New-York tribune., 1908-08-02

bIoo6.d p,r,ed voune men and women, and keeps
doing it-sat upon and crushed this young siri
dearest hopes Study medicine7 Never!
brothers were officers in the German army ana
German social conventionalities must be oosei'ou'
though they stranged all that was best ano oi'eh'
est In the lives OF a hundred thousand girls
The young woman endured embroidery, kanee-
klatsches and gossip long as she couio' 'ie III
desperation her hack upon 1t all ana neo u
America. Here. thrown back on herself for her
bread she did whatever offered at first Then'
hearing that stenography and typewriting anoroed
a sure living she Immediately set herself TO learn
to become receiver OF dictatton and correspohu-
ent the English language.
Miss Yolanda Kiar, a Hungarian girl einpioyeu l."
a New York importing house. takes dictation'
keeps books and writes letters in four languages
English French, German and in her own na''e
tongue. At present she is studying spanish anu
rapidly making herself proficient in It, because He
believes there is a future of bright promise for the
girl in business who speak and write the iAh
guage of the Spanish-American countries
Miss Klar was educated at the college for girls
In Budapest taking the business course instead
of requiring three months, as IN our IaIo' 'ne
Budapest business lasts three years. anu in
cudes besides stenography and typeWritns' Hnatiio
mates, bookkeeping, composition and rlooerh iah
guages Miss Yoanda wanted to see the world
She chose America as the best place to attain her
aim and she was not disappointed. She learned
American business methods and famiarzeo her
self with the English. By the time she hao earneo
enough money to take her back home she had
learned to like America so well that she has decided
to return to it after a trip TO the old country to
see her parents. She admres especially the inde-
pendence OF American girls ana thelf a0iitS u
take care of themselves
An exception In the line of linguistic attatnInents
is Jeanne Ferenczy also a Hungarian. Miss Fe-
renew Ia able to do what so few American girls or
women can do speak six different tonBues-her
own and English, French, German, Spanish ana
Italian She Is this summer touring as n1emoef
of a. company OF French concert singers
conspicuous example Of proficiency IN IAN
guages is Miss Martha U. Overland. lawyer no"
in this city formerly of Minnesota Martha over
land is q Norwegian. She spoke all three OF the
Scandinavian Tongues to begin with and to these she
has added French, German, Spanish. and or COURSE
English She was educated IN Norway, and came
to America Immediately after leaving SCHOOL She
was aspiring, abounding in energy, and longed Tor
the opportunity awaiting American girls. she "en'
to Minnesota and took what now seems TO oe
realy the quickest road to success for a business
woman-a course in stenography and bookkeeping
She obtaineed employment readily. then at 1t she
went learning in her leisure time. She had always
been attracted to the law. Her father at home had
q library of law books, and she read them instead
of novels. In America soon as she found time
to turn around she began to study for the legal
profession, at the time earning her living as
a stenographer. It may interest other girls with
aspirations to learn that she began studying la"
through correspondence school
Miss Overland for number of years man
aging clerk IN a law office She has written and
compiled q legal reference book.
Finally, the official translator in the United
States Pension Office at Washington is a woman
Nine Won Address, German. Many documents
that come the Pension Office are written In for