New-York tribune., 1912-05-26
Linguistic knowledge Can Be
Put to Use in Many
Profitable Ways.
BY Mary Marshall.
CHAPTER XVII.

| Not the least of the talents which a
| clever Young woman may turn to account
| IN choosing her vocation is the gift OF
| tongues.
There is steady demand for women who
speak Spanish, French, German and other
languages to I'LL places as interpreters
t-achers Of languages, translators' stehos-
raphers and office workers Of all sorts
So. II your daughter has the good fortune
TO know foreign language-t because
OF foreign parentage she has been proush'
I'D TO be familiar with two languages Oh
through residence and travel III foreieh
countries has gained this familiarity, or has
enough Of a gift for tongues TO nave mas
tered thoroughly one Cf the languages
| taught her in the schoolroom-Stop ana
ponder II II is not right along the lines
of EMPLOYING her knowledge OF languages
that her best opportunity for aSreedoie
occupation lies.
OF course, the ability to turn IAN
euage to account goes good deal deeper
than the mere ability TO make other peo-
ule understand YOU. There are, tor III
| stance thousands, OF second generation
women Of German descent in many or
the large cities Of our country who speak
the language Of their parents native coun-
trv with as much fuency in the circle OF
th-r own family as :hey speak Engllsh
| outside, but who would neVertlcless DE
! quite unable to turn this accomplishment
10 account in making living 'ne youhs
woman who is going TO make her ability 10
use a foreign language pay must reai'y
| understand the spoken and written IAN
! guage-its grammar, spelling and construc-
! ton
NOWADAYS. although almost every httle
girl who goes - school has smattering
Of some language besides English. the real
ability to speak foreign Languages IS all
too rare Even our young college grad
ua,cs seldom have really mastered any or
the many languages they get Whit at IN
| college so the young woman "ho do'S
possess the gift OF one or more languages
besides English Is IN possession OF some
thins which she may turn 10 prohtanle
account wherever her lot may b cast. As
a society woman coming in contact with
! DISTINGUISHED foreigners. as a teacheE'
| s.cYogra~rcr. hospital nurse or sales
woman. the fact that she is nguist VIII
add greatly 70 her neral usefulness.
The occuyatior ina which she will ned
tho most thorough krowi.lso u lau-
culco - traus.atng. Translating Is. for
carvcuIcnce' sake. divided into two kinds.
: the first beiu= "literI~v trauS'-lng and
/ IT,, eron5 qo-cdlled "oonn.-oi3l trans
I lating"
II you ha,a ever noticed tho names II
the transia;,.s Of the a~louS foreign BOOKS
which, to make up tor your own linguistic
| limitations. you. no doubt do not read In
the original you have probably noticed that
great many Of the translations are made
by women. Books in Russian. French,
! German. Italian Danish and Norwegian
have ll been successfully translated by
women women whose parentage or oppor-
tuuity OF travel and study have made them
equally at home I'm English and the ian-
guago from which they were translat'ng.
such translators not only have To command
! the fluent use Of the languages in which
they do their work. but they have 10 pos
sess the ability 10 express themselves cX-
pcrtly with the pen. literary translator
should. before she undertakes to DO any
serious translating. have gained all he
practice possible In writing English.
Many OF the large publishing houses keep
I'm touch with women who are able 10 10
expert translatng. and many have resu-
lar trtusla;ors on their STATS The paw
mart for literary transla'inS varies great
IT, \ traus!lto~ who receives regular
salary draws something Ike S2j or $50
week A. a usual thing, however, literary
trarsla:ors are paid by the amount OF work
they DO. and in such cases the industrious
woman could make about 50 a week trans
/ lat.ng.
In many Of the literary research bureaus
I'm the large cities young women who an
dtrstand one or more foreign languages
are employed in preference to those who 90
not. For such work a knowledge suiil-
cient TO make translation with the cid