New-York tribune., 1907-01-26
LOOKING FOR HUSBANDS.
Teachers Frankly Ask About Matrimonial
Chances in West.

Cavour. s. D.. Jan 25.-Ever since the CHAIR
man Of a school board here kidnapped two u
Nnois teachers destined for schools in other
parts Of BeadIe County. Superintendent Du Bois
has been overwhelmed with letters from Eastern
women who are anxious to teach here and, Incl
ssntally. 70 win husbands.
Dozens OF applicants from Illinois have been
secured. and few from states further east.
Almost invariably the teachers have requested
that they be assigned to districts having all
g1ols young ranchmen. and IN sons Instances
marriages have resulted South Dakota esps-
cially In this section. has surplus os bachsIora
and apparently the East has a large number oc
young women anxious to secure good homes In
the West
To show the tenor OF sorns OF she apprcants'
iettsrs, few extracts are given the names ot
the writer's being concealed. OF course. by Super
intendent Du Bois- This extract Ia from Belle
vile. III:
Sister ana 7 would be glad TO have schools IN
your county. We are aged twenty-stx and tven-
ty-nine, respectively. As to salary We arc noe
as particular we are as 20 the location Of ths
hoOd-want to be In a well settled place. where
there Is good society and people who love
music as we both sing ana pay ne pane ane
tlernen IN the community muss be taken into
consideration Please wrtts u asou: tbs gen.
tlemen.
Ella D., or EVan5N1AA 1-4-s WEitesi
have no objection to fronrsr rrss IN fact.
dom usually accorded pioneers. IT would be
particularly delightful am sure IL my lot
number OF brave. hardy young msn-young fell
lows with snap and energy, Can you provide
school for me In such a settiemsnt7
This is a paragraph from I. C. As letter.
dated Peoria, III;
have had four years experience teaching
school, and my recommendations show have
been successful. I would like a school for
year or so. but could not contract unless the
school is in a community where there are a good
many bachelors Of some means. for teaching
school is not the only object / have In going
West
From Hammond. Ind. comes a peFfumed let
ter which reads:
Besides my ability 20 teach school. I am COM
petent 10 keep house and care for family
took a special course in cooking while in col
lege and count myself second 70 none In uat-
tiers culinary. While my ambition IS not 70 be-
come wife right away. I would not. while en-
pIOyed as q teacher, SpUrn the attentions or a
well-to-do young farmer or ranchman OF hon.
Orable and honest intentions
A Warren (ohio) damsel. "Efe." declares her.
self to be mot handsome. but as good looking
and comely as the average woman OF twenty
eight" She says: II am not obliged to teach
school for a living. for I have some cash and
little property. school teaching is. or would be,
a secondary consideration should I decide TO
make your locality visit IN the spring My OBJ
tect plainly stated. IS matrimOny. don't want.
nor would I have. city dude Cor a husband
The one whose name wear must he a man.
conpanlonable and temperate and not a religious
or political crank
A girl OF Trenton (AIO.l bewafis her lot thus:
IT regret exceedingly that my people required
me 20 spend so many years at school ana col.
Iege at great expense. only 70 make school
teacher now on the verge of spinsterhood They
might better have allowed me 10 become ne enn-
az sorns warthy man"