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Show H jf CHOOSING TEACHERS B School authorities all over tho coun- H ' try aro now making up their final H lists of teachers for fall torm. With H nil tho educational scouts roaming B around and picking up tho more gift- B ed women for service In largo cities B nnd wealthy towns, It Is a worrisome H School supcrlntenaents, anticipating B fl; search light criticism, canvass their H J " many nppllcants with anxious caro, H fl and find tho majority unsatisfactory. H Thero aro plenty who hn.o had a fair H education, but fow who have tho mag- H netlc gift of Inspiration and ensy dls- B Highly odttcated girls take poorly H paid positions 'for n year or two, but H ciulckly yield to tho seductions of H towns offering larger salaries. They B do not always profit much cither In B money or In satisfactions of living. B There Is n queer nnd snobbish pre- H Judlco ngalnst the teacher In many H ' circles. Theoretically, being lntellcc- H tunl leader of the young and substl- B tuto for parental care, sho occupies B n place second to none. Hut actual- B 'y Bne '8 a wn" on "10 "bores of so- B clety when sho gets to a large city. B Sno ,8 ,lc'11 un tn '1,K'1 Btutulurd of H neatness nnd dress. Slio Is much B moro likely to bo condemned by vis- H Itlng parents on account of a luck of B HtJ'10 than for lour educational moth- B Teaching forces chango rapidly now B nilays. Tho teacher who was content B to remain year after year In ono H town, Impressing her personality on H successive, classes, Is a raro porson H Tho old Idea of a teacher as a thin H faced and angular woman, with a H soulful nlr but Indifferent to dress, Is B out of date. It Is a trim, bright fnc- HHj cd lot of pcoplo now. Thoy seem to H have learned that clothes mako tho B woman, and array themselves for B their ordeal before tho school auth- P oritles with a simple attractiveness H tbnt represents some marvel of strat- B J egy on a low salary. |