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Show s ' YTOjPfa.ijiof the Han. ! ? ii WW H ' ?tMlorf tile tibovo heading, a recent issue of the H . Educational Review, published l)y.;the, Unjyersjty H &of;ytah,:cpntairied an article on 'the . passing;', of. B , menrfrpra the ranks, of the public school' teachers;. H from which we quote the following: H "The disappearance of male teachers from the H grades and the high school is causing much alarm. H (TiWscndols are becoming feminized', it is said,. M and there is danger that the nation Will lose H greatly, in virility,, Tbe conviction1, is deepening, H thatM6pyk at any rate should, be brought into con- M tact withmaleteachprs somewhere before the M completion of tno "grammar grades. H "Of course, no disparagement of women m teachera is meant. It will not be donied that there ' are differerideo between the sertea, mental, 'moral,1 m and' emotional, nor that the influence of a' male m teacher' is in many ways different from that of a m female teacher. What' is to be desired is that the M be j t 'influences of both shall be felt in the schools, m and each where it will bring the best results." M "'' The above comment is from an article by m superintendent D. H. Chistensen of Salt Lake City M schools, in which ho declared the present teaching M conditions and the tendency to a worse state of m affairs are a menace to the public schools of the B country. For' years the number of men in the M schools has been decreasing each year, and it1 is M freely predicted that within a few years there will M be nd men teachers in the public or high schools m of the1 country. H ' This condition is hot at all. strange to a' close M student of human nature. If one will but look fl back over the changing conditions of the last M fifteen to twenty-fi'feYears, and analyze the cause tWrlor,r the "present conditions will be in'no HE sensd'y.1 mystery, there will be aeenaaifci K '' "; greater tevdency 'to 'disorganize iaociaal and ec-' t Mc&riditim ' y - - -; H jJJ "tJppYwnty-five years ago' tjhe schools 6f ' all x grades were taught by men1 only, just as the clerks H'' in 'stores, office Vmloyeesy .stenographers, ' tele-- H graph operators and scores, of 'other positions,' H were filje'd by men almost exclusively. About th at o" k tirne w6metf begpn' to, enter the' business field, the H p5 number of female 'stenographers and book keeper's vj SQ wing Vapidly e'ach year) "With the coming, jpf K"Tl(u . wn thesg befeuatibns men began leaving and H seeding others', Until bdy'niale'slenographersaVe H toube fduhd jii But ;feV "idaUioris, principally as H coiitl ' reporters and private secretaries to the H U. leMin financiers and'busiri'ess ir,en of the, country,' H Vf!' wh'eithe Qxcutive.abjlityand physical endurance H .jK reqiiired Wak4 Hi 'Impossible" for women to fill H these positions. And this) in the face of the fact H )) that a good male sferibgrapher can; get most any. H rj salary he ,dema'hs. But' & man will not work H JT--p aidngsille Women, in the sam'9 dejgreejor grade of H U employment, if he cart possibly ayojd it, any more H jv tian; a mouse will cultivate the friendship of a H L3Q kitten or oil mihgle with water. H , irhe day of the "school-master" when mdn H taught the schools, from the kindergarten to the H cpllege, ( began to vanish into history with the H entrance of wqmen into the field, until today, the H lower and intermediate grades of the schools are H taught by women exclusively, as are a majority of B the higher grades, and the number of female in- H structprs in the universities is increasing H each year and the number of men is decreas- H ing. If the ratio of change in the employment of H- the sexes for. the last ten years be maintained for H' the next fifteen years, a man teacher or intsruct- H, or in any tax-supported educational institution H will be something of curiosity. H Xwehty-five years ago ninety-five per cent of H the employees cf mercantile institutions were H male; today eighty per cent are female. And this H is. true of every line of employment; where women H have made any considerable increase men have, H made, a corresponding effort to escape similar H' employment. H, .,; For many years women tried to enter the field B, of. telegraphy, and at one time there, were several K thpu.andd empbyqd as telegraph operators, but as Hp thBj.work of operator, carried with it, in most ,in- Ht , -v ' AM; f: ' t- -: .Jrcn-iv ' :-a K- "" 'kv tt . , ..- '" i- yf? -iHiil'Si) Kp ' .,, BLiJL-. - ... -. - .J stances, the physical strength necessary to handle the freight and bafgaye business of a rilroad station, sta-tion, but few women eould render satisfactory service. Hundred?) were employed as operaters only hutiware never able, wkh a few exceptions,' to gge sattifactory aerve, Win iO'tle;inability to opelhe instrument! wtiftsuftlfienfirmneie to carrflie electrical vibratfens with clearneSa and distinctness. " Man always has and always will feel that his employment should b$ ef a character different f rorfi 'that-o'f a-Vvoman,ttd no argutnbn?tofS4th6o-' rists or idealists can make the facts other than iyiara havelbddnwrg, fllie Mrnedy ;isnot in. deploring de-ploring conditions bUtJinrrecting them." ; l For severaliydflri yiSplo'.hfive'been living an un-natural 4j(is;eJJccfthey have not followed the true instinpts which should govern mankind. If the error of Isuch a policv has become apparent, those) ih:authoi ty. should cjiartge it -' 1 |