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Show Oe ee i hy Few School run LEAVE HOPE OF ALL YE WOMEN Husbands Get Ma'ams the risk of marrying a woman who ha required the habit of * bossing he would rather marry some young, submissive woman just out from under the mother wing The average man wants the ‘clinging vine type of a wife On the other hand, after a woman has served a long term in the schoolroom MARRYING BEHIND WHO ENTER HERE. HIS sign hangs over the entrance to th: teaching profession. The procession from the normal school is passing through the opened gates Now and then a young woman halts, falteringly reads the warning, and then, impelled by sheer devotion for the profession, stoops, tenderly lays Hope on the ground, and hastens on Some glance at the sign and hurry along, laughing scornfully. One or two turn back The rest rush blindly through the portals. Whether they enter deliberately, laughingly or blindly the result is the same. Only a small handful of women in comparison with the thousands who take up the blackboard chalk ever put it down to darn a husband's socks The percentage of ‘marriages among teachers rapidly decreases as their length of service increases Now ane then a large number of marriages are recorded at the beginning of the fall term These are the teachers who turned back before they had become settled in the profession During the first two or three vears of service in the schools a teacher may cherish the fading hope flower. During the fourth year the wilting process sets in, anu with the fifth year the flower dies Of course there are exceptions, but like all other exceptions these merely prove the rule Only a small percentage of the large number of women who enter the profession of teaching ever marry : 4 Acquire the acquires usually she The ‘schoolma'am' face is The ‘school I am sure the reason Yes. asked not are they is that s&s : 7« ince. ammi é£ appear schoolma men not attractive to most marry that so few teachers the necessary question. & Only a Few Statistios of service the In bear out the Get Married. claim made publi Chicago the by Miss Gogg! ar¢ there schools The great majority of this number 4,979 women teachers have served In the profession for a long term of years A few of them are married-maybe one or two in every lives of singl¢ living are rest The fifty and hundred 943 have served less Of the total number, blessedness a longer term for served have and 4,036 than five years, according to the consensus of opinion It takes five years, to dle hope matrimonial the for teachers, the among is formed, the habit of dictation they say, After five yéaws, figures The to develop begin traits the schoolma'am an opinion at them Ry glancing for themselves speak as to the number of Chicago t ichers who may be formed shows the entire length The table a chance still have of service of the teachers, regardless of where the service has Years Less 1 been of than servic one performed year 113 year 90 2 year 3 year 4 year 5 6 9 11 Habit of ‘‘ Bossing."' 71 66 years yenre 55 yea 10 "Ts it because they are wedded to their profession?' was asked of Miss Catherine Goggin a few days ag came the positive answer. "It is becs use ? ° they never have had the chance I know a number of teachers who would have married had they been given an oppor tunity. Yes, maybe I am one of them Nearly every teacher loves her profession; but, serlously speaking, I do not belleve it is devotion to their work that keeps them from marrying. After a woman has been in the schoolroom for awhile she cannot help but acquire the habit of dictating to those around her She learns to govern, not to be governed. She is in constant contact with weaker minds, with minds inferior to her own. What is the result? Her ways become fixed and set; she cannot be molded to suit any man Her individuality has become too strongly developed A man does not want to 98 .- year year 12 year 13 14 15 years yea year 16 years 7 years 18 years Not Always Matter of Opportunity. Miss Goggin is not the only Chicago school tear her who belleves the true explanation of the " bacherlor hood" of the public school teacher is that Cupid has denied her the use of his darts Miss Hannah Schiff principal of the Mulligan school, shares this view ] though she believes many of the teachers are unmarri] as a result of choice, rather than lack of opportt Of course many school teachers have made esti mable wives and splendid mothers declared Miss Sehiff "and quite a.number marry sooner or later, and fn evs case that has come under my observation the marriage has resulted happily and the husband has harbored 10 regrets It is true, however, that most of the teachers remain single, and this fact doubtless Is due largely t meager opportunities Of course there is s reely woman alive who has not had a chance to marry at some period in her life, but Tam speaking merely of opportuni tles of marrying the man they might want A school teacher ought to make an excellent wife declared District Supt Albert G. Lane A woman whe spends all of her time making the schoolroom as delight ful and attractive as the home certainly should be com petent and fitted to make the home itself happy, cheerful, attractive, and comfortable Yet it must be admitted that there is a sentiment among men against marrying school teachers I can see no excuse for its existence, but It cannot be denied that such a sentiment does exist." x One 4 Has Never Been Asked. Exacting a fromise that her name would not be set down in cold type, for the reason that she still nourished the hope that she may have a chance to marry, a teacher in one of the big west side s¢e*bols admitted yesterday that no man eved aad be hfSwite She is a comely, middle-aged woman with a sweet, sad face. The sadness in the face came from sorrowing ove the death of her mother, not from brooding over lack of opportunities An early photograph of this grayhaired woman shows her to have been a beautiful girl : one time in my life," she said, smiling, "TI expected to marr) I had a beau He called on me nearly every evening. He was an extremely nervous young fellow and whenever he had an attack of nervousness he stuttered so badly that it was impossible for him to utter a connected sentence He gave up trying, I guess I took up school teaching. and since that day I have not had a single chance to accept a man During the first five or six years of my school life I devoted myself wholly to my work. For five hours each day I was con fined to the schoolroom After school hours I attended graduate classes at a nearby university My evenings were spent in study During those five years I think I spoke to only four or five men. One of.them was the school principal. I saw him every day He was a dried up faultfinder