Adventure Magazine Cover — page 5: what you’re looking at

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abeof ee | ‘‘We sat before the fireplace, Mary and I, with Betty perched on the arm of the big chair. | ome! There were two glistening tears in Mary’s eyes, I knew what she was thinking. | | It was our first evening in our own yet a smile was on her lips. “Five years before we had started bravely out together. | I had left school in the grades to go to work and my all too thin pay “The proudest moment of : our lives had come 999 The first month had taught us the old, old lesson envelope was a weekly reminder of my lack of training. In a year Betty came—three mouths to feed now. Meanwhile living costs were soaring. You can putin an hour or twoafter supper each night while Isew. Learn to do some onething. You’ll make good—I know you will.’ “Well, we talked it over and that very night I wrote to Scranton. A few days later I had taken up a course in the work I wasin. It was surprising how rapidly the mysteries of our business became clear to me—took on | that two cannot live as cheaply as one. a new fascination. In alittle while an opening came. I was ready for it and was promoted—with an increase. Then I was advanced again. There was money enough to even lay a little aside. Soit went. : **And now the fondest dream of all has cometrue. We have a real home of our own with the little comforts and luxuries Mary had always longed for, a litile place, as she says, that ‘Betty can be proud to grow up in.’ “T look back now in pity at those first blind stumbling years. Each evening after supper the doors of oppor- tunity had swung wide and I had passed them by. How grateful I am that Mary helped me to see that night the golden hours that lay within.” In city, town ani country all over America there are men with happy families and prosperous homes because they let the International Correspondence Schools come to them in the hours after supper and prepare them for bigger work at better pay. More than two million men and women in the last 28 years have advanced themselves through spare time study with the I. C. S. Over one hundred thousand right now are turning their evenings to profit. Hundreds are starting every day. You, too, can have the position you want in the work you like best. You can have a salary that will give your family the kind of a home, the comforts, the little luxuries that you would like them to have. Yes, you can! No matter what your age, your occupation, or your means—you can do it! All we ask is the chance to proveit. That’s fair, isn’tit? Then mark and mail this coupon. There’s no obligation and not a peony ofcost. Butit may be the most important step you ever took in your life. Only my salary and I were standing still. “Then one night Mary cameto me. ‘Jim,’ she said, ‘Why don’t you go to school again—right here at home? | | a om ——at a ee TEAR OUT HERE Se eee ee eee eee ee ; INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS BOX 2023-B, SCRANTON, PA. Explain, without obligating me, how I can qualify for the posi- tion, or in the subject, before which I mark X. KLEOCTRIOAL ENGINEER SALESMANSBIP Electric Lighting and Railways ADVERTISING Electric Wiring [|] Window Trimmer Telegraph Engineer [ |Show Card Writer Telephone Work {_)Sign Painter MEOUANIOAL RNGINEER Railroad Trainman Mechanical Draftsman ‘ ILLUSTRATING Machine Shop Practice Cartooning BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Private Secretary BOOKKEEPER Stenographer and Typist Cert. Public Accountant TRAFFIC MANAGER Railway Accountant Commercial Law GOOD ENGLISH Teacher Common School Subjects CIVIL SERVICE Railway Mail Clerk i }|AUTOMORILE OPERATING | jAuto Repairing ' ] Navigation IS Spanish MINE FOREMAN OR ENGINEER i STATIONARY. ENGINEER Marine Engineer Ship Draftsman ARCHITECT Contractor and Builder Architectural Drafteman Concrete Builder Structural Engineer PLUMBING AND REATING [})Sheet Metal Worker chien Overseer or Supt. [| } Tooimaker Gas Engine Operating CIVIL ENGINEFR Surveying and Mapping CHEMIST Mathematics [J AQGRIOCULTURE French (J Poultry Raising Tialian Name Present Occupation Street and No. |S Bae Re OTE, TE. | Ee 7-25-19 Canadians may send thix comnon to ; : - International Correspondence School, Montreal, Canada | | | | | | | | | |. | Kindly mention Adventure in writing to advertisers or visiting your desler. Eomichoo (ef)