The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-09-01
WOMAN SCHOOL TEACHER
HAD MANY homes
Plenty Of Changes In Those Times
For Those Who Had Charge
Of the Education Of the
Young III

The first woman teacher who was
ever "boaried round Is now living In
one cs the many almnstfnFgotfen cor
ners os New York. Her experience WAS
gained eN years ago III schoolhonse
No. 90. on the plank road In Lake
county. Ohio.
Her name, Frances T.. GarSIde tells
the New York Post. was Elizabeth
Bartlett. her age seventeen, and Il WAS
her firm conviction thar she WIS cre~
ated to teach. conviction thar Inn
pressed the district hoari: the intern.
hsrs appointed her. with many misgsy-
ings because Of her age and her sex.
to teach for the summer term. She
changed her abiding place every Sat
ursiay as part of The compensation
for her services. the rest Of which
compensation was Si50 week.
A textbook OF those days stated thar
fhe staple products Of certain sec
iion OF Connecticut were school teach
ers and onions. Il just had to b. a
school teacher" she explains, with
this information staring me In the
face In my own school days"
She taught three and d half months
during that summer and never enjoyed
life more The coming az the teacher
was a gala event, and never before
nor since has she known tables that
came SO literally near groanlng under
the weight OF the rerasts. There was
an endless profnsIon ~ jams and tel-
liA there were always fresh vegeia
hes and meat, and the Inter Included
game. Squirrels were plentiful, and
very often there were ''clonds ot
pigeons" IN the sky. sounding Ike the
roar Of the sea. Hunters came from
many miles around 70 shoot them.
Pigeon pie was not luxury for this
little teacher, who was earning $3.50
week; neither was pie Of any kind.
for they always had 1t for breakfast.
Her hostesses took care of her laun-
dry and mending; and there was al
ways series of festivities for her.
such as plcnics and parties. She en-
ioyed room by herself, and though
she never saw any ice, or heard ~
such a thing, Ice being one Of the un-
known Injuries Of those days she did
not miss II, for there was always 4
springhouse. In which the abundance
of milk and cream and butter was
Kept cool
She tasted her first pork gravy
while boarding round" ana had TO
watch to see what her hostess aid
with 1t before she put any on her own
plate. One Of her weekly visits was
spent with German family and
though II 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 private semi
nary. She did not like boarding In
the seminary. and 'livlng outside"
consumed 50 much of her salary TINT
she found after paying for board and
room she had Just II cents week
left She supplemented this sum by
taking private pupils.
Miss Bartlett changed her name TO
Grannss after teaching school five
years. but her record of being the FIRST
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 religious nublica-
ton. She was the first woman 10
make an appeal for the appointment
of police matrons; II was ten years
after her appeal was made that the
police matron was appointed.
Going hack 10 her childhood she
was the first child who ever taught In
Sunday school. beginning when she
was only eleven. To-day she is the
last OF the famous survivors Of the
original woman's rights group that in
cluded Susan II. Anthony Elizabeth
cady Stanton and Lucretla Mott.