when you get into business take the same care of your desk or table. Keep your machine clean. Don't think that the first duty of a stenographer is to be "an ornament" to the office. Dress neatly, but not conspicuously. Employers like to see their employes neatly dressed and presentable, but not gaudily attired. Look "smart" and be smart.
PHRASING.
The suggestion to the student that he should begin to phrase, or join common words from the start. is a strong feature of Gregg Shorthand. Some methods reserve this until the student is advanced in the study, but it is found to be difficult to acquire at that stage. The student, however, must guard against a waste of time in striving to think out phrases for himself. "There is nothing," writes Mr. David Wolfe Brown, "more unprofitable, and nothing more likely to make a slow writer than the premature study of phrasing rules, and the premature attempt to apply them in impromptu phrase-construction." The best way is to memorize a number of constantly recurring, useful phrases, those only which join easily and readily. Use them whenever possible, but without making a special effort, or tax upon the memory to do so. They will come naturally after a little practice. Don't lose time in trying to make outlines which carry the hand uncomfortably above or below the line of writing. Let
