outlined in your manual, because invariability of fingering is absolutely essential to correct work. Always strike the space bar quickly with the side of the right thumb. Endeavor to cultivate as light a touch as is consistent with a clear, sharp impression of the type. Keep your elbows fairly close to your sides, your wrists well up and clear of the machine. Let the hands drop easily from the wrist, and train your fingers to strike the keys with an impetus from the hand. Practice is the only thing that will make you perfect, so practice all you can on the machine. Get a uniform touch; look at your work, and if one character is light and another heavy, your touch is uneven, and must be corrected. Strive for uniformity in this respect.
ACCURACY BEFORE SPEED.
Don't hurry in your typewriting at first. Accuracy is the great desideratum in typewriting, as in shorthand: It sometimes takes longer to properly correct a trifling error in a typewritten letter than to rewrite the whole letter. Of course the corrесtion of a mistake by an erasure saves the stationery, but it wastes time. Practice all the time for accuracy so that you can write page after page without an error. The majority of teachers at schools will not accept typewritten matter from pupils unless it is absolutely free from errors and erasures. This is a good plan; it enforces accuracy, carefulness and
