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Show i epect. 'A poor girl connitted suicide in this city day before yesterday because she had no work and no means, but she had upon her a certificate that she was a first-class nurse girl.' Now, it would seem as though she would have preferred taking the place of a nurse girl rather than taking carbolic acid. The indications are that she was brought up with some , wrong ideas of life, and, the one idea more wrong than any other with the poor girl was that there is an easier way of getting a living than by work. ; Any healthy girl in this city that is competent com-petent to So housework can get good wages every day in the year, and there are quite a thousand within this city's limits who ought to reflect on that and when they have not the meansto live without ir, to gravely determine that they will do honorable work of some kind, at moderate wages, if necessary, until they can get to do something better. . TEACHERS' SALARIES. ) Very often in the papers are seen advertise snents of miners asking for ' correspondence with joung ladies, matrimony being in view. Wc have found a source from which, it seems to us, these . miners could draw with profit. t ; It seems that only four out of forty-eight of the i principal cities of this country pay as much salary to their school teachers as are the earnings of street ! and sewer laborers working fifty, weeks in the year, ond in the rural districts the reward of the teacher is something fearful to contemplate. For instance, . in Orneville, Me., the teachers are paid f 118 for the eighteen weeks' session; in Peru, Me., 138 for the twenty-eight weeks' session, or at the rate of 4.93 .lr week. ; In Frontier county, Neb., f 75 is paid for ; twelve weeks; in Elkhorn, Or., f 90 for twelve weeks. , Jn the cities the average school salaries in elemen-: elemen-: tury schools run from 464 per annum in cities of eight or ten thousand people up to as high as 967 in cities of over a million., i Now, if a miner wants a wife, it would be easy to write to one of these 4.93 per week young ladies. That, would be cheaper than to set up an independent independ-ent establishment and hire a cook. At the same lime, whether cooking is in the young lady's curriculum curricu-lum or not we do not know. Young men when they get out of college not infrequently find that before they, can make a living they have .got to unlearn what they were stuffed with for four years. Th-i came result might follow in picking up one of these unknown schoolmarms, but that could be avoided through the correspondence by having a pie sent by mail with a certificate that it was made on the square, or a loaf of bread might be sent by slow freight with the same certificate. ' r . We do not wish to raise unreasonable hopes in the minds of the young men who are searching for wives, but certainly the opportunity seems, to be ood. The whole question goes to that other question ques-tion of supply and" demand. - Schoolmarms are plenty in New England, miners are plenty in the West, and our. belief is that with proper induce-menV. induce-menV. i very great many of ' those New England fcrhoohnarm's would contract to see Europe if thev ever could, but to see America first." , ' . : The world is a good deal out of joint in this re " J ' . " ' , . ' |