Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1908 — Schoolma’ams and the Home. [ARTICLE]

Schoolma’ams and the Home.

Educators and school boards may lament the vacant places at the teachers’ desks on the opening of fall terms, but the rest of the community should perhaps l>e congratulated. Every schoolma'am that marries means one more good home. From a narrow point of view It may seem an economic waste to have a teacher drop school work when she is at her best. But all education is an economic waste unless there are to be good homes built up on it and from It. A schoolma'am turned wife is a great deal more than half trained for the duties of the mistress of a home. She has acquired patience and system and a knowledge of the ways of children. She knows the value of a dollar and how bard it is to earn one. Marriage may be getting unpopular, bnt these annual raids on the ranks of the school ma’ams do not show it Men have been schoolboys, and they know that there’s a good wife In the making to be found in every school house.