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Show THE "CIRCULATING STE-NOGRAPHER" STE-NOGRAPHER" HAD always wanted a business i. career," said the small-town girl whose mother was too feeble to be left entirely alone, "so I decided to be what I call a 'circulating steno.' Since circumstances prevented my taking a 'regular job,' I have several employers Instead of one." This Ingenious "circulating steno" fitted herself for the work by means of a correspondence course. She vis-Its vis-Its the different offices on her list there are ten of them and takes dictation dic-tation at each place. She makes It a point to' be at each office on schedule sched-ule time, and, since her employers know she can be relied upon to do so, she Is seldom kept waiting; her promptness conserves her own time, as well as theirs. For the small-town girl who cannot can-not leave home nil day ; who knows, or Is willing to learn, stenography, here is an opportunity. Business men who do not have enough work to be done to Justify their employing a full-time stenographer will welcome a part-time part-time stenographer. If she does the housework before she starts to work each day, she will probably leave home In the mld-morn-Ing and return in the mid-afternoon. She can type her letters at home, getting get-ting them done easily before six o'clock. She can sign and mall them In the evening. Should any one of her employers discover additional letters he wants sent out the same day, she can take his dictation over the telephone. tele-phone. In her home "office," she should keep supplies of stationery from each pluce of business she visits. "The way to begin Is to begin," simply calling on and applying to those business men whose work she thinks might Justify their having some stenographic work done, but probably not full-time work. Some friend of the family may need a little stenographic steno-graphic work done regularly; he may he able to suggest her name to other business men who would be glad of her servi'-es. She mny enlarge hfr field, as more business men hear nnd approve her plan, by employing other girls to work under her. S'ie would have them report eneh day nt her hejulquarters, TssiL'nin? them either to ofhVos on the reulii r mute, or to bnslnesj men who rrr.jlhnve telephoned to have a spe-clal spe-clal piece of work done. There Is big future for the "circulating steno" with ambition. j |