizens. No Board of Education would knowingly install as principal in the high scliool a man who did not possess, aside from his educational qualifications, moderately high standards of morality and citizenship generally, and, while the commercial school is a combination of business and educational enterprise, it is coming more and more to be recognized that in order to be truly successful the busi- ness school proprietor must be such a man as to command the respect of the community as a citizen.
This principle is not, however, by any means a new one. One of the earliest and most prominent figures in business education was an equally prominent man in the affairs of the city in which he lived. No man has left a deeper imprint on the branch of education whic'n he represented, no man ever labored more assiduously in his profession to elevate it to the standard of the most dignified calling, yet S. S. Packard found time to take part in the aiTairs of the community and distinguish himself in them. He was for a time president of one of the leading organizations of his party in New York, and any movement for the betterment of the city could count upon his hearty and active support.
Since tnen his example has been emulated by many ot the leading men in the business educational world ; in fact, in many cases the rank of the school as a business educa- tional institution may be determined by the standing of its proprietor in the community. The business school has as- sumed a definite position in the community, and certain standards have been fixed in the popular iriind as to what the proprietor of it ought to be in order to merit their con- sideration.
It is by no means unusual to find the head of the busi- ness school in the smaller town at the head of the com- mercial club, for t'nis is peculiarly the province of the man who is training young men and women for business careers. In this way he gets in touch with the business men of the place, learns their needs and secures their confidence. While it is certain that no school can look upon itself as a mere employment agency and become really successful, it is equally true that no school which does not command the confidence of the business men to such an extent as to create a demand fur its graduates can hope to exist.
Many commercial school men are also identified with the other educational work of the place, and certainly the true business educator will not feel out of place in discussing with the principal of the high school the needs of his pupils. Where the head of a business school proves himself worthy of it he has no difficulty in securing recognition as an edu- cator as well as business tnan.
Not a few heads of business schools have been honored by their townsmen by election to the office of mayor, and it need not be said that the man who has the confidence of his neighbors to this extent has vastly greater opportunities for service than the business school proprietor who is known merely as a teacher of shorthand and bookkeeping. There is no calling in which the standing of a man as a citizen will count for more than in the line of commercial school work, for in no instance does the value of what a man has to sell depend more on the quality of the seller than in the busi- ness educational world.
The first duty of the business educator, as of the teacher in public school or college, is to train young men for good citizenship, and such training cannot be given by one who is not himself respected as such. And there is nothing more cheering to those, who have the interests of business educa- tion at heart than the growing appreciation among com- mercial school men of their real position in the community. To appreciate this is to make every effort to live up to the best possibilities of the position, and thereby elevate the standards of the profession generally, as well as add to their own material prosperity and general satisfaction.
TtllTIOIN II. — Amount To Be Charged Based on Cost
By .\. F. H.\RVF.V. \\'.\TERLOO, I.\.
N the last article I discussed the plan of charg- ing tuition by the month, full course, time lim- ited or full course, time unlimited. In this article I purpose to consider the matter of a reasonable charge based on the cost of main- taining a high-grade school with a moderate attendance. I am not at all acquainted with the cost in other kinds of schools and so prefer to speak from my own experience in regard to conditions as they exist in the kind of school witli which I am familiar.
I believe that any one conducting a school should con- sider the welfare of the students and always seek to give them full ^alue for the tuition they pay. The one who makes it a mt-re money -making venture, loses sight of the welfare of the student.s and seeks only his own financial gain. The one who doe^ lln'.i will cut down expenses at every place pos- sible and will furnish inferior equipment, undesirable rooms and cheap tcaclier;. .-Kn institution conducted on this basis is unworthy of the name of school and ought not to be classed as such.
In this connection, I might say that I believe some steps should be takci- by proprietors of legitimately conducted business colleges to eliminate from the list those schools con- ducted on this basis, or at least to devise some plan by which an unsuspecting public may differentiate the good from the bad. This should be reached either through some plan of our own or else by means of State laws. The difficulty is to get private school managers to agree upon any plan. Each one is suspicious that the other fellow has an axe to grind.
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FUll, to ri'lnrn lo niv suliject, I shall discuss the con- ditions as existing in a school having an average of about 100 students in si tendance, the attendance running from about 50 to 150, varying at different seasons in the year. To give a school of this number the service that young people who are about to step into the duties of life and take their place among American citizens, the training they ought to have, 1 fm'I the following items of expense necessary:
Rent $1,500
Teachers and office assistants ■ 4,200
Advertising 2,oo0
Inleresl on equipment 300
Expenses in keeping equipment up 500
Janitor service 300
Incidentals 200
■| otal $9,000
If the school averages 100 students a month for u nionthj, making" a total of 1,200 months' tuition, the very least that one should expect to meet this expense and give the proprietor a reasonable compensation for his service would be $10 a month, or total tuition fee, $12,000. This means onK a possible margin of $3,000 for the proprietor with an abundance of opportvmities for this to be cut down by unforeseen circumstances in the waj' of extra expenses or the falling off of attendance due to unforeseen causes. As a matter of fact, the margin is not enough and the rate should, in justice, be increased in order to give the proprie- tor a reasonable compensation for his time and efforts, because a man competent to manage an institution of this kind and give \oung people under his direction such service as they are entitled to and ought to have is worth more in the business world than he will net from a school undL-r these conditions.
On the other hand, if the tuition is reduced below the average of $10 a month it becomes necessary to cut down expenses somewhere, either in the grade of teachers em- ployed, the amount and quality of equipment provided, or the kind of rooms occupied. As soon as this is done, the student, although paying a lower rate of tuition, is robbed of his just deserts. The tuition the student pays is a small portion of his expenses while taking a business course. His time is the most valuable thing, and when he is devoting this to getting his preparation for life work it is economy to him to pay a little more tuition in order to get better facilities that he may the better qualify himself in the time that h^ devotes to this work. If by paying $2 a month more foi tuition for a term of six or twelve months he can go out into a position that will pay him $2 a week more salary and his opportunities for promotion are greatly increased, he i» the winner because of having paid this additional tuition fee. Cheap tuition necessarily means cheap service, cheap teacher^, inferior equipment and poor accommodations in all lines.
