The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25

Omaha, Ncb., Sept 19-Editor
News; I've unrollcd At business col
lcge here at Omaha and the furst
thing they lcarnd me was how to spell
business
Sadie had a cattlcog of this here
school where I'm at and | desided
when | was up to her place after I'd
Civ up my job with those hunters to
get sum more dedication. Sadie sed
a man cudent hope to achieve much
nowadays, or marry a culchured lady
unless he's dedicated and nos how to
spell rite and cud rite letters that
dident look ridiculous.
Sadie wanted to cum to business
college too but her Pap wudent let
her. He sed he alreddy had to pay
fifty dollars school deestrict tackscs
(Pap's got a lot Of land) and wasent
going to have her gadding off to
Omaha and tacksng him fifty more
for her tooition. And then like as not,
after she'd went to all that truble and
expence a lerning how to play type
whacker she'd go and marry sum
Omaha dood with a swaller-tale col.
lar and creeses in his pants and never
get to use her business traneing at
all: and ii wud end up with Pap hav-
ing to sell one of his quarter sections
OF good Rock Co. land to set his SON
in.law up in business Jerking a soda
fountain or sum luther fool thing.
Pap wudent lissen to 1t a minnit.
Sadie told me that all her Pap and
Nam thot about was making hay and
milking cows. She sed she'd had to
help milk ever since she was nee HE
to a grass-hopper and she was getting
so tired of 1t she just wisht every old
COW on the place wud go off and eat
hole stack of hay and dry up and
bust ! sed them was my sentimence
too.
So Sadie and me made agreement
that she'd stay to home this winter
and help me thru college If I needed
| it. (She sold a heffur caf a while ago
and she's going to give me the monO
and when | get graduated I'll get a
Job and then if Pap wont let Sadie go
she'll run away and I'll help her thru
business college.
don't believe I'll need much help
myself for I had enuf to pay fore
munths tooition and by new suit
with. and got job rite away wash
ing dishes for my bord over to STUFF
| fem & Hikes restaurant. and next
week there's a Teller going away and
Pm going to get his place carrying
papers for the Wurld Herald. That'H
only take about too ours every after
noon and Saturday forenoon for COL
lections and it'll pay me at leest three
dollars besides being such good eek.
sercise for a seedentry occupashun.
Then if can save up enuf money to
get bisikel can get job delivering
packages Saturday afternoons for
big department store; so the way
things look at this riteing Sadie wont
need to send me emmy of her caf
money.
The Teller I room with COS to the
same business college as do. He bot
a life scholarship and sed was a fool
for not doing the same He sed that was
all kidding in the cattleOg about learn
ing short hand and typewriting in three
munths. He sed he'd been here seven
munths alreddy and cudent rite fast
enuf yet to keep his toes warm on a
hot air register. He sed that all those
chaps they referd to in the cattleog
as holding good jobs after taking a
too or three munthS course had stud
died sumwhere else before they came
here, but they dident say sumthing
about it SOS to make new stewdents
believe they cud Tern to be cracker
jacks in three munths
| sed if I'd a knowd all that | wud
a stopt at the Norfolk business col
lege insted of coming here for know
sum fellers that have lernd to be
stem ographers in five or six munths
there, and I like the feed up to Nor
folk bettern what they dish us up at
Stuffem & Hikes, specially since I've
workt in the kitchen and seen 'em
cook. The cattleog sed that a Teller
cud lern faster in Omaha becaws it
was bigger town and had more op-
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