The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-03-19
SAY RACE SUICIDE
EENCOURACEDB BY
/ THE SCHOOL BOARD
Permits Teachers to Wed, but
Dismisses Them If They
Bear Children.
MUST WE'D SECRETLY.
Pretty lnstructress Whose Mar
rage Is Revealed Urges
Others to Revolt.
MUST WE'D SECRETLY

Tue announcement by Miss Henrietta
0odman. q teacher in the Wadleigh
High School. that she 10 no longer q
Hnsistta Rodman de Fremery. and an
oEpSession Of her views on matrimony
end pedaSoGy, to-day set all the mar
Ned and unmarried female teachers In
New York's great system Of public
OoAools to clacking their tongues over
. 0ro0lem In ethics. the problem being:
u the Board of Education allows fe-
oals teachers to marry but practically
o1Hm4asss them when they have children,
49, the board. an institution especially
oeolsnsd to rear the young OF the land
mssa,iy. countenance race suicide?
4Rnosrs Of the august body have Just
Uanosd through the stress Of wide public
discussion Of whether II should allow .
uarr4sd teacher. Mrs. Edsell, to have
- ysars leave Of absence In which to
6ns . eaby and nurse It. The board 10
01n psrsptrins freely. after having had
- militant female teachers snap At It
~ denying Mrs.. Edselrs request.
DENOMINATION AGAINST MAR.
HiGo TEACHERS DENIED.
ADe9 The announcement BY Mrs. Dc
1sumav that shs w~s married. and that
. 1s0a3s teacher had a. much right to
- Q mother - . made teacher had b be
. A4hss. "a mssnbsss Of the Board Of
0o1aaanon dDsappsarsd from the great
na11s bu11d1ng wAich houses II at
Slly-aAuA strsst and Para avenue.
1A9s wAs only one ecscial in the
on11d1ng toAAy VINO could Slve out in
oasmloa q shis new turn Of affairs.
- ne wa9 IN assistan4 10 the score
~ 6 ne Bard she pointed out that
aAououesey - discrimination against
W8Jesd tsadhsrv b made. but said
0aU were only two reasons for which
ousvo q aAssnos are given-illnsss Of
a ofDort 70 Improve mentally That Is.
. tsaAAsr may hAvs - much - ninety
~ Gays during . session u she 70 III
q z shs WAISTS 20 study and take .
dsGsos a Ph. o.. IL D.. A. B.. or any
Other DECREE except me third degree Of
upthsAosd.
No dine y allowed for honeymoons-
not Q day. not . minute. II teacher
gsts married. she has got to be on the
lob ~ nett day. unless she sets mar.
ried on Friday afternoon. after school
lsts out and then she will have al
Saturday and Sunday for the honey
moon. But on the job Monday At
for Ssaoher!
Either married or single women
taaohers." the secretary's assistant said
are gtvsn leaves OF absence to study
or to get we'll when they become Ill
but no other excuses are taken from
athsf."
SAYS BOARD PUTS EDUCATION
ABOVE HUMAN LIFE.
Mrs. de Frcmery married secretly
Her husband Is employed In the Ameri'
can Museum Of Natural History.
Mrs. de Fremery charges married
women are being treated inferiorly to
the spinsters In many branches Of &C.
tive life.
This matter Of penalizing marriage
for the woman wage Garner Is becoming
such a serious thing that the public
must soon take II up" she said. The
Board of Education increases the pay
Of a woman who takes time to get d
college degree of Ph. d., but It dis
charges the woman who takes time Il
bear Q future citizen. II thus records
itself as valuing academic degrees above
human Me-"
Moreover-as a guide to the troublei
ahead for the members OF the Board
the bridegroom IN this instance Is a
Socialist.