If the public could be convinced of the facts in the case and understand correctly their own interests, they would find it to their advantage to pay even $15 a month for tuition in order to get a higher grade of service. It rests largely with the business colleges to educate their patrons up to a higher standard of proficiency and consequently a higher rate of tuition.
With due apology for the personal illustration, permit me to say that when I took charge of the Waterloo Business College, in 1898, I found the following rate of tuition in usage :
Shorthand and Typewriting Course, 10 weeks.. $15.00
Commercial Course, to weeks 8.00
English Course, to weeks 8.00
This makes an average of about $4 a montli. We are now charging $10 a month to each and every student, regard- less of the course taken -and the time he has been with us. The public are much better satisfied and pay this tuition much more cheerfully than they did the paltry sum that was charged ten years ago. We have a better class of students and feel that we have elevated the standard of business edu- cation in this locality very materially. I think it is due to the increased rate we have charged, because in this way we have been able to furnish a better equipment, provide better teachers, better rooms and consequently are turning out a better grade of office help.
FIELD NOTES
M. D. Fulton.
" 'Shoot, if you must, this old gray head.
But spare your country's flag' — " Barbara Frietchie's town moves. Even the old City Hotel in Frederick is being rebuilt. The surrounding fruited hills and meadowed valleys are a beautiful panorama and as ag- gravating to the visitor's hungry stomach as they were to chivalrous Stonewall Jackson's soldiers on that historic — or mythical— day, nearly half a century ago when, we are told, they came
"Over the mountains, winding down, Horse and foot into Frederick town."
The business colleges of Baltimore, Hagerstown and Cum- berland, Maryland, are glad to get as students the tillers of the soil round about Frederick and the sons and daughters of the citizens of the town itself. In this race for educa- tional improvement Maryland is determined not to be behind. By special provision, each accredited High School in the State may draw a generous sum from the State treasury for the establishment of a commercial course. Certainly the majority will avail themselves at once. Following the prece- dent set by the Baltimore business schools they are not scrapping with each other for laurels. It is safe to predict that just as many will be distributed around as if the school men fought for them irj the formerly customary way.
. Mr. Smith, of the Tri-State in Cumberland, is a pushing, wide-awake school man. He is neither grieving about the past nor appi^hensive of the future, but lives in the present and hustles.
The openings this Fall in the Philadelphia public schools are up to last year's standards. In the field and newspapers there is a noticeable coming together spirit and a general de- sire to be good. May the Baltimorean "Peace on earth, good will to men" spirit wax strong until it rules supreme mi every city and town in the land. Over the school, the church ' and the home should perch the dove of peace and nowhere should we feel more confident of finding real decency than in the schools.
Here a suggestion might be offered in the hope that it may bring forth comment, which is earnestly invited. In many sections the public is being persuaded that teaching the commercial subjects is a "snap," and that preparation for it can be made in a few weeks' time. This is manifestly wrong, and the delusion will react against the public good and the cause of commercial education generally. Easily gotten, it is easily dispensed, easily forgotten and easily a failure. There is, indeed, a great need for more teachers of com- mercial subjects, but honesty and thoroughness should be demanded. A go-slow policy is recommended for the unde- veloped sections and sincere co-operation for mutual better ment between the experienced and inexperienced.
IV
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Sliorthand is a language ; bookkeeping a sciinci.-. Can acceptable fitness in French and cheniisty be acquired in tw i months? We pretty generally resent the get-rich-quick schemes, and these have to do with the pocketbook. Why entertain these get-ready-easy plans that have to do with the mind and soul of the young?
I'RACTICAL PHONOGRAPHY, by L. H. Packard. Pub- lislicd by S. S. Packard, New York City. 231 pp. Tlie publications of the Packard people arc too well known to require special praise, for the imprint of the pub lishers stands for quality wherever it is found. Practical Phonography, their latest book, is a revision and amplifica- tion of the "Lessons in Munson Phonography," written by Mrs. L. H. Packard, under the personal supervision of James E. Munson, the shorthand author, in 1886. The work is com- plete in every particular, and carries the pupil from the first strokes to the most advanced stages of the study. All rules have been reduced to the clearest and simplest statemen'.. and every principle is fully illustrated in the text, a featun. which makes the book especially adapted to self-instruction.
JANES' SHADELESS SHORTHAND, by A. Janes. Pub- lis''ed by Edward Toby, 156 Fifth avenue, New York, and Waco, Texas.
In this system of shorthand we have received Readng Book No. I, 62 pages, price 75 cents, with many plates of shorthand notes and printed key: the Reporting Supplement, 16 pages, price 50 cents, containing nearly a thousand reporl - mg contractions; and the Manual, 22 pages, price 50 cents, containing the complete corresponding style. All these books are neatly gotten up and will prove invaluable to those in terested in Janes' System. The strongest possible claims are made for this system of shorthand, not only as to the legi- bility and ease of learning, but a^ to speed. *We feel that shorthand teachers will be interested in this series of text books.
A PRACTICAL COURSE IN TOLTH TYPEWRITING, by Charles E. Smith. Isaac Pitman & Sons, publishers. New York City. Price, 75 cents.
