The Pulaskian., 1920-08-19
HAD MANY HOMES
Woman School Teacher Tells of
 "BOarding Round"
Surely Plenty of Changes in Those Times for Those Who Had Charge of the Education of the Young
 Enjoyed Life.

The first woman teacher who was ever "boarded 'round' is now living In one of the many almost-forgotten cor ners of New York. Her experience vas gained 63 years ago in schoolhouse No. 240. on the plank road in Lake county, Ohio
 Her name, Frances L. Garside tells the New York Post, was Elizabeth Bartlett, her age seventeen, and 1t was her firm conviction that sine was ere ated to teach, conviction that im- pressed the district board; the mem- bers appointed her, with many misgiv- ings because of her age and her sex, to teach for the summer term. She changed her abiding place every Sat urday as part of the compensation for her services, the rest of which compensation was $1.50 q week.
 A textbook of those days stated that the staple products of q certain sec tion of Connecticut were school teaeh- CTS and onions. q just had to be 8 school teacher" she explains, ''with this Information staring me in the face in my own school days"
 She taught three and q half months during that summer and never enjoyed life more. The coming of the teacher was gala event, and never before nor since has she known tables that came so literally near grooming under the weight of the repasts. There was an endless profusion of jams and jel- lies; there were always fresh vegeta- bles and meat, and the latter included game. Squirrels were plentiful. and very often there were clouds of pigeons" in the sky. sounding like the roar of the sea. Hunters came from many miles around to shoot them, Pigeon pie was not a luxury for this little teacher, who was earning $1.50 ! week; neither was pie of any kind, for they always had it for breakfast.
 Her hostesSes took care of her laun- dry and mending; and there was af- ways series of festivities for her, such as picnics and parties. She en- ioyed room by herself, and though she never saw my ice, or heard of such thing, ice being one of the un- known luxuries of those days she did not miss it, for there was always a springhouse, in which the abundance of milk and cream and butter was kept cool.
 She tasted her first pork gravy while "boarding round" and had to watch to see what her hostess did with it before she put any on her own plate. One of her weekly visits was spent with a German family, and though it was midsummer, she had to sleep between feather beds.
 When her summer term ended she came to New York, where for five years she taught in a private semi nary. She did not like boarding in the seminary, and living outside" consumed so much of her salary that she found after paying for board and room she had just 15 cents a week left. She supplemented this sum by taking private pupils.
 Miss Bartlett changed her name to Grannis after teaching school five years, but her record of being the "firs. woman who" has been maintained in many and varied ways in the 63 years that have elapsed since she called her first class to order.
 She was the first woman to own and publish and edit a religious publica- tiOn. She was the first woman to make an appeal for the appointment of police matrons; 1t was ten years after her appeal was made that the police matron was appointed
 Going back to her childhood, she was the first child who ever taught in Sunday school, beginning when she was only eleven. Today she is the last of the famous survivors of the original woman's rights group that in. cluded Susan B. Anthony, Elizabets Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.