Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-16
why OVER THE WASH TUB?
In the Kitchen or Pedaling Sewing Machines
for $500 a week-That's what many,
Of Our Girls are doing.
When They Ought to be Corning From $500 to
$4,000 a Week-The Demand for Efficient STEM
ographe,s and Accountants Always Exceeds
the Simply.

When They Ought to be corning From $500 to
$4,000 a Week-The Demand for Efficient STEM
ographets and Accountants Always Exceeds
the Supply.
Right here in Viroqua there are cores
of bright and intelligent girls and young
ladies bending oyeT the wash tub,
breaking down their health kicking
sewing machines or eaking out an exist
ence over kitchen stove, earning from
81. so to s.. so per week, when the busin-
ess world is paying from So. 90 TO $50. 90
per week. for other girls who are in no
way their superiors. There is but one
obstacle confronting the bright and in
telligent girl in the kitchen that pre-
vents her making the transit to a busin-
ess office at once, and that Is her lack of
a practical education. Many of our
girls who are graduates from the public
high schools are today earning an honest
living in the kitchen, in the sewing
room, in the laundry. behind store coun-
tiers and in manufacturing institutions
at from 81. SO to s. 90 or So. 90 per week,
that might be earning from 49, o to $50.
90 per week.
There is a rapidly increasing demand
for frst-class lady stenographers and
typewriters and lady accountants. Be
yond that there is a certainty of en-
ployment as the demand is always in
excess of the supply. A limited expend-
iture of money necessary to obtain a
practical knowledge of accountants.
shorthand and typewriting makes the
field a most desirable one for young la
dies to enter.
Any young lady of ordinary intelli-
gence and sufficient education to be ad-
mitted to our high schools. can. in five
or six months, acquire sufficient knowl-
edge of shorthand, typewriting and cor
respondence. to command a salary OF
from IS. 90 to $1,000 per week. After
three months Office work, ifshe Is neat,
accurate and Industrious, she will re-
ceive an increase of from $1.00 to $500
per week, and at the end of her first
year it is safe to say that her increased
speed and business experience will ena-
be her to earn from $5e.G0 to $500 per
month. Expert lady stenographers and
those familiar with legal work are paid
much larger salaries; but the purpose OF
this article is to show only what can be
accomplished by the amenuensis compe-
tent to do satisfactory Office and COM
mercial work.
Opportunity for securing a practical
business education, M that fits young
women for just the kind of work that is
expected of them, offer in Wisconsin
that are unequaled in any other state in
the Union. The four great Toland
training schools, the Wisconsin Business
University, at La Crosse, The To
land Business University at Monroe,
| the Toland Business University at Wau-
sau, the Toland Business University at
Eau Claire, and the Toland Business
University at Winona, Mimi, all owned
by and under tine personal direction of
f. j. Toland, are institutions of known
reputation that fit their graduates for
actual business. These schools annua-
lily fit hundreds of young women to OBJ
tain and retain lucrative positions.
There are hundreds of their graduates
all over the United States that are today
earning from $40 90 to 800. 90 per month
that owe their success to the business
sraining received in these schools. They
tell it and give their photographs and
places of employment in a catalogue
which will be sent free upon application
to J. F. Toland of La Crosse.