River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-01-31
Educational.
III. y. BAk Ek. A. H., Editor.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
MARRIED WOMEN IN SCHOOL.
BY N. NJ. L.

BY N. NJ. L.
observe of late, tendency in the
educational papers and journals to dis
courage the employment of married
women i'll the public schools. Now
while there may be cases where it
would be inadvisable to employ such
person, us in the case of q mother
with very young children, whose at.
tention would necessarily be distract
ed by her home duties, is not wrong
feeling at the bottom of this prejudice!
If the aim and object of our COM
mon school system is to produce per-
fectly drilled corps of school children,
and to reduce them to the place of
units in an educational machine in the
shortest time possible, | have nOdoubt
that the sympathies of a mother would
be very much in the way. But what
judicious parent would not prefer en-
trusting his children to the care of a
mother who has proved that she I'M
derstands the care of a child's body as
well as its mind, and whose sympathy
and experience have been enlarged by
the care of her own children, rather
than the ignorant young girl, who is
too often martinez, caring more for
her own reputation as excepting ex-
cellent order" than the ultimate good
of the child.
Had a judicious mother been the
teacher, the scene could hardly have
occurred which the Red Wing papers
reported on the coolest morning of
this winter. The smaller children had
assembled at the school room door, and
though many of them were sobbing
piteously with cold, the usual rule was
enforced and they were obliged to wait
until the precise moment arrived for
the doors to be opened and for them to
march in perfect order to their seats.
Has not a parent whose own chill
dren are members of the school a
whose interests are wholly of selfish
and momentary character? AS for the
charge of partiality, few enlightened
people ever make it. 1t is well
known fact among teachers that no
good, obedient child ever complains of
the teachers Partially for some one
else. 1t is, however, the common eX-
cuse of the idle and diSobedient.
Hoping that this may bring out a
statement of facts on the subject from
those competent to give them, | will
close.
The following is the list of District
Clerks in Pierce county, with the post
office of each. Teachers and clerks
will do favor by reporting any er-
rors, omissions, or recent changes:
Clifton. 7. J. Atwater, Prescott; B. Ash
bough, A. Burroughs, River Falls; ?. I.
Beers, Clifton Mills
Diamond Bluff. c. H. Grant, Elias Hutch
ms, John Ralston, A. G. Nero, Diamond
Bluff
FL Paso Gunder Isaacson, FL Paso; John
Seifert, R. Devereaux, j. S. Vanderwater,
Lost Creek; M. G. Thompson, Rock Elm;
p. A. Murphy, Olivet.
Gilman Arthur Mesloe, ~ Nelson, N.
Anderson. Gilman; H. Bredahl. Martel;
Robert Greer, Olivet.
Hartland J. Drake, S. Rand, J. I. Knowl-
ton, l.. H. Rice, Esdaile; P Cream, 4. Eli
Isabelle. L. d. Phillips, Bay City.
Maiden Rock. G. Johnson, A. M. Leitch,
Fl. G Rode, G. f. Matson, P. Cerilins, Maiden
Rock; c. J. Forsberg, Pepin.
Martel. 0. Solberg, J. Johnson, j. A.
al q
Morton, Beldenville.
Oak Grove A BraeBin, Big River; &. w.
Truax, r. Davis, ]. O'Brien. Fred Endorf. c.
Jones, Prescott; w. Fasbender, Big River.
City Of Prescott: J. N. Bailey, Prescott.
sworth, j. R. Elliott, B. Thompson, F. H.
Lord, Eli Bowman, John Clifford, River
Falls; c. g. Heyerdahl, Martel. G. w. Bre
dahl, Beldenville.
Rock Elm. w O. Fetterly, D. Rice, J.
w Springstead, d. Wilson, Rock Elm Cen
ter; g. Brown, Ohvet; Henry Persons, Plum
City NJ. Maxwell, Ono; John Decker. Plum
Salem. ]. H. Brasington, w. a. Carson,
w. Foley, Maiden Rock Geo. Davis, Ono
Spring Lake. Ii. M. Preston, S. Brown,
J. Webb, S. Sanders, Spring Valley; Geo.
ard. Rock Elm Center P. GessIng, Olivet.
Trenton. +. H. Boustead, S. S. Kline. }.
L. Burley Trenton; A. Anderson, Ellsworth.
Trimbelle c. NJ Stafford, NJ B. Williams,
P. Bolger, J. A. Smith, John McKeever,
Trimbelle, 0. Gould, R. Mann, Beldenville.
Gy., Plum City; ". McCleary, W E. Dem
ham, Maiden Rock; Albert Sanford, Ono.
STATISTICS kept by oculists employed
in infrmaries for eye diseases have
shown that the habits of some persons
in facing a window from which the
light falls directly in the eye Us well
as on the work, injure the eyes in
the end. The best way is to work
with a side light, or if the work needs
a strong illumination, SO that it is nec-
essary to have the working table be-
fore the window, the lower portion of
the latter should be covered with a
screen, so as to have top light alone,
which does not shine in the eye while
the head is slightly bent over and
downward toward the work.
In the schools in Germany this mat
ter has already been attended to, and
the rule adopted is to have all the seats
and tables SO arranged that the pupil
never faces the window, but only has
the side lights from the left; and as a
light simultaneously thrown from the
two sides gives an interference OF
shadows, it has been strictly forbid
den to build school rooms with win
dows on both sides, such illumination
having also proved injurious to the
eyes of the pupils. We may add to
this advice, not 10 place the lamp in
front of you when at work in the
evening, but little on one side, and
never to neglect the use of a shade to
prevent the strong light shining in the
eyes. This is especially to be consid-
cred atthe present time when kerosene
lamps. with intensely luminous flames,
are becoming more and more common
Medical Journal.
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION at Trimbelle,