New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1900-05-19
ment and energy is so apparent, is
not the one for the place. Prof.
Evergreen returns to Smallville
greatly puzzled to know why he
failed of appointment at Rapid City.

Evergreen returns to Smallville
greatly puzzled to know why hi
failed of appointment at Rapid City
The face before us is that OF
a woman whose life has been d
troubled one. She began her peda.
gogical career more than twenty
years ago, with no preparation for
the work and no desire to continue
it longer than necessary.
In those days: she dreamed of
Prince Charming, who would one
day carry her off to the land where
fractions cease to trouble, and
spoilers are at rest. What need
had she for school journals, insti-
tutes, and methods? She would give
attention to gowns and hats and be
attractive. She would cultivate
society, for the prince could not
find her in the byways. Accord
ingly, her school hours were as
short, and her duties as few, as she
could make them. Her salary was
always drawn and spent with equal
promptness and regularity.
Her waiting was long and weary,
and finally, in despair, she married
a shirtless fellow to reform him;
he married as a speculation. Ten
years later, she was again in the
schoolroom supporting an able bod
led husband and three children. Her
friends said, "What pity" and
81 told you So" according to their
dispositions and temperaments.
For the last five years she has
taught school, not because she is fit
ted for the work nor because she has
any love for it, but simply because
she can earn more teaching than
doing anything else. Her thoughts
are oftener on her family affairs
than on her school, and the worry
over home troubles tends to make
her peevish and impatient. She is
attempting to be what only the ex-
ceptional woman can be-a good
teacher and a true home maker.
The duties of either position are
sufficient in themselves for the
strength of the average woman.
Does she understand her pupils
better because she has children of
her own! Possibly she does; let
us not judge her harshly. We
present the picture in no spirit of
unkindness, but because it illus
trates problem in sociology which
has so impressed some school boards
as to make them doubt the wisdom
of employing married women as
teachers.
Here is college president-a big,
broad-shouldered man of genial
presence, who carries with him an |
atmosphere of warmth and cheer,
and genuineness. His stature re-
minds one of the heroes the North
land Legends describe, but his eyes
and voice bespeak a nature gentle,
sympathetic and generous. Every
one about him is quickly drawn
within the radius of his influence
and made to feel the inspiration
Of his presence.
A lover of nature, one who counts
the trees and the birds as his friends,
and who is never happier than when
listening alone to their messages,
be sees things in large relations
and has not a single mark Of the
little man.
He is master of English; a keen
critic in the literary and artistic
poet by nature and train
ing. His most remarkable charac-
teristic, however, is the influence
be exerts over others. Call it per.
'onal magnetism, vitalized energy,
unusual will power, or whatever
you please, it is still the indefnable
which makes leaders of
;he men who possess it and humble
Pnl1owprS Of those who have II not