The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-06-09

| Orgy are now COm pti'' w a,
and respectable in appearance ana pc
havior. In this respect New forH Ma,
/ become the most moral Guy q
the civilized world. The seeming
chlnge for the better IA que
partly 10 the efforts OF the police, part
/ iy To the actions Of public opinion. out
chiefly TO the discovery that vice Is
I far better paying Investment wnen
clothed in respectability aud style than
when displayed in open wantonDess.
For this reason New York has become
the Mecca of all depraved women in
the United States. Last week over
fifty cases came before me officially. IN
which woman was tie chief male
factor. In every case thew were OF
out -oi.town birth and breeding.
.'Itmay beasked il the criminal classes
are irreclaimable. Under present con
ditIons. they are most individually.
/ The machinery for the prevention and
puuitiOn Of crime are superb. those Tor
/ its cure are laughable. Yet II need not
/ be 30. Every year millions are ex.
pended for the conversion of moral and
we'll behaving Buddhists, Mosiems.
/ Brabmins aud Confucians. who would
| be uuappreciably bettered If they were
converted. which they neverar " men
might aud would convert thousands Of
savages in this city. who are hercer'
wickeder. and worse than any heather
/ known. The most horrible tale of pa
ganism never eQuilled the case OF
f the people against Smith. 30
ms own court, IN wh.ch
/ "A Chrisiiau-A sO-called. was
convicted of having rubbed Tuning
nitric acii into the aims Of little boys
I'm order 10 increase their value AS beg
cars by having the limbs rot of in the
presence of the public. What IS needed
Is the regular visitation OF the poor and
suffering. the improvement IN living
quarters. the reduction Of rents to con-
/ form with the reduction Of wages that
has gone on during the past decade, aud
"A greater care aud scrutiny over the
training and nurture OF children.
Tnestreels are full OF bright-faced
Young women who carry themselves
uncOmmOnly well and show the results
of gymuaslic training in the splendid
positions of heads and shoulders. Every
year at the beginning OF June we are
coming to look for their appearance.
They are the college girls in search Of
schools. They ride up and down 10
the elevators of tall buildings IN the
shopping district. haunting the teach
ers agencies They stop ID buy daisies
and mountain laurel on the sidewalks
and their 1.-THE figures and fresh color
I aIe pleasant TO look on.
The process of obtaining q school II
often % weary one, and July may come
m and find many Of the applicants still
t in the city. New York Is the great
/ Doc adqu1rtors for teachers for the cOun-
F try. and thousands of names are regis
/ tered. personally and by letter, for Va.
caucie5 West South. North, and East.
+ from Maine to California.
/, goes without saying that the num-
F berof clndilates is four times the mum
f Der of openings. Who comes of first
+ best. then, in the competition The
+ testimony is all but universal that II ls
the college girls.
Ten years from now. said a man
who conducts oue of the largest teach
ers agencies. 1T Will lie practically inn
possible for woman not graduate
I from @ good college % obtain place IS
teacher in any of the high grade prr
waite schools of the country. or In any
of ine first rank public schools above
lhe grammar grades.
There can be no question ab0ut II,
said woman 40 the mead of second
agency. "the collegiate alumni have an
Immeise advantage. Private schools.
academies. institutes aud high-schOols
have long expected their male teachers
90 Dee graduates. ard now they are eN
acting the same thing from the
women.
There is already am Cu'cry. notioud.
bat deep. was said al a third bureau.
from the older teachers of many
years experience. used to the cream Of
thc places. who begin To find them
selves thrust aside To make room for
yOun- chis. themselves Just out OF
school. There are many schools which
prefer bright. energetic young woman
I lust out II Smith or Nasslrtoa woman.
+ be- she never SO good AN instructor and
/ di-ciiIuarian. who has taught with
out the college girls education ten
/ years.
/, there any preference shown as
/ between Che gradulte- of the women s
college, and the CD educational lastitu.
/ i0ns -
-Ouly m individual cases. One
school may want a Wellesley girl just
/ as another man wants "a Columbia IA
s. cad of Harvard man There is 10
distinction I'm the average
Much Is exacted, what is given
DO teacher wages advance with
f She improvement ia women's educa-
/ tion
Certainly they do. and yet no1 ia
/ proportion go the advance Of the stand
ard. That Is 90 say. if giil wants 70
/ DO well al q teacher she ought to X TO
+ college, aud set, II she goes TO college.
/ cine chances are she will Dot receive
wages 20 repay her FOR the long and ex-
+ pensige course OF study
The catschlsms OF The teachers
agencies require the applicant 10 state
the amount OF the expected salary.
Supp Sc. was asked at a prosperous
registry, suppose young woman
three years out of Na-sar and success
. fnl 10 her vocation. what figures might
sine Insert in that blank as expressing %
remuneration 20 b. reasonably expected
lfter SD many years Of preparation and
experience enough 10 test her fltne,sf
About 500 was the answer.
" You spoke Of public school classes.
there are sixty or serenity principal
ships in the New York public schools
which pay women from SL70O to
70 800 90
YES; aud there are nearly 1900
which pay less than SgC0. SIX hundred
dollars is an excellent public school
figure. and promotion comes not from
scholarship, but from ability % run
pupils through the sausage mill.
Aud Tive college girls are supposed to
be- getting the cream Of the vacancies
Is teaching iailurey TO spend seven
wears fttIng ones SELF To- teach Greek
and Latin and the higher mathematics.
and 90 sins In Is choir 20 boot, for
smaller wages than may be earned by
agO0d type writ ri-n1tauaeuc luragIug
prospect. but there are other difficult
ties ia the would be- instrac or 5 path.
''lr is one OF M chief veXlti0ns.
said an intelligent agent, THAT schools
viii persist Ia debating the religion
Of teacher of geometry. or course
fhaf eDfT of thing Is diving ont but