than ever for the employment of good typewriter operators. A few years ago the machine was used only for correspondence, but the economy effected in this branch of mercantile life pointed out other ways of economizing time. Hence a demand for typewriters, or an attachment to the typewriter, which could be used for making out invoices, statements and all kinds of tabulated work. Tabulation was, previous to the advent of the tabulator, always regarded as the most difficult line of typewriting. The introduction of this attachment to the typewriter has reduced tabulated work to the simplicity of ordinary correspondence and at the same time has opened up a still wider field for the machine and the operator. By an ingenious arrangement the machine can be made to stop at any point desired upon the scale, and columns of figures can be written with an ease and speed unknown a few years ago.
The tabulator can be attached to any of the standard makes of machines, and the learning of its use should become a part of the school duties of the pupil. The operator of today will not find himself fully equipped unless he is perfectly familiar with the tabulator. He is likely to meet with it in any business house in which he may be employed.
There are several modifications of the tabulator on the different makes of machines, and all do good work under proper manipulation, and the pupil who has learned how to operate one kind can readily
