New-York tribune., 1905-06-25

when married; for instance. she can manage
second class boarding house; but she can't De d
teacher. and do ii well. The fact that "lLe
may teach, and that teaching brings salary,
has been the cause of more than one unworthy
marriage" Mrs Smith-Bruce went on
You heard of the teacher who married
penniIess barber years younger than herselI9 L
know what would have happened to her II sne
had been in this schOolP'
To come back to New-York, MISS Car0llne arg ~,
Emanuel! principal of Public School NO. oo, IN
East 20th-st.. says that her experience WITH
married women teachers has served 10 conlound
her politics concerning them. Il had feeling
against them she observed: 'I believed wife
had enough to do in her home. and tnoughl
that if a woman was so devoted TO teaching
that she could not make up her mlnd 10 give
it up, she ought to remain single But nave
had two married women in my schooI ana
could not ask for better teachers than they
have been"
Miss Kate Van Wagner, in charge Of the
primary deDartrnent of the school at l6Sth-st
and 3d-ave., is on the negative side of the ques-
tion-"not'' she said that marriage need spoil
a good teacher; but motherhood ana pedagogy
are two professions that cannot be carried on
together"
It must be admitted that the married women
who would teach have not many friends among
the principals of New-York- Still. they nave
few. One is Bernard Cronson, VINO Is PIesioeIt
of the Male Principals Association ana prlhcl-
raj of the school in Wooster-st. below Washlhs-
ton Square Mr.. Cronson has aroused a good
deal Of wrath now and again by his vigorous
opposition to women teachers for boys or over
ten or twelve; the refining influence OF women
for young boys, he says, out lHe stIOH5 hoitU
of a for the older ones however tnat IS
Eot the point here; the point is that ne is the
warm advocate of married women In tne
schools. that is to say, in all the departments
where he would have women at all
Married women teachers" he repeated arter
the reporter We'll haven't paid much atten-
ton to the controversy over that question: not
being a married woman myself But, ne went
on L see nothing against their teaching; l see
no reason why they should not be admitted
Now, our women teachers, on the whole, are
pretty level headed class A woman OF tnat soT
isn't going to marry man TO support n1n- II
you find teacher supporting neT huspdIlu' SOo
NAV take ii for granted that she isn't doing III
for pleasure; she does it because 1t is necessary
IF her husband falls sick, or Is unfortunate IN
business. and she has to go to work, what rlSnt
has the State TO forbid her to teach, II that IS
her profession? know one little woman VINO
turned TO teaching when the man she had mar
ried lost his position and then broke down IN
health; she is teaching now, maintaining thelr
home with her salary, and l consider her one
Of the pluckieSt women KNOW She Is OOAAS
excellent work too: as good a teacher as
principal could want. Why shouldn't she? A
woman doesn't lose her womanliness when she
marlies, or her brain, or her heart for children
Certainly there are instances where woman
domestic duties conflict with her teaching out
there's a remedy for that-a substitute tedcheF
by the way there's never any objection made
to married women serving as substitutes. and
can't sse why, If she can serve as substitute
satisfactorily she shouldn't serve as a regular
teacher The fact that there's good deal OF
opposition to married women teachers among
women themselves Mr. Cronson continued, lis
only an illustration Of the saying that woman s
often the worst enemy OF her sex. But don't
believe in these cut and dried restrictions we
ought" he finished Ito have a little sympa thy.
a little human feeling"
One uptown principal who declined to be
quoted by nameI-'let II be a principal OF The
Bronx" he said-affrmed that the married
woman teachers problem got more prominence
than it deserved. THE principals make great
stew about it. he observed and after all. how
many married women are teaching? About one
hundred and fifty, out of a total of between nine
and ten thousand women teachers. Still, there's
no doubt that that's one hundred and fifty too
many. They ought to be made Ineligible. When