]\Ir. Smith speaks with authority on the subject of touch typewriting. As trainer of some of the most rapid operators f the machine at the present time, the author of this work has demonstrated his ability to bring results, and in the twenty lessons or budgets now presented to the public he has • embodied the wisdom gained by long experience. More than four hundred business letters are furnished to the pupils, as well as forty pages of legal forms and other miscellaneous matter. This edition is adaptetd to tlie Oliver typewriter, and users of that machine desiring to master the touch system will find Mr. Smith's book of great assistance.
THE NATURAL MEMORY SYSTEM, by E. D. Snow.
Hornell. N. Y. Published by the author. Paper, 28 pp.
No accomplishment is more essential to success than memory, and Mr. Snow will have conferred a great boon upon humanity if he can bring to any portion of it a method of improving the memory which will bring practical results. His instructions are brief and concise, his rules few and his
slalcmenis clear. He himself states that he advances but one method: that of thoroughly analyzing the subject under con- sideration and of comparing and classifj'ing the information thus received. Mr. Snow seems to be working along the right lines, and many business houses might find it to their advantage to order the book in quantities fi>r distriliution among their employes.
.METHOD IN TEACHING WRITING, by Maurice E. Ben- nett. Published by the M. E. Bennett Publisliing Co., Pittsburg, Pa. 129 pp. $1 and $1.25. Mr. Bennett, who> is supervisor in the public schools of Pittsburg and vicinity, is a man" of broad experience in the teaching of writing. His method was developed in the public schools of Braddock, Pa., and became so popular that it is now used by about 500 teachers. His aim is not to present a new and better form of letter, but to present a better method of teaching the established forms. It is his purpose to make it possible for the teacher in the grades to teach skillfully the essentials of practical writing. As a practical book by a practical and successful man it merits the consideration of those public school educators which it has been ^Ir. Bennett's purpose to reach.
ATTENTION PENMEN!
LL teachers of penmanship of the United States, whether from public schools, parochial schools or business colleges, are cordially in- vited to meet with us at our next Annual Con- vention, which meets at Indianapolis during the holidays. We expect to have a grand reunion of penmen at this meeting, as the leading penmen of the country will be there. Try to secure as many of your friends to join as you can and come out and let us have an old-fashioned love feast.
Register with the Secretary as soon as possible and let us have a grand enrollment ready to report in the' November issues of the various penmanship papers. Who will be the first to enroll? Send your remittance at once before you forget it, to the Secretary. The annual dues are $1.50 per year to old members and $3.00 to new members.
L. C. M'Cann, Pres., Mahanoy City. C. D. Doner, Sec'y, Beverly, Mass.
Pa.
NATIONAL SHORTHAND TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION
The program for the shorthand section, though incom- plete at this time, promises to be one of the best in the his- tory of the association. Among those who have consented to take a place on the program are the following well-known teachers, authors and reporters :
Sherwin Cody, Cody's School of English, Chicago, 111.
C. B. Bowerman, Central High School, Detroit, Mich.
D. J. George, Wood's New York School, New York, N. Y. J. L. Harmon, Bowling Green, Ky., Business University. Mrs. S. H. East, general reporter, Indianapolis, Ind.
J. A. Stephens, Metropolitan Business College, Chicago.
Clarence A. Pitman, Isaac Pitman & Sons, New- York, N. Y. Executive Committee :
Robert .\. Grant, Yeatman High School, St. Louis, Mo.
Gertrude O. Hunnicut, Lansing Business University, Lansing, Mich.
J. Walter Ross, Elliott Commercial School, Wheeling, W. Va.
C. M. Drake, last year principal of Drake Business Col- leg, Plainficld, N. J., is principal of the commercial depart- ment of the Yale Business College, New Haven, Conn.
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C. S. CHAMBERS ABROAD
During the months of July and August C. S. Chambers, the popular Supervisor of Writing of the Covington, Ky., Public Schools, spent his time making a careful study of the business schools of England, Scotland and Ireland. This in- cluded both the private and the public institutions.
Of course Mr. Chambers was especially interested in pen- manship. He found, however, that not so much attention is paid to that subject as is paid to it here. There are several different styles taught. The business hand, which is termed a bold and free style, is the only one where any movement is indicated, but no stress whatever is placed upon that. The ladies are taught a flowing or vertical style. There is what is termed the Law Hand, and also the Civil Service Hand. .\ number of publishers get out copybooks, one of the lead- ing lines being known as the Holborn Series. It would pay American teachers to secure copies of these books.
In Scotland Mr. Chambers found a number of very live schools. The school proprietors of that country seem to be on exceptionally good terms. A striking feature of class- room equipment, however, was the noticeable lack of black-
C. S. Chambers.
SiiIXTvisor ot Writing, Covington, Ky., Public Schools. Second of
a Series of Prominent Supervisors.
board space. In America the blackboard is freely used in teaching all subjects. The blackboards in Scotland are of no consequence whatever. Furthermore, pupils are not, unless it is in the exceptional school, assigned individual desks. They all sit on benches and at a long, narrow table.
There are several schools in Glasgow. The backbone of the business school work in the Greater Kingdom is done in the shorthand department. Bookkeeping and its allied branches are secondary.
Among the typewriters all the American makes are used. For a number of years the bar-lock machine, little known in America, has occupied quite a prominent place. The schools provide a variety of machines, however.
As to methods of teaching, Mr. Chambers found that the classroom work is not held up to the standard found in this country. Students are. however, taught to be more or less independent. They are assigned work, given the books, and placed upon tlieir own responsibility. This dees not imply
that few teachers arc employed. There seems to be a suffi- cient number of teachers, but little class work is done.
The British school owners make a great deal of diplomas, certificates, medals, etc. Their offices are freely decorated with these. Some American school owners go to tlie opposite extreme and award very few diplomas.
In some of the cities, notably Liverpool and London, are to be found chains of schools under the same management, or, at any rate, conducted by members of the same family. Tlie private business school has been known in England since about 1827. This antedates the oldest American private school which is now in actual existence.
