"Then comes the broad field of the day's work. Our courses cover, I might say, every known profession or employment from A to et cetera; from Accounting to Zebra Raising. For the evening a large number of courses will be found available. Billiards, How to Become a Cue Expert; Bowling, Boxing; How to Train for the Ring; Dancing, Tango Taught in Ten Lessons—"
Mrs. Westfall began to show signs of distress, and the young man instantly changed his method of attack.
"Madam," he said suddenly, "what is your hobby? What are you most interested in?"
"Why—why missionary work, I think," she stammered.
"Ha! I have just the thing! How to Become a Missionary, Home or Foreign. This is a most illuminating course, madam. Listen to some of the chapter headings: How to Approach a Heathen, Outwitting the Cannibals, Three Methods of Destroying Idols, How to Prove to a Savage That he is Naked, Junk from Missionary Societies—What to Do With it, 101 Ways to Raise Missionary Funds, etc., etc."
"Or, we have a very fine course in Philanthropy—the Science of Giving. This course contains a lecture by Carnegie, one by Hettie Green, one by William Jennings Bryan, one by Jess Willard—no, that's another course—"
"That's interesting; very interesting, but—"
"Then perhaps I could interest this manly little fellow in something. The Inter-State Correspondence Schools make a specialty of the interests of boys, I might say. Are you interested in athletics, my lad? Baseball? Boxing? Broad-jumping? Football? Sailing? Swimming?—"
Biscuit's interest was at once apparent.