Show from the adny ot ifo rember 7 JEALOUSY amona THE WOMEN of public schools of new york claiming to represent all the brebt called on mayor grant a few days ago to protest against the appointment of any more women on the board of commissioner in their to ahe mayor they set forth that in the three years during which mrs agnew has heij a position in the board she has not offered a single resolution ww dodge who has during lie same lengh of time lias been heard from but twice and bolli times on questions of salary the further alleged eliat these ladies had participated in training a system of examination against which 2000 female teachers tea chera solemnly protested in tha opinion ol 01 the lady pedagogies gies mrs agnew and misa dodge were tar from upright or fair minded they were too willing to condemn a sister teacher without a hearing and to accredit her with all aorta of evil without evidence and in cafe of actual guilt were uncharitable and prone to harshness altogether unbecoming to their aey another still deeper grievance was that the chivalry of the male commissioners stood in the way of just and deserved criticism of the female commissioners and gallantry was responsible for many serious evils for which alie only eflee ive remedy waa the retirement of women from the board there is a bidden feature in this little that is not BO very flattering to the prospects of comans womans euf frage it would be highly to call it incompetency and yet this ia tha meat of the testimony of the fair complainants herein quoted we rather think that at the heart ot the problem there is a flaw not BO much ot as of something else we hardly dare to name which reacts even a deeper evil upon tho cause ot aspiring fam ini nily this evil germ this root canker that is blasting the political roae bush of tha dear women we fear is no lees a trouble than that retrogression gres sion of the heart that gangrene of the soul that mildewed mil dewed concomitant of feeble natures which transforms some men into fools and many women into simpletons simple tons its name sorgho our simples bech is jealousy mark the appalling spectacle ot two thousand dispensers ot knowl ede who of all womankind are or should ba the most self poised and philosophical reading the r grecian bobs and exhausting any armant of valuable energy the wear and tear of ill temper at the thought of two of the more fortunate of their sex receiving gallantries gallan tries unattainable to themselves what a bitter sarcasm upon the rights of woman would ba the inevitable fate of a female by a tribunal of representatives of her eez for partaking of the gallantries gallan tries of her loving male constituency the omens of passing events attest that the eanest place for the aspirants to political glory for the present at leist is at jericho till their beard is grown |