The public schools were not in session, so Mr. Chambers could investigate their work but little. However, he visited the rooms of the Board of Education in London, and there found on exhibition books and works which gave him a very excellent idea of their methods and scope of instruction. In London Mr. Chambers visited a Civil Service School, and the work there is just about the same as found in other places.
Aside from the inadequacy of seating arrangements in many of the smaller schools, he was surprised to find a sim- ilar lack in office equipment. The roll-top desk is compara- tively unknown. Some of the larger schools, however, rank with the best American institutions — notably Pitman's Met- ropolitan School, which was established in 1870. This school is housed in a magnificent building several stories high. It is presided over by Bernard De Bear, a well-known authority on business education. The curriculum of this school in- cludes all business subjects, a course for employment in the Civil Service, and a very liberal training in modern languages.
The pleasures of Mr. Chambers's visit were not confined, however, to his inspection of schools. He enjoyed trips to various points of interest, and has returned with a wealth of first-hand information regarding the old castles, the lake regions, the haunts of Burns and Scott, and many other things that go to make up the cultured and well traveled gentleman. Two weeks spent in France gave him a very comprehensive knowledge of the customs and traits of modern Gaul. A for- tunate young man is our friend, Mr. Chambers, that he has taken this trip — one to be lived over in memory during all Iiis succeeding days.
Philadelphia, Sept. 7, 1908. Dear Mr. Healey:
I regret to see my name associated with a claim to the title of "Champion Penman." Those who know me best I am sure win. say that I have never made such claim. There arc many excellent penmen, some excel in one line of work and some in another. But few excel in all departments of pen- manship— .accurate script, ornate script, engraver's script, flourishing, lettering, designing, pen-drawing, card-writing, etc. I have' tried liRrd to cover the whole field of penmanship, but I seldom .accomplished anything in any department of which I would care to boast.
Fraternally,
H. W. Fmckingek.
H. E. Welbourne, of the Cream City Business College, Milwaukee, Wis., reports a splendid opening for that school. This school has moved into new quarters, and the one hun- dred new seats in the Introductory Department are now near- ly all filled. The Advanced and Business Practice Depart- ment will be separate.
W. D. Wigent, a recent graduate of Central College, Central City, Neb., is with the Lake City, ]Minn., Commercial College.
C. B. EdgewtTth has charge ■if the Cfjinniercial \v. rk nt the Westfield, 111., College this year.
W. H. McCauley, for many years principal of the four C's, at Des Moines, is now with the Brownsberger School, Los Angeles, and, associated with him, are two otherlowans : R. E. Wiatt, formerly at Council Bluffs, and Mrs. Anna M. J. Crouse, at one time in Centreville. but more recently with the Santa Rosa, Cal., Business College.
Miss Jennie Walker, of the Bowling Green, Ky.. Business University, has charge of the commercial work in Dixon Academy, of Shelbyville, Tenn.
W. F. Mersch. of Stevens Point, Wis., has charge of tlie commercial department in Jones's Business College, Ham- mond, Ind.
O. E. Burse, of Flint, Mich., has engaged with the Sala- manca, N. Y., Business Institute.
Pete Edwards, who had the commercial work in the Dick- son, Tenn., Normal College, last year, now has charge of the commercial department of the High School at Fountain City, Tenn.
Frank M. Bushnell, of Willseyville, N. Y., will have charge of the commercial department of the Waterloo, la.. Business College this year.
G. F. Roach, who has been with the Vaslion College and Academy, of Burton, Wash., has recently engaged with the Seattle, Wash., Business College.
E. G. Dirr, who had charge of the commercial depart- ment of the West Orange, N. J., High School last year, has accepted a position with a railroad company in Texas.
G. G. Gudmimdson, a graduate last year from the Uni- versity of North Dakota, where lie completed the course in the School of Commerce, is now principal of the Godericb, Ontario, Business College.
Leon F. Hussey, a last year's graduate of the Bliss Busi- ness College, North Adams, Mass., is the new teacher in charge of the commercial department of the Mechaiiicsvillc, N. Y., High School.
John T. Yates, one of the proprietors of the Bliss Busi- ness College, Newark, Ohio, was chosen for the shorthand department of the Metropolitan Business College, Chicago, but was unable to take the position because of a severe at- tack of illness.
J. J. Forney, of the Abilene, Kan., Business College, is in charge of the commercial department of the Denison, Iowa, Normal School.
F. W. Engel, of Grand Valley, Pa., a public school teacher of several years' experience, will handle English branches at the Meadville, Pa.. Commercial College for the ensuing year.
E. C. Conley, a graduate of the Bowling Green, Ky., Business University, will have charge of the commercial work in the Kuttawa, Ky., schools.
Miss Lula M. Wilson, who taught in King's Business College, Raleigh, N. C, last year, lias accepted the position of principal of the shorthand department in Leech's Actual Business College, Greensburg, Pa.
^liss Donna Cooperider is the new shorthand teacher in tlic Iron City College, Pittsburg, Pa. Miss Cooperider has been connected with the St. Louis, Mo., Business College.
Homer .\. lintt. ut Keyser, \\. Va., has engaged with Warren Douglas, of McKcesport, Pa. He will be located in Mr. Douglas's Uniontown school.
W. L. Sisk has resigned his position with the Wester- leigh Collegiate Institute, New Brighton, S. I., N. Y., and is now in charge of the commercial department of the American University, of Harriman, Tenn.
H. A. Reneau, formerly with the Fort Smith, Ark., Com- mercial College, has been selected for the commercial depart- ment of the School of Commerce, of Lawrence L^niversity, Appleton, Wis.
C. T. Forcade, of Belleville, 111., is now with the Williams Business College, Oshkosh, Wis. He will have charge of tlie penmanship and bookkeeping departments.
