The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-24
If PRETTY, PROMOTED.
Only the Bewitching Girls Find
Favor With the School


Trustees.
New York Morning journal
"Mr. Journalier, you are sympa-
thetic looking young man. L would
like to unburden myself to you"
The person who uttered this appeal
ing threat was woman of somewhat
uncertain age She might have pass
ed under the forties, but the chances
were decidedly favoring a suspicion
that she had passed over them. She
had red hair, pug nose and in certain
lights squinted a little. In other
lii hts she had decided squint. Un-
fortunately tine reporter saw her in one
of the other lights. This explains the
remarkable statement with which che
began her interview
Il am a teacher" she continued,
''in one of the east side uptown schools.
/ am as a natter of information, one
of the so-called homely schools
marms."
The reporter interrupted with
protestation of discredence, but with
out needing, she resumed the recital
Of her grievance.
81 want you. through the Morning
Journal, to protect us down-trodden
homely school marms. It's a perfect
shame and the public voice should
cry out against it,
IL will, Miss, if [ can make it,"
warmly offered the reporter "but
first let me hear what the trouble is"
You never were homely school
marin? No? Then you have TO learn
the hard and crushing disadvantage
which we labor under. 1t is all owing
TO these horrid ward trustees that we
homely school marms are at such a
ruinous discount. Do you know that
unless woman or girl is pretty and
interesting it is next to an impossible
ity for her to secure a decent position
in the school, unless she is luckily sup
ported oy some powerful political infu
ence? Why look at me and you will
see fair sample OF the class. [ have
been a teacher in the city for TWEEN
well, several years. aud goodlooking
girls with nothing but their pretty
faces and figure to recommend them,
have been promoted over me by the
score. | was going to say the hundred.
And So it is all through the city. The
goodlooking applicant is sure to get
place and when once she is in, her
advancement is matter of her own
election. A homely girl may thank
her stars to get in at all, and if she is
lucky enough for this she soon learns
to let enough alone"
do the ward trustees have alb.
solute control of the appointment of
teachers"
Their recommendations are almost
invariably confirmed, so it holds the
schoolteachers in hand to keep on
the good side OF them. This matter
demands radical investigation.
"Then you do not think, as rule.
that pretty woman is as we'll calcu-
lated to teach as a homely one?''
GAS a rule, do not think she is.
Without bringing into question the
intelligence of either, l think pretty
women are more tempting and friv-
o!ous than the matter-of-fact homely
women and naturally make poorer
teachers. But then you see l am pre-
JUDGED"
''The reporter sought an interview
with ore of the alleged school-marms.
She lovely blonde. with much golden
hair, a face round and full, with a
glowing color and refreshing sweet
ness. She had figure of pefect SYM
metry and carriage of elegant grace
Involuntary the reporter fell to envy
ing the ward trustee.
81 am told" be said, accosting the
fair wilton before him, ''that favor.
itism is shown the pretty school-teach-
ers to the exclusion of those less kind
" favorite by nature. Have you any
EXPERIENCES to unfold on this subject ?"
She smiled archly. 90, how you
do Aatter, you naughty man. Why
I'm not pretty"
The modest reporter retire1--bewild-
ed, not to say abashed.
As general thing the girls show too
much anxiety to marry. They are too
sweet on the bows. They ought to
stand of and look reserved and prec-
ious and put on Jerusalem airs, and
say, "Young man. you don't know
who you are fooling with. I'm a
treasure, l am. l weigh 115 pounds,
and am worth 81 600 a pound. Well,
they are. A good, nice, healthy girl
who can make her own dress and get
up a good supper for company,
and is not ashamed to wait on the
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