| Show WHAT IS IH TIM TilI A of ot women teachers was J In form Bonn onn Germany recently rc One f the loading speakers Dr Zimmer d the delegates by b advancing the lie that professional teaching jn e 1 I dangerous mentally to women Th hp statement caused caus d n a discussion In iii hr piece Dr Zimmer further ex cx that women teachers are nrc fr fre subject to lunacy As A quoted jn thc tho Literary Digest Dr Zimmer It If there Is an calling that th t would heln In to correspond to the natural In of ot the female mind and that t i we would have havo reason reaBon to tot t women could successfully carry 0 it II Is 18 tho the of cit a teacher Yet In experience has been such as to toI IP I 1 rl ad I tu tim time the belief that women teachers ri rr 1 particularly subject to lunacy and mental disorders dl ninth thIs thin has hasi J 1 i t to a further Investigation of ot the jj r Letters were addressed d to the of nil ati the asylums for or mental Hinders len In Germany ninth and In the Ocr in an ot of Austria and of Switz I in i anti the tho replies only confirm lut hitt t has been suspected on the basis r f individual cx experience As All example f r sit 11 report mention may rna be made if f ell where out of fo to fot tet t td i t i 23 were weri teachers and In Inh fill h Hi h Alexander Institute In In Illcay IUla where whereOf t i ut of ot CT 1 patients no fewer than 19 M t 1 teachers The Th These e two to Instances nes at III probably extreme cusen eUBe M tut lut t a n tabulated list of data duta Ud iv id shows that throughout i the world out of 01 nry r ry w M or M patients In III lunatic nay 8 M tin 1111 there then Is III ono otto teacher As ts 8 tAil II demonstrate thi thu fact that In inV iv V 1 V women there Is Its to be ht found un n c of this profession don i h Is Inevitable that the r of f mental diseases for tor women n In Is it actually four tour times limes great Ihl n It II Is III in any other walk wall of or life lIfo TM TIll fact nt 51 has hili evidently already been In InI i r I utilized by b the authorities anti the Minister ter of public Instruction for hiss hall by an In edict of the time r January announced that In time the pub 1 I 1 examination of at women applicants for forI or u Slit I profession no attention II l toe be e paid r ald to cram work but bul the h I In hall dish be based on the general iture and good Judgment of the van cnn hat dilate The Is III saId raid to attract much attention In medical m and pedagogical in if ll especially lIp lall as RA Dr Zimmer li Is knowli as all a n of ot women wom n educators It naturally reopens the question whether wh after all social octal conditions that impose impoco uj Ul ulon on the women the duty duly lut of or be bread winners are Ite not out o ot harmony harmon with nature Dr claims that the disastrous results are Il areen tun Hn en greater than Indicated by IJ the fig figi i res rr S he has obtained For Tor ho asserts aSBert that amon among the young oung ladles ladies who are preparing for the the per pcr percentage I of mental enta breakdowns breakdown U is I even greater than among those thOI who W o actually enter the tho calling It U would be Interesting to know kno what the tho facts are atu as a to American women In Inthis this limits respect Perhaps they thoy are arc stronger both Loth physically and mentally tItan than their German Gormon sinters Or perhaps the Ameri American can system of at education antI and training Is Ismore more rational than thull the German Germun system There Is a n wide vide field of Inquiry for any anyone on anyone one disposed dispose to follow up the researches commenced by Dr Zimmer |