J. G. Parkinson, formerly with Schissler's School, at Nor- ristown, Pa., has been engaged by the Fishers, in the Winter Hill Business College, Somerville, Mass.
Albert Hiltpold, a recent student of the Northampton, Mass., Commercial College, is now teaching in Yonkers, N. Y.
Miss Cora M. Pryor, of the Globe Business College, St. Paul, Minn., is this year in charge of shorthand in the Bloom- ington. 111., Fligh School.
H. E. Congdon, last year with the !Meriden, Conn., Higii Scliool, is this year in charge of the commercial work of the Rutland, Vt., High School.
E. E. McClain, who has been spending the Summer in the Zanerian Art College, is opening the new commercial department in the Oil City, Pa., High School.
C. O. Weeks, last year with the Huntsinger Business College, Hartford, Conn., will open a new commercial de- partment this year in the Shelton and the Derby, Conn., High Schools. The buildings are near to one another, and Mr. Weeks will divide his time betw'een the two institutions.
Miss Beatrice F. Coxon, of L^tica, N. Y., and Earle G. Childs, of Providence, R. I., are new teachers in the Cole- man National Business College, Newark, N. J.
George H. Amidon, of Edinboro, Pa., a normal school graduate and teacher of English in the Meadville, Pa., Com- mercial College last year, has been advanced to assistant in the commercial department of the same school.
Hugh McKay has resigned his position with Hill's Busi- ness College, of Waco, Texas, to accept a place with Toland's Business School, Sioux Falls, S. D.
Miss Edna Taylor, who has been teaching in the Capital City Commercial College, Charleston, W. Va,, is now in charge of the shorthand department of the Elizabeth, N. J., Commercial College.
L. W. Greathouse, a recent Gem City Business College man, is directing the work of the commercial department of Hill's Business College, Waco, Texas.
T. N. Carswell has gone from the Abilene, Texas, Busi- ness College to the Wichita, Texas, Business College, owned by the principal of the former school.
C. A. Marone, of Brown's Business College, St. Louis, has charge of the shorthand department of the San Fran- cisco Business College.
Miss Alice Campbell, who was witli the Eagan School, New York, last year, will teach in the public schools of Plainfield, N. J., this year.
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VII
George A. Race, one of L. JVI. Kelchner"s successful students, is the fcrtuiiatc man to be chosen as assistant to H. C. Walker, Supervisor of Penmanship in the St. Louis ;;ui>lic sclirols. Mr. Race liad charge of the commercial de- partment of the Jamestown, \. Y., High School last year.
Miss Millie H. Maier. a recent product of the Summer Gchcol, of Rochester, X. Y., Business Institute, will teach commercial wcrk in the .Schenectady, N. Y., High School this'year.
Miss Jessie A. Marvin, who has taught in the comnlercial department of the Meadville. Pa., Commercial College, for the past two years, has accepted an excellent position with the commercial department of the Mt. Vernon. N. Y.. High School.
Atlec L. Percy goes from the Spencerian Commercial School, Cleveland, to the Teclmical High School. Springtiekl. Mass.
H. G. Staton is a new commercial teacher in the Ely, Minn., High School.
A. W. Ross, last year with the East Troy Conference Academy, is now with the B. & S. Business College, ]Man- chester, N. H.
Miss Eloise Winhafer, who was with the Drake Busi- ness College, Jersey City, last year, is now at the head of the shorthand department of the Worcester, Mass., School of Commerce.
Miss Hattie N. Burch, last year in the Des Plaines, 111., High School, will have charge of commercial work in the Stillwater, Minn., High School.
B. W. Freeman, of Highland Park College, Des Moines, is at the head of the coinmercial work of the Stanstead, Quebec, Wesley University.
IMiss Stella Elliott, of Sonora, Ky., has accepted a posi- tion as teacher of shorthand with Professor J. J. Krider, of Canton, Ohio. Miss Elliott will be in Mr. Krider's .Akron school.
.A. L. Peer, of Wheeling, W. Va., has been elected to the position of principal of the commercial department of the Oklahoma University Preparatory School, of Tonkaw-a, Okla.
F. B. Adams, of Greenville, 111., is now teaching in the Peoria Business College, Peoria, 111.
The Columbus, Ohio, Business College has added H. G. Swope to its teaching staff. Mr. Swope was witli Taylor University, Upland, Ind., last year.
Spokane, Wash., has lost J. C. Vornbrock, who goes to the Santa Barbara, Cal., Business College, where he will have charge of commercial branches.
Hugh S. Jeffrey, of Huntington, Ind., is teaching com- mercial subjects in the Illinois Business College, Chicago.
Richard Scholz, Troy, N. Y., is a new teacher in the commercial department of Schuylkill Seminary, Reading, Pa.
Mary !MacDougall has gone from Elizabeth College, Charlotte, N. C, to the Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Va., where she will have secretarial work.
Miss Jean E. Pearson, of Y^ork Springs, Pa., is a recent addition to the faculty of the Drake Business College, New York.
Miss Christina Bowles, last year in charge of the short- hand department of the Gem City Business College, Quincy. III., has moved to Seattle, where she will teach shorthand in Wilson's Modern Business College.
Edward C. Ryan, of St. Paul, Neb., is the new teacher in Boulder Buisiness College, Boulder, Col.
E. D. Crim, who has been conducting tiic Marion. Ohio. Business College, has sold his school and lias accepted the
position of principal uf the commercial department of tlie ^Oi^^akoneta, Ohio. High School. — -^
^*5^';\liss Xettie E. Gilmcre, of Red Oak, Icwa, is the ncv.- ' f shorthand teacher m Thompson's Telegraph and Commercia'iy ^XTollege, rf Minneapilis, Minn.
