Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-18

o. art of the household: Men may pirate
OF their ways intense and Italianate,-
They may soar on their wings of sense, and float
To the au della and the dim remote
Till the asst sun sink in the last lit West
TITS the art at the door that will please the best
To the end of time twill be still the same,
For the earth first laughed when the children
came.
The agitation that is going on in some OF the
states as to the advisability of allowing married
women &c teach in the public schools seems most
singular. It also puts an argument in the
assertions that woman is defrauded of
her legitimate rights. So far as is known to the
writer, the availability of male educator is
not affected by his domestic relations, nor is the
eligibility of a candidate for any elective office
disqualified because of his having wife.
And yet men are saying that woman.
nered much knowledge by actual con-
tact with children and having
teacher If she marries must be barred the school
room, and that the children of the nation are to
be taught, in SO far as women are the teachers,
by celibates or by prentice hands who have
neither years nor experience.
A shallow argument in support of this view is
that married women ought TO be maintained by
Of support does not enter. The public school
was not instituted for the aid OF INDECENT per-
sons but for the education of children, and has
been favored and encouraged by the different
states OF the Union with the expectation that
education will develop and foster those qualities
essential to real advancement, individual and
national.
The question for school boards to settle is,
frst is the candidate qualified for the posi-
ton she asks? Then, il she is given charge,
does she as 4 teacher faithfully discharge her
duty, and do her pupils show the good effects OF
wise training? These questions answered salts
factorily the work of the SHOOT board ends. To
them or to the patrons of the school it is OF no
consequence whether the woman who teaches
well is married single-that is her private
affair, and her teaching is not a matter to be
arranged between herself and husband II she
is removed from the temptation of teaching for
money, so much the better for the children in
her charge. Nothing can be substituted for love
of ones calling. Divest a worker of enthusiasm
in his or her work and you have only death for
life, and nowhere is this more apparent than in
ferior teacher let her be made to give place to
better, not because of marriage but because OF
incompetency.
It is hard to decide which is the greater folly,
profession to cellbacy, or TO condemn pupils to
a constant immatureness in those who occupy
the position of instructors, and it were well that
so senseless a course find no defenders.
A few days since under triple head, "pica
cap'' and all that printer art could do to make
II conspicuous, there appeared a column of
STUFF detailing the various methods different
women adopt in putting on their stockings. This
may be classed by an 'enterprising' newspaper
rs news, but important news it could not be.
Why the masculine portion of the public should
be RECALLED with the dressing room mysteries and
the feminine element, who are charged with
having the excess of curiosity, be deprived of so
chaste pleasure and such valuable information
may be q fine art. but dissected it would lose
much OF its charm. Between letters and columns
like this the veil that delicacy wears seems
likely TO be rent.