The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-21
AMERICAN SCHOOLMA'MS ABROAD.
The Pretty School Teachers Who Went
South America Inyeigled Into Matrimony

The Pretty School Teachers Who Went to
South America Inyeigled Into Matrimony.
Buenos Ayres Letter,
The public school system is also under the
patronage of the government, under compul-
sorry education law, and includes all grades from
the Kindergarten to the normal school. The dis
tinguished ex-President of the Republic DIR.
Larmiento, who formerly minister to the
United States, is the especial patron Of educa-
tion and it is his ambition to make the school
system of Argentine the finest in the world. He
has taken own as his model, and knows as
much about the schools of the United States as
Commissioner Eaton of the Education Bureau
himself.
Some years ago he went to America to engage
teachers. and through the assistance of Mrs
Horace Mann, of Boston, and the faculties oil
State normal schools throughout the country,
secured the services of score of young ladies'
graduates of these institutions, who are now here
under contract for ten years with the govern
ment, managing the normal schools and young
ladies' seminaries, and educating the wives OF
the coming generation on the American plan.
Some OF these girls are from New England but
most of them are from the Northwestern States
They have conducted themselves, without excep
ton, in the most exemplary manner, and are re
earded with the greatest admiration by the gov
eminent and by the people Several who have
come down here to teach, I'm sorry to saw have
violated their contracts and abandoned the phil
anthropic work which they were engaged to per
form at salaries ranging from $50 to 500 a
month. The temptations of the country have
been too much for them, and after withstandine
to the extent of their resistance have surren
dered, and are now the wives of prominent Argen
tines. But it should be said that in every in
stance of this sort they have provided substi
tutes, which have been accepted by the govern
meut and have proved acceptable.
The Yankee schoolmaam is a popular institu
ton in Argentine, and it is noticeable that the
N COnpraSS hoi inon0 ia
ton with the greatest ardor. One of the got
into row with the Papal nuncio not long ago,
which caused an immense amount of excitement
He attempted to interfere with the management
of her school, on the ground that she was pro
selyting the children to professionalism. She
gave the envoy of his He Illness the Pope to un
derstand that she running that institution
and when he brought the case to the attention oil
the government she defended herself with such
success that the President of the Argentine Re
public sent him his passport and advised him to
take the next steamer for Rome The Arch
bishop interfered and he was summary bounced
also: since when the Pope has been without an
ambassador in Argentine, and the Catholic
Church without an archbishop; but the Yankee
schoolma'am is solid with the government and
the people, and goes on teaching heresy The
names of the girls now employed in the Argen-
tine schools ana their locations are as follows
The Misses Morrav, Rosario Choate, Rosario;
Strong, Parana; Kimball Parana Mrs. Eceles-
ton Parana the Misses Belle King, Conception;
Rachael King, Conception; Howe, Corrientes;
Howard, Correntes; Wall, Cordoba Mrs. L. NJ.
Turmey, Cordoba; Miss NJ. o. Graham San
Juan; Mrs ellis. San Juan; the Misses Atkin-
sons, San Juan; Harrison, San Juan; Clara
Armstrong, Catamar<sr-A. A. Cross, Catamarca;
Wales, Catamarca Ellis, Catamarca; Mary
Armstrong, Catamarca; Sarah Cook, Mendoza;
Dart, Mendoza; Daniels, Mendoza; Ravens,
Rioja; Avery, Rioia; Stevens, Juzeny; Say,
Juzeny.