The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1891-01-25

lnng 50 fcV southern teachers, and the
charge Is true. Nor is it because our
women are iess Intelligent or less faith
Iu. IN tlelr work, bat because tbev have
not tue aGTantsges Of special training
which TIE schools OF other sections af
tor5. Forty out Of the fo-ty-two States
have established Normal Schools !or the
training ot teachers, and not until North
Carolina does the same will her teach
ers De able to compete successfully with
the teachers of other States.
1t is a we'll known fact that a large
majority Of the teachers in this country
are women. Man educates the world
but woman educates man Since so
much IS entrusted to her training is there
either justice or economy in denying her
the advantage necessary to fit her for
her great and responsible caling2 In
this says Eugland's Laureate,
The woman's cause is mans, they sink or
rise
Together; dwarfed, or God-Ike; bond or
free;
II she be small, slight sta.ued, m serable
| how shall man grow?
But the profession Ct teaching is sadly
oyercroWded. In the school with which
the writer was come "a there vas an
average OF forty ap cants Tor every
position yearly Othe avenues of en-
1 pioyment must be O. led 10 our girls.
IBIS can only be acg mplished by ali
industrial school which Slll fit them for
Tie various occupatlo- to which they
are, by nature, adapted
Such school shot I include school
Of design, where, il addition to free
hand drawing and modelling, the indus
trial arfs should be taught; wood cary-
Ing, hammering in metals, engraving on
wood and steel, or the simple art Of dc
signing patterns for carpets, wall papers,
curtains, prints &c, is one Of the most
lucrative employments open to women.
The same may be said of the noble pro-
feSsion of agriculture, TO certain depart
ments of which women is peculiarly
adapted. To the usual classes in tyne
writing should be added steno2raphy,
telegraphy, photography, tynAstttlug
and book binding Tiers ,aou5 lie
dress aHd millinery departments.
Any mod ste will testify how dlf1icul it
, is to procure skilled work-women even for
these ''~omenly employments, while
! most Of our professional 'cutters," fit
f ters ard tTlmmers are imported from
: abroad. There should be a soera
! course il physical training, this b.
ing the only department. in which
the demand for teachers exceed.
the supply. Domestic economy
= should, Of course, be taught theoretically
g and practically by requiring the pupils t
{ do the cooking, house woTE &c. for tht
Institution. Each Of tlese occupation
] can be pursued al home, Ut at least il
! comparative retirement, aud when ou
!. girls have choice Of them they will gladl,
l. leave the publicity Of our stores and tn
"a tread mill OF our factories for these NOR
,r remunerative and more womanly pu,
q suits.
.. Said the observant Garfield: "A
! present The most valuable gift Bhic
~ can be bestowed upon woman is son'
v thing t0 Do, which she can do well az
IS wortbily and thereby maintain herself.
II But there seems to be an inherent pTejC
10 dice among our Southern men again.
= the idea Of woman going out into th
1e world to earn her living. This is
ot natural outgrowth Of the social staDC
or ards of the old South, and there was
!. beautiful fitness in that old-time chi
4 airy which made man the self-coI
ut stituted provder and protect
10 for women. But "the old ord
,e. changetn giving place to the new
Il We are no longer people of wealth al
s. business with slaves TO do our biddin
=. and our women are ashamed to sit
= idleness while their brothers are stru
is Cling to support themselves. And sin
a women needs must work, the 'chivalr,
IN which would limit her efforts to t
dr realm Of domestic ec33omy degenerat
N into tyranny. The true knight Of tod
he is he ''who dares to leap the rotten pal
od OF prejudice" which circumscribe w
N maus sphere Strike the ahackles
at convantionality from ser wrists, and le
81 her forth To a larger berty Of thong
q ard broader field c; tion.
80 3oRA d. JoNES.