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They exploit him for bullion. The women get the ha'pence, the kicks are all his own. The girls take every gift as a matter of course, and yet they develop greatly when a catastrophe arrives and the man of many millions goes up or goes down, and his daughters take to stenography or typewriting. I have heard many tales of heroism from the lips of girls who counted the principals among their friends.
It's been worse this last month because you've been nervous, dear. I understand now. You see, I didn't dream of you and Louis Latz. We'll forget we'll take a little two room apartment of our own, darling, and get your mind on housekeeping and I'll take up stenography or social ser " "What good am I anyway? No good. In my own way. In my child's way.
Stenography, she had thought vaguely, would be the first round of the ladder. Until this production opened and she began drawing a salary, she couldn't really begin doing the thing she had set out to do. Consequently, anything that seemed like progress during her day's work for Galbraith any glow of triumph she came away with after meeting and conquering some difficulty must be pure illusion.
This free, compulsory and universal education is assumed to be scrupulously secular and hedged about with every safeguard against the insidious encroachments of religion; it will aim to give a little training in most of the sciences, and much in the practical necessities of business life, as for example, stenography, book-keeping, advertising and business science; it will cover a broad field of manual training leading to "graduate courses" in special technical schools; the "laboratory method" and "field practice" will be increasingly developed and applied; Latin, Greek, logic and ancient history will be minimized or done away with altogether, and modern languages, applied psychology and contemporary history will be correspondingly emphasized.
Beginning life as an office boy at three dollars a week, he educated himself by attending school at night, learned stenography and typewriting, and has become one of the most expert law stenographers in Wall Street. I believe that, without being a lawyer, he knows almost as much law as I do. Gradually I have raised his wages until he is now getting fifty dollars a week.
"But if you had a knowledge of stenography, and the short cuts it " But the Italian interrupted him brusquely. "I know nothing of such things," said he, "and what is more I don't want to know anything of them." Then in a sharp, angry tone, he added: "What do you want of me? I am not acquainted with you. Why am I annoyed like this? Is it always to be so first one and then another?"
"I don't say nothing how her mother treats Vetsburg, her oldest boarder, and for what he pays for that second floor front and no lunches she can afford to cater a little; but that such a girl shouldn't be made to take up a little stenography or help with the housework!" "S-ay, when that girl even turns a hand, pale like a ghost her mother gets."
Girls and women, married or unmarried, are there offered the advantages of thorough instruction in writing and stenography, commercial reckoning and correspondence, book-keeping, knowledge of goods, commerce, banking affairs, and money matters in general. Lessons in French, English, and German, in Grammar, Geography, Correspondence, and Conversation, are also given.
"That's what my little girl can do for mama, better as stenography. Set herself down well. That's why, since we got on the subject, baby, I I hold off signing up the new lease, with every day Shulif fussing so. Maybe, baby, I well, just maybe eh, baby?"
And a sense of the old relationship was there deep and tender sense of it; but something had gone from it, or been added to it. It was not the all in all. Truth was, Ann was more at home with her than she was with Ann. After luncheon they went up to Katie's room for a little chat. Katie talked about stenography and soon came to be conscious of that being a vapid thing to be talking about.
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