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rs — = | uM i 245, FRIDAY, JULY. 11, 1919 Be a Better Stenographer| .. And Earn Bigger Pay HOW TO SPEED UP YOUR SHORTHAND, _ . INSURE ACCURACY, INCREASE EFFICIENCY Ninth of a serice of twelve articles written espectatty for stenop’ rapher readers of The Buening World by Herman J. Stich, worlds champion high speed shorthand writer and international authority on ., the subject, Mr. Stich, who is a court reporter, te the first shorthand ‘eriter to attain a speed of 300 words a minute, twenty words more than - the best previous record. ~ By Herman J, Stich ‘ The Witness and the Trial. “ HEN a witness mounts the stand he fs sworn to “tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God.” The Court Reporter writes the name of the witness in big, bold ebaracters, in longhand, straight across the page. This enables him to find’ §) the testimony of any particular witness readily, should be have occasion to turn back. y Do not write the language of the oath in shorthand. witness's name, and next to it in shorthand write “sworn.” In the transcript it will appear much more imposingly as “JOHN | SMITH, being called as a witness on behalf of the defendant (or plaintiff or people), after having been duly sworn, was examined and testified as fol- Jows;” The average witness in court is easy enough to take down. Although (the speed is sometimes very high, it may be said as a general rule that when you can write around two hundred words a minute on testimony, and if you cap keep your head and hold your nerve, you can handle the average case. It ts not speed that will give you trouble so much as illiterates—for- eigners or recently arrived immigrants or broken-English speaking res!- dents. Even though none of the bystanders can make out what the witness is saying, the Court Reporter is expected to, and usually does, make a record. When you get into a court position or if you take testimony in your office you will run up against wit- nesses who talk too fast. Gtop them and make them behave. This may be.a rather embarrassing proceeding, when the ‘witness is a clear speaker, | Was accepted and sworn. but stop bim and get a good record.| Before a witness is put on the stand “Stopping a witness may not often | P)aintiff's counsel opens the proceed- be necessary, but when it is try to|ing by telling the jury what he ex- do it gracefully. Stop him to-maka| pects to prove, This is not taken by him repeat a number, Make him/|the court reporter unless defendant's spell out a name. Have him re-| counsel objects to any of the remarks peat some location. If you are be-|in the opening of plaintiff's counsel. hind and some unusual or technical] At the end of plaintiff's opening, term is mentioned, even if you are| plaintiff's witnesses take the stand. familiar with it, stop the witness and en all the prosecution has testi- get it more exactly, These are all| fied, the defense usually moves to tricks of the trade and you shonld| dismiss the case. If the motion is make opportunities to get onto them. | denied, defendant's counsel opens for You will probably be compelled to| the defendant. pane them if you run up against “ex-/ You need not take the defendant's pert”. or” medical testimomy. Keep| opening unless requested by counsel PyoaF nerve. of to do ‘so. ‘ se ‘Atter™the opening of the defense, Fi Tae tase 1" clerk defendant's witnesses testify. At “without a fury. , the close of their complete testi- Wire’ a case is to be tried before mony the prosecution may offer a jury, the jury is chosen by counsel. |S0mi¢ more testimony in ‘rebuttal ta ‘Thedefense may offer nore wit Betorp a juror th Secepted Ne 18) iucsem in gur_rew asked certdin stereotyped questions. entre tea then’ rest. “ Some of the prospective jurors, OF! \arer talesmen as they are called, are re- ote een “BANS: Fenian tele low the arguments of cotinsel, the Jected. Before being rejected they) prosecution opening and the defense are challenged. ; answering. At the close of the ar- There are peremptory challenges| guments of counsel, which, by the and challenges for cause. In the per-| way, you need not take, the Judgs amptory challenge counsel gives no| delivers his charge to the jury. reason for his rejection of the tales- The Judge's charge is usually a men, Inthe challenge for cause|/summing up of the evidence in the counsel must state his reasons, The/| case, together with a brief statement ‘oourt then rules. and explanation of the Inws of evi- Plaintiff's counsel and defendant's | dence. counsel are allowed a certain number| After he has taken the change, the of peremptory challenges, They may | 4Uties of the court reporter for that challenge for cause as often as they | Particular case Is practically ended. wish, When the, jury has rendered its You will notice that the court re- verdict a motion for a new triai is porter does not take the examination | UU4IlY made by the defeated party. of the talesmen. However, he keupd If the motion is dented b; S siding Justice the cate an ae track of the peremptory challenges. As soon as a talesman is chaflenged for cause, he begins to take notes. ‘When the complete jury has been em- panelled the court reporter makes his notes read to the effect that the jury quently be taken to a higher court. TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM By Herman J. Stich Copyright, 1919, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York ..vening World.) e ge » : Criticism Points the Way. 