Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-02
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.
The Manual Training school for
DOmestics and Teachers.

The Industrial Education Association
of this city last January organized q
training school for servants. This school,
in Lend Hand, was an educational
center. and sought to inculcate in its
pupils an idea of house service and the
Importance of being trained to enter
upon that career, as one would be trained
to take up any other profession that is
now opened to women. While the young
women are in the school, they give SER
vice outside the hours of training, and
time and strength mean money; so the
scholars pay their way, and from their
first quarters wages, upon leaving, they
return sufficient to the school to pay for
their outfit, made by themselves. While
this school requires outside support, as
almost all educational centers do, it is
upon a strong, true basis, the pupils
gaining an education to fit them to enter
a chosen work, and working their way
through the schools months of training,
as those many women do who enter
training school for nurses, or medical
college for women.
The preparation for domestic service
is only one feature of the varied phases
of industrial training given the training
school and industrial college, founded
and controlled by the New York Indus
trial Education Association.
Its former house in East Eleventh
street became, after few weeks, too
small for the different departments, and
now the school is to be found in the large
building formerly used by the Union
Theological Seminary, 8 University
place, Just below Eighth street. The
seminary building was leased for the
association in July, and three months
were spent in preparing it for occupan.
cy. The department sor domestic serv.
ice has the kitchen, laundry and Glass.
room accommodations in the basement,
and sleeping rooms, as well as arrange
ments for training in chamber work,
upon the upper floor.
The first floor gives to the association
its offices, and here is large room for
the department of cookery. The equip.
ment is such that at the same time
number can be at work, and the raised
platform affords seats for the others to
listen to the instruction and take notes.
The blackboard here and desk for teach.
er, the notices on the walls, as we'll as
dresser and shelves for china and tins
and linoleum on the floor, give visitor
the odd feeling that she is in public
school classroom, yet at the same time
in an old-fasbioned, country kitchen.
The former chapel on the same floor
has been converted into charming hall,
seating three hundred persons. and here
series of lectures on systems and
schemes for industrial education will be
given during this winter to teachers in
both private and public schools. These
will tend to rouse public sentiment and
educate those who, anxious to do, are
vet ignorant of the best methods of train
ing the hand to work together with the
brain. In north wing are well-fur-
nished dining and sitting-rooms for the
resident household.
On the floor above, the old library
section, of the same size as the hall be-
low, is already filled with exhibits.
These will come from public schools, as
those of Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago,
New Haven, Montclair aud Jamesto wn ;
from institutions, from private schools
and other quarters showing systems and
schemes already introduced. The rooms,
being further furnished with settees and
tables, is to become both o museum for
juvenile industries and study for those
anxious to introduce them.
Adjoining this is the department OF
carpentry, equipped with benches and
all arrangement for the training Of !
olass OF tWenty-four boys. On this sec.