reading. Subscribe for the shorthand magazine of your system and provide yourself with all the shorthand literature of the system. Practice it and read it until it becomes part of your being. You will thus lay the solid foundation without which success cannot be attained.
MASTER EACH LESSON.
We found by years of experience in teaching that many pupils are anxious to study lessons ahead.. They imagine they know a lesson when the principles seem clear to them, forgetting that there is a wide difference between theory and practice. It is a mistake to start a new lesson until the preceding one is mastered. Omit nothing and do not confuse your knowledge by perfunctory study of what is too advanced for you. Learn each principle in each lesson thoroughly and let your teacher be judge of whether you are ready for new lessons. Each principle is a stone on which will rest the structure of your shorthand knowledge, and if a stone is lacking in the foundation the structure cannot stand firmly.
DON'T SACRIFICE LEGIBILITY FOR SPEED.
Those who know little or nothing about shorthand frequently ask the stenographer, "How fast do you write?" and the shorthand writer may carelessly reply, "Oh! about 150 to 200 words per
