The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-28

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Why Teachers Become Old Maids.
In the April 18th Issue of the Jour
nal Of Education is given the inter-
view of the Chicago Record Herald of
April l, wherein Miss Catherine Cog
gin, that Chicago lady. teacher who
has so often come so prominently be-
fore the public as to win the admira-
ton OF the nation, says: at is not
because teachers are welded to their
profession that they do not marry; it
Is because they have never had the
chance; that after woman has been
IN the ,schoolrO0m for awhile she can
not help acquiring the habit of die
tating to those around her. She learns
! to govern; not to be governed. A
man does not want to marry woman
who has acquired the habit of boss
Ing. The average man wants the
clinging vine type of wife. Yes,
i am sure the reason that SO few
teachers marry is that they are not
asked the necessary question"
This article goes on to say that
statistics bear out the claim made by
Miss Goggin. We are not aware that
anyone has been able to secure statis-
tics to show that out of nearly 5000
women teachers in Chicago alone that
the reason they are not married is
because they have not had chance,
perhaps they have. but 1t seems to us
that the middle-aged, west-side teach
er gives clue to the solution of this
problem when she states: II have not,
had a single chance to accept a man.
During the first five or six years of
my school life devoted myself wholly
to my. work. After school hours 1
attended graduate classes at nearby
university. My evenings were spent
IN study During those five years l
think spoke to only four or five
men. One was the school principal.
saw hi mevery day. He was dried
up fault-finder and married. Another
was the janftor at my-boarding house.
He, too, was married. I met a few
university professors and book
seller"
There's the rub. Teachers do not
amalgamate with the social world
enough. Don't be clam" and live
within your own little queendom. Get
out into the busy world after your
days work is done and learn to live
as large majority of the people live;
become natural human being by as
sociattng with human beings. Don't
be book-worm. No one likes worms.
Teachers who associate with chill
dren, only, for several years will not
appear like persons of matured minds.
There seems to be q childlike sim
Dlfr{ty In, 1na NYo, 80 4 49,
a wise man does not appreciate.
The boy he keeps out of water until
ne learns to swim Is just about as
likely to learn to swim as the teacher
who keeps out of social gatherings is
likely to marry @
Miss Goggin is laboring under a
delusion. There are many women
who are not only possessed of the
belief that they were born to rule
but worse than this thing, lack good
common sense-they are veritable
shrews.
School teachers should make the
best of wives and mothers: The ex-
perience. of handling children of
others should especially at one to
handle her own children. One of the
grandest mothers we ever met was
school teacher and her husband was
a teacher, too.
Editor Winship goes after the Chi
cago article, hammer and tongs," In
such way as to do the teachers
hearts good. and gives some very
pointed advice and logical conclu-
sions In his reply to the Record Her
aid article. L..
He says: more women teachers
have been pestered by the attentions
of manageable men than have never
had chance to marry" He does not
say, Statistics show this" so we are
left to conclude that he is guessing
some" however. If the lady teachers
who read this will send us an answer
to the question. why Fam not mar
ried," on postal card. giving age
no name requested-ws shall be pleas
ed to report from statistics as fur
nished by the ladies themselves.
There may be much truth in Editor
Winship's seventh remark. wherein he
states: The memories a man has of
the woman teachers he had as a boy
may prejudice him against the woman
teachers he meets as a man."
We have observed that sons of crit
ical mothers are slow to marry, be-
lieving. no doubt. that women are gem
orally fault-finders.
1T is better for woman never to
marry than to wish that she had never.
married"