Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-25
WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT,
EDITED BY BELLE MEADE SMITH.
The Ellis College

The Ellis College
For young ladies is an ornament te
Los Angeles. 1t stands upon the
summit OF the lofty hill and in the
beautiful garden once the site of the
ill-starred Belmont Hotel. The build.
ing is four-story, with porticos on the
the second floor and countless win
dows, all of which afford command
ing views of the surrounding country
The school room, recitation, music
and dining rooms, all Of which are
we'll lighted and pleasantly arranged,
are upon the ground floor. The library
q model of good taste, and the hand.
some parlor are upon the second floor
The house contains eleven pianos and
sufficient rooms to accommodate forty
boarders. Yet daily admissions are
refused for want OF space, in conse.
quence of which fifty bedrooms are to
be annexed during the coming sum-
mer. Upon the fourth floor there is
a studio equipped with casts and
easels; a library and large and
cheerful sitting-room, in which the
pupils spend their evenings. From
one of it's many windows the outlines
of Santa Monica and the ocean can
he distinctly seen. The college was es.
tablished in September, 1884. Its fac
alltv numbers eleven. The President,
Rev. John w. Ellis is professor Of
mental and moral science. The
Principal, Miss Abby S. Marsh, is
professor Of literature, rhetoric and
history. Miss Alice Stillman gives
instructions inmathematics; Miss Ora
Boring, in natural sciences, and Miss
nj. +. Cobb and Miss Nellie Condit
conduct the department OF instru-
mental muAic. Miss Julia A Long
attends to vocal culture, and Miss
Lizzie Heine gives lessons upon the
violin. Miss Helen +. Coan, the con-
ecientious young artist, who has such
an attractive studio in the California
Bank Building, is at the head Of
the art department. Professor and
Mrs. Ludlum instruct in elocution
and Miss M. e. Cobb teaches French,
German, Italian and Spanish. The
college is sunshiny and homelike in
every respect; while. there is an
aesthetic air about it which cannot
fail to cultivate the taste and prepare
for social requirements the young la
dies who are so happy as to claim it as
their alma mater. So dignified and
thoroughbred an institution is compli
mentary to the mental progress of the
Pacific Slope, and would no doubt be
q great surprise to the old Philadel
phia lady who week or two age
wrote to her husband, who
was spending the winter OF
the Coast, "to keep out o
the way Of the Indians.
The grounds cover an area OF ter
acres, and are beautifully laid out il
lawns and flower beds. Much atten
tion 10 given to the pupils to croque
and tennis, for the enjoyment OF which
the garden affords excellent facilities
The ruins Of the Belmont alone ma
the brightness Of the scene. They
are not unsightly, but they are melan
choly. Perhaps, if, like Mr.. Ellis
Rnskin was compelled to live perpet
usually under the shadow of SOM
lost hope, he would not. ALLOW
his partiality for ruins to preju
dice him against America. /
must indeed be an unappreciativ,
girl who cannot enjoy her schoo
life at Ellis College; for art has con
spired with nature to make it attract
i've. Standing upon the eminence
does, it overlooks the entire city, the
surrounding country, composed o
verdant hills and valleys and walle'
in by rugged mountains, where in thu
yapory distance earth and sky seem +
meet. Directly in front Of the colleg'
building IL the pretty Second stree
park, from which music, robbed b.
distance OF all discord, can be en
ioyed; while the glassy lake, hemme'
in by lilies now in full bloom, add
more to the beauty of tie colleg
than to the park to which it belongs
Hopes Nameless Children.
Theobald in "The Madonna of tn
Future" is one Of them. For year
he knelt at the feet of art, but b
finally died when the illusive We
which had concealed the truth wa
torn aside and he stood face to lac
with his ruined life. I'm the haI
of a genius! Where in the wild
world is my other half :" he cried j
despair. "Lodged perhaps in tn
vulgar soul, the cunning, ready fir
gers of some dull copyist or som
trivial artisan who turns out by th
dozen his easy prodigies Of tonch Br
its not for nae to sneer at him; he, a
least, does something. He's not
dawdler! Well for me if had bee
vulgar and clever and reckless; If
could have shut my eyes and dea
nv stroke!" Theobald is one Of th
finest and most pathetic touches
Henry James graceful pen. He
essentially ideal and fantastic but h
is none the less type Of hundreds
mental foundlings, born, it woul
seem, to mock fate, and who are |
ianocent of intellectual parentage I
fhsv are foreign to success
Ike the rest of his unto
tnnate brotherhood, he had tt
ideas and the aspirations Of Il
famous. but be had not the applies
ton and the practicability to gi'
them shape and color enough