'O man is do rich or so able“ methods, that epyrred and guided that he can afford to flout the efforts of Napier and Bald- correction, National or win @nd Burroughs, the tuber- individual progress ‘is a matter cular bank clerk, culminating in of assimilation and elimination the mcdern adding machine that ~dasimilation of what is fit— adds several sums simultaneous- elimination of what has proved ly, that converts inches into feet unfit, Nobody can monopolize 4nd pounds into bushels and that ‘brain power. Our critics are our is @ veritable arithmetical acro- Dest friends. Fiattery and suc- bat. cess seldom teach us anything. “What @ dust I have raised!” The first adding machine was says the fly upon the panel a the human hand. Cavemen could moment before it lies prostrate, gount to. five. They brought stricken by the lash of the ex- into requisition their toes—én- terminator. Spain in her day abling them to count to twenty, was the world’s leader in culture It took aeons of time to pro- and accomplishment. The weeds gress to the method of South of arrogance and conceit were Airican tribes where three mem- permitted to take root anc bers sit facing @ fourth who does flourish and Spain became a the counting. Hach of the three dunghill, bold up their hands for the fourth man to count. The firet man's fingers represent units; the second man’s fingers repre- sent tens and the third’s han- dreds. By this means they count up to 999. It was a far When Edison first went inte the electricity business he stilled and. conquered adverse criticism by supplying current free to customers for approximately five months. Long before the pro- bationary period was over his ery to the Babylonian pebble- product had justified itself, board, the Chinese abacus or the | Edison always profited from Japanese Sorboran. But it was criticism. CRITICISM, rabid censure of The chap who can't stand (@nd disatistaction with existing nooks sha’p't. command boosts, | MRS Just write | i 4. ee ee FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1919 Is Girl He Left Behind Him Forgotten by the Doughboy — For the French Mam’selle? n Thousand American Soldiers Have Found B in’ Land, of Love and War—French Wife Stops Trying to Please Her Husband, Bx, Mile. Caubet. q By Zoe Beckley Ree Coprright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Os, (The New Yors Breniag World) ) ATEST despatches from Paris state that American . ntarrying French girls at rate that threatens to deplete the stoel of mamzelles by fifteen thousand or so, More than 10,000 marriages have taken place already, with no sight. : At the weekly pictorials of the movies we see o always a petite and sweetly smiling bride, happy in hen satins and orange flowers. Always a proud and stab wart bridegroom, grinning confidently above his tunic, And we are frightened. We ask: American Soldier losing his perfect ideal _ ~ amerfcan Girl? Or is be so homesick for her “ZOBECREET’ grasps in gratitude the firnt kind fominine meets his own? Are American styles in wives to be seriously ri the fascinating French importation, even as our styles in frocks linery? Why? Why? And why?" Answers awarm about us in an ever-rising tide, English Super-Siven’s Career As Sensational as Her Suicide Mrs. Thomas Atherton Left Trail of the Enchantress That Stretched to India and South Africa and Brought Protest From the Late King Edward MGOEZ a AROE— gourmand. “French girls know the subtle arts of pleasing men,” says a husband who, being happily wedded to an American woman, stands as living refutation of his claim. “It's Just the novelty,” explains our former navy officer. “French girls’ methods of charming are eo frank. A fellow finds it amusing to be run after instead of doing the running out ways of being indispensable. cooks with art, She keeps her well, She is economical, with the business when i sary. She takes care of f i it is himself.” 7 him, she “These international marriages,” |*?0ws that to make a mam need Der — grunts the pessimist, “are mistakes, |'9 twenty different ways is the only | When they come to settle down Sha v ba that man, they'll find their viewpoints are to-| ) » Mf you qxeuee me, I will ly different,” Just say that I don’t always see in Le : America that the wife she try The returned war correspondent } comes quietly in, puffing his pipe and blowing thoughtful rings: “I’m not so sure,” he argues. ; “There's something mighty comfort- able about the middie Class French- man's home. T was billeted in one for months, and {t was a revelation to me the hundred ways that French wife found to make her husband com~ fortable. ' “Oh, comfort!" we snap. “The American man can make himself comfortable enough without a wife. American invention does it for bim. American middle class life ‘airly seothes with comfort, It's a com- panion the American man wants. Is a French girl more companionable than an American one?” The war correspondent remains si lently thoughful a moment, then comes back with this cryptic remark: “Well, there's this about it. A French wife doesn't stop tryin And, plead as we might, the war correspondent will elucidate no fur- ther, It takes the searchlight of a real Frenchwoman's knowledge to |l- lumine his meaning. She is Suzanne Caubet, very slim and chic and young, but with the Imbdorn philosophy which makes the daughter of France a merry comrade at eighteen and mistress of an admir ing salon of notables at eighty. Mile, Caubet, moreover, is @ god- child of Mme, Sarah Bernhardt, hi lived with her in her Paris home for years, and learned from that supreme artiste not only the craft of the stage but muéh of the art of life, Made- molselle (she is only nineteen) is to appear soon as a member of the new Theatre Parisien, which is to begin a season of typical French entertain- ment at what is now the Belmont in October. “1 will tell you,” obliges Mile, Caubet in musical English with a trill of French to trim it here and there, “what that war correspondent mean by French girl not stop try- ing, once she marry, “The French girl knows that to marry is easy, but to be good wife is | 17,the. hard. It is easy to catch the -man.| “France is older than A ; 34 hard to please her bi can soldiers marry 10,000 French As a new toy interests a child #0 is the curiosity of the American whetted by the thought of marriage to @ pretty girl of a new nation. ; “Again, | know that your in France were fidelity of the and to their do not always understand of my country. - You quiet, home women, preciate the passion of French girl feels toward bi her children and her man. You can- || not judge of tt by the artificial life of | | the cities, ; . 4 “Besides this deep quality of the French girls are highly mental, emotional and temperamental. — I am not surprived that so many _ American soldiers marry the girls of my country, \f am surprised that so The marriages wii be happy, because adaptability is one of our gifts. We let the man 4 and we know bow to follow.” 4 I asked Mile. Caubet if she : : rf f E E i BFE ‘ Uma \ Mrs ARTHUR ELIOT time, Mrs, Atherton, exemplifying the truth of the old saw, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” made & personally conducted raid one night en the conjugal apartment of Yarde- Buller, then brought suit against him for $100,000 for breach of promise and succeeded in having read in court— of course before an eager society au- dience—his ecstatic love letters to “Girlie Angel” and “Darling Love.” During the case the interesting point was raised that a man's promise to marry 4 married woman is void as an immoral contract. But Mrs, Ath- erton won the suit and then m: | of his wife's running start as super- | siren he intervened and the young Duke and she went back to England on separate boats, That,is, they started out separately, but Mrs. Ath- erton stopped off at Madeira, waited till Westminster came along, and cannily extracted from him @ prom- ise to make her a Duchess as soon as she had disposed of her husband. It didn't work out that way, how- eyer, for the shrewd mother of Sheila Cornwallis-West played a King in the game. At her request Edward VI, had,a long and earnest conver- sation with the impetuous ducal lover. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall HE brought to her feet England's richest Duke, even though he was engaged to a beautiful girl years younger than herself. While her husband was at the front she captivated the son and heir of Lord Churston, and after her divorce sued him for breach of promise to marry, winning the sult, Although divorced for the gravest cause, in two years her righteously aggrieved husband was pleading with her to re-marry him, Her career as a siren in South Africa roused Lord Roberts to wrath; in India her record as a heart- breaker rivalled that of Kipling’s famous Mrs, Hauks- bee; and the late King Edward VIL personally iater- fered to nullify the success of one of her intrigues, When nearly fifty she married a socially prominent | He had asked his fiancee for his re- Leadonsl, years her junior. lease from their engagement, but Hiseeyantf refused to claim @nancial ig she Be atten! i i Meitehend? Tell Sn couse ‘And the end of it all was a double-barreled shotgun she herself placed | she followed the advice of her moth-|@amages, saying that she had only ? ' against. her cheek, the explosion ending forever the beauty and the life of | er and the King and refused to give wanted “vindication.” London called “ Mrs, Arthur Eliot, better known as Mrs. Thomas Atherton, super-siren of | him up. Meanwhile, Col. Atherton |!t “revenge Rep _banesy.”, She, moles later ae: THE COPYRIGHT, ACT. z Jern Engieh society sued for divorce, naming the Duke as| TWO years later she again appearea | serted that Capt. Stirling won bis) The first act providing for the copes modern Eng! ved Hiab ta co-respondent, Again the King inter-|!" court, having been named as co-| suit against her daughter because/right of books and other publi Her death writes “finis” to a career with material in it for half a dozen novels. Of recent years London has known at least three great enchantresses. There was Lily Langtry, the Jersey respondent by Mrs, John Alexander | the Scottsh judge was “literally fas- Stirling, whose husband was suing|cinated into his decision by Mrs. her for divorce on the ground of miis- | Atherton.” conduct with Lord Northland, Capt,| She won another suit—and dainages and Mrs, @tirling had been living, in-|of one farthing—a few years later cidentally, in what has been called | against her own brother, Sir Aubrey tions in the United States waa 129 years ago. The term of right was then fixed at fourteen || years, with the privilege of ‘a for fourteen years longer, In 283] _ the period was extended to twenty- vened, the sult was withdrawn and, after a postponement, Miss Corn- wallis-West became the bride of the youth described as “the most unwill- ing bridegroom ever seen in London.” One thing on which he insisted was lowed their husbands to South Africa during the Boer war and, it is said, evoked from Kitchener the cynical comment, “Pwo pests follow armies—~ flies and women.” Lily. There was Mrs, Sisnene Keres vary eon Sie Me es the settloment of 4 quarter of a mill-|the “hoodoo house of domestic hap- | Paul, and bia wife, whom she charged /elght years and providing for ® And there waa Me se tidwerd Jonn| der River Camp. His wife remained |! dollars on the “other woman” to | piness,” Amberly Cottage, at Toplow, | with scandal because Lady Paul hud) newal for fourteen years, For third daughter Md Mi por ae ng | ise Cape Town, where she promptly | W20™ he had given his heart and /1t was owned by Mrs. Atherton, who|said that Mra, Atherton had been|a hundred years after the passing | Dean-Paul, onjoweiwn of storfous| became the Lorolel of the Duke otj Simost his strawberry leaves, ved there when she was divorced by | turned out of a Cairo hotel because|the frst copyright law the pry black eyes and a crown of florious) Vinifister, who had just reached} Whereupon Mra, Atherton took ship| her husband and when she brought | of her behavior. was extended only to citizens of red-brown hair, and touched in her was rolling in wealth |f" India and new conquests. There|guit against Yarde-Buller. Before| Im the meantime, two years atter| United States, In England his majority, cradle with the magic wand wielded b and had left England engaged Circe, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra she entangled Capt. the Hon. John Col. Atherton by| injustice was practised upon’ by Circe, , Cleopa divorcing her, that the cottage had figured a oie chance went down from London io and | Reginald Lopes Yarde-Buller of the cans, although the British Go . ‘al women for | devoted—to Miss Shella Cornwallis- divorce suit of the Earl and Count and the other lovely, fatal women for | Som |Seots Guards—now Baron Churston, M ountess |‘ "garden party in the same oom-|ment did permit foreigners to m men have forgotten convention, | West, | Russell, In Mrs, Stirling's charges | ® whe ¥ * . |The long-suffering Col. Atherton wag ‘ ed Amber! partment with his forwer wife, Hej out a copyright, provided thet honor and patriotism, Doesn't it recall one of Kipling’s| ay 5 thi 1 whe mention ¥ Cottage as| Perrptly proposed to hor for the sec-|was frst published in England It in interesting to note that Mrs.| “Plain Tales,” transferred trom In-|*!!owed to name this gentleman 48 | the gcene of misconduct between her| Ona time, the gossips ‘and it j#|the author was at the time Atherton's real'career as a disturber| dia to Africa, but with the dramatis pag cog ore was given bis free- | husband and their fair landlady. a fact that for, youre, Me has boon (emia, , ve d ” re ae = oe, be: |dom by the English courts, . loyal an evo! jena, e “ of man’s peace did not begin tll after personae intact-the subtle, beautiful, Tivdadalieh” Wy thle’ Mies, ae During the suit Mrs. Stirling's} ber . ye ‘was pernape the only|copventions now exiat betwest thirty, She was married in 1892 to| mature and unscrupulous married| ¥! * ' | mother, an American woman, Mrs, ae. error of her career of von-{all nations, The first Cap! woman, the boyish young peer “out |Complicated the triangle by trans- maried'in Engiand was rit: from home,” the “nice girl” lett be-|ferring bis attentions to a charming | hind in London—and hopelessly be-|actress, Miss Denise Orme. He quiet- hind in love's race? lly married her, That was the last When Col. Atherton was, informed ‘quiet event in bis life for some Little! gallant Col, Thomas Atherton, but it was not until she wns thirty-four, and at the zenith of her beauty and magnetism, that she joined the group of, smart Koglishwomen who fol-, C, H. Taylor, was charged with as-| qu when wat spring red | aand wes papead Mrs. Atl 4 Capt. Arthur 5 rs her|ing protection for fourteen salt by Mra: Atherton who told in| funior, Apparently he was the first |for the author's life if thea iy Pelee Se + Taylor had] tian she failed to hold, since he was|In 1814 the English law waa broken into her flat and attempted’ fiving apart from her at the time of! by extending the period to ' &, choke her, threatening to “spoil her mysterious suicide. [eight years,