fine his practice to one or the other of these keyboards exclusively and become proficient on it. He can subsequently, if business demands, readily adapt his knowledge to another keyboard. It will entail only a few hours' practice.
MEMORIZE THE KEYBOARD.
It is necessary that the location of each key upon the machine should be memorized. On the same principle that to write shorthand rapidly one must know the principles so well that the writing becomes automatic, the pupil should know the keyboard so well that he can operate the typewriter automatically. In fact, the location of each key should be photographed, as it were, upon the brain, so that when a letter is to be written, the mind will instinctively impel the finger to drop upon the key required. Experienced operators naturally obtain this facility of operation in a degree after years of practice. They become expert by continuous repetition of words and sentences. It has been found that a thorough knowledge of the keyboard is indispensable to correct writing. Those who have memorized the keyboard in this way and practiced certain fingering, have attained a degree of proficiency in operating that could never have been equaled by those who used the old method. There are various methods of memorizing the keyboard—learning one row at a time, covering up certain keys
