The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-24

c ce5lts, mere Increases to ninety two: TAX
ing the matter UP by grades: women
furnish one hundred per Ger! cent e. OF oa .ne
of the teachers In primary and gram
mar grades; fifty two per cent OF the |
teachers in the high school.
Why Is It So?
at is pertinent and may be profitable
to ask: Why are these things SO! IS
the large proportion Of women que 70
our Offering such low salaries that men
cannot affordato accept them; or IS It
true that the situation is the express,
sion Of a higher law? OF the hundred
that offer themselves for given mum.
Der Of positions. are there twem.y-tst XIV
as efficient women, and would the pro.
portion remain practically me same II
higher salaries We're oitered! No ~, one a.
Founded by man. Nor does the
thoughtful man regard the predomi,,
nance Of women In primary grades anu
in the lower grammar grades as as mat t.
ter OF salary. Children of nine years
or under are best taught by women,
and those between Inc, and fourteen =,
are rarely best taught by men,. 1t Is
not until boys and girls reach the age
OF fourteen. fifteen and sixteen years
that men seem superior. After these
years combination or men ana women
is best.
Favor Women Teachers.
suit Of "a us having 6{s men and 4ss
women Of the Middle West testify to
him as to the teacher who did them =,
| strongest Influence. Eight per cent.
were most influenced during Adde'S
cence. and nineteen per cent. OF the
men, and fifty per cent OF the women
| rI,1 lv, fov pf 11yn1
The kinds of Influence aamed are
such as the moral uplight and nspira..
! ton. the stimulus to the intellectual
awakening, the spur to scholarship,
Issues Of life personal Kindness. spe-
| cial Interest," acncourag ement at crises,
sympathy when things seemed crush,
| Ing, self reliance. hints in social
dence, fearlc ssness ability to do. abll-
| ity to lead were the qualities ascribed
to men. Purity. refinement, beauty OF
spirit. self control. tenderness, kind
| ness, sweetness, patience were tnose
i ascribed to women.
Superintendent Davis also called at
informed. and mutually sympathetii c
/ the Home and the woman in the
i School"
Where the Trouble Is.
and the trouble is. no said Una.
4 tho teacher and the mother do not know
4 each other. They sickle about little
4 things, about non .essenti tails, while the
4 pupil receives irfeparable harm; Inere
A are at least four ways Or lessehlns .n ~
great evil. Let the criticisms OF eac Ct
3 n6ther be- made to each other, not to tbs
! pupIl or in his presence. Let tht
& tenchcr mako q written appear 20 ~
Z mothers OF new pupils as soon as pos DOS,
4 sible after the beginning OF tho term
& emnhastzing In this the need OF CO.
oneration and outlining both the way
IN which a mother may help ana IN Ln'
wny in which sho may not heip. ~,
little poem by Edna Dean froclof me
express tho Idea;
Gaining Wings.
twig where chung two, sort cocoo"s
a tT Make from a wayside spray,
And carried home to quiet desK'
Where long forgot 1t lay
One morn / Glanced to INT the I'D.
moth few up on downy wings
And settled above my chalr.
Orange and silver gray
And j mlarveled how from leaf
Such fairy stole away.
Ind tho other flown? turned to sec,
And found 1t striving still
no FREQ Itself from tho swathing hos
Ana move the air at will,
poor little prisonea !, Wa IL mn SAID
"You shall not strussls more.
\ And tcnderly cut the threads
And watched to see II soar
Alas! A feeble chrysalis,
It dropped from It's silken bed
! NV holp had been the dircst harm
> The pretty moth was dead,
j, should have left It there to ga
= The strength thnt struggle brings
? "ris stress and strain with moth {
u That free the folded wings"
t Mothers Meeting.
"lhe holding Of mothers meetings
,,otl,nc ~ ~ radur In, - friction be tWet