Miss Anetla M. Page, of Princeton, 111., has accepted the position of principal of the shorthand department of Par- son.s, Kan., Business College.
J. C. Vornbrock, of Spokane, Wash., is now in charge of the shorthand department of the Santa Barbara, Cal., Busi- ness College.
J. Frank Yenner has been elected principal of the commer- cial department of the Bucyrus High School, Bucyrus, Ohio. Mr. A'enner has hrcn with the Seymour. Ind., Business College.
C. B. Adkins, late of Hartford, Conn., is now with the Drake Business College, Jersey City, N. J.
B. F. Hart, for many years at the head of the commercial department of the Peru Township High School, La Salle, 111., is now at the head of the commercial department of the splendid new Westport High School, Kansas City, Mo.
T. J. Kirker, who has been with Spalding's Business College, Kansas City, Mo., is now in charge of the commer- cial department of the Central High School of that city.
Miss IMarion V. Xey, of St. Johns, Mich., goes this year to the Traverse City. Mich., High School. She was in the Iron Mountain, Mich., High School last year.
Charles E. Keller, formerly with the Warner School, Elmira, X'ew York, has engaged with Burdett College, Bos- ton, for the coming year.
Miss Dorothy W. Fitts, a recent graduate of the Dor- cliester, Mass., High School, is a new teacher on the staff of the Rochester, X. H.. High Scliool. Miss Fitts will teach the commercial branches.
Howard Van Deusen, formerly of the New York Pre- paratory School, New York City, has engaged with the Bay- onne, N. J., High School.
Henry L. Brown has re-engaged with the Worcester Business College. Worcester, Mass.
The .American Business College, Pueblo, Col., has a new Gregg teacher in the person of Conrad Morris, of Swayzee, Ind.
The Cambridge Commercial College show-s signs of prosperity by adding to its teaching force Messrs. W. Gog- gin, Gardiner, Mass., and C. N. Phelps, Ontario, Canada, and electing J. B. Knudson secretary of the institution.
The Iron City College, of Pittsburg, Pa., has added J. R. Beach to its teaching staff.
E. B. Moore has gone from Dixon, TIL, College to the Lewiston, Idaho, High School, where he will have charge nf the commercial department.
Robert Musselman is now witli the Marion. Ind.. Busi- ness College.
Ernest McCollum goes from Rockford, 111., to the com- mercial department of Barnes Business College. St. Louis.
HAD JUST BEGUN TO LIVE
"Have you livtd here all your life?" asked a friend of five-year-old John.
"X''ot yet." ;in--\vered John.
— The School Journal.
Miss Primer — "Why did you discontinue buying school supplies from rii.\-on.
Miss Grammar — "Because lie said recently that I was
one of his oldest customers." — School Board Journal.
]^_^^r^ ROM the Quincy, 111., Daily Jciti:;i'. we learn i''l f^^^^,\it that the two eldest sons cf the founder ot ^ ■ r" '-- the Gem City Business College, D. L. Mus-
j ' ' selman, Jr., and Virgil C. Musselman, were to
be married the latter part of September to two ' I .harming and accomplished daughters of Illinois.
"D. L. }iii;s5elman, Jr., is well known among business edu- cators, having been connected with the business management of his father's school for ten years. The Journal takes great pleasure in tendering its congratulations to the young people. We also learn from the same paper that the Mus- selman family are building a cottage at Bluff Park, Mon- trose. Iowa, where they expect to spend part of future Summers.
The commercial school outlook in Colorado was never better, according to E. C. Harrell, of the Boulder Business College. He has just added E. C. Ryan to the staff of the school, and expects a much better year than the last has been.
The Patrick Commercial School, York, Pa., held its com- mencement exercises in the high school auditorium on the evening of September ii with a large attendance of pupils, graduates and friends.
'R. S. Collins, cf the Peirce School, Pliiladelphia, sent^ the Journal a postcard from London, England, stating that himself and wife had visited England, Ireland, Belgium, Hol- land, Germany, Switzerland and France, and had "the timej of their lives." It can easily be imagined that such was the case, and that Mr. Collins will return mentally and physicall}( fitted for the best year's work of his life.
A new school has been opened in Boston by H. C. Spen- cer, as the Spencerian Business College. Mr. Spencer has done first class work in Winsted, Conn., and there is every reason to believe that he will be highly successful in the larger field. He is especially strong in pen art work.
One of the pleasant events of the Summer season ni business educational circles in Denver was the fourth anni- versary banquet of the Barnes Commercial School, held at Brown's Palace Hotel on August 19, with a large attendance of friends and former students of the school. Aside from the cheer for the interior man there were toasts, choice music and readings for their intellectual enjoyment.
Another happy school which opened with the largest enrollment in its history is the National Business College, Roanoke, Va. E. M. Coulter, the president, is in a most cheerful frame of mind, especially since his little girl, who has been ill, is now getting along nicely.
J. F. Nixon, who recenty purchased the Connecticut Busi- ness College, at Middletown, from E. J. Wilcox, when the latter gentleman removed to Hartford, reports that the school opened on September i with a good attendance and an ex- cellent outlook for the season.
A. J. Park, who is one of Rhode Island's most energetic business educators, advises that notwithstanding the fact that his is the most overwhelmingly mercantile and manufactur- ing State in the Union and therefore most lialile to feel the effects of business depression, the attendance at his school in Woonsocket is much larger than ever before and the out- look is more than satisfactory.
Hartford, Conn., is another c!ty which shews most grati- fying evidences of prosperity. E. M. Huntsinger, of Hunt- singer's Business School, says they are starting out this Fall with an exceptionally fine class of young people and that conditions are most gratifying considering the experience through which the country has passed during the past year.
