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(A by-law of the New York Board of Education says: "No married woman shall be appointed to any teaching or supervising position in the New York public schools unless her husband is mentally or physically incapacitated to earn a living or has deserted her for a period of not less than one year.")

Board of Education. Three Would-Be Teachers.

Chorus by Board:
 * Now please don't waste
 * Your time and ours
 * By pleas all based
 * On mental powers.
 * She seems to us
 * The proper stuff
 * Who has a hus-
 * Band bad enough.
 * All other pleas appear to us
 * Excessively superfluous.

1st Teacher:
 * My husband is not really bad