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Show Marriage Is tho Cause. All over the land there Is a dearth of schoolmistresses. Even in tho East, whero women are superabundant and the schoolma'am was always noted for her staying qualities, there Js now a cry for more teachers. School agencies say that never before were so few well-tralncd well-tralncd women Instructors obtainable. All give marriage as tho cause. Time was when the schoolmistress was a drug on the matrimonial market. A woman put off as far as possible the evil day of entering tho schoolroom, knowing that It meant for her a lonely life with no hope of marriage. "Old maid schoolteacher" was the offensive phrase which labeled her social status. All that is now changed and the school mistress is having things her own way. Her college education, her vacation trips abroad, her leadership In clubs, have made her a most delightful companion, com-panion, fitted for any social station. She has free scope for the development of her talents and Is using her opportunities opportu-nities to advantage. Men have been quick to see the change a,nd have learned that now the (schoolmistress Is the most companionable companion-able and efficient of women. She Is skilled In household arts and In klnder-gartenlng klnder-gartenlng as well as In the ancient and modern languages. She understands how to keep the homo sanitary and how to make the purse serve the best Interests Inter-ests of the entire family. What wonder, won-der, then, that Boards of Education and School Superintendents are at their wits' end to secure teachers willing to sign a contract containing an anti-mar-rlage clause covering a specified period. They will soon have to be thankful If they can get them on any terms which the women themselves are pleased to make, for just now the way to tho schoolhousc seems to be on the direct road to matrimony. Chicago Chronicle. |