After an absence of nine years, R. A. Spellman, ac- companied by Mrs. Spellman, left Taunton, Mass., on July 2 for Onarga, 111., and spent the Summer visiting relatives and friends there and elsewhere. He also spent ten days witii Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Heaney, well known in commercial school circles, at their home in Mississippi. Instead of find- ing those good people with the three acres and liberty de- scribed by Bolton Hall, he found them with three acres of canteloupes and plenty of fine watermelons, which' added to the pleasure of the visitors. On September I Mr. Spellman was back to superintend the opening of the Bristol County Business School.
One of the most notable achievements in the way of business school advertising is that of the Brown schools, with headquarters in Peoria, 111., and branches in riineteen other cities and towns of lUionis, Iowa, Missouri and Indiana, which appeared in the Chicago Record-Herald on Sunday, August 16, and occupied two pages. We are glad to accept I this as an evidence of the prosperity of Mr. Brown's schools.
On Tuesday evening, September 15, Miss Maren Elizabeth Houser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Houser, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was married to A. B. Zu Tavern. The Journal extends congratulations and wishes the young people many years of happy married life.
D. H. O'Keefe of the Washington Irving High School, New York City, sends us a contribution calling attention to the diflference existing in the methods of marking the work of contestants in the various typewriting exhibitions that have been given during the past school season. The chief point in the contribution refers to the matter of penalty in the East- ern contests — five words are deducted for every error, while in the Western contests but three words are deducted. This matter of penalizing is a very important one to consider, as some uniform rule should be adopted.
The Mountain View, Calif., Leader of September 5th contains a paragraph stating that Daniel T. Ames had been very sick for a couple of weeks, but he is once more able to be out. While the profession will regret to learn of his ill- ness, every one will be rejoiced to know that he has re- covered.
From the Rhode Island Commercial School, Providence, R. I., H. L. Jacobs, principal, we have received a copy of the address, in booklet form, delivered by Henry Clews, of New York City, at the graduating exercises of that school, held in June, 1908. The title of the address is "American Social Conditions," and it contains some splendid advice for young people who are entering upon a business career.
.\n IrishuKin was sliown through a jail. After he liad trade tlic trip, lie was asked what he thought of the place. "Oh," said he. "there's one place I like here, and that's the intrence out."
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By R. W. Ballentine, Albany, N. Y.
A BRIEF VISIT TO THE HOME OF THE SMITH PREMIER
"A merciful man is merciful to his beast."
T has been twenty-four years since the writer of these paragraphs received his first introduction to that most faithful hand-servant of man, the typewriter. During all these years he has been thrown in contact with a large number of oper- ators. If one impression stands out more strongly than an- other as to the varying characteristics of these operators, it is the difference to be found in the care of the machine.
You ask. What has this to do with a visit to a type- writer factory? Let us say that it has a great deal, for could the careless, indifferent, unsympathetic, unfeeling operator, who is wont to be satisfied with a machine so covered with dust that its shape is almost undiscernible, with type filled so that every character resembles a big period, with ribbon filled with holes, and the baseboard laden with veritable snowbanks of erasings — could he visit a factory and see the infinite pains, the almost affectionate touch and regard shown by the expert workman in constructing his machine, he could not repress a feeling of remorse for his neglect. Could his machine speak out it would certainly berate the untidy operator for his lack of order.
As we walked through the factory this was uppermost in our mind: that all such operators could but witness the construction of a machine from the heavy iron parts to the mmutest steel spring.
The Smith Premier Typewriter has now been made for sixteen years. It was invented by a man named Alexander T. Brown and is manufactured in Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. Brown did his work so well that there has been no demand for a material change in the construction of the machine and very little in improvement. The inventor not only constructed his machine, but invented a large number of almost human ma- chines for the purpose of making the different parts.
Our visit was paid to the factory the latter part of July. Through the kindly courtesy of Assistant-Secretary Evans, who has been with the company almost from its beginning, we were not only shown how each part of the Smith Premier is made, but had every detail thoroughly explained.
It is a strange fulfilment of old prophecy which runs along like this : "Swords shall be beaten into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks," that the typewriter should have first been made in a gun factory. The Lyman C. Smith gun has always stood in high favor with sportsmen. The Reming- ton was made in a gun factory, as was the Yost and a mmi- ber of other machines.
The Smith Premier factory, as it is at present, was built in 1903, and is said to be one of the finest of the modern types of factory plants. Absolutely light and sanitary, noth- ing seems to be lacking either for the convenience or com- fort of the nine hundred workmen constantly engaged within Its walls. The building is seven stories high, sixty-five feet
wide and four hundred feet long. All the iron dust is drawn out and conveyed to what is known as a dust house. All the power and blacksmith work is done in an adjoining building.
The top floor is devoted to the aligning, assembling and inspection. Each machine must pass the critical gaze of an expert before it is passed out of one department. The suc- ceeding floors are devoted to the manufacture of different parts.
On one floor we were particularly interested in a machine called the exerciser, where the type is hung as in a regular basket and caused to be brought to what corresponds to the printing point several thousand times. There are thirty of these machines going constantly.
One department on the fourth floor is devoted entirely to the making of tools. On the third floor the japanning and striping is done. The striping would be particularly inter- esting to the penman, for the steady hand of the workman would appeal to him.
A part of the second floor is devoted to the manufacture of important parts. The shipping department is also found here. A brief visit to this important part of the plant showed hundreds of machines all boxed and ready for shipment. One large consignment was going to various post-offices in the United States Government. A surprisingly large number were prepared for foreign shipment. America as a manufacturing centre will not compare with some of the foreign countries, but in certain lines she does excel. One of these is in the manufacture of the machine. Somehow or other, European manufacturers have never been able to compete with the in- ventive genius of the American workman.
