Adventure, December 3, 1920 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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ADVENTURE Dec. 3rd, 1920 ADVENTURE “The proudest moment of our lives had come!” “Tt was our own home! on her lips. I knew what she was thinking. “Five years before we had started bravely out together. that two cannot live as cheaply as one. envelope was a weekly reminder of my lack of training. In a year Betty came—three mouths to feed now. Mean- while living costs were soaring. Only my salary and I were standing still. “Then one night Mary came tome. ‘Jim,’ she said, ‘Why don’t you go to school again—right here at home? You can put in an hour or two after supper each night while I sew. Learn to do some one thing. 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 workI wasin. It was surprising how rapidly the mysteries of our business became clear to me—took on anew fascination, Ina Httle while an open- ing came. I was ready for itand was promoted—with an increase. Then I was advanced again. There was money enough to even lay alittle aside. Soit went. ° ‘“‘And now the fondest dream of all hascometrue. We havea real home of our own with the little comforts and luxuries Mary had always longed for, a little place, as she says, that ‘Betty can be proud to grow up in,’ ’ “IT look back now in pity at those first blind stumbling years. Each evening after supper the doors of opportunity 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 and country all over America there are men with happy families and prosperous homes because they let the Inter- national 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 29 years have ad- vanced themselves through spare time study with the I. C, §. Over one hundred thousand right now are turning their evenings to profit. Hundreds are starting every day. You, too, can have the position you wantin 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, youcan! No matter what your age, your occupa- tion, or your means—you can do it! All we ask is the chance to proveit. That’s fair, isn’t it? Then mark and mail this coupon. There’s no obligation and not a penny of ag But it may be the most important step you ever took in your life, City. There were two glistening tears in Mary’s eyes, yet a smile was . The first month had taught us the old, old lesson I had left school in the grades to go to work and my all too thin pay Published twice a month by The Ridgway Company at Spring and Macdougal Sts., New York Yearly subscription $4.00 in advance; single copy 25 cents. matter Oct. 1, 1910, at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879, : CONMUC INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS BOX 2039-B,SCRANTON, PA. Explain, without obligating me, how I can qualify for the posk- tion, or in the subject, before which I mark X. EKLEOTRIOAL ENGINEER Electric Lighting and Railways Electric Wiring Telegraph Engineer Telephone Work MEOHANIOAL KNGINBER Mechanical Draftsman Machine Shop Practice Toolmaker Gas Engine Operating OLIVIL ENGINEER Surveying and Mapping MINK FOREMAN OR ENGINEER STATIONARY ENGINEER Marine Engineer Ship Draftsman ARCHITECT Contractor and Builder Architectural Draftsman Concrete Builder Structural Engineer PLUMBING AND HEATING Sheet Metal Worker [| SALESMANSHIP | }ADVERTISING || Window Trimmer | |Show Card Writer | |Sign Painter | | Railroad Trainman LJILLUSTRATING | | Cartooning | (BUSINESS MANAGEMENT? Private Secretary | |} BOOKKEEPER |] Stenographer and Typist | |}Cert. Public Accountant |} TRAFFIC MANAGER | |Railway Accountant | |} Commercial Law |_]}GOOD ENGLISH || Teacher ||] Common School Subjects _JCIVIL SERVICE | |}Railway Mail Clerk | | AUTOMOBILE OPRRATING dato Repairing Textile Overseer or Supt. | Navigation Spanish CHEMIST |} AGRIOULTURE Freneh Mathematics (J Poultry Raising 8(_) Italisa Name Present Occupatio Street and No. City State Canadians may send this coupon to 7-25-19 Iitternattonal Correspondence Schools, Montreal, Castada Volume 27 Entered as second-class Number 5 NOOKS «EO }