Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-08-25
Sehssinar,ns as wives.
Prom the New York SUM-

dies themselves the OPINION seems 10
prevail that as wives they would es-
pecially adorn homes and make happy
the lives of good husbands. They ar
que that the very fact of their getting
and holding their places is evidence of
their intelligence and moral worth, two
things very requisite in wife. They
say, further, that the familiarity with
the management of children which a
teacher acquires will serve her in good
stead when she becomes mother her.
self; and that the development of her
faculties which she gets in the school
room is of just the sort that best pre-
pares woman for the duties Of wife.
In fact, they say that they are the girls
for young fellows to court.
There is, however, some masculine
objection to these claims of the school
marms, and it is expressed in the letter
here printed:
SIR-I noticed in Yesterdays Sun an ap-
peal for recognition Of school-teachers
among manageable men by one Of their
number who, after modestly enumerating
their many virtues and especial gualifica-
lions, asserts that there Is disinclination TO
marrying schOolmarms, and plaintively asks
why the feeling exists. For several reasons,
/ answer. First, despite Miss IGNORES as
sertion, do not think teacher rs rule
care 10 marry. They are an independent
class their salaries being more than suffi-
Gent for their needs. They have much time
10 themselves, especially at this uncOm-
Portable season of the year, which is not the
case with the average housewife. But the
principal reason why they are not sought
after by men contemplating mntrimOny Is
that they have their serious defects, which
n IL eAAsr ew<x
They generally assume superiority Of man.
ner which of itself is enough to discourage
any ordinary sutton: and as they advance in
years and grades they become so accustomed
to enacting the role Of martinez to the terri
fed small boy that they naturally assume an
independent and oyerbearing attitude to-
ward Decentralization possibly requi-
site for the school-room, but not desirable
in household. Again, from the constant
annOyances attendant on their daily duties,
their tempers become soured, and they lose
in q measure the great charm Of amiability.
OF course there are exceptions, but this i
the rule. Is il wonder, then, that men do
not seek for companions among SO uncon-
genial though Otherwise worthy class as
these same schoolmarms whom your fair
correspondent SO valiantly champions:
r. LIE N.
What our correspondent says is not
destitute of truth, though we continue
to fight on the side of the schoolmarms.
We are not surprised that some Of these
maiden pedagogues refuse, or pretend
to refuse, to entertain the idea of mar
riage. Situated As they are, they are
able to support themselves comfortably,
and enjoy . degree of independence.
They have the satisfaction of earning
their own living, and spending their
money as suits themselves. They feel
that they are their own mistresses, know
Just what are their present ills, and fear
that those they might fly to in marrying
are worse. But, though allthis may be
true, if the right sort of lover comes
along, and tries to convince school
marin so fortified by sound arguments
against matrimony, that she would be
happier as his wife than as single
woman, we will wager that he will bat
ter down the walls and carry the fort.
Yet SO far as material comfort is con-
cerned, she might do better to withstand
the assault.
As to schoolmarms assuming an atti-
tude of superiority, perhaps our CORE
spondent mistakes them. Their man.
ner may be one acquired in their pro-
fessiOn, and not mean that they think
they are wiser than other people, though
it so impresses some observers. 1t is
true that from constant contact with pu-
pills to whom they are superior in knowl-
edge, they may grow in time to think
they can teach every body; but if they
are brought into frequent association
with people who are their intellectual
betters, they will learn after a while that
they do not know as much as they think
they do, and will draw in their horns.
Very likely the men about these school
marms are their interiors in nominal ed
ucation, and they may be really inferior