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Jow to Speak and Write
Masterly English
Does your English reveal your lack of education, or does it prove that you are a person
of culture and refinement? Are you handicapped in your speech and writing, or does
your command of English rise to meet every occasion and every situation? English is
the one tool you must use every day. This tells how you can improve it almost at once.
r ANY persons say, “Did
you hear from him to-
should say,
“calender” or ‘*‘calan-
dar.” Still others say “be-
een you and I” instead of
tween you and me.” It
astonishing how often
“who” is used for “whom,”
nd how frequently the
simplest words are mispro-
ounced. Few know whether
to spell certain words with
one or two ‘c’s” or “m’s” or
¥r’s,”> or with “ie” or “ei,”
only 61% efficient in the
vital points of English gram-
mar. After countless experi-
ments Mr. Cody finally in-
vented a simple method by
which you can acquire a bet-
ter command of English in
only 15 minutes a day. Now
you can stop making the mis-
takes which have been hurt-
ing you.
His Self-Correcting
Method
Mr. Cody was granted a
patent on his unique device.
Now he places it at your
disposal. You do the lesson
and when to use commas in
der to make their meaning
absolutely clear. Most per-
sons use only common words—colorless, ordi-
Your English Reveals You
~ Does your English help or hurt you? Do
you write and speak correctly or do your errors
reveal and handicap you? Every time you talk
or write you show what you are. When you
mispronounce or use the wrong word, punctu-
ate incorrectly, or use flat, ordinary words, you
dicap yourself enormously. Words are the
compelling force in business. Ideas can be ex-
ressed only in words. An unusual command
of English enables you to present ideas clearly,
forcefully, convincingly. English is a tool you
“use every day to improve your business or social
position. If it is correct it helps you. If in-
know, for people are too polite to tell you
about your mistakes. :
Stop Making Mistakes
For years Mr. Cody studied the problem of
instinctive habits of using good
. He appealed to” school superin-
tendents, and 150 of them placed classes at his
disposal for experiment. He appealed to great
corporations, and they let their employees be
sted so Mr. Cody would know how accurate
they really were. He was amazed to discover
that the average person in school or business is
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then you see just how Mr.
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You see at a glance what you failed to remem-
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Learn by Habit—Not by Rules
Mr. Cody made thousands of tests and then
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I looked up sharply. Leering
down upon us from beneath the
black sombrero was the famil-
iar, fat, sallow-faced man whom
we had met on the train from
London.
“I believe in being cheerful,”
growled Sam Oppermann, with
a hoarse throat suggesting he
had sampled freely the local
whiskey. “And so long as our
mutual friend, Martin Benson,
is still alive, well, the alibi don’t
matter.”
Jonathan Jow nodded and
settled himself with a cheroot.
“That's ~ the spirit,” he
agreed. “Martin Benson was
equally cheerful this morning at
breakfast.”
“Was he now?” scowled the
- sallow-faced man.
“Thoroughly pleased,” went
on Jonathan Jow placidly, “just
like a man who had found some-
thing.”
“Found something!’ There
was a dangerous gleam in the
dark eyes of the man before us.
“Maybe it’s the monster he’s
found.”
He smirked uneasily.
“I don’t think so,” reflected
Jonathan Jow, as though care-
fully considering the point.
“For, you see, Martin Benson
doesn’t believe in the monster.”
“No more do 1,” growled Sam
Oppermann, pulling the black
sombrero farther over his face.
“But there’s something in the
foch,” hazarded Jonathan Jow.
“Yes, there’s something,” leer-
ed the other.
“And I wouldn’t be surprised
if tonight the real hunt begins.”
Sam Oppermann stared at
that figure in the snuff-colored
suit, hiding his mahogany fea-
tures behind a blue cloud of
cheroot smoke.
“Are you sure?” he asked.
“I said I wouldn’t be surpris-
ed.”
“Then I guess I will worry
about that alibi,” Oppermann
said, and he turned away.
Jonathan Jow chmnzkled to him-
self.
“We're setting the stage, my
boy.”
I slanted an inquiring look at
him.
