The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-06-27
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EVOLUTION OF THE covERNEss.
Knows Art and sclenccs and Has Many
Other Accom- pitshments.


Other Accom- npiisbme ents.
The resident lady governess. who, in
romance, has always played such a
vivid. telling part. and who, in real
life, drew salary cook would de-
spise. and accepted snubs housemaid
would resent. is no more. In her place
has appeared the lady tutor who does
not expect to entangle the affections
Of the young gentleman of the family,
accept pittance in exchange for the
instruction she gives. or play the part
of mental maid of all work to crew
Of noisy, restless. badly spoiled chill
dren. First and foremost she is
college graduate, with a sheepskin. a
lot of self-respect and several special
ties. She has either graduated with
view to making private instruction,
as she calls it, her life work. or she
will take q position as summer tutor
to children whose parents wish them
to be coached in certain lines; and
this she does merely to tide over dun
season or accumulate funds for furth-
er intellectual expansion at home or
abroad.
Whether a professional or tempor-
ary tutoress. she does not pretend to
give training in all the arts. sciences
and accomplishments as her incompe-
tent predecessor was always willing
to guarantee. This up-to-date private
instructor will conduct courses in
American history and in biology, or
higher mathematics and English, or
German literature with music. and the
choice is usually dependent upon what
lines the young lady has followed with
the greatest interest at college. In
winter and in the city the tutoress
prefers to have her clientele and go
from house to house, giving hours or
half hours of instruction. as do the
music teachers.
When the parents, as is usually
the case in summer want u resident
tutoress for the children it would
blanch with horror the cheek OF the
old-style story book governess to hear
the bold style in which the college
bred tutoress speaks up for her rights.
She is, as rule. willing to take the
children for instruction just SO many
hours every day; hel own hours of
privacy and recreation must be re-
spected. and her salary is just about
four times as big as that paid in the
days of Jane Eyre and her sister
helots.
Not often do the parents offer any
serious objections or haggle over
terms, and they respect the simply
dressed, digniied, clever young wom-
en- who know their value and their
business. A wise parent sets a.deal of
store by the moral and mental in
1uence this type of instructress exerts
on the children, and this year a new
requirement has crept into the terms
on which n private instructress is en-
gagged. This is athletics The tutoress
who can play golf, swim. row, ride,
drive. has fine wrist for tennis, a
good hand on the tiller and is not
afraid Of an automobile. can get double
the price given her sister who is ali
intellectual fire, but lacks in muscle.
Not only does this muscular tutor
get higher price for her time and tai
ents, but. rs one young woman who
had a good post last summer found
out. she secures by her skill and
Drawn the particular respect of her
boy scholars, and enjoys a delightful
social value, which, without her physi-
cal grace and outdoor accomplish.
ments. would never have fallen to her
share. Washington Star.