Teaching has never been an easy profession, but at least most teachers don’t have to start the fire in this century! That was probably a dangerous task while wearing two petticoats. Link -via Phil's Phun
Then I found these rules from 1872 at the Rusk County Historical Society Museum. Among them:
4. Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly.
5. After ten hours on school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the bible or other good books.
6. Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed.
7. Every teacher should lay aside from each pay a goodly stime of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden on society.
In other words, live your life exactly as we tell you to, but don't expect a pension. Link
Now we have openly gay teachers dealing, rightfully, with their own life and maybe soon their own stem celled kids! What a change in about 150 years!
The problem for men with getting a barbershop shave was that you were spoiled and unmanly; that you couldn't shave yourself.