The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-11-14

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Profession.

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Profession.
Within the last ten years probably
the number of young women in the
country who have undertaken to
obtain a living by stenography and
typewriting is not far from 200, 900.
This estimate is not accurate, and it
is based upon nc formal gathering Of
statistics, but it is gathered from a
rough estimate of what is going on
in all the Offices where typewriters
are sold.
There Is no kind of office work
that is cleaner Or nicer or more fit-
ting for young women to engage in,
and perhaps no work that is on the
whole better adapted to train WON.
en- to business habits and to bring
out their practical qualities of life.
1t has been a great relief to young
women who obtain such a ready
and open opportunity to employ
themselves to advantage in offices
and has made them very largely in
dependent of aid from others. The
wages which typewriters on the av-
6rage obtain is, if they are good
stenographers, about $40 to s12 a
week, and q larger sum depends
chiefly upon the efficiency of the in
dividual. If a person is very capa.
BILE, a good speller, understands
punctuation and is acquainted with
oil the details of good writing, she
is able to command much larger
wages, and if she has a knowledge
OF bookkeeping, of Office routine,
with all these other qualifications,
she can frequently command s25 a
week.
The health of these operatives is
not impaired by their work, and the
number of persons who are placed
in the course of a year in different
business offices is far larger than
any n would believe.
The question of the service which
these typewriters can render is con-
stantly receiving attention from the
public schools, and, aside from the
help which this kind of training
gives to young persons who have to
carr their own living, it is of great
Importance that they should receive
training in the use of the typewriter
and in shorthand in the public
schools. If we were to mention the
schools where the typewriter is in
use, we should have to name nearly
every important city and town in
the country. 1t is an open question
in a growing number of the public
schools whether instruction in short.
hand and in the typewriter should
not be placed on the same footing
with the instruction in English and
other studies that are at once prac.
tical and wide reaching in their
range.
The testimony of many educators
is that ''as a teacher of English com.
position the typewriter today stands
without a peer"
The future of the typewriter and
the stenographer is well assured.
They cannot be dispensed with, and
where a person is able to do good
and rapid work she is sure to be re-.
tanned at a rising salary as long as
she wishes to work. The boon which
the public school Can confer upon its
patrons through the training in
shorthand and in typewriting is suf.
fcient to justify the attention which
educators are giving to this new de-
partment in the school work. The
relief which the typewriter gives to
those who are engaged in daily work
OF writing is beyond expression-so
great that it is never likely to be
dispensed with. When one has once
learned how to dictate direct to the
typewriter, he will never go back to
the drudgery of the pen, and it is
an accomplishment which is worth
more to one who has to earn his own
living than words can express. To
thousands of brain workers the type.
writer has been a great blessing. 1t
has brought comfort, rest and peace
In its train. -Boston Herald.
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