Show TEACHING FOREIGN BORN TO SPEAK AMERICAN W HE making good means mak ing money try teaching foreigners to speak the english language ambitious foreign born men anxious to make good in business foreign horn born mothers whose children are growing away anay from them with the adoption of a new tongue foreigners who cant speak i word of english and foreigners who merely want to improve their speech all these will be your prospective pupils so says a girl who after graduation from college spent n aly a year wondering what on earth she could do since she want tr fri teach in tile the public schools in her home town the fact that there Is a targe large element ot of foreign born people in here gave me my idea she told me and ive made a good income ever since I 1 started on my own to give these people private lessons in english since every small town Is a part of the in melting elting pot which Is america no matter where a girt girl lives she Is almost sure to find a good number of the foreign born who flock yearly to our shores here are her pupils As for desks chairs chalk blackboards and other customary schoolroom accessories she needs none ot of these to be school maam in this kind of school the lessons are all private ones and may be given at the pupils own home the would be teacher should alvertise advertise tor for her pupils in the local papers to those who answer the advertisement slie she may say that the charge for each two hour lesson Is three dollars and that two a week will probably be satisfactory of course she may vary the price to meet the local situation she should supply herself with good text hooks books and should keep her advertisement running if slie she obtains eventually more pupils than she can manage she may then wa branch out and hire other teachers to assist her however bl big her buil business ness grows she should never give group lessons instead of private ones tor for it Is tle the element of privacy that will make her venture a success the foreigner who lifts has been backward in learning his english does not want to display his big ignorance ignorant ce before a class lie ile wants prorate lessons even it if the teacher should organize a class and persuade him to join lie he will in most cases soon drop out nit there are very few towns where tile the foreign elcel element nt in the population Is negligible and the girl who does happen to live in such a town should go into something pise else put dut for the girl whose main street has its foreign sections the risk Is small the possibilities great |