Connecticut western news., 1889-10-23
PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS.

What is there more beautiful than beautiful October weather ? And who can enjoy it more than public school teachers ? While other mortals com mence labor as soon as daylight appears and continue under the harrow until the sun disappears over the horizon or tilt bedtime, the school teacher has all the morning for wandering beneath the trees and enjoying nature in her pleas anteet aspect, for his or her labor, like the bank clerks, whose lines are also cast in pleasant places, do not begin until g o'clock and they cease at p. m. after which there may be more wslks. z Or, If they prefer, instead of the lovely 7; walks, they may sit down to feast of wit and flow of soul with the best authors, and none may say nay, or command as the sun Is two hours high, "John, you'll find 8 bush-hook hanging in the woodshed there, you can cut bush in that north lot till I call you. ," Then, too, as an advantage above all other occupations or callings, the pub lie school teachers are allowed every Saturday for holiday, while other less favored mortals are compelled to sub
 init to the divine injunction "Six days shalt thou labor" They can use each Saturday in breathing the pure air of the mountain tops, gazing afar into the hazy distance, watching the silvery glimmer of lakes in the sunlight and the ever-changing hues of the gorgeous au.umn foliage. They can listen to the rustling leaves, the strange sounds veritxble music of the spheres fall with 8 drowsy gentleness upon the ears from all directions. They can wait for the dropping nuts aud watch the frisky squirrel as he lays in his winter store, and let their hearts expand with the thought that they are but small part of the great, grand whole,-a wholesome thing, for 1t takes much of the adamantine sel6shness out of the human heart to learn this. They may use their Saturdays in sweet communion with nature and her glories, or they may use it in storing the mind with all the knowledge of the ages, while others, the real laborers, have no Saturday holidays and become mere machines without leisure for true integrity day by day, actually having no time they cannot afford to sustain the manifest relations to men. Thus Is the old adage proved true, that it takes all sorts of people to make 8 world. Some there are whose paths, free from ruts and boulders, lie along pleasant places and through green pastures open to the buoyant air and the brilliant sunlight, while others, like gnomes, are doomed forever to labor in deep, dark, noisome recesses. So goes the world .-[Pen Dragon ln Litchfield Enquirer, Oct. 17,
 Pen Dragon has omitted to mention that school teachers have two recesses and also an hours incoming between 9 a. m and p. m., also that schools are in session only from 1SO to 2OO days of less than six hours each during the 365 days in year, and furthermore said 180 or 200 days are not consecutive working days, put are interspersed with the long vacation from June until September. Next comes the Thanksgiving vacation ; then the holi- day vacation. and later on the spring vacation, besides the days when school is closed on account of Agricultural fairs, teachers institutes or some other excuse for "a day of. 1" The teacher is having three months rest during the hot summer while the farmer and out door workers are toiling beneath the scorching rays of the sun. The mer. chant has to eat his meals in haste and then rush back to his store, but the teacher can be an hour eating dinner, and take hls supper and breakfast al whatever hour he choseth. Surely the teacher hath more rest, and generally better pay, than the farmer, the mer chant, the doctor, the business man. ol even "the butcher, the baker an6 caudlestick maker" The foregoing does not fully present the bright sid' of teaching. but will someone show ul the dark side