to trouble him a little at first. There will be the reading of the shorthand notes with the simultaneous transcription of them upon the machine. To get the best results, it will be necessary for you to glance through a sentence before beginning to put it on the machine, in order that you may properly punctuate it. If you do not use the touch method, just before you write on the machine the last three or four words that you have in your mind, glance at your note-book, still keeping the machine running take up another sentence and write that. By this plan you will save time, and gradually as you train yourself you will find that you can remember more and more and will be able to write longer stretches without glancing at the keys, until at length you can carry three or four lines of shorthand matter in your mind, and keep the carriage of your machine traveling without a moment's cessation. Herein lies the real utility of the touch method—the ability to keep the machine constantly moving.
CLEANING THE TYPEWRITER.
Pupils often try to avoid cleaning their machines. It generally soils the hands, and some people are as much afraid of a little oily dirt on their fingers as they are of soap and water, and vice versa. For this reason many pupils shirk cleaning their machines and look upon this feature of their work as not only dirty and disagreeable, but entirely unnecessary.
