1873. Even on the side of its application to human needs, it is hard to

forecast the future progress of a machine, the use of which is already so nearly universal. We know, however, that this fact does not impose any limits on future development. Even if the reign of the typewriter today were complete and absolute, and the pen had become as obsolete as the stylus, there would still be new worlds for the writing machine to conquer. The need which first called the typewriter into being, the problem of clerical time and labor saving, is always with us; it changes its form, but never its essence. The enormous time-saving the machine has already achieved is only the promise of more time-saving, and when every writing task has been annexed by the typewriter, it will be more than ever its mission to perform these tasks with ever increasing efficiency, increasing accuracy, and increasing speed. Only in one phase do the new developments of the present give a clear indication of what the future has in store. The rapid growth in the personal and home use of the typewriter, following the advent of the portable machines, is revealing to many thousands a quality of the machine, long known but never before aggressively exploited, namely, its incomparable value as an educational implement. We do not mean commercial education, for in this field the typewriter established its reign many years ago. We mean the education of the child in reading, writing, spelling, and, as he grows older, in all the fundamentals of language composition. There are two reasons for this value. One is the delight of the child in the machine itself, the use of which provides a vehicle for his creative instinct. The other is the perfection of form in the typed words and sentences, which present attainable standards to the child from the very outset of his efforts. The extraordinary results obtained by the typewriter in this field are attested by educators and by parents without number, and the progress of such recent "wonder children" as Winifred Stoner and Willmore Kendall is directly attributed to their early and continuous use of the writing machine. It is interesting to know that, among the founders of the business, that man of vision, William O. Wyckoff, foresaw these results, and his letters to Earle, written in the late seventies, to which we have already referred, urge strongly the sale of machines in the home for educational use. Wyckoff was fifty years ahead of his time, and it has remained for the portable machine of our day to spread this great message. It may be a long time yet before the use of the typewriter is established in the elementary schools, as an educational implement as necessary as charts and blackboards, but in the home this service has already begun and will be extended with every passing year.