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Show MAKING GOOD IN A SMALL TOWN Real Storiee About Real GirU By MRS, HARLAND H. ALLEN (Si, mat, Weetern Nwpap Union.) TEACHING FOREIGN-BORN TO SPEAK "AMERICAN" XX7HEN making good means mak- " lug money, try teaching foreigners foreign-ers to speak the English language. Ambitious foreign born men, anxious anxi-ous to make good in business; foreign horn mothers, whose children are growing away from them with the adoption of a new tongue; foreigners who can't speak word of English and foreigners who merely want to improve their speech all these will be your prospective pupils.- V So says a girl who, after graduation gradua-tion from college, spent n rly a year wondering "what on earth" she could do, since she didn't want to teach to the public schools, in her home town. "The fact that there is a large element ele-ment of foreign bora people In here gave me my Idea,' she told me. "And I've made a good Income ever since I started 'on my own' to give these people private lessons In English." Since every small town Is a part of the "melting pot" which Is America, Amer-ica, no matter where a 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 black-boards and other customary schoolroom school-room accessories, she needs none of these to be "school ma'am" in this kind of school. The lessons are all private ones, and may be given at the pupil's own home. The would-be teacher should advertise adver-tise for her pupils In the local papers. To those who answer the advertisement, advertise-ment, she may say that the charge for each two-hour lesson Is three dollars, dol-lars, and that two a week will probably prob-ably be satisfactory. Of course, she may vary the price to meet the local situation. She should supply herself with good text books, and should keep her advertisement running. If she obtains, ob-tains, eventually, more pupils than she can mannge, she may then branch out and hire other teachers to Assist her. However big her business grows, she should never give group lessons Instead of private ones, for It la the element of privnej that will make her venture a success. The foreigner who has been backward In learning bis English does not want to display his Ignorance before a class. He wants private lessons. . Even If the teacher should organize a class and persuade hlra to Join, he will, In most cases, soon drop out There sre very few towns where the foreign element In the population Is negligible and the girl who does happen to live in such a town should go Into something else. But for the girl whose "Main Street" has its foreign for-eign sections, the risk is small, the possibilities great THE "CIRCULATING STENOGRAPHER" STE-NOGRAPHER" i(j HAD always wanted a business 1 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 Joh, I have several employers Instead of one." This Ingenious "circulating steno" fitted herself for the work by means of a correspondence course. She visits vis-its the different offices on her list-there 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 smnll-town girl who cannot can-not leave home all day; who knows, or Is willing to learn, stenography, here Is an opportunity. Business men who do not have enough work to be dons 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 raid-morn-Ing and return In the mid afternoon. She can type her letters at home, get- ting them done easily before all 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 tuke his dictation over the telephone. tele-phone. In her home "office," she should keep supplies of stationery from each place of business she visits. "The way to begin la 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 mny need a little stenographic steno-graphic work done regularly; he may he able to suggest her mime to other hnslness men who would be glad of her services. She mny enlarge her flfld, as more business men hear and approve her plan, by employing other girls to work under her. She would have them report each day at her headquarters, asaicnlng them either to offices on the regular route, or to business men who may have telephoned to have a special spe-cial piece of work done. There Is a big future for the "circulating steno" with ambition. |