January, 1918 
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The Paragon Alphabet 
Six Prefix Abbreviations 
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One General Rule for Contractions 
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Take the ordinary longhand letter Elim¬ 
inate everything but the long downstroke and there 
will remain / This is the Paragon symbol for 
D. It is always written downward. 
From the longhand letter rub out every¬ 
thing except the upper part—.the circle—and you 
will, have the Paragon E o 
Write this circle at the beginning of / and 
you will have Ed ? 
By letting the circle remain open it will be a hook, 
and this hook stands for A. Thus / will be 
Ad. Add another A at the end thus J and you 
will have a girl’s name, Ada. 
From eliminate the initial and final .strokes 
and O will remain which is the Paragon symbol 
for. O. 
For the longhand S??ts which Is made of 7 
strokes, you use this one horizontal stroke w 
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Npw continue the E across the M, so as to add 
D—thus -f and you will have Med. 'How add 
the large circle O and you will have ' </ 
(medo), which is meadow, with the silent A and 
W omitted. 
You now have 5 of the characters. There 
are only 26 in all. Then you memorize 26 
simple word-signs, 6 prefix abbreviations and 
one rule of contractions. That is all. 
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