country but all over the world. These phenomenal writers, who could use the machine without looking at the keys, were able to write at the marvelous speed of over one hundred fifty words in one minute on "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party," and, what is still more marvelous, they did not have more than three or four errors in each line! But they were regarded as freaks—people who had special ability or genius, who had acquired by extraordinary concentration the ability to do the unusual—just like the armless freaks in the side show who write with a pen between their toes. There were a few teachers—Mr. Bates Torrey in Boston, Mr. Griffin in this city, and Mr. Van Sant in Omaha—who maintained that it was possible to teach typewriting by touch in the regular school work without any appreciable lengthening of the course. Teachers of shorthand and
