The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-26
TEACHERS GROWING
DECOROUStY RICH
ssaS az.
Get More Money This Year
Than Before in All Parts
of the State

Whoever would ally himself with
loneliness and wisdoTn-whoeyer to-
wit would like to marry Minnesota
sehoolma'am, may add worldly wealth
to his other treasures. if he holds her
small, white hand in Houston county.
Because in Houston county the school
ma'am is passing rich. But seek her
not in Rice county, unless you're
equally romantic and improvident. The
charms of a Rice county teacher are
recognized in every meeting of the ed
ucationaI association. But it's whis-
pered at the capitol that wealth is the
least of her attractions. =
Such a matrimonial guide has been
made possible by Superintendent of In
struction Olson. He has compiled for
his biennial report statistics that cover
the year ending July 81, 1904. He is
prepared to prove that in Houston
county female teachers get higher pay
than in any other county-$40 a month,
seven months in the year. Were she
employed all the year round, like girls
that have to look in the book, she
would earn $23.33 month. AS she US
ually lives at home and pays nothing
for buggy rides and tickets to all the
entertainments, she is thus compare
lively affluent
Cut Rate in Rice
But her sister in Rice county gains
$29.78 monthly during the school year,
or the equivalent of $1T37 each calen-
dar month. Even with buggy rides for
the limiting, this is not a luxurious in
come
The average teacher in the country is
neither a Hettie Green nor an Arcadian
shepherdess. Her gown this fall won't
be a 1903 creation, nor yet a dream of
1880. But it will hint, at least, of 1850.
For her scholastic stipend last year was
$36.27 during the school year, or SPILLS
had she counted her long vacation.
Man, who cannot hope for coStleSS
courtesies, gets $45.71 month when
teaching country school in Minnesota
equal to STEADY work. at $2666
month. In st. Louis county, beneath
the shadow of the Rockefellers. he
gains as much as $60.11 month, or
$35.O6 by the year; and in Roseau
county, where everybody reads 'The
Simple life" he receipts for $34.50
while he works, or $20.13 month.
That is a gifg in Houston county who
asks?9 why is Rhode Island the small
est state?'s makes a profit thereby of
So. 20 each month Of the year in excess
of the man that tenders the same prob
lem uptint RoseaN. aes.s
Better in Twin Cities
In ST. Paul, or rather in the 'sinde-
pendent" school districts of Ramsey
county, including St. Paul chiefly, the
average salary for. women teachers. is
the same as in Minneapolis and the
other independent school districts OF
Hennepin county. She gets $50 month
ly for nine months or $3.50 monthly
for twelve months. But the male
teachers in st. Paul receive S102.50, or
$3.50 a month, as against $112, or $S4
in MINNEAPOLIS. In all the city schools
throughout the state the average mas
culine hohorafftina IS $98.S1, or $74.10,
and s16si the dagerage feminine bargain is
s'fGet--fic -dufck's is hot the teachers
motto. No chalk would write such
sentiment upon the blackboard. Yet
she is getting rich in Minnesota de-
corously, dramatically, though not
quick"
In the city schools, for example. her
average salary was $44.85 a school
month IN 1902; s45.74 in 1903, and
S4S.56 in 1904 For the same years in
the country her salary has averaged,
respectively, $33.14, $35.25 and $36.27.
Men, in the city, sway the vocal birch
dl YJCso4 LILO } Col WIN OObc1i1ACQ Pofsoi
by the same exercise in 1903, and $3.50
in 1902. At the little red school house
which isn't red-the schoolmaster
makes $45.71 this year who earned
$45.16 last year, and where he gained
S43.46 two years ago.
That is to say, the professor in town
has a surplus of S47.79 towards an au-
tomobiIe this year compared with his
savings in 1902; the country teacher is
$15.75 ahead; the "instructress" in the
city can pay $3.50 more next vacation
to s'the man from Cooks" and her
younger rival, with the roster cheeks,
may have $21.91 more in bank when
we get married" than she would have
had when she was two years younger.
There are 1908 teachers in Mime
sofa now-1,S67 men and 11,216 women,
of which total 1851 are graduates Of
high schools, 2,91S of normal schools,
and 1,O3S of colleges. In the less pol
iished days of 1902 the corresponding
record was Ais, 2,729 and S64.