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Show Slurried Women Teachers, The question concerning the advif ability abil-ity of married women being employed as teachers in the public schools has excited widespread interest and discussion in Cincinnati, not only among members of the board of education, teachers, patrons and pupils of the schools, but every married mar-ried man and married woman is engaged as partisans in the contest to decide the supremacy of the single over the married mar-ried woman's eligibility to service. Ihe board of education has finally declared by a vote of 13 to 11 not to employ married mar-ried women as teachers hereafter. The agitation was precipitated by a resolution offered by one of the members of the board to the effect that the appointments ap-pointments of all married women teachers teach-ers should be reconsidered and their places filled by Bingle women. In support sup-port of his resolution the member advanced ad-vanced the single but suggestive argument argu-ment that there are 800 unmarriod girl graduates in the city who are unable to obtain situations as teachers. He also stated very emphatically that he was in favor of a "solid four ply rule that will keep married women out of the schools, for they have no business there while there is sufficient talent without them." New York Sun, |