We hope some time that we shall have the" pleasure of visiting the factories of some of the other companies. Our two-hour stay in Syracuse between trains was not only very pleasantly but very profitably spent, and we were more favor- ably impressed than ever before by not only the great benefit the invention of the typewriter has bestowed upon the busi- ness world, but also by the conscientious and almost conse- crated pains taken in its manufacture.
A SPLENDID CLUBBING RECORD
In some unaccountable way the clubbing record of C. W. Jones, proprietor of one of New England's foremost busi- ness schools — the Modern Cormnercial School, Brockton, Mass. — was omitted in the published list in the September issue. During the past school year Mr. Jones sent in the names of ninety-two subscribers to the Penman's Art Jour- nal. He is one of America's foremost business writers and wields a professional pen that is equalled by few.
"I cannot express my admiration of the new course in business writing. It is certainly a dandy. If a teacher cannot get results from it he ought to seek some other branch to teach." — J. J. Bailey, Toronto, Ont.
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The National Shorthand Teachers' Association.
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The registration fee and dues for the Managers' Section is $5.00 per year. Registration in any of the other Sections, $3.00, with annual dues after the first year of $1.50. This includes a printed report of each convention.
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OBITUARY
A. P. Root. On August 21 St, at the Soldiers' Home, Sandusky, Olro, there passed to its final rest the sweet spirit of one of our most beloved brethren, Albert P. Root, aged sixty-six years. This notice will come as a distinct shock to all of the mem hers of the profession, and especially to the ''Old Guard.' Mr. Root was one of a very small group of penmen who made the last third of a century what may be called the Golden Era of Penmanship.
For many years he had been a supervisor of writing in the public schools, and at least a decade was spent at the head of the department of penmanship in Peirce School, Philadelphia. It was while with Peirce School that he pro- duced his beautiful Compendium of business writing, a work wliich ensures his name a permanent place in the history and bibliography of the art of writing. His writing was characterized by a softness and delicacy of touch that is seldom found in writing of the present time. He was for- merly a jeweller by trade, and his training as an engraver eminently fitted him for securing that accuracy in execu- tion with the pen which was the delight of his admirers.
The last years of his life were accompanied by great physical pain, yet no word of complaint ever escaped h'S lips. His presence among us was a blessing, his departure a benediction.
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WHAT GETTING A BUSINESS EDUCATION MEANS
Using Card Index and Vertical File.
2. Using the Adding Machine.
3. Care of the Typewriter.
4. Operating the Mimeograph.
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"Your business- college for young ladies seems to be all ♦ight."
"It is all right."
"Do you give the girls a good practical business training?"
"In reply to that question I can only say that 60 per cent of our graduates marry their employers the first year."
• — Louisville Courier- Journal.
THE WORLD IS A LOOKIINO GLASS
The world is a looking glass,
Wherein ourselves are shown,
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Only ourselves who look in it. — Susan Coolia
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Commercial teachers are at a premium at salaries far above the average tfeceived by teachers of other preparatory brandies.
The normal trainins department for commercial teachers conducted by the Rochester Business Institute is proving a decided success, but many more candidates are wanted for the attractive positions constantly offered to graduates of this institution.
A postal card will bring by return mail a copy of our new illustrated pros- pectus and catalogue, which gives a complete outline of the normal training (Apartment.
Fall term, September 8th to November 30th ; Winter term, December 1st to February 28tli ; Spring term, March 1st to May 31st ; special six weeks' Sum- mer term, July 6th to August 13th.
High School, Normal Sdhool and College graduates not familiar with the commercial texts require from three to four terms for preparation in subject matter and methods. An estimate of the probable time required in given cases can be furnished on information supplied through correspondence.
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Wide-awake principals and teachers are quick to recognize the superiority of our publications, and the tact that these books "make good" is proved by their continued use in the leading com- mercial schools.
We have "the" books on the important sub- jects of spelling, correspondence and English for use in business schools and commercial depart- ments of other institutions.
Our Practical Shorthand pre.sents an Ideal sys- tem in an ideal way.
The sale of the New Practical Typewriting (pub- lished last season) is unprecedented. It needs only to be seen to be appreciated.
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The new Commercial Law (just out) makes enthusiastic students. The book is up-to-date, com- prehensive and well arranged for classroom use.
New Practical Arithmetic covers ail the sub- jects, presented in such a way as to fix the meth- ods firmly in the student's mind.
Practical Bookkeeping and Twentieth Century Business Practice develop competent and thinking accountants, at the greatest possible saving of the teacher's time. The text book is published in three editions, to meet the needs of various schools, and the Business Practice is in five Parts, each entirely independent of the others.
The Everybody's Dictionary is the most accurate, complete and popular pocket dictionary on the market. We furnish it by the hundred, and in many cases by the thousand, to prominent schools in all parts of the country. A copy should be in every pupil's outfit.
Write us at once in regard to your needs. In- terested teachers will be given an opportunity to examine these popular books without cost. We pay the freight. I.lustrated catalogue free.
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Special attention is called this month to Exercise i in Plate 2. Its importance may be understood when it is known that it is repeated oftener in finished designs than any other. The student should learn to grasp this exercise in sets of strokes, and to better enable him to do so, I have divided it into three sets of strokes designated as A, B, C, made m the order indicated by small figures. Now, if the student will thoroughly master this exercise -and the various styles of finish as shown in sets 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, he will be the possessor of the key to highly finished off-hand flourishing.
Plate i.
Before practising an exercise, study it carefully. Note the repetition of stroke, the symmetry and harmony of ar- rangement. Have you ever taken time to define beauty? What makes the exercise beautiful? We hear this word, pos- sibly, more frequently than any other adjective when an attempt is made to describe any object or piece of work that is pleasing. In a subsequent lesson, I am going to talk about beauty, and show how it applies to the art of Flourishing, and why Flourishing appeals to everyone.
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