The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-01
As LABOR OF..L.OV'E.
The Society to Enco urage
s: Studies at Home. = 81. !.
How Women on Remote Ranches
::: 81. Imbibe Culture by Corre-.:.=: "
-.. '..'.. spondence. s.

a fresh lease Of life is just being: taken
BY: the California branch of The Boston
Society to Encourage. Studies. at Home.
1--WE. want TO reach the women I'm the
country who live in small: towns or ON
isolated ran ches,". said Mrs. :Isidor; Burns
yesterday, secretary for This ward. .tAs.
soon as We have our new circulars: printed
1intendt0 send them as far as the remote
parts of Nevada and Idaho .''::.- ~
1 The :Bosto society is. n OF one in which
SO; much. learning is guaranteed for so.
much money. It is a :plan.fo brin ging
cultured sympathetic women with time
which they cansafford to give. away int
contact: with women whose WQrk-a-day
livesdo not give them the least litnpse.. Of
culture. me only fee charged is So a
year, to cove; the expenses of <postage. sta
tionerv and 2 rinting: II: & :. :.
- !Tnere:is some thing pathetic in. the IDEA
+ of a woman Isolated: on a m0un la n ranch,
who cooks and patches, scrub and wash es
up:dls hes: all day, and at; mig hit, when every
one .else% has gone to bed brings out her
| Shak espeare .-or her lChamcer, and STUN
blingly, but. full OF interest, tries to eaten
The poets meaning. sWas=the .t0TN.0f the
iatient Grissldis a fable o r a reality? Dill
Romeo aud Juliet ever live or was their
Eloyemaking in: mo onlit Verona a fiction: o t
/ tie poet brain?"H :; :.>
= There are women w bio actually study
under d ifficulties in this way: we: have
one student who cooks for twenty MEN
and makes all herchildr rem IS clothes - said
Mrs. Burns. g This woman works at kim
/ dergaren and llteTature at night, that she
/ ma teach her child rem, for they live re-
/: lmote:fromt any school. She has studied by
| ell respondence with me: new for seven
wears, and has m ade. surprising progress.
| tits a fact that we learn great deal#OuE-
| selves by carrying on: these correspond
:eDees with. our. pupils. OF: course: i have
never seen the WON a n / speak of. and
+ never expect TO, but. we have become
| friends. Sire feels such an in terest in in.
l=teilectuaf PLEASURES. which. she. has: NO
+chance % j0yiiig. For Instance. I'll go
to a ;pictuFe-gallery 1. send her,a mar sed
/ Cat alogue, wi tn a. descrtp ton: ofthe pal T.
| ings. thatstrlke me. most. and she seems TO
| enjoy it almost as much as: it she: h ad been
! there nerself.. Mrs: Horace: Wilson, too,
has a poor, oyerworked pupil, who sits up
al night TO study" s. :*==: -
/ The parent society was founded twenty
! one years ago in Boston by M ISIS. Tfchnor.
l. II has now branches dotted. all*oYer the
1 United States. = In: Boston; as there lis a
large class of cultured wealthy: women
Jealous for: education, it has never been
:diffieult to find volunteer teachers, or asse-
ciates,> as. they are called. When any #
1.-the branch soce ties. cannot find an :'asso-
/ :cfate,H tor "a new: student appllca ION is
/ made by the .secre tarys 10 Boston: and :9ne
| lis at once supplied. as the: tea Ching is en-
tirefy by spondsnce.= This is per
feetly practicable. i: The Pacific: Coast
/ :brancl. has had students as: far aWayas the
/ Hawaiian Islands: and Japan. ::
i At:tne. beginning of the term course of
| study in each of the various courses,
which, include history, literature, science,
sanitary science, fine arts, etc., is marked
out by Harvard professors. This course
| is followed in each branch. Each student
/; must communicate with the associate " no
! teaches her at least once month, sending
! her own memory notes. answers to exam
| nations, etc, and asking for explanations
/ when puzzled. The associate has to report
her pupils progress to Boston every month.
/ AS rule, an associate is only assigned
one pupil. No COMPENSATION is received
| by the associates. Their work is entirely
labor of love, and very enthusiastic most
| of them are over 1t. The only paid men,
| beers In the entire society are the treasurer
| and the librarian in Boston.
/ Further Information can be obtained by
| applying to Mrs. IsidOr Burns, 404 Van
Ness avenue. secretary for the Pacific
Coast. The lat of California associates is
as follows: Miss Beaver. Miss W. A. NJ.
Breck, Mrs. Isidor Burns. Mrs. Robert
! Collier. Mrs. John Henry Deering, Miss
| A. v Dorsey, Miss Alice Hanks. Mrs. NJ.
Ii. Myrick, Miss CLARA. j. Pearne, Mrs.
George II. Powers, Mrs. Horace Wilson,
| Mrs. II. K. Moore; Miss Josephine Har-
| ker, librarian, Miss Alice Hanks, assist
ant 5ecreiar