Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-01
Saturday, May l, 1915.
Our School Teachers.

A school teacher Is person who
teaches things to people when they are
young. The teacher comes to school at
$50 o'clock. and when she has gotten
she teaches them reading, writing, geo.
graphy, grammar. arithmetic, music,
drawing, cooking, board saving, crochet
ing, deep breathing. bird calls. scientific
eating. patriotism. plain and fancy bath
ing. forestry, civics and other sciences
too numerous to mention. When school
is out she stays behind with five or six
Of her worst scholars and tries to save
the state the job of reforming them later
on. After that she hurries home to
make herself a new dress and snatch a
hasty supper before going back to attend
a lecture by an imported specialist on
the history Of tribal law in Patagonia,
which the superintendent thinks may
give her some information which may be
useful in her school work some day. A
great many lecturers roam the country
preying on school teachers, and some of
them are very cruel, talking to them SO
long that the poor things have to sit up
until morning. when they get home. to
get their test papers corrected. School
teachers salaries range from $50 month
up-but not far enough up to make them
dizzy. On her salary the teacher must
dress nicely. buy herself things for her
work which the city is too poor to get,
go to % lectures and concerts a year. buy
helpful books on pedagogy, pay her way
to district, county and state Institutes.
and enjoy herself during three months
vacation which her salary takes every
year. In addition, the teacher is sup
posed to hoard away vast sums of
money. so that when she becomes too
n and cross to teach. at the age OF
30 or thereabouts, she can retire and live
happily ever after on her incomc.-Phila-
delphia Bulletin.
Maine began to realize some Of
these things years ago, and now the
teachers are beginning to realize that
realization. Better days are COMM,
for the schoolma' ans, in their active
days and in their retirement.
. In Auburn, Maine. a few weeks ago.
a beloved school teacher passed to her
reward and from Atlantic to Pacific
the news brought sincere grief among
former pupils. At the funeral the
pastor read striking paragraphs from
letters to her by those who had
learned to love her in their childhood
days. One young man in RESPONSE
Bile. position had written her, las:
Christmas:
What degree of success l have at
tanned l credit largely to YOU and my
mother
A young lady who has lived in Au-
gusta several years, has each year III
May returned to Auburn to join men,
bers of her class in hanging this same
teacher a May basket filled with
sweets and loving reminders.
And SO we know that teachers, like
mothers, have had recommendations IN
the past, and that in the days when
they could reach no longer they have
known the joy of appreciation by
good men and women who have
classed them next to mother
While in the hearts of thousands Of
grateful parents there are warm cor
ners for such noble souls as the late
Mrs. Maxwell of Auburn Heights,
teacher.
Billy Sundays says:
"Being a king, an emperor or d
president is mighty small potatoes
compared to being a mother or the
teacher of children"