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OTJH AMERICAN SI&EBlfcS"; 207
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? We Have Lately Received Froin America ...
"brandies , under the direction of the superintendent , and subject to revision by him or an . able inale assistant . Some cover and collate
books , some go from place to place to get books , and some are occupied entirely with writing- and d copying" catalogues , shelf lists ,
records , & c . The ladies are pai' seven dollars a week . Some spend , eight and some ten hours in the Library . In the Smithsonian Institute at Washington , a lady is permanently employed
as librarian . She receives a salary of 500 dollars per annum , and is employed six hours a day . The qualifications needed for the
post are reading * , writing , some knowledge of French , German , & _cl To these instances we must add a paragraph from an American
newspaper lately forwarded to an office , to the effect that Miss Dill will be a candidate before the next legislature of Indiana for the
post Reporting of State is Lib a r business arian . which in Engiand is nearly if not wholly
in the hands of men ; but in America , where the subscription price of even the very best papers is low , and great expenses of working
are not justified , ladies get a chance of employment . Not longsince a lady received damages of 1 , 000 dollars from a railway '
comri pany ght , ied hand for in an ; Ohio she accident and being Michi -which a reporter deprived and . oth S her everal ers of the ladies me forefinger ntione are d similarl an of d one her y gan ;
case occup of a brother and sister who , worked together in "Washington . Under the head of teachers we find much interesting
information . In almost eYeTy State are schools for the preparation of teachers the salaries of governesses are higher in the South than
in the North ; ; in the public schools of New York there are 39 gentlemen conducting the male departments , who receive each a
salary of 1 , 500 dollars a-year , while of the lady _principals of the female departmentsthere are only ten getting" 800 dollars , which
, is the highest salary paid . In the High School the principal female teacher receives 900 dols . The lady who teaches
mathematics in the Female Presbyterian College of Louisville also gets 900 dollars . In Chicago the maximum salary of Female teachers
is 400 dollars , in the Cleveland Seminary they are each paid 500 dollars and their board ; subjects of learning being rhetoric and
English literature , history , mathematics , and the ordinary English branchesHiher prices are paid to lady teachers in Boston than
in fornia any where other . city g ladies of conducting the United the States same , excep bran t ches the ci as ties gentlemen of
Calireceive , as good salaries . The majority of teachers in San Francisco are ladies . Their proportion is also greater in the Western States ,
but in New England the number is very great , namely 87 , 645 . In Brooklyn , Long Island , is a seminary endowed by Mrs . Packer , and
at which the usual attendance is from 300 to 400 pupils . Lastly , there is the noble Vassar College , endowed by Matthew Vassar , of
Philadelphia , with , a large sum sufficient to provide a library ,
Otjh American Si&Eblfcs"; 207
OTJH AMERICAN SI _& EBlfcS _"; 207
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 207, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/63/
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