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Show Wk notice that among the tcaohers passed by the board of examination thore are several married women. We believe, and the board of education will soon find out from experience, that this is a mistake. There are physiological reasons why married women should not ask, and certainly not bo allowed, to teaoh in the public schools. They are not permitted to do so in the best schools of tho country, like those for example of Boston. In Cincinnati the board is now thinking of dropping them from the position. Indeed, with very few rare aud worthy exceptions, the gov-. gov-. ernment of the United States refuses married women to hold clerkships in tho departments in Washington. As a goneral thing, too, while the first duty of school teachers should be to their schools tho first duty of married .women is to their families. For both reasons they should bo .excused. |