“Do you really think theyll
dive for the treasure tonight?”
I asked.
“I wouldn’t be surprised,” he
remarked.
With the affability of a man
on a holiday with plenty of time
to waste, he accompanied me to
the hotel where I had decided to
write a telegraphic story to the
Daily Courier.
I sat myself at a table and
was soon immersed in work. As
I wrote, the humiliation of the
morning disappeared. It was cer-
tainly going to be a first-class
sensation. Naturally, I was tak-
ing a big chance in writing on
the evidence which Jonathan
Jow had supplied. But my many
adventures with the lanky figure
with the leonine white hair had
given me confidence that his
jungle intuition was invariably
correct.
As I wrote, Jonathan Jow
was engaged in affable conversa
tion with the manager of the
hotel.
A boy entered the hotel and
handed a telegram to the man-
ager.
“Tch . . . teh!” the manager
muttered. “ ‘Reserve me room
tonight—urgent.” And I canna
make oot the signature. Mavbe
you can read the name, profes-
sor?”
Jonathan Jow took the tele-
gram. His ‘eyes narrowed. Then
he smiled.
“You ought to know the
name,” he remarked to the
manager. “It’s Norway.”
“Not David Norway, the old
laird?” asked the manager.
Jonathan Jow nodded.
“But they said he was drown-
ed in Loch Lare.”
“So they said,” remarked
Jonathan Jow, “but his body was
never found. David Norway has
wandered too much about the
world to lose himself in a rain-
storm in the Highlands. No, it’s
th- old laird, all right.”
Jonathan Jow glanced across
to me, noticed that I had heard
the conversation following upon
the mention of the name of the
old scientist, and nodded.
I took a telegram form and
scrawled an urgent message to
my news editor:
“SUGGEST YOU MAKE IN-
QUIRIES REGARDING DAVID
NORWAY, SCIENTIST, NOW
JOURNEYING TO LOCH
LARE—URGENT HAYTON.”
“That’ll settle Jill Johnson,”
I remarked grimly.
AITER DINNER at Lare castle
that evening Martin Benson
said he had to cross the loch and
go to the village on business,
taking Finch with him.
After he had gone, Jill John-
son said, “Good night, both of
you—and good hunting.”
And, with a final perky smile,
she left the room.
“You know, that girl worries
me,” I remarked.
“T don’t wonder,” smiled Jona-
than Jow. “She’s unusually
bright.”
“Do you think she meant
anything by that final remark
—‘good hunting’ ?”
Jonathan Jow
head.
“She’s one of those remark-
able young women who don’t
mean a word they say,” he
decided.
Within the next half hour
we slipped out of the castle
and down to the water’s edge.
I felt tense and excited as
Jonathan Jow led me towards
a tangle of shrubs where he
had hidden a small boat. To-
night, I felt, the mystery of
Loch Lare was to be revealed.
Instead of a monster we were
to glimpse a gang of clever
criminals at work in the heart
of the Scottish Highlands. I
had that exultation which
came whenever I was launched
upon a big story.
shook his
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TOWN QUIZ: Answers
1—Tin.
2—Abattoir.
3—Mr. Micawber.
4—OQcarina,
5—Dempsey.
6—Hollywood, Duluth, Cleve.
land, Buffalo.
T—Publishing—format; radio—
sponsor; medicine — seda-
tive; politics—filibuster.
8—(a) berth; (b) coarse; (ec)
defendant.
9— (a) correct; (b) incorrect, it
should read-—There are three
answers to that questions
(c) incorrect, it should read
f
who talk too much.
10—(a) little boys; (b) Jack and
Jill; (¢) Simple Simon.
11—Chicago.
12—New Mexico and Arizona.
13—Pottery.
14—Samuel Pepys.
15—Leonardo da Vinci,
16—Shakespeare.
17—Helen Hayes.
18—Jonah.
19—=Sherlock Holmes and Dr.
Watson; Mr. Gallagher and
Mr. Shean; Robinson Crusoe
and Friday; Dr. Servi and
Mr. Hyde,