The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-08
VETERAN TEACHERS
ThiTty-f1ve of the States
Instructors Who Have
Been Twenty Years
in the Service.
A L PROFESSION
But Not Conducive to Matri-
mony-0Eer 4.62S School
Narms.


mat tire calling of teaching is q very
neaIfhy occupation from a physical as
Wen as an intellectual standpoint, Is
eSMaeea from the longevity of the average
peas4atf m New Jersey.
one OF une fuhree or four -empioyments
1ae1eal ffaffEef Ntarflneau found open to
women when she made ber voyage Of dis
Ssseas % 1nas country 70 1895 was school
seaehang. Apa ~ fifty years, though
ata'Sseses eI otner occupations have been
toFeeo open teaching remains n of ube
odaAanss an when There are more women
saIah i4s1.
u pHe s0ate OF New Jersey there are
7w male teachers. All ages from eighteen
10 sixty-fye arc rennesan4ea Tbans sra
the faftaaf,ll All +ir,ars u,ho ba.an ~
,oo,a+ori.a - 49,. - -
hNa4ooiDal eeaoafefs, AT 17e age OF Twelve,
BACK IN the early fortaes, and there are
the fresh, rosy checked girls std in their
tsaens none IF u1hfv-a a. - rasr rra
s,,ra ~vaa4 - / -
time before them.
THAT manv of tbair 6on5 banas !.
1890 sisa -, = 1,a " Z
Weaaed ME Will be blasted is almost
certain, for the rule seems to have been
in ts1e mast th,at fen,ala ,nsta,,s.ars sa
acua rasan. a-S- s.. 80
mobile calling of teaching young Jersey
IDEAS how to shoot. Al the prssant s+sr,e
+a,ara 81 ,anram
- j. - ~ ~ ! = nss nSaiarea teaeh-
eis M New Jersey who have been teach
ing for a score or more wears. Tfpree
hundred rnara arc r,n5alv !, ore,,r 49,
tws,4s.4h ,aan - - 1870 =
h,,nss.as 1890. Mfsfie nateen
TO fifteen years. From this III will be
seen taaat ,nanv of +ba s,.tr,.4o~s q ~
sCa~s-~ $50 - tie
1Aauell S0aoe are no fefger young
riod of womsauahood known as old maid
49, c.a,a--a~S -
uoH- 'p0ade iouiiu q hIhdfler way
OF expressing vt. Pale prsmroses lis the
title he applies to the naidens who have
passed the m~arriageable station In Nfess
Journey
s.Pale primroses.
That die unmarried ere they can behold
The recent aei+atBon ,amone Tho sas,oau
tesafsbers in connactson LII 1ltFo r. tl NJ SSh lss
Retirement Pension FIND rsyealiaa M
ers have been teaehsne nver tusas,fy
years. Seven of these have tarsefhat for
thirty years or more, and six for more
b Twenty-Five years. Many Tpento-
n ffs nave the pleasure of ssnddng their
ina Vhe very persons who taught them
eIoW to speM ana add viii instruct their
'1teSVo,o.
Iren1oifs veteran Instructor is Miss
hass weeks. appointed ~ 1856 Miss Weeks
- slI1I nilstrucIlng the Young FRY in the
HsNuh ward school Next comes Miss
nate ~Heugntailng, OF the Market Street
Scnool- She began to teach in 1853. Others
VINO tAushl curing the period of the Civil
Atr ahe:-Miss NJ NJ Wright, who was
Gppofnted just two months after Miss
Houghtaling. Miss Wright is connected
with the Rose Street Schoo Miss Han
nah Virgins, of the Centennial Schoal.
has also taught from 1860. Miss III.
Marden began teaching in 1860 and IS
connected with the Charles Skelton
School. Miss Janet F. Wright. Of tba
John A. RoebIing School, was appofntaS
Three teachers tenure of ofHca aa+as
of the Columbus schnal. Miss $50 poii1 s
Ma1linoson ~ ~ WI salss oaran r.
and agass r. I Ils ssasilfngpon 5cnool.
IT, cahaai Je y cd utelli1s,fl OF the Frank
AZ I S Sshoa n lsos MISS Sarah Castor, of
"a Saarlss S S ] seneos was appoint
Hewitt Training School. Miss Sarah e
roland, OF the High School began her
career as a teacher in 1870. Miss Lizzie
A Blair, of the Charles Shelton School
in 1871; Miss Ella Shermerhorn. Of ths
Franklin School in 1871: Miss Olive Eresn
of the Charles SHELTON Schonl. In 1S7a,
Miss Harriet Dickinson. of the Jasenb
Wood School. in 1879.
1874 seems 10 have the 1oroas+ a,
Of survivors In tbst va.r No. nn.siusl =
Macpherson. OF the High seboal f4l Iasa =,
~ l@tAAAA ~ At = Il - A2II2 81 n