Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-04-10
For the Rocky Mountain Husbandman.
COUNTRY SCHOOL-MA'AMs.

If there is one human being in this wide
world who deserves to be pitied more than
another it is country schoolma'am; and
why is it she never receives a crumb ofsympa-
thy? Was there ever one known who tried
with all her power and ability to please the
whole community ever succeeded? No; on
the contrary, she fails to please any one at
all. She is decidedly a failure if she attempts
that. In almost every instance. she is the
central subject of talk and gossip. Let her
be ever SO ordinary aperson, she is a school
ma'am, and what is not expected Of school
ma'ams is not worth mentioning. In the
eyes of some she may be a paragon of teacn-
ers, while there must necessarily be some
one who declares she is anything but a
teacher. If she dares to encourage the at
tentions of any n Of the opposite sex, she
is a fit subject to be discharged. Her man
ner may be distant or social, timid or bois-
ferrous, attractive or insipid, Or all of them
combined, yet she cannot escape the talk of
the community; there is ~never-ending fault
to be found indeed, she must be a model
Of perfection to enter a district school. Are
her feelings not as sensitive to the whitening
remarks so often made about her as those
OF any other person? All that is said of
her, either good or bad, must reach her
ears sometime, and in the course of time,
it is to be hoped people will find this OUT.
Toiling daily, she tries to control %uncontrol-
able little nischiets-and large mischiefs
for whom, cho hoe n uyL,lo Lo,,+ &c
love, and in return they-unconsciously, of
course-try every conceivable way to pro-
woke her but that does no lessen the at
tachment she feels for her pupils, for it is
expected of her but how wearisome the
task is when she tries so hard to give salts
faction, and fails so hopelessly. It is really
sad to see her trying patiently to conquer
some spoiled pupil who has an idea he can
reign supreme over the entire school, and
teacher too, and she will mentally resolve
to use her Influence over the capricious
youngster in a tender, quiet way, while
Young America sits demurely behind her,
making all sorts of hideous faces common
to his tribe. When will the time come when
the innocent school-ma'am will find out that
it is the nature of a school-boy to make
faces at her as soon as he finds she is not
looking at him? A school-master could
shake the boots and socks off from them,
and the parents would smile approvingly,
but let an Unfortunate school-ma'am attempt
the aforesaid punishment and she is then
and there regarded as unfit to teach school.
1t is really trightful to think how the pa
tent creature viii tax her mental faculties
and rack her brain seeking in vain for some
mode of conquering the whole school and
at the same time please the parents and sat
isfy the trustees. People should take into
consideration that persons possessing such
extraordinary virtues are scarce, and they
should be persuaded to abandon their call
or else they will in a very short time be
relieved by death-or matrimony-the latter
more frequently the case.
! AERIEND TO SCHooL-MA'AMs.