STENOGRAPHY AND TYPEWRITING. 799 
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attorney and witness, the brawls of political caucuses, the vehement utter- 
ances of the debater, and the excited arguments of counsel, bring into full 
play acuteness of hearing, sense of harmony, and knowledge of language. 
This being true, the progressive student soon sees the necessity of thorough 
‘raining of the mind in order to become a proficient writer and the recip- 
ent of well-deserved fees. 
Typewriting may require less of intellectual capacity ; yet it requires a 
quickness of perception and deep penetration which are not necessary to 
she shorthand writer, though of value to him. This is illustrated by the 
endeavor of a man, with muffled utterance and little or no knowledge of 
she English language, to dictate his business correspondence. If the 
operator be thoroughly competent, it will be his duty and natural desire to 
grasp the full meaning, and his sense of hearing will be put to the utmost 
tension. In addition to the difficulty of understanding the words will be 
placing together in proper sentences, accurately punctuated, his ideas; 
and this must be done quickly, for such a dictator would become irritated 
by what might seem to him unnecessary delay. 
[f I take the other view of the meaning of this topic—that I am to 
reat the subject as a distinet branch of business—the subject is still fur- 
‘her broadened. 
The field for a fully equipped amanuensis is almost unlimited. There 
8 scarcely a branch of business into which he may not go. And the time 
8 not far distant when stenographers will become as much specialists as 
physicians and surgeons now do. When that time arrives one student will 
qualify as an amanuensis in the real estate business, another in the grocery 
business, another in the hardware business, another for law offices, and 
others still for insurance and other offices. Even now reporters are 
secoming specialists ; for we have reporters of debates, of medical confer- 
nces, of legal trials, and even of funeral services. 
Why I say that amanuenses will qualify for these distinct lines of busi- 
ness is that now the business man is confronted, when he desires to employ 
an amanuensis, with the knowledge that it will take weeks, and maybe 
months, before the new assistant will become so thoroughly versed in his 
business as to perform his functions without delay or error. General con- 
ventions, local conventions, meetings of associations, etc., are becoming 
so numerous that they afford constant employment for many reporters. 
The reporter has been schooled in the idea of doing all kinds of work, but 
she fact that he may obtain a good clientage in any special line of work 
necessarily creates in him a desire to settle into that single line of 
reporting. 
If it be true, then, that these studies are to lead into a necessity for these 
lifferences in training, it is safe also to predict that the department of com- 
mercial colleges usually termed Department of Shorthand and Typewriting, 
which is now considered subsidiary, will rise into such prominence as to