Paul and the Printing Press

ersation of the previous chapter. "I am having more and more copy to prepare for Mr. Carter all the time, and am doing every bit of it b

d advise you to get would be one of the small, light-weight machines

much woul

r sixty

e a low

ughed. "But where am I to get the

o you. Doesn't your business manag

of him to cover my incidental expenses. No, the paper isn't fitting up office

useful," returned his father slowly.

ed down th

ne," he said suddenly. "I could put my

ou co

ty-five dollars' wo

dea you had been so thrifty.

o could get his book filled first. I'm afraid it was not all t

d start toward a typewriter. You might possibly run across a second-hand machine that had not been much used and so get i

t would be grand. I'll pick

r my ten dollars, though, until

ight; only don't

ll give me the chance to forget even if I

the rest of my cash as fast as I can," responde

s of one or two good mak

nk one of the small machines yo

considerable extent. Those who write for publication find a typewriter practically imperative. Editors will not fuss to decipher hand-penned copy. The time it takes and the strain on the eyes are too great. A professional writer must now turn in his manuscript neatly typed an

ht out the typewrit

factory; there also was an American patent taken out by William A. Burt as early as 1829. Fire, however, destroyed this paper and we have no positive data concerning it. Since then there have been over t

uld sa

Either variety is good. It is a matter of preference. Possibly the type-bar kind is the more common. There is, too, a difference in the manner of inking the type. One machine inks the letters from an inked ribbon that is drawn along by the action of the machine between the type face and the paper; the type of the other machine is inked from an ink pad that

Paul. "Now tell me one other thing: are the lette

n the ke

at is what I mea

for several characters. It is, however, desirable that machines should differ as little in arrangement as possible, as typists lear

dreadfully," answered Paul. "Of c

stem, or by feeling. You have often seen a person play the piano in the same fashion. It is a great advantage for a stenographer to be able to do this, for he can keep his eyes on his copy and not constantly change his eye-f

pproaching the end of a line, even if th

cise

, isn't it-a typewrit

meron

one?" went on Paul mischievously. "Think of

cord with our generation much more harmoniously than do painfully penned manuscripts. In our day the problem is to turn out the most work in the shortest time, and the typewriter

"I have been trying to get my nerve together to ask Mr.

pared with one of the big city dailies. You should visit the press rooms of a really large paper if you want to see something worth seeing. The Boston Post, for example, has the largest s

Scott

emendous,

ke to s

replied. "In the meantime I fancy you will have all you can do to earn

ow am I going to get together the rest of that m

e away a month or so; in the meantime I have got to hire another man to do the chores about the place. The lawn must be cut; the

the work Satur

n't hurt yo

ought a

-o

s, the football and baseball," said his father. "Mayb

, it

to make a try at

s,

shall expect you to stick to the bargain. I can't

n't do

ard, either," continued Mr. Cameron.

s,

e to give y

s,

the whole job-the b

the whole thing since I am o

his father. "I don't believe the exercise will hurt you, and at the end of it you will

d to make up the rest of my fifty dollars?" inq

u, too, all the work you will want for one while," answered Mr. Cameron. "Unless I am grea

g your bargain and are trying to scare me off, Dad, it is

and good luck to you