Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-10
SCHOOL VS.. PRISON
Difference Between Practical Business
and Fashionable Education.
INATrENTiON OF PARENTS THE CAUSE.
Society Scored for its False Views on Honest
Labor, The Schools That Actually Fit
Young Men and Women for Business,
Views, La de dab School.

LII IS the same IN WaQSdu as IN 0tne1
cities, you see it everywhere, lack OF
practical business training of young
men and women entering the struggles
of life. Parents are too indulgent, toe
lax, too Indifferent in selecting the
callingS for their children.
Too many parents are educating
their sons to a life of idlenesS, or else
/ trying to make lawyers. preachers,
doctors and clerks out of material that
is needed for carpenters. stone maSOns,
brick layers, blackSmithS, machinists
and other honest ''hewerS Of wood and
drawers of water"
1t is a mistake to teach your boys
and girls that labor is diSgraceful.
Hang social Carplngs and society man
dates that make honest labor menial
such society is rotten to the core: but
it is running this country today. 1t
teaches that to do nothing for a living
is more becoming to society than to
earn q living by the sweat Of the brow.
Some extremist said "there are more
young men learning trades inside OF
the penitentiarieS than outside OF
them" This is no doubt a peSSimiStiC
view but to the mistakes of parents,
in rearing their children and educat-
ing them properly, is due to the fact
that there are many thousands of
young men learning trades in the
| penitentiarieS of this country.
There are many young men and
women being educated today, to play
the part Of leading lady and walking
gentleman in the drama Of life, who
will light out to the poor houses or
penitentiaries, long before the curtain
| drops on the last sad act Of the play to
which they have been falsely educated
| by their too indulgent parents.
There is one walk of life, in which
| the demand for practical men and
| women always exceeds the supply, that
is practical business. Young men and
women with practical business
education are always in demand.
There are in Wisconsin. four great
| business training schools that educate
| bright boys and girls to earn three or
| four times the salary they could earn
| without that education. Any number
| Of graduates from these schools can be
| found in most any of our cities, earn
| ing from $40 to 5000 per month, who,
| but for their practical knowledge of
| business and accounts, would be
working for $25 to $50 a month, as
IdlulcIS, CdI ul1NcIS, POI uc1S dlll
Watchmen.
There are bevies of bright girls who
have graduated from these schools,
earning from IS to $50 week, who,
deprived of their business education
would be bending over sewing ma
chimes, WaShtubS or kitchen stoves at
from $1.50 to So so a week.
! The great Wisconsin Business uni
| Of I II itSr
itant institutions at Wausau, Eau
| Claire and Monroe trains annually five
| to six hundred students. All over this
broad country, in almost every state
in the Union, graduates can be found
earning wages quoted above: yet in
the very communities where these
entS sending their children to a la de
da school to get a theoretical educa-
tiOn, a spark of Greek, a sprinkle of
Latin and small particle of practical
| business, because it is fashionable.
Bah! Out with such nonsense.
We have but to refer to the record
of the Wausau school in its initial
year when competent proof of every
about the TOland schools is verified.
| WI olC al dtIld
business men of Wausau are waiting
for more. Martha AndearS and Helen
GritZmacher, stenOgraDherS at the
Curtis & Yale Co., Mrs. Knapp, stem
ographer in the United States land
office, Eddie GritZmacher, bookkeeper
in the First National bank, Albert e.
Miller, bOOkkeeper for the Geo. E.
Foster Lumber Co., Henry e. Rose,
stenographer at the Daily Record
office, Leon MOrisette in the business
department Of the d. J. Murray Mfg.
Co, Liston Dodge, boOkkeeper at the
Daily Record office, Rhode TruaX
Stenographer, and Arthus Speigelberg
boOkkeeper for the Livingston Mer-
chantile Co. at Merrill, Myrtle Kim
ball stenographer, Judge Matthews,
Louis Filter stenographer J. t.
SanbOrn, H. w. Hopkins, bOOkkeeper
for the Red Cliff Lumber Co., Red
Cliff, Wis, r. J. LaSalle, stenOgrapher
and bOolIkeeper for the First National
bank of Rhinelander and others, all
well known young men and young
women who have been benefited by an
education given them by a Toland
school and began earning their own
living Immediately following their
graduation, some of them even before
they had graduated. The TOland
| WauSau Business university opens
September 5. Send for catalogue.