and married Another was the janitor at my boarding house He, too, was married I met the fathers of some of my pupils, but thelr wives were all living I met a few university professors and a book seller, and they were all married or else too poor to marry, and I didn't care to give them any encouragement. as I was finding it hard enough to support myself I made a dreadful mistake, though, for since then I have learned that one of these poverty stricken professors struck silver down in Mexico while in search of relics seosssssssss HE imprint of lips upon a piece of white paper, backed up by the sworn testimony of a girl. may be worth $25,000 to Miss Daisy Graham of Salford, Eng., and may make John Edward Beardton that much poorer, besides destroying one of the most carefully laid plans ever adopted by a lover Miss Graham is suing Beardton for $25,000, alleging oreach of promise to wed. Her statement of the case to the court just before the hearing, made in a plea for a continuance. created a sensation in Salford, and it is declared to be unique in court history. Briefly, she claimed that she intended to support her testimony, and based her case mainly upon 166 love letters which she declared were written by Beardton. The morning that she started for court with those letters In her possession, intending to turn them over to her lawyer for use, she discovered to her dismay that every trace of writing on the paper had vanished, and instead of 166 love letters she possessed only 1,272 pages of blank writing paper of different kinds The only mark that she and her lawyer, Dayild Greetnor could find upon those pages was the clear imprint of a pair of lips. The lawyer pleaded for more time asking the court to grant a continuance until such time as they could learn what had caused the writing on the paper to vanish, and to experiment to see Whether or net it could be restored by the use of heat or of chemicals we & May Have Used Disappearing Ink. The discovery, or rather the charge, that Beardton had written his love letters in some ink that would vanish at the end of a certain period, leaving no mark, created a sensation It led to the charge that from the first he had intended to deceive and desert Miss Graham, and had written all his love letters with disappearing ink of some kind, which would be gone before ever it could be used in court against him In case of damage sults. Whether he ever used the same idea with other girls, or evolved it only for his love affair with Miss Graham is not known. At first the attorney for the girl believed that he had used the same method before, but the efforts of_detectives failed to reveal any such thing. Besides, one peculiar feature of the case was that, despite his apparent cold blooded planning to wreck the girls happiness, it was shown, almost beyond doubt, that for a long time the man sincerely believed himself in love with the girl, and, more astounding than that, it Is declared that he did not know the ink would disappear but had prepared a defense apparently in full expectation of having his letters produced in evidence against him Whether the girl has testified falsely regarding th« contents of the letters, and is planning a shrewd scheme to make the jury believe that there were professions of love in them which he denies writing Whether the man discovered some disappearing substance with the intention of covering up his' promises Whether some third party sold Beardton the ink the purcha not knowing its nature- "% solved These are the problems that will Imprint of Lips as Evidence. Thus far, the woman's attorney admits he has been unable to restore the writing-and he declares that, failing to do so, he will submit the case on the sworn testimony of his client as to the contents of the letters, depend upon the paper itself to prove that they came from Beardton, and base the case as to the fact that they were ove letters upon the imprint of the lips found upon the paper. Mr. Greetnor, the attorney, states that he will ask the court to order Mr. Beardton to furnish an imprint of his lips for comparison with the imprint upon the stationery, and prove by comparison that the imprints are identical. If Beardton refuses to furnish the imprint he will argue that his refusal amounts to a confession that he did send the kiss Every effort has been made to find some trace of the writing, but the attempts of chemists and of expert microscopists have ftalled Everything now seems to depend upon the kiss-unless the complainant is able to discover that Beardton bought or made some solution resembling ink that will disappear from paper leaving no trace after seven or eight months Jiss Graham and Mr. Beardton met at a county football match a little over a year ago, being introduced, and from the first they were-or seemed-attracted toward each other Although living in the same city Beardton, who is a traveling salesman for a big Manchester firm, was out of Salford much of the time, and it was during his travels that he is alleged to have written the letters, The evidence of the postman who delivered the letters to Miss Graham will be used inan attempt to identify them by the postmarks on the envelopes and the general appearance of the envelopes- which now bear no address. On FOOD SSSSSSSSSSSSS7SSS=S Ho S Ne ) ed During the summer Miss Graham was at Dover, and while there Beardton visited her several times. When she returned home to Salford In the autumn he suddenly dropped her without explanation or excuse Tne girl walted for weeks for some explanation or for some word from him, but none came Her family, indignant, determined to force ‘a suit for damages, despite the protests of the shrinking girl She made a statement to the family attorney telling him of the letters Beardton had given her, of his written proposal of marriage, his letter in which he pressed her to set the date, and of the others, gushing and full of love \ few days before the date set for the hearing of the case the solicitor requested Miss Graham to bring the letters to him that he might read and examine them. i With many tears she where they had been tied them to the lawyer's office 2 & took them from her | n pink ribbons and Former Letters Only 4 de sk carried 4 White Pa per. "ir. Greetnor untied the ribbon 20 e 7 fr nv age and pulled «a letter from its enrol a ee puzzled, frowned a bit, then took out the sete anes he Inquired of the girl hen about the letters fe within a and few minutes they sat staring at each other across a tumbled heap of blank paper Then, for the first time. Miss Grah ahe im lost St all faj aaa in her lover and wept at his heartlessness, while o oe r faced the mystery hopelessly until he diseay a aoe1e imprint of a kiss-which may be worth a s ; Smali ee fort. |