If you preserve your magazines, important articles may be indexed by month and

year. An entire volume on a subject may be indicated like the imaginary book by

"Forbes." If you clip the articles, it is better to index them according to the

envelope system.

 

Your own writings and notes may be filed in envelopes with the clippings or in a

separate series.

 

Another good indexing system combines the library index with the "scrap," or

clipping, system by making the outside of the envelope serve the same purpose as

the card for the indexing of books, magazines, clippings and manuscripts, the

latter two classes of material being enclosed in the envelopes that index them,

and all filed alphabetically.

 

When your cards accumulate so as to make ready reference difficult under a

single alphabet, you may subdivide each letter by subordinate guide cards marked

by the vowels, A, E, I, O, U. Thus, "Antiquities" would be filed under _i_ in A,

because A begins the word, and the second letter, _n_, comes after the vowel _i_

in the alphabet, but before _o_. In the same manner, "Beecher" would be filed

under _e_ in B; and "Hydrogen" would come under _u_ in H.

 

_Outlining the Address_

 

No one can advise you how to prepare the notes for